It's your Happy Birthday

I lived in Russia for a while teaching children English. Our younger kids picked up on a lot of things fast, but they were slow in putting some thing together. For example: when it was someone's birthday we would say, "Happy Birthday" and sing the song together. It became the sort of thing that the kids would no longer separate the words "Happy" and "Birthday." So, your birthday was no longer just your birthday, it was your Happy Birthday. The two words could not be separated.

Today was Ammon's Happy Birthday. I feel like it was a rather lame birthday as far as birthdays go, but we had a good time. He worked all day and then we went shopping for his birthday gift. We found what we want, but had to shop around to make sure we got the best deal. We have found the best deal, so tomorrow I'm going to make the big purchase. At the age of 26 you enter the "old man" stage of life and therefore need a distinguished present to go along with it. So, we will be getting him the long awaited chop saw that he has been wanting. It is going to come in handy as we build the baby his crib and as we remodel whatever house we end up in. After shopping around we went and a delicious dinner where we both ate too much. We tried to watch a movie, but gave up as the phone calls kept coming in and they were far more interesting than our movie. We always feel so loved on birthdays in this family.

Thank you to all those who helped to make Ammon's day special. I am hoping that the banana cream pie was the crowning jewel on the day, but in reality it was all the phone calls and love from all of you. I plan to post a little bit more about this birthday boy soon. In the mean time I just wanted to thank everyone for making Ammon's day special and to wish him the happiest of birthdays.

For some fun stories about our favorite Ammon check out Thelma's blog to read more stories about the Birthday boy.

I hope that on this, Ammon's Happy Birthday, he was able to feel loved and appreciated.