Birthday Party For DH

Today we celebrated DH's birthday at Mom's. I have quite a few photos for the day, so I will try to just give a short description. We had a lovely day and lots of fun with the grand babies.

Same breakfast as yesterday, slightly more caffeine.

The birthday boy with a couple of his presents (sunglasses and yes, that is a ballerina Barbie, which Lexi quickly confiscated).

The Menu

Pepperoni Pizza

Wisconsin 6 Cheese

Pacific Veggie

Bake Pasta???

Parmesan Bread Bites

Salad with fresh veggies

I had salad and ranch dressing with a slice of the Pacific veggie, actually 2 slices, I went back for a seconds.

Mom got a chocolate peanut butter cake for the candle blowing event.

DH had lots of help with the candles.

....and the cake. I got a few shots of the kids enjoying dessert.

Lexi had a private redo of the candle blowing, her favorite part.

Here is the cake that I made. In DH's favorite form, a strawberry dump cake, which is layers of strawberry jello, fresh strawberries, vanilla pudding, cool whip and, of course, yellow cake.

It's not the most beautiful thing, but it sure is tasty. I had a little of it myself and a bite of the chocolate peanut butter cake, just to taste. It was pretty good also.

I was so full after the pizza and dessert. I didn't think I'd be interested in dinner, but I did eat a bowl of canned chili beans with some barbecued potato chips later.

Yummy!!!

I also ate a couple of handfuls of raisins, which I really didn't need. That's it's for the day. It was nice, but I'm all partied out and ready for bed. Have a great night/day!!!

March Birthday Dinner

This morning I was awakened by the ringing of the phone. I didn't get to it in time to answer. I was in such a deep sleep. I went back to bed and slept another hour. I slept very good, so good that even the thunderstorm we had during the night didn't wake me. I was told about it after getting up. I haven't slept that good in quite a while. Surprisingly I felt sort of tired after being up a couple of hours. I think I didn't get enough of an energy boost from breakfast. I just had a piece of buttered toast with Lingonberries.

After breakfast we got ready and headed to the Flea Market on our way to Mom's for dinner. Today we were celebrating both Mary's & Lynda's birthday. Here is what was on the birthday dinner menu.

Barbecue Chicken

Two big Meatloaves.

Mac & Cheese

Rustic Mashed Potatoes

Pasta Salad

Peas

Asparagus, Mushrooms & Peppers. I could eat a whole pan of mushrooms fixed like this. They were the best part.

Salad

More veggies for the salad. I loved the little cucumbers.

Angel Biscuits

I had mashed potatoes, asparagus, peas and salad with cucumber, & broccoli. I used balsamic vinaigrette for dressing and I also had an Angel biscuit.

Mary was one of the birthday girls. This is her camera face. She thinks this is the face everyone makes when the camera in pointed at them. In my family, it actually is, but it's more like "Dadgummit, there a camera pointed at me!"

This is the other birthday girl trying very hard, not to make the camera face. I did not take this picture (notice it's not blurry enough to be mine), but I am posting it. You'll have to blame it on the one who took it.

Here is the birthday cake. It was a marble cake with whipped chocolate frosting. It was a very cute cake. The girls loved the little ice cream cones. The icing tasted like chocolate ice cream. How to you like the birthday candle? Cool huh? Ya use whatcha got, right? You can see Lexi waiting no so patiently nearby for the song to be sung and the candle to be lit. She enjoys everyone's birthday.

I had a cup of coffee with my piece. It was a pretty big piece but it was very light and the coffee helped wash down all the frosting.

For dinner, I had a Veggie Patch Chick'n cutlet with shredded colby, leftover succotash and some Doritos. 

I added a Mt. Olive Jalapeno Dill Spear, last minute. Yummy!

As if I hadn't eaten enough sweets, I had a Nutty Bar after dinner. 

Well, now I need to go to bed and see if I can rack up some more ZZZ's, like I did last night. It is really awesome to sleep so well. People who do this every night, really should be thankful. How do you sleep? Have a great night/day!!!

Birthday Pizza Party

For breakfast yesterday, I made 3 minute oatmeal cookies. I put cranberries, dates, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds in them, plus a tsp of maple syrup.

I had one of the cookies and saved the other for late. You can see the pumpkin seeds in this one.

I sort of missed the chance for lunch. We were going to Mom's for pizza around 3pm to celebrate Mom's birthday, early for dinner, late for lunch. I had half a gala apple to tide me over.

Luckily they had a fresh veggie tray to munch on until the pizza got there. I ate a little of each.

Mom had also fixed some macaroni salad.

There were 5 pizzas, 3 with meat, 2 without. They got buffalo chicken pizza....

....deluxe or supreme pizza

.....pepperoni pizza

....cheese pizza

and the Pacific Veggie pizza.

I had coffee with my pizza. I've had a headache for 4 days. I was hoping that would the coffee would help, it was half caf. I had a slice of the pacific veggie and half of a slice of the cheese. I haven't had just plain cheese in a while. It was pretty good.

For dessert there was chocolate birthday cake with chocolate icing. I was hoping it was chocolate. I was in the mood for chocolate.

There was also carrot cake. Carrot cake is one of my favorites, of course, I like lots of cakes.

There was birthday cake ice cream to go with the cakes.

I had a slice of each cake with a scoop of ice cream and a cup of coffee with my cake.

I over indulged, but the cakes were good.

I just had a few seedless grapes in a bowl when I got home. They were good. I haven't had grapes in a while.

I fooled around on the internet, checking email, etc., then I did my photos for the blog. I was too tired for reading. I guess I will have to try to get some reading done today, since I can't seem to get any done at night lately. Well, I off. Hopefully today will be productive. Have a great day!!!