Daddy turns the big 39!!!

Jarrod's 39th birthday was this past week, September 10th. Unfortunately he was in Salt Lake City for work so we had to postpone everything until the weekend. So Bo helped me get ready for daddy to come home on Friday by decorating with balloons and making his favorite dinner...lasagna. You should have seen me try to get 12 balloons in my Honda Accord along with Bo in the middle of the backseat. Poor baby, I looked back and he had his face pressed to the side of his carseat because they were all in his face. Along with that we made him a birthday cake which is out of this world. I've had so many people want the recipe so that will follow soon.

Jarrod racked up on gifts and was especially excited when I gave him the one from Bo and I. We decided daddy deserved to have the ESPN College Game Plan Package, which means he basically gets 12 additional football games a week that are not televised on the main tv channels. Not quite sure what I was thinking...but he was thrilled!!!

Now...unless you have been on another planet you know we had a hurricane coming our way on Saturday. With that said...let me back up a little. Two weeks ago I decided I wanted to do something fun and special for Jarrod's birthday so I arranged a surprise party for him downtown with some of our friends for Saturday night. Last week when we were unsure of Ike's path... based on the projected path we were right in the middle. Now, growing up in MS I clearly know how these things work and you never really know where they are going to hit until they actually do. ALL week I was back and forth on if we should go forward or cancel. I had to laugh though, the one time I decide to plan something fun we don't get rain, not even a down pour, we have a HURRICANE headed our way!!!!

All this time Jarrod thinks we are just going to a quick dinner and then to a movie. He gets home Friday night and I'm constantly watching the tv, on the interent, trying to decide what to do. We had until 6:00pm on Friday to cancel our sitter. Literally at 5:30pm I'm on the interent looking at the weather. Jarrod could not understand why I was so stressed out. Little did he know about 4 other families had sitters as well and I HAD to make a decision. So I had to let the cat out of the bag. We decided to move forward and have the party and boy are we glad we did...we didn't get ONE drop of rain!!!

We had so much fun with our friends, we had 13 people come out to celebrate with us and then after dinner those of us who were Kid Free for a few more hours decided to hit downtown! We had a blast with everyone! Thank you to everyone for coming out to celebrate!