Happy Birthday Jacob.

The girls could barely wait for Jacob to wake up this morning so that they could get started on his birthday celebrations. They hid all of his presents under Rosie's bed yesterday after they finished wrapping them. Did you know it is possible to use a whole roll of tape to wrap 3 gifts? No? Well it is and they did. Not so much Lily but Rosie found it necessary to put tape everywhere, even on top of tape. She then decided she needed lots of curling ribbon and then proceeded to tape that down.

Once Jacob was awake he took the girls out to breakfast and then once they returned it was time to give him his gifts.





Lily decided on this gift all by herself and wrapped it herself to. Jacob was so thrilled with it and she loved seeing Daddy so happy.


Now Jacob is the proud owner of even more gadgets and video cameras than one man can possibly need but he just loves them and said that they were just what he wanted.

This evening the City of Miami threw a parade in honor of hubby's birthday (ok so that was not the real reason for it but that's what we told our kids, bwa ha ha ha ha) so we met with our friends Richard and Shara and had dinner and watched the parade. Let me just add it was freezing cold here tonight which made it fabulous! There were lots and lots of marching bands and floats and all sorts of wondrous things to feast our eyes on. I did feel rather sorry for our local marching bands as they were all kitted out in some pretty skimpy outfits for temps in the low 50s with wind chills in the 40's but the band from Minnesota, which was quite incredible appeared to be sweating. We were all in turtle necks, thermals and jackets with gloves and stayed toasty warm.




Richard and Shara


Will this parade ever start?


Oops, she blinked!





Once the parade finished we decided to go out for desert rather than get caught in the crowds but that didn't stop us from singing happy birthday to Jacob and having cake once we got home. You can never eat to much desert!







Happy birthday to one great husband and Father, we love you with all our hearts and then some.