Jantz's birthday! yay!

Jantz's birthday was really fun this year. It was a whole week of birthday celebration! His sister Jade's birthday is a few days before his, so we had a big family dinner at Olive Garden on Monday and then a big family dinner at PF Changs on Thursday. And then....well, and then I have pictures :)

I got up early on Jantz's birthday and made him muffins (the Jiffy blueberry - they are amazing. we eat a lot of them haha.). And I put signs all over the house. This one is by far my favorite though (so pardon the next day early morning hair and clothes and half-eaten muffin). You'll understand if you've seen the Office episode where Jim and Dwight plan a birthday party for Kelly haha.

After work we went out to Red Lobster for dinner. We haven't been in forever, so it was extra special and delicious.

Jantz really loves his Ultimate Feast.

Yummy food and biscuits.

Once we got home from dinner, we changed (obviously haha), and I made Jantz open his presents. His first one was some new sweatpants! He's had the same pair for way too long. I wasn't sure if he would like these because they're all new and not-worn-in, but he kept them and he wears them. yay!

His next present was Sorry! Jade and John have it and Jantz always wants to play it, so I bought it like a good wife. And we played. and I lost (but he had to win on his birthday :)

As his last present, we stayed in Lakewood Saturday night. We went to Chad's Grill and shared a burger and fries - it was SO good and exactly the kind of burger we've been wanting...now if only we could find a place closer to home. Then in morning we went to Taste of Denmark (yet again), got a bunch of pastries - including chocolate filled croissants, which might be our new fave. 

Before we went to dinner I made his birthday cake. Now, this story is long and involved, so I'll try to make it short and sweet (ha, sweet, like the cake)....anyway, I have made this cake a lot of times - never had any problems. Well, this time, I must have done something wrong because the two pans of cake overflowed in the oven halfway through baking, which made our whole apartment smell like burning. I had to let them finish baking though, which only made the situation worse. But thankfully what was left in the pans cooked ok and didn't taste like burning. So I took them out to cool and we left for dinner...smelling like burning cake. When we got back I assembled the cake with the delicious frosting. Unfortunately, it ended up looking like this, instead of all nice and pretty like last year. But not to fear, it was still delicious. And after cleaning out the oven, airing out the apartment, and putting our scentsy to good use, we finally got the burning smell out. 

This is the super cool shot I got just as Jantz blew out all his candles. Well, technically one lingered, so he relit the candles two more times to make sure they all went out appropriately. haha, he's a funny one.

And here's a fun picture we took after dinner. Notice Jantz's long hair and bushy beard. Afters several weeks of no shaving and no hair cuts, he finally gave in and shaved and got a hair cut the Monday after his birthday. I decided I love him either way.