Nick's Golden Birthday!

My young-at-heart husband turned the big 3-0 last week.  On the 30th.

This made for his Golden Birthday.

I normally like to make birthdays a pretty big deal -

but my husband requested to keep this birthday pretty small and meager.

So I decided to do something a little more memorable.

While he was at work (I really believe no one should ever work on their birthday, but that's beside the point), I went and bought 30 golden balloons.  The week before I was able to have family members and friends tell me things they admire about Nick as well as memory they have with Nick.  I attached these to the balloons, and hid them up in our room.

Note to self:  Three years old don't know how to keep secrets.

I told Paisley the day before we would be buying 30 balloons for daddy's birthday, and as soon as he got home she told him all about it.  No worries, I am pretty smooth and easily covered it up.

So when Nick got home from work there were merely two gold balloons waiting for him at the door.  I told him there were two: One for Paisley and one for Cruz.

Then when we walked up the stairs to change....tada!

Thanks to all that contributed to the memories and kinds words.  

Nick is such a gem - and reading everybody's thoughts made me realize how amazing he has been his entire life :)

Nick did request a kayak for his birthday.

Unfortauntely, I wasn't able to splurge and buy him a real kayak - so I made a kayak out of his birthday cake:

That black frosting is pretty terrible.

The kids were covered it in by the end of the night - and it took a few washings to remove it.

Happiest Golden Birthday to my amazing husband! 30 never looked so gooood :)

And here's a picture for the books.  

Nick had taken the carseats out of the car because we were trading vehicles.

The kids requested to be strapped down and watch a movie.  I totally complied. When Nick walked in the door from work this is what he got:

Looking at this picture I totally realize why people are constantly asking me if Paisley and Cruz are twins.  Sitting next to each other they are pretty much the same size!  So cute!