Happy Birthday Scott!

Scott's birthday was this week and for the first time in a while, he didn't have to work on his birthday.

Last year he had to work a long day, conducting a base inspection, with a broken leg, the year before he had an exercise at work that he had to work (a loong day), the year before that he was in training getting ready to deploy in New Jersey, and the year before that he had to work an exercise on the night shift (working all night) in Okinawa.  So he has had some very busy and unpleasant birthdays.  Poor Scott.  But this year his birthday was on a Saturday and there were no big inspections or exercises (or deployments) going on with work.  So he got to enjoy it a little more.  We went to a play place for a friends birthday party, went to see a movie together and had dinner out.  At dinner Matthew immediately told the waitress that it was Scott's birthday.   Usually we just keep that stuff quiet.  But Matthew spilled the beans, so Scott got sung to and some free ice cream.

 

After dinner we came home and had cake.  I have been having a lot of bad luck making cakes lately.  So poor Scott had to have a very mediocre birthday cake.  The cake turned out very crumbly and the frosting I made was just weird.  I refrigerated it all to try and get it to firm up and that was a mistake.  The whole thing was a crumble mess when we tried to eat it.  The frosting was firm and the cake falling apart.  :(  I left it out of the fridge over night and it actually tasted a lot better the next day...so I don't know.  Back to the cake drawing board I guess.  The kids picked where to put the candles.

Grant helped Scott blow out the candles.  Grant was biding his time before his bath, so had no clothes on.  :)

 The kids helped Scott open his presents.

And Scott got a much needed new computer.  He has had his old computer for about six years.  I actually bought it for him for his birthday six years ago when we were newly married.  That was when I worked and could easily buy a computer without him knowing about it.  It wasn't as much of a surprise this time, but I think he was still happy.  Hooray!!  Happy Birthday Scott.

 

Bonus Picture!!

Here is Scott 6 years ago, in our apartment in Florida, with his then new computer.  We had been married about 4 1/2 months then.  That computer has been to Florida, California, Okinawa, Alabama, New Jersey, Afghanistan and to Colorado...not to mention all the many many work trips Scott has taken it on in between.  It was high time he got a new one!