Better late than never? I was just going through the camera, because it is Christmas and I am starting to put pictures up from this morning. I know it is still only 9:30 AM now, but the kids woke up early and decided to force the issue this morning. This quick post on my birthday first and then we can see Christmas.

Much like other birthday’s I got an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. I like them, because it is like the best of both worlds for you in one thing. Plus, to be completely honest I do not like frosting and cake anymore. I like ice cream. Maybe some day I will not like that either.

This is another tradition. It should be pretty easy to figure out what started this, but just in case you cannot figure it out my birthday happens to fall on Halloween, so I get a basket of candy for my birthday.

I am a little ashamed to say this, but I do not have any of these shirts any longer. This is probably why I forgot to go ahead and post these pictures two months ago. Yeah, I returned these and got a gift certificate. That gift certificate went towards Christmas gifts, so in a way it is sort of appropriate that I should find these pictures and remember what happened to this particular gift.

I know there are a lot of people that can not make it through a game of Monopoly and for some families and friends the end of the game is ceremoniously decided when someone either storms out in a rage or when the board is made air born with pieces still having been placed on it. This is not the case here though. The kids and I played a game, and while it was close I ended up winning. They did a good job for the most part. I think they get it. I do not know how they get it exactly, because I cannot remember playing this game with them until this point.