Happy Birthday, Dave!

Though the sprainked ankle and Dave's inabilty to go anywhere without his crutches limited our birthday ideas somewhat, we still had plenty of fun taking family outings and spoiling our bithday boy for his 33rd birthday yesterday.

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The birthday festivities kind of began on Saturday, when one of our regular sitters actually asked if she could come over some time soon and play with the girls and their new dollhouse! Of course, we said, "YES!" and headed out for a rare date night. Dave and I checked out a new restaurant and then saw Avatar in 3-D. We see movies in the theatre about 2 times a year, so we felt this movie was an awesome and totally worth-while experience. What a feast for the eyes! It was truly spectacular to feel like you were actually in the movie, we'd recommend it to anyone. We even found some neat Christian parallels in the story. The girls got a kick out of our special

3-D glasses.

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Dave woke up to both girls singing him out of sleep in the morning. Ella had also hauled all the gifts into bed for Dave to open right away. Then we served him breakfast in bed. One of our gifts for Dave was a new blue suit. Yesterday we took a family trip to the mall to get this and then went out for lunch at a nice restaurant. Without the humiliating serenade, Dave got a complimentary pizookie dessert.

A lazy afternoon of naps and game playing followed. We sang to Dave once again when we served him his birthday cake.

Another of Dave's gifts was the Wii Resort game. Dave's favorite activity is archery. Wakeboarding, Frisbee and skydiving are pretty cool too, though. Amazing what video games have evolved into! A few rounds of Carcassonne and a Bears victory topped off Dave's birthday.