the big two seven

on my seth's birthday, we woke up lazily and i made him breakfast in bed. then we got into our hikin' clothes and headed out to the mountains. he wanted to horn hunt alllll day for his celebration. it was such a pretty morning, the sun was perfect. we didn't find any horns though, and i was pretty bummed about that. i wanted to find a birthday horn for him. we came home that afternoon and got ready for a little cake and ice cream gathering we had planned.
this meant the birthday boy had to clean- i felt a little bad but not really.
he worked on the outside (spray out the carport, tidy up the back yard, get my pumpkins and bale of hay set up on the porch) and i focused on the vacuuming and polishing. we had the windows open and the music loud (rihanna) it's one of those memories where the lighting and the feeling are permanent in your head and you can go back any time.
after that, we got out the cakes i had worked so hard on the night before. two, 3 tier round cakes. one chocolate, one vanilla with frosting from the sweet tooth fairy. the cakes were a pretty royal mess--who knew it was so hard to do tiered cakes?! but they were SO yummy.
i actually didn't ever snap a photo of the cakes- how depressing is that? after all my hard work. but i had my awesome green cake dish to serve the chocolate one on, and my moms clear glass one for the vanilla. or maybe it was the other way around.
either way, the cakes got demolished an hour or so later, when we had our closest friends and family over.
we all sat outside in the shady sun, chairs sprinkled the yard and the kids played with tommy the horse over the fence. we talked until the sun went down; some listened to grandpa's stories and others caught each other up on school and the like.
i totally didn't get photos of this either. which is really the saddest thing of all. so many friends came and showed their love and happy birthdayness to Seth. it was sweet and we had a lot of fun. it will probably be the only gathering we have in our house with that many people as newlyweds and it's a shame i didn't get photos.
the last people trickled out in the dusky night and i picked up a little bit (i was still cleaned out from earlier) and then we ... we can't remember what we did. we're thinking we went and got some hamburgers and maybe a redbox-- or maybe we went to a movie. no clue. it's like a big gap in our memory. the next thing we can recall is that i rubbed his back for an hour or so and then we kissed and stuff.
maybe we just went to bed at 7pm?! i don't even know.
but it was a great birthday, if i do say so myself. here's to the big two eight next year baby!
i love you, mister husband.

*seth opened his present the day before, much to my chagrin. i had actually JUST wrapped it, and we were on our way to india palace as a day before birthday lunch. i planned to give him the present the next morning with his breakfast in bed. he's much stronger than me though, and he just grabbed it and starting tearing! jerk.
i got him basketball shoes, a shirt and some socks. he's been needing those shoes and i was pretty nervous about getting the 'right' ones. but i'm happy to report he loves them and they're pretty hot. (kids, your dad is quite the basketball player. he probably will really be a washed-up has been by the time you come around and he's playing out in the carport. so i just wanted to document that.)