The day after Christmas, we celebrate Jerome's Birthday and it was a wonderful day! I took the family out to breakfast.
OK, so here is a funny Dayton story. He knew exactly what he wanted. He wanted eggs, bacon, sausage, and pancakes. Luckily, there was a kids meal that has all that! When they brought it out, it had 2 sausages and no bacon. We let the gal know and she brought out a piece of bacon. Dayton was upset that he didn't have 2 pieces of bacon. We explained to him that they messed up his order and he was lucky to have 2 pieces of sausages. So the next time the waitress came out he said... "excuse me, you messed up my order". Luckily we know the gal very well and she has 3 children of her own, the last being 6 months younger than Dayton completely understood and laughed with us. Funny guy.
We then went to Home Depot and Lowe's looking for new projects for Jerome. Is that right, to look for new projects on your birthday? If you know Jerome, you know he needs projects, so this was just fine!
After running around a bit and looking for new projects, we drove to Southcenter to go to Famous Dave's for Jerome's birthday dinner. Famous Dave's is a BBQ place and it's Jerome's favorite place to eat. We were suppose to meet Katrina, Michael, Samuel, and Micah, but they got stuck in all the snow they had up there. We still got to meet up with Jerome's parents Candy and Lloyd and WOW it was as good as ever!
Of course Jerome got some funds for his car project (that has to be one of my next posts)... but Lloyd was so funny! On Christmas Eve we made sugar cookies for Santa... when I started to make them, I realized that we didn't have cookie cutters. Here it was on Christmas Eve and we were on the hunt for cookie cutters. What we found wasn't the best... it was 8 shapes on one flat plastic thing and the dough got stuck on everything, it was fun, but we realized that we needed better cookie cutters. We got in that discussion on Christmas and Katrina had some antique cookie cutters from Grandma Darling (Candy's mom Grandma Ruth) and she gave us those so we can make cookies for years to come. Thank you Katrina!!! Well, Jerome was also talking about Grandma Darling's flour sifter, he thought that would be excellent for making cookies. So, Lloyd had an idea for Jerome and they got him a flour sifter (dishwasher safe... thank you!) and sugar cookie recipes!! It was so thoughtful!!! Thank you!
After a wonderful dinner, we stopped by Home Depot in Southcenter and found an inflatable... Thomas the Train Christmas yard art for 50% (or more) off... anyway it was a great deal, so Dayton will have an inflatable Thomas the Train for Christmas next year.
After Home Depot, we went home and snuggled up to watch a movie... Journey to the Center of the Earth... good movie... good time... AWESOME company!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY JEROME... WE LOVE YOU!!
We didn't have digital back then, so I took a picture of the picture on our wall!
This is us today... but we've grown into a family!! Amara, Jerome, Shailyn, and Dayton!
