Birthday and Other Celebrations

Someday I will upload pictures in chronological order. However, for this one it will go from most recent to older ones. Hopefully they will be enjoyable and informative anyway.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Utah it's kind of a "thing" to put little family decals on the back of you minivan or other large capacity vehicle. One day, I decided it would be really funny to just get one single girl to put on the back of my car.

We had a roommate shopping day yesterday and found the perfect one! Heidi got it for me, she had shopped around for one for my birthday present but could never find the right one. I love how this one has a little sass and a haircut that nearly matches mine.

Another birthday purchase. I am finally a bike helmet owner. I have been doing a fair amount of biking, mostly on quiet neighborhood streets. However, I feel like I have been making a gamble on my skull's safety. So I decided to use my birthday money from Grammy and Grampy to buy a helmet to for noggin protection.

Thanks Grammy and Grampy!

Flashback to my childhood. I remember spending significant amount of time clearing the etch-a-sketch at Grammy Kenfields house. I still remember the first time I successfully cleared it and learned that the little thing that clears the screen looks like a hershey kiss.

I was able to relive those fond moments because Jennifer gave me an etch-a-sketch for my birthday. I spent a certain amount of time on it at her birthday party.

Now for those of you who have not experiences Jennifer in full action at an arcade! This girl has mad arcade skills!... and a possible addiction to getting large quantities of prize tickets.

Here she is playing a very intense game where you have to shoot a ball into a hole while airplane propellers spin in front of it. You may think this is a staged picture, but that was really the natural face she was making.

Birthday luck was in her favor this night. The arcade had this giant wheel that is like the wheel on The Price is Right. It is very fun to just spin it but Jennifer took it one step further and won the biggest prize on the first try! 1000 tickets! (She has better pictures and video of her enjoying her winnings)

Birthday candles with her parrots (the balloon animals) watching on.

My roommate Karina was born in Mexico and then raised in Chicago. She had mentioned that Mexican Independence was coming up, so we decided to celebrate. In Chicago people drive up and down the streets waiving large Mexican flags and shouting "Viva Mexico!" at midnight. I made sure we did the same. We loaded into my car, Heidi held the only flag Karina had (it was about the size of a 3x5 card), we rolled down the windows and drove up and down a quiet city street and yelled salutations out the windows.

We should have photo documented it better, but we did get pictures of the pinata smashing the next night after a Mexican meal of chicken, rice, mole, cactus salad, tortillas, and pineapple soda.

Heidi obliterated it on the first try so we just had it out with it from there.

In an effort to be more economically we bought Halloween candy which we are saving to pass out to the neighborhood kids when they come trick-o-treating. We are conducting an experiment with it. Half is in the freezer and the other in the cupboard. Any guesses on which will be the least stale come Halloween Day?