We celebrated Howie's birthday on Saturday. Since his birthday is on Christmas Eve and everyone is usually with their family and doing Christmas things, we decided to move his birthday a few days early. Howie first chose his cake he wanted and then turning his birthday in a bowling party seemed only natural. He was pretty excited to go bowling with his friends. We found some cute miniature bowling games as favors. It was too perfect. I asked him if he thought the cake turned out okay, if it looked like the picture. He gave me a big hug and said it turned out better than the picture. What a way to melt mom's heart. I wasn't expecting the actual bowling to take as long as it did, I guess I under estimated how much I would be running around with little kids bowling, but I think we all had a pretty good time. In the middle of bowling, the store presented Howie with an actual bowling pin, retired of course and let everyone sign it. Howie thought that was the coolest. I am still surprised at how heavy it is, each time I hear Howie drop it around the house! Howie had such a fun time and we hope the friends did as well. Thanks friends for sharing in Howie's special day.
hApPy BiRtHdAy hOwIe! We love you tons!
5 comments:
Happy Birthday Howie (tomorrow) The cake looks awesome Tara! Well done!!
I am so sad we missed his birthday party. Looks like it was a great day! Happy Birthday Howie! Your cake looks fabulous! Great Job!
Seriously great job on the cake. your compliment from Howie was well deserved. We too wished we could have been there. It is such a crazy time huh. you do a great job of making is birthday so special when it could so easily be lost in the season. Happy Birthday Howie!!!
Looks like the party was a hit!!!
How fun! I have a child with a birthday close to Christmas and a little one who is turning 5 this month.
I saw your comment on Utah Deal Diva about finding money for food storage.
We lived on our food storage for 27 months. I got about 10 months to go shopping again and restock my pantry (while living on 60% of our former income), and then we started living on our food storage again mid-December. I built it back up on less than I did before, and we still had food to eat while building it, and my pantry is even fuller than it was before.
So, where to find the money?
A couple of reads for you:
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And then if you're looking for more ideas and want to see where else you can pinch, as you put it, here is how we do it:
http://theprudenthomemaker.com/shoppingwisely.aspx
Hope that helps!
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