on saturday we went to a nearby town to eat lunch. the decor in this restaurant was clowns, everywhere. it was pretty funny. the burgers and fries were pretty good. i love this picture of jeffrey and sam.
that night i surprised jeffrey and took him out to dinner where some of our friends met up with us. the pizza was awesome and the ice cream was great. we really had a good time. we were lucky the weather was so nice too. 
the next afternoon, after church, we passed out the presents.here is a before and after picture.
we did pretty good. he was very happy with his gifts. thank you to both of our parents who sent jeffrey presents as well.i attempted to make pies with a top crust for the first time. it wasn't as hard as i thought it would be. it was actually pretty fun. jeffrey really wanted birthday pie instead of birthday cake. if was nice to do something different.
before being baked
all ready to eat. yum, they were good.
the last present i gave him was the one i had been working on the longest. jeffrey has this new love of glass bottled, sugar sodas (not high fructose corn syrup and pure cane sugar is even better than just sugar). it took a little searching around, but i found 30 different varieties of sodas, one for each year of his life. it was fun to do. i wrote up 30 memories and taped one on each bottle. he loved it. you never know if your present is going to be liked or loved and this time i got it right. i was happy the hard work paid off. 
all in all we had a lot of fun celebrating jeffrey's 30th birthday. it seemed like a big deal, so we tried to make it memorable. the boys had a lot of fun as well. i forgot to mention that they bought him a remote control jeep with their own money. they do chores and slowly earn money so that they have a little spending money. it was cool to see them happily use their own money to get something for their dad. we love you jeffrey.
6 comments:
That is so cool. All those pop bottles look really impressive. The pies look amazing! Thanks for letting us celebrate with you. Happy birthday Jeffrey!
How fun--looks like you guys had fun celebrating. I love the soda bottle idea, how creative. I am sure he loved it. I may have to steal that sometime for a fun suprise for JJ.
The pies looking amazing!!! I'm trying to think of things other than cake for Joshua's birthdays because he won't eat cake and ice cream really. Pies are on the list now! Thanks!
Sounds like you guys all had so much fun celebrating his 30th!
(and you look great!)
I think you definitely succeeded in making it memorable!! What a fun birthday! I love the first picture of him and Sam :)
Haha, Jeff was so proud of those bottles, I thought it was so cool to see it on Facebook. Sam and Elliot are so adorable!
Happy birthday Jeff!
you look so cute! And that was a great idea about the soda write up!
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