Jared and Evan celebrated birthday’s this past week.  Jared is 10 and Evan is 4, holy cow does time fly!!!  Here are a few pictures of us trying to have fun without Dad :(  Jared decided he wanted his birthday dinner to be at IHOP.  Yay, I love IHOP!  I was crossing my fingers he wouldn’t pick Chuck E Cheese…again…and thankfully I got my wish.  So it’s our family tradition (I have no idea WHY though) that every time we’re at a restaurant that has Tabasco sauce/hot sauce, we take a spoonful and eat some!  It’s fun!  And by “we” I mean Tyler, Logan and Jared.  There’s no way you’d actually get ME to do that!  Jared asked for a campfire cake, so that’s what I did for him.  I’m not the best at making “people in sleeping bags” but whatever, it tasted great!

For Evan’s birthday lunch, he wanted to go to Burger King.  Again, yay!  The day before his birthday, he started telling me a story.  He said “You are going to sing Happy Birthday to me.  Then, I will open my present.  It will be a chainsaw!  I can cut down trees with it, like this….vrrrr vrrrr vrrrr.  I will LOVE it and I will be so happy!”   Sorry to disappoint you kid, but no chainsaw this year.  Maybe next year ;)  Logan told him I didn’t buy him one because I didn’t have enough money.  Yeah…that’s the reason I didn’t buy a 4 year old a chainsaw for his birthday……Well anyway, Evan asked for a Panda cake for his birthday.  I didn’t feel like actually making dark chocolate icing, so I just colored the extra white I had brown, so he’s not quite as dark as a panda, but whatever, we’re going to eat him anyway!  Oh, and Evan named him Rufus, and he was delicious!