Garth's birthday and Father's Day

Garth's bithday coincides with hot weather and good deals at resorts in Arizona, so this year I decided to take him for a night at the Scottsdale Princess Resort. Friday night we went to dinner at Tommy Bahama's (we would highly recommend it) but I didn't bring enough money for dinner, so Garth ended up having to pay for his own birthday dinner - not the first time that has happened.
When we checked in I was told we had a view of the lagoon, but we actually had a view of trees and a roof. Oh well, the room was great.

Saturday morning we walked around the 75 acre resort -no we didn't do the whole 75 arcess, but we did take a nice walk. This is the lagoon our room was supposed to look down on. The Princess is where the Phoenix Open is played and unfortunately I didn't get Garth a tee time. I figured he would much rather spend the day with ME right? Besides if I didn't have enough money for dinner the night before, do you think I had money for golf?

We spent the rest of the day swimming and laying by the pool and just being lazy. We decided that we don't need to buy each other gifts any more - a night a way is the best gift.

Sunday was Father's Day so the kids had gifts for Garth to open. He had to sit on our offical family gift opening spot (the fireplace) to do so.

Here is the gift opening audience - look at the excitement in their faces.

Since Dave will be a father this year, he got to open a gift, too. See Raquel's cute little pregnant tummy? Tuesday was Garth actual birthday so we had dinner and he had more gifts to open. He didn't make it to our offical family gift opening spot and just stayed in 'his chair,' is that a sign of old age?

Here is the gift opening audience with the addition of Paul who moved Jason to the floor. The rest are in the exact same places. Did they ever move?

We then sang "Happy Birthday" to Garth while his candles dripped wax onto his lemon supreme pie. He then blew extra hard to blow out those two candles and blew wax all over my granite counter tops, but since it was his birthday I didn't say anything (I thought I'd wait for my blog). If you want to see how old he is just look at the candle numbers. He doesn't look that old does he?

I think this is the 31st birthday that I've celebrated with Garth and I hope we have another 31 to celebrate together. I know there isn't a better husband, friend and partner than Garth to share my life with! Love you!!