"It's Dada's Birthday!" :-)

I've celebrated 13 years of birthdays with Stephen. In the earlier years I would like to throw parties for both him and Robyn since they were a day apart. Many of them such memorable parties like their surprise 21st and their 70's themed party. I'm bummed that we live so far from Robyn that I can no longer throw them a party together. :-(

Our hands under the deep blue sea somewhere off the coast in Fiji. May 2002
On this special day I just wanted to take a moment to write about my man. He is such a loving husband, he's always a gentleman even after all these years, God truly blessed me with an amazing man. He's also such an awesome and FUN father. Before we had kids of our own, Stephen was usually labeled the favorite or most fun uncle...maybe cause he was the youngest in his family so he seemed "cooler" to the kids and more "hip and fun". Well he's definitely still that way after having Madeline and James. You should see Maddy and Jimmy's faces light up when Dada gets home! :-)

So keeping with Spence tradition, Madeline and I worked hard this evening cleaning the house and decorating the kitchen for Stephen, he works until 2am tonight - so he'll come home already being his birthday to this!

We baked him a chocolate chip vanilla cake. Madeline helped me frost it and put the candles on. They'll get to enjoy it in the morning while I'm at work. Then we'll take Stephen out for a birthday lunch and pick up Oma from the airport in the afternoon. It'll be a fun day.