Happy Birthday Daddy!

We seriously don't post enough about Dave - which is ironic considering he's the one that keeps things running around here. He's been SO busy lately! He works at one of the school districts in Idaho Falls during the day. After work, he works on one of our many, many businesses. If there is any time in between, he does homework for his master's degree. Poor guy! It seems like all he ever gets to do anymore is work! After he gets his degree, it should mellow out though, so if we can just hold on until April.

The sad thing about his birthday is that it falls a day before our fireworks selling season. Every year he ends up spending the majority of the day setting up for that! This year, the kids and I thought that maybe - just maybe - if we get him something fun for his birthday, he would take at least a few minutes and play.

I took Bria with me to Radio Shack to find something. She was convinced that he really, really wanted the princess laptop. I guess he does use a computer a lot, but I tried to explain that he probable doesn't really need a princess laptop. "But mom! He would really LOVE this!" "Bria - are you sure he would love this and it's not you that would love this?" In the end, we decided to get him a remote control airplane.

He was pretty excited and immediately charged the batteries. It was a little tricky to get working, but he eventually got a good flight going. What you can't see in the picture is the 6 or so neighbor kids that were following him all around. It was pretty funny! Hopefully now he can take even just a few minutes of down time every now and then!

Happy birthday Dave!! We love you so much!!!!