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Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Happy 19th Birthday Smiley!

Happy Birthday Smiley! I love you more than words can say. I hope you have a great day!!❤️

- Lisa

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Junie's 16th Birthday pt 2

After breakfast on Day 2,  everyone on the trip went down to the pool to swim . Unfortunately , the handicapped lift aiding Grandma in getting out of the pool broke,  leaving her stranded in the water . After both staff and the boys failed to get her out , Hotel staff called 911 . 





She was okay and gave all the firefighters hugs and a kiss.


Then the group checked out and went to explore the Mall of America. Lisa and her mom went one way, the kids the other. Junie and the Core Four went to the amusement park inside the mall, to Popeye's for dinner, to Barnes and Noble and countless other stores, and to a mirror maze. 

They were there until 9:00 p.m.







At Build-A-Bear, Lauren and the Core Four chipped in together to buy a sloth, each of them adding a heart to the animal and then naming it with a combination of their own names.


Then it was on to our house, where they arrived around 3:30 in the morning. The last of the guests left in mid-afternoon. By all accounts it was a great birthday. To quote a very happy Junie, "I didn't cry!"  (a first for her birthdays!)

Junie's 16th Birthday pt 1

 

To celebrate  Junie's Sweet 16th, I’ll be taking her on a road trip to the Mall of America in Bloomington MN.  As she’s invited her 4 close friends, I’ll be renting a larger car for the trip, so I do ask that extra care is taken when eating or drinking on the road!

Because it is 5 hours away, we ask that your child be ready at our house by 8am on August 7th. We’ll be staying in two rooms at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Bloomington (2401 American Boulevard East, Bloomington, MN 55425)  The stay includes a free breakfast and use of the pool, so be sure to pack a swimsuit.

We’ll visit the Mall (which includes an amusement park inside!), swim at the hotel, and eat at a locally famous burger joint to  enjoy a “Juicy Lucy.”

We expect to return to Milwaukee very late on the 8th. If you can’t pick up your child until the morning, they can stay overnight, but please let us know.

We’re covering the transportation and hotel, as well as snacks and birthday cake, but please bring money for the mall (inc the amusement park) and meals.

Oh, and send us your favorite beverages and snacks so we can prep for the road!

Please contact me with any questions or concerns at  xxx-xxx-xxxx.

 

Lisa


That's the text message we sent out to the parents of the Core Four - the four friends in Junie's immediate circle.

Alas, the trip ended before it began. The rental car company gave away the seven-seater she reserved and offered Lisa a five seat vehicle. Never mind the fact that seven people (Lisa, Junie, her friends, and Grandma) headed out to Minnesota. She even went down to a second car rental agency and got the same result. All this, after waiting in line for a good long time.

Thankfully, my Mazda seats seven.  So Lisa called me and had me bring it back from work and exchange it with her own car.  After a couple hours  unexpected delay, they were on the way.




Five or six hours later they were in Bloomington getting dolled up at the hotel.



The kids took the shuttle bus from the hotel to the mall for a few hours while Lisa and her Mom picked up the cake I'd ordered. There was some difficulty finding the group at the mall - it is HUGE after all - but find them Lisa did, at the neighboring IKEA. 

Then it was out for a traditional Juicy Lucy burger at Matt's, which I'm told they all enjoyed minus one friend  (K) who of course had to order chicken instead and be difficult.




Here's Junie's birthday cake, ordered from a bakery in Bloomington. The images on the cake as well as the writing come from a custom design I ordered online. This is the third consecutive birthday where she has Finn Wolfhard on the cake.



Back home in Milwaukee the rest of Team slab gathered around our dining room table and over a FaceTime, I gave Junie the Polish birthday blessing while Lisa did the honors of tying the ribbon.




Then we did her a happy birthday and a good night, and she and her friends went down to the pool to get some swimming in. Day two awaited.


Sunday, March 19, 2023

Happy birthday uncle Danny

 Happy birthday uncle Danny!!!

This the only photo I can find rivht now with one of the babies!!!
Thank you for sacrificing your day for Aliyah’s birthday party!
We love youuuuuu - Caitlin



Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Happy Birthday Huckleberry!

Our Goodest Boi turns 3 today, and to celebrate I bought the handsome lad a (disgusting) pigs snout to enjoy!



  
Sto lot my doggo, sto lot!


Saturday, October 22, 2022

20 years and 364 Days

i can not wait to have my first ever sip of alcohol this weekend (j/k) -YaYa (her 21st birthday starts in 21 minutes)

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Happy Birthday!

Happy 15th birthday [Junie] !!!!! I hope you have the most amazing day to finish off a great birthday weekend. I love watching you grow up and enjoy your spitfire Leo personality. Roar baby, roar! Excited this is the year I get to teach the last member of Team Slap to drive. So much time behind the wheel to look forward to together baby!  - Lisa

Saturday, March 19, 2022

 Wow. Where'd the last 27 years go? How'd I end up married to a 48 year old man!? Happy birthday Dan ! Have the best day! - Lisa

Monday, March 7, 2022

 Happy Birthday to my son Smiley! I love you very much! I hope your 17th birthday was memorable! You are the best son a mom could hope for. - Lisa

Sto Lot!

With the day almost over I don't want you to think I forgot it was Smiley's 17th birthday! We celebrated yesterday, being the weekend, with a friends only party at Axe Milwaukee and a family get together after at our house. Sto Lot my son - I'm very happy you were born!






Smiley's 17th Birthday!

With the day almost over I don't want you to think I forgot it was Smiley's 17th birthday! We celebrated yesterday, being the weekend, with a friends only party at Axe Milwaukee and a family get together after at our house. Sto Lot my son - I'm very happy you were born!



Friday, August 7, 2020

Happy Birthday

As of midnight,  I'm now officially the father of four teenagers.  Zoinks! Happy 13th Birthday [first/middle name] Junie!!! Sto lot!

Saturday, March 7, 2020

Smiley's 1st Day of Work

 Well today is my baby boy’s birthday! He’s off bright and early to start his first day of work EVER on his 15th bday! If you’re stopping at the Bay View McDonald’s don’t embarrass him too bad! Excited for him and really proud. I wish I could post a pic of him in his uniform but he made me promise I wouldn’t. Kids. - Lisa

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Happy Birthday!

Happy Sweet 16 to my OJ aka LuLu aka Livvie Lou aka Centerpiece!

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

My 45th Birthday

Turning 45 was easy. All I had to do was live 44 years and then wait a year. *Accepting* that I was 45, and thus officially and irrevocably past the midpoint of my best-case scenario lifespan, thatttt wasn't so easy. But whatachagonna do? You live, and you enjoy it, and you celebrate your birth all the harder. 

I started the day by walking the kids to school (a rarity, with my hip being wonky lately), then napped until my own classes started. When I returned, the house was clean and ready for a party!



Among the food were all my favorites: sushi, a dainty plate of wasabi, animal crackers, raspberry candy, oatmeal raisin cookies, unbuttered popcorn, Mountain Dew (reg and diet) and Bit O' Honey. 







Oh, and a half ice cream half cake . . .cake. 


The kitchen island was lined with presents and decorated with post-it note messages Lump had her classmates create for me. 




All of #TeamSlap was there, along with YaYa's boyfriend Justin, my cousin Mindy and her son, and my niece from Arizona. Not everyone is pictured here, in part because some folks worked the camera. 







YaYa gave me the traditional Polish-language birthday blessing. 





We sang happy birthday. We ate. And then we opened gifts!






I got loads of great presents. Ed Hardy cologne. Socks and underwear. A lunch container and a protein shake mixer bottle. A multi-tool Some snacks. (peeps, KitKat, Schneider pretzels).  Handkerchiefs. A beard trimmer. A record (LP) cleaner. And some great records (The Who, Zep, Nirvana, and Buddy Holly)






Later, my friend Tre stopped by and we hung out for a few hours. Before the day was through tho, I went and bought Lisa a small bouqet of flowers, as a thank you for throwing me a heck of a birthday.



Thanks to everyone who attended the party, and all the folks who wished me a happy day via text or Facebook! It meant a lot.