Trav gets older

I'm Baaaaaack!!

We have been in our new house for almost two weeks and just BARELY got internet! I was going craaaazy. If we didn't at least have Trav's I-phone through that, I would certainly have lost it by now. The Comcast guy left about an hour ago and I'm already itchin' to get the blog caught up! Obviously there is lots to say about what's been happening {currently}, but alas I am ever the chronological stickler, so I'm going to have to go in order. Bear with me.... you're about to hear more than you care for about Stephanie's thoughts, feelings and emotions in the following {way too many} posts.

"This old man, he played two, he played knick knack on his shoe"! Random, but that's literally what popped into my head when starting Trav's birthday post! He turned..... 29 this year! One more year of the twenties. Now, that feels pretty strange. If you ask him, I'll bet he tells you it was the BEST birthday ever (sarcasm implied), and here's why.

* His presents were AWESOME.

#1 A Duff's t-shirt, that my mom technically bought for him when she came out to visit, but for which became one of his presents because I had previously decided I'd buy it for him for his birthday and after my mom did, I couldn't think of anything else, so I wrapped it for his birthday anyway. (How's that for a run on sentence?)

#2 A bottle of Listerine. But wait, you say. Isn't that a toiletry item that should be bought on a regular basis anyway? True, true. But I don't. I can hardly stand the stuff and for some reason see it as superfluous anyway (maybe because I didn't grow up with it??) and therefore have a hard time spending money on it. But I want you to notice, it's not even the off brand, Wegmans stuff. It is the real deal, Listerine stuff. That my friends, deems it a present.

#3  Not pictured.... his church suit dry cleaned. Again... shouldn't that be done on a regular basis and not used as a present? Please refer to superfluous explanation given in #2. I mean, how often should a suit really be cleaned? On second thought, don't answer that. I like to think he was quite excited to finally have a suit that was void of baby smears and drool.

 (Because Collin always needs a picture.)

*The fine dining!

Denny's grand slams all around, please!

*The golfing with his buddies

Oh wait, haha, that would have cost money. How about flying a kite with your son?

Collin got a Spiderman kite for his birthday and we finally tried it out at the Harlem Community park. He was in heaven.

This one really wished he could join in, but since his 15 month old legs still don't want to walk, it was sitting in the grass for him. And grass is not his fav. Note the elevated left leg. Whenever I plop him on the grass, his leg automatically goes up. Not both. Just the one.

* His wife got all dressed up!

{Before}

 {After}

 Our ward planned a Cinco de Mayo activity for that night that doubled as a talent show night. No one was signing up so I decided we needed to go out of this ward with a bang, and somehow coerced Rachel and Kate to do a skit with me. Dancing to Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies", dressed up as old grannies, to be exact. It was all thrown together two days before and we didn't start practicing until the night before, but it turned out pretty good! And thanks to Kate bringing the {old lady bosoms} (tube socks filled with sand, hanging around our necks), we were swaying and bouncing as obscenely as a ward talent show should get! I think some guys even diverted their eyes. I have the best friends! It was hysterical and the ward was generous in their laughter, applause, and compliments. We were pretty dang nervous right before going out, but I'm glad we did it!

Then Laney called Travis out at the end to stand in front of everyone while the whole ward sang "Happy Birthday" to him. Every guy's dream. :) I thought it was really nice!

 Finally, with it being way too late and having two cranky kids, he got his Funfetti birthday cake.

The next week, I had a friend ask me what we did for Trav's birthday and I had to duck my head and sheepishly admit that we went to Denny's, he mowed the lawn, and we went to the ward party. And he got mouthwash as a present. Oh well, that's what happens when you get old, right? We were just excited we got to spend the whole day with the best guy ever. And at least he didn't have to take a final!!