Happy Birthday Alex

Alex's ninth birthday was on Jan. 28th. You can go ahead and give me the Worse Mom of Year Award for this birthday. Alex decided he didn't want to have a party, but instead go bowling with our friends, Luke, Kevin, and Lori. With David out of town the week of his birthday and me working like crazy, the poor boy had no presents to open on his official day. He did have school and a basektball game that night, so that kept us busy that day. So on Saturday I went and purchased him the Guitar Hero game for the Wii, batting gloves, and a hamper that the boy has wanted for a year! The plan on Sunday was to go bowling and come back to our house for pizza and cake. Well, apparently public bowling does not mean the same thing as open bowling because when we got there at 2:30, the lady told us "open bowling" does not begin until 5:30. So we drove all the way to Rock Hill for nothing. Thank goodness it was a beautiful 70 degree day, so the kids and I enjoyed playing basketball and riding our bikes. We then ended the evening with pizza and cake. However, if you look closely at the cake, you will see that Alex's name is in purple frosting. Since I was the bad mom and didn't order one ahead of time, I had to go with the only color frosting the bakery department had on hand at the time. Alex is such a mellow kid he didn't care, but Lauren had a fit.
We have recovered from the poorly planned birthday and enjoy playing and singing to guitar hero nightly. I guess I better get started planning Lauren's birthday tomorrow

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