Derek turns 29

wow! how the years do march on. derek turned 29.

as an observer, i felt like this was a very different birthday since he is a dad now and the usual "birthday boy gets the day off of all responsibilities" did not really apply.

for me, i usually try to surprise him with a great gift for his birthday or a great party. i offered to throw him a bbq but he said he wanted to do the traditional Pizza Hut party. then he thought a bbq might be nice, but i decided that i'm crazy to think i can host a bbq when i'm tired and diedre is only 2 weeks old...so i said, Pizza Hut it is!

as for the gift, for the first time, i felt like "i'm not working...how do i buy him a gift?" even though we fully share money it just seemed weird to buy him a gift with our money this time for some reason.

i also wanted to buy him stuff that he needed to pick out, so i decided to just tell him that we could go shopping and that i would buy him a harness or rope for climbing.

i still bought him a card. the most fun thing was buying him his first birthday card FROM diedre. it was really cute and it made both of our hearts jump :)