My Younger Man

Jared turned 30 last month on the 27th. I like when his birthday rolls around because then I am no longer older than him...just the same age (at least in my silly mind). I can't believe he's thirty. I don't know why it seems so much stranger to me for him to be thirty than me. I think because I've always acted old no matter what age I am and he's always seemed so young & fun. I still see him as the same 21 year old who stole my heart.

I wanted to do something super special for him for his thirtieth birthday. It's kind of a big deal you know. My sister and I actually started planning this amazing surprise party for him like way back in February. He's never had a surprise party before. Seriously, it was going to be so much fun. It was going to have an 80's theme (since that's the year he was born), we were going to have prizes for best costumes, dancing, games, karaoke, yummy food...the works! I was so excited to do this for him.

So why didn't it happen you ask? Well, I remembered that we don't really have any friends. Yeah I know, pathetic right? Okay, don't get me wrong, we have friends. Just not really close friends that we hang out with on a regular basis. I mean, there's definitely lots of people I could have invited from church and his work and stuff but they're people we see at those functions. We don't get together outside of those things. I didn't want to take the chance of no one coming. How depressing would that be to walk into a surprise party and only have your wife & kids jump out yelling "SURPRISE" at you when you can tell that it was supposed to be a big party. So I scrapped it. Who knows, maybe for his 40th.


Anyway, we still had lots of fun. The kids and I went to the store to get some fun decorations & presents. Addison helped me make his birthday cake and then she and Urban helped put up the decorations. Addison picked out a toy race car to give him and Urban wanted to give him a football. Urban kind of scored on daddy's birthday as he ended up with both presents. Delilah and I got him a blu-ray player which kind of made up for losing the other two.

Jared's parents came up to visit us Memorial Day weekend and ended up getting here the night of his birthday. (I'll post about their visit later.) He had school that night and usually the kids are in bed by the time he gets home but I let them stay up late. When he walked in the door Addison & Urban sprayed him with silly string. They thought that was the greatest thing ever! Addison later told me that grown-ups birthday parties are more fun than kids parties. I think the silly string and noise makers were the main factors taken into account when coming to that conclusion.

I ended up telling him about all of my grand plans and then told him why I didn't do it. He just laughed and said I was probably right but he appreciated the thought. He's a pretty spectacular guy...at least in my opinion.