Happy 8th Anniversary and 30th Birthday!!

This is Addie and our friend Eliza.  They were pooped after decorating for D's birthday!  :)

 So, it's the big 3-0 birthday this year! Not that it's all that much older than 29, but I guess switching decades is enough to be considered "big," right?  I was able to find balloons at the store, but no streamers or anything.  I made a construction paper birthday banner, and all the kids drew pictures for him.  It was nice and festive feeling even though he was gone pretty much the whole day.  We just celebrated his birthday without him!  lol  (Here's a nice accidental belly shot of me.  This baby's growing quickly!)

 We celebrated alone until he came home for dinner.  :)  Not sure what Hudson's face is doing.  Is that a scowl?  Does he do that?  I didn't know he had those facial muscles, I've rarely seen them!

I made him a yellow cake with chocolate frosting, his favorite, but that stuff is really expensive here!  It was like $4 US for the cake mix and another $4 US for the frosting.  It was really yummy though, and totally worth making for him. We also didn't have any candles, so we used matches.  We need the matches to light the stove, though, so we decided that each one was worth a whole decade.  These kind of candles light really well, and no wax on the cake!

 Earlier in the week was our 8th anniversary, as well.  We hadn't been out on an official date and figured this was a good time to go.  Our neighbor offered to come watch the kids.  Since he's a student, we put the kids to bed and he just came over and studied while we were gone.  Worked out quite nice, actually, since our kids can go to bed at 7pm b/c it's dark here by about 6:45.  We went to a local place called Charcoals, just down the road.  They serve casual bbq food in a roof-only nice atmosphere.  I had grilled chicken and D got a really yummy burger.  We haven't had a hamburger since we've been gone, so it was really good (of course I had to have a bite or two).  We also got our favorite drinks here called Ting.  It's like sparkling grapefruit juice, but more of a soda type drink.  It's locally made and we're totally addicted.

 This is one of the nicer looking buildings in the area, it looks like people are trying to take care of it.  It actually has a nice logo and everything! lol.  Apparently here, people and stores will just not do work because they don't want to.  They close early or turn down service because it's too big of an order and they don't want to do it.  Even the major banks here close at like 2pm.

Can you tell it was a long day by the way I look?  Hope so...but I can't really say I look much better every other day.  Something about this place screams, "HEY, DON'T GET READY TODAY!"  Maybe it's this slow Caribbean lifestyle.  I think I could get used to this.