Zac's Birthday

Zac's birthday was on Saturday....he turned 29. Zac had to go to school in the morning, so while he was at school, Eric helped me make Zac a birthday cake. Eric picked out some Scooby Doo decorations for the cake, and he put the candles on it. When Zac came home, we lit the birthday cake, but there were so many candles on it, that Scooby Doo caught on fire. Then Zac asked Eric what present he should open up first. Eric says "The movie Daddy, open up the movie!" That is the last time I am taking Eric shopping with me for presents.....I didn't think he would remember what we got Zac. Zac had all of his neck ties in a box when we first got the kittens. The kittens thought that it was a secondary litter box, so all of his ties got ruined. Eric helped me pick out some ties at Mr. Mac. I couldn't believe how expensive ties are! We also got Zac the newest season of Scrubs that came out on DVD.

On Friday we had a movie night at our house with our friends. Zac hooked up a DVD player in Eric's room for the kids to watch, and we brought down our couch from the front room and put it in our family room so that we had plenty of seating available. We had 2 families come over and eat dinner, then we watched Nacho Libre. It was a really good choice of movie because I could go upstairs and check on the kids, and not have missed anything in the movie. The next time we do this, we definitely need an adult present upstairs with the kids. We had 6 kids upstairs, and when you would go upstairs, they would sit and watch the movie. The second you sit down in your chair downstairs, one of them would be screaming/crying.

Saturday morning after we made Zac's birthday cake, Eric, Aubrey and I went to the Stake Young Women's service project. I was the only leader that showed up, and I only had one girl show up. They decided that they wanted to pick up garbage for the next two hours. Eric actually had a really good time trying to find garbage. He found a piece of rebarr (spelling?) that was bent in half and Eric thought he would use it as a hammer to find more garbage...at least that is his reason for taking the rebarr with us everywhere. It was cold and wet though, it rained almost the entire time. Aubrey fell asleep on me 1/2 way through. That night Zac's sister Barb and her boyfriend came over and watched the kids so we could go to dinner and a movie. We ended up going to Porter's Steakhouse in Lehi. It was named after Porter Rockwell. Then we went to the movie theater. It has been so long since Zac and I had actually gone to the theater, that when we walked in, we did not recognize one movie name. We actually left the theater and thought about going home because Zac didn't want to waste $15 on a movie that we didn't know anything about. We finally went to a different theater, in hopes that we would see a different movie that we would know about, and ended up watching "The Prestige". It was a good movie, but pretty dark. Eric was so funny that night when we came home. Barb had put the kids to bed, and Eric was asking for me. Barb told him that if he closed his eyes and went to sleep, that when he opened them, Mommy would be home. When we got home, Zac and I went in to the kids bedrooms to check on them before we went to bed. Eric had the covers off, so as I was covering him back up, he opened his eyes and smiled and said, "it WORKED!" All day Sunday, he kept on telling me how Barb told him to close his eyes, and then Mommy came.

Zac's made a little bit of progress on the sprinkler system. He's hardly home to work on it, but he told me that he's almost put all the sprinklers in today, he just needs to fill in the trenches now. I will be so glad when that is finished.