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The Bunch Celebrate T

 


Though T had his friend party last weekend, his actual birthday was this week. We didn't do a whole lot since we had already had celebrated, but we did open presents and rent the new Jurassic Park (which I actually really liked). Since T is in his body building era we decided when I made my cake, a scrumptious three layer chocolate zucchini cake, that we would portion the leftovers into 8 slices and have four on T's birthday and the other  four on A's. We all absolutely LOVE the chocolate cake and this way we could cut down on sugar and treats. We will make the cakes they want a little later and space it out more. T wanted a pineapple upside down cake and A wanted a Boston creme poke cake so we will probably make those in October and November respectively. The chocolate cake froze great in slices and worked perfectly for T to blow out all his candles. He actually wanted 17 candles and not a number 1 and 7.  He blew them all out in one blow, but it takes a minute to light them so there was some wax drippings on the cake. 

Maisy is still with us... physically anyways. Mentally she isn't really aware of much.

He's really excited about firefighter school next year.

All 17 candles....he plans to have "actual" candles every year, that should be fun in 20 years.

We like to make signs on the white boards. This was D's. We all thought it was something different this year and I am not sure any of us were a 100% right.😂

I went for a much simpler design. They all understood mine.😂

I put several banners up around the house to be festive.

T and I went to try out the floating chair he got me for my birthday. He was a sweetheart and carried all the luggage.

I love, love, loved my floating chair. It was like being in a recliner in the water. I almost fell asleep it was so relaxing!

The wine tasting A got me was very enjoyable. D and I had a great time.

Basically a family runs the winery out of the grandparents original home. This house was crazy big.

See. Crazy big.

They look so cute while I work out. Axl can totally walk over the gate, but he usually lets me contain him while I work out.....if he feels like it. 🤣 


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