Birthday weekend

Chance had his 29th birthday last Thursday, so we spent the weekend partying! Lucky us.  His special day included lunch at the Cheesecake factory (a repeat from his birthday with me last year),

Jadens first swim meet,

killing a snake,

and a surprise dinner with friends at Chances favorite Thai place (it's called Tai Aroy-D, check it out)

Oh wait, what about the snake killing? That's not a normal birthday ritual at your house? Oh, well then let me tell you the story...

Earlier that day the family had been cleaning out the vines over the garage and in the process they found a fun little nest full of cute brand new baby birds.  They set the step ladder up so that they could watch the birds as they grow.  This was nice.  So Chance came home a little later and wanted to check on the birds again. So he started to climb up the ladder when he looked up and saw a SNAKE in the nest.  It had eaten the babies and the mom bird was going crazy, which seemed like the logical thing to do, so he too went crazy. He grabbed a tree that had been recently dug out of our yard and started hitting the snake.  At this point my mom comes home with the boys and sees Chance going crazy and they join in.  William and Coleson went on the roof to try to corner the snake back down to Chance (because with all the bullying coming from the ground, the snake had ventured onto the roof).  This is the point at which I call home because i'm on my way home from work and want to orchestrate the final details of Chances surprise dinner with mom.  I told her to get the kids off the roof and for everyone to stop chasing a snake.  Much to Chances chagrin this caused the end of the snake hunt for now.  This is not the end of the story though.

I came home and Chance and I went to Jadens swim meet to kill a little time before Chances surprise dinner.  After the race Chance and I headed back home to go to dinner.  We walked back and we could see the mama bird crying on the roof, and Chance looked over at the nest again and the snake was back!!!!! SICK!!!!!!

So Chance resumed his original role as snake killer and proceded to pull the snake out of the vines with some kind of gardening tool... once he threw it to the ground he got the shovel and tried to cut his head off. This was not working, as the shovel must be a bit dull and the snake was rather fast. So finally Chance turned the shovel over and just squashed his head.  Thus the end of the baby-bird-eating-snake. SICK.

After all this excitement, Chance and I weren't really all that hungry.  However I had 7 couples waiting for us at his surprise dinner, so I convinced him to at least go for dessert.

That weekend Lindsay and Jake were in town so we also had a family bbq birthday party, complete with homemade birthday pie!  All in all I would say it was a pretty great weekend. 

And in other news - it was also our 6 month wedding anniversary! (any excuse to include a wedding picture, right?!)