birthday boy

today was matt's birthday.  madelyn called him "birthday boy" all day.  i had wanted to let him sleep in but the kids had other plans for me last night and when mason woke up on the floor of our bedroom he went to matt and i could not motivate to stop him.  oh well.  it made it that much easier to take daddy out to breakfast - which we were planning anyway.

we took him to dunkin donuts (his choice because we had coupons).  i have never had breakfast there before, but their hash browns are awesome!  after that we headed over to do some shopping.  there were still some really great deals and since we were out early, we had the stores mostly to ourselves.  we were going to take him out to dinner, but we were very close to the restaurant at lunch time so we decided to save ourselves another trip out.  we tried a barbecue place and daddy really liked it.  there aren't that many barbecue places around here so it was a real treat.

yesterday, the kids and i made matt's birthday cake.  we made a vanilla cake with a vanilla pudding and sliced strawberries filling covered in chocolate, chocolate chip frosting.  yum, yum!

daddy said that he had a nice day and i really think that he did.  we love you, daddy/matt!  love.