Daddy's Big Birthday

Yesterday Joe turned 40 years old!  We weren't able to do anything too exciting, but Anne & Sean had volunteered to babysit the kiddos, so we did get to have an evening out by ourselves.  (Which actually to us is pretty exciting in and of itself!) We went to Piatti, one of our favorite Italian restaurants and then over to the mall.  Food, wine & shopping made for a pretty fun evening.  The best thing was that the kids barely knew we left.  They love playing with their Aunt, Uncle and cousin George.  JP told me today that Anne & Sean know how to do lots of fun things!  Thanks guys soooo much!!

Today we had a family party for Joe.  It was a lunch celebration as Joe was off to play hockey tonight.  We got him hockey camp for his big gift, but JP & I had a couple fun ones for him to open today.  Joe loves pistachios.  The last time JP and I were at Costco, we saw this huge container and immediately JP said we should buy those for Dad's birthday.  We also got him a funny t-shirt that we knew the triplets would love: a Cookie Monster t-shirt.  Who knows if he'll ever wear it again, but it was fun seeing the little ones say "Cookie", "Cookie", "Cookie" when he put it on!

What's better than 4 lbs of pistachios?!




Party guests: Caitlin


Ryan:


Madison:




Yummy cake!