Trav's birthday

Trav's birthday fell on a Wednesday this year, which is a day he had school. I had planned on getting him a gun he really wanted for his birthday and had done a lot of researching on it. My brother-in-law, Nate helped me SO much by finding out exactly which gun it was and where I could get it. Turns out it is a very popular model which in turn means it is hard to come by! I had put an order in for it three weeks before and they said it should only take two weeks...it still was not in though, when I called the day before his birthday. My mom was pitching in $$ so the present was going to be from both of us. I had decided to just print off a picture of the gun and give him that, since we did not have the actual gun.

I woke up extra early on that day and had to WILL myself to get out of bed. I got to Starbucks around 5am and got Trav one of his favorite drinks and an old fashioned donut. I got home and was getting ready for work when Keira woke up, all on her own. The first words out of her mouth were, "Happy birthday daddy!!" How sweet is that?? She went and hugged him since he was still in bed and scratched his back. Cute little punkin!! She wanted to make his day special, too. Both girls were able to wish him happy birthday before he went to school.

I got off work at 3pm, which is three hours early for me. I wanted to make sure I had some time to spend with Trav on his actual birthday and we could celebrate in some way or another. When I got off work, I had a message from the gun place. His gun was in!! I was SO excited. If everything worked out - we had a chance of getting back to pick it up in time before they closed.

I went home and picked Trav up. We went to get the girls and I was so excited about "something" he was worried there might be a surprise party waiting for him. LOL. When I gave him the picture of his gun, he was excited but he said he already kinda knew. I guess he was suspicious but trying to not get his hopes up - just from some of the conversation he had had with my brother in law. Then I got to tell him the gun actually was in and we could go get it! That was the best part. We were able to go out there and pick it up before going to his mom's house for dinner. Once he actually had the gun he was super excited.

We had his favorite pizza with his mom and sisters and his mom's house. His mom also made two amazing pies - banana cream and chocolate cream. He got to show off his new "piece". He seemed to enjoy our time together with his family. It was a fun evening.