Four days of celebration for the forty-four trips I’ve taken around the sun. I’m grateful to have spent the time enjoying activities I love with people who love me all year long.
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There were many big and small moments that made it a wonderful weekend. We had a few events planned, but allowed plenty of time to be spontaneous.
- Friday night sleepover for the kids and our neighbor kids after the girls went to Aerial Arts class.
- We splurged on a Chinese New Year LEGO set to build as a family to share my love of LEGOs with my parents. This year had one where there were two models to build, perfect for sharing.
- The inspiration for the aforementioned sets was Jack’s tip that my birthday gift was the LEGO Optimus Prime. He gifted me with a generation 1 Optimus Prime three years ago. The LEGO rendition was an amazing build that can even transform without taking the model apart.
- My parents brought a ton of hot pot ingredients over and we feasted for three hours. Even then, there were so many leftovers that I ate it for the rest of my birthday weekend. No complaints though!
- To my knowledge, my mom has never built a LEGO set herself, but she was very quick to pick it up. She enjoyed building one of the displays and I can see doing future LEGO sets with her.
- Violet suggested a family video game session with Heroes of the Storm. Jenni surprised us all with two MVP awards during our matches.
- Biking and running with Jack is always quality time to check in and catch up. Even in the rain, it was a good time.
- My family contributed to a new iPad Air and an Apple Pencil. I’m looking forward to exploring digital art this year.
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And lastly, my lovely wife made me my own birthday video, of all the people and things that made it special.