Shawn's Birthday

The celebrating of Shawn's birthday was pretty minimal. It fell on the last day of our Bear Lake trip which meant that he got a couple of Happy Birthday wishes from the kids (and possibly a couple of, "Wait, it's your birthday?" comments.) And then the morning was spent packing up a week's worth of stuff and loading it all into the car, and cleaning up the condo. Fun, huh? Then we piled into the car and drove home where it was time to unload and put away all of the things we had packed up just a few hours before and clean the boat and so on. This took the majority of the day. I also didn't have any presents for him since I had been busy trying to get ready to go to Bear Lake and there's not a whole lot of shopping in Bear Lake, although I did offer to buy him a lovely Bear Lake t-shirt for his birthday, but he declined. Late in the afternoon, we went and spent a gift card at Salt Lake Running Company, that he already had and then later that night (after going home to put kids to bed) we went out to eat. So no presents, no cake, no candles. All in all it was a pretty sad day as far as birthdays go.

But when he went into work this morning, this is what he found when he opened his office door:
lots and lots of balloons stuffed in there that spilled out all over the floor.
And fortunately, since he hadn't had the opportunity to unwrap anything, everything in his office was wrapped in paper towels, so he got to spend some time unwrapping after all.



So thanks to the people at the office, Shawn got sort of a birthday celebration. We'll try to do better next year.