Today is Glenn's 32 birthday...or as he and Daniel were jokingly calling it, the 30-second birthday (kinda short, but fun!)  I made him a 2 layer carrot cake (new recipe that had coconut and mandarin oranges in it...very yummy!)  Earlier in the day the kids and I went to the Base Exchange and bought him some jeans, an insulated-cooler-cup-thingy and a bag of the white chocolate Reese's cups....okay, not much for excitement, but he was happy and he's usually tired by the end of the day anyway!  So for school today we also made big birthday "posters" for Daddy.

I came up with a yummy new recipe for dinner too....I had a ham slice that I cut into cubes, I slightly baked 2 sweet potatoes (to almost soft stage) and cubed them, then I put the ham and the potatoes on skewers and brushed them with a mix of 1 cup orange marmalade (heated) and 1/3 to 1/2 cup BBQ sauce.  Threw those puppies on the grill for a few minutes and WOW were they good!!  Nice when something works well.....especially when it's dinner on your true love's birthday!  Hee hee!!

We were supposed to participate in an egg drop tomorrow.  Yep, what fun, dropping eggs off the brand new, much taller, flight tower on base.  This is the third year doing it and we were successful in safely landing our egg the last two years.  Okay, it was my design, but the kids did help and it was a family project.  This year we're trying two totally different designs...nothing we've seen used yet.....bubble wrap!!  We'll do one egg with the tiny bubble bubble wrap and one egg we'll tape to one of those big plastic pillow for shipping things and then wrap more "pillows" around it.  The only rule is that the egg has to be able to be checked after it drops.  One year these two brothers came up with really ingenious ideas....one kid put his egg in a plastic bag full of blue jello inside a cardboard box....it survived.  His brother put his egg in a plastic bag full of......yellow mustard!  inside a little cardboard box.  And yes, his egg did survive; however the people closest to "ground zero" ended up with mustard stained shirts.  You had to be there....it was pretty funny.  As my Mom would say...."Who-da thunk it?"  Yellow mustard!  Amazing!  Crazy!  Wow!!  Certain made our wire-hanger-and-pantyhose-sphere-of-safety look a little less wild!

Well, 'nuff of my ramblings.  Not sure it's even getting read, but that's okay, I simply need to ramble!  Ha!!