Happy Birthday to Mark!

Sunday was Mark's birthday so we went out and celebrated Saturday (Trip to the temple and Thai Basil this really great Thai restaurant near Denver) but saved the cake for Sunday. This was not your ordinary birthday cake. When Mark was growing up his family was often visiting his Grandma Spencer in Rigby, Idaho during or near his birthday so his Grandma Spencer baked a special chocolate cake for him. I personally have only had the cake once (when we were dating in 2004) but decided I would try to make it for Mark this year. (Thanks to Mark's sister Shannon who sent me the recipe) So Sunday morning I got up and started baking and ta-da! The cake turned out wonderful. There were a few tricks to it but nothing too serious. I don't know if it was as good as when Grandma Spencer made it (probably not) but it has been at least 4 years since Mark has had it so he said it was just as good.

Happy Birthday Mark!

The funny thing about this was that 10 of the candles were trick candles! What makes this funny is that we didn't know. I went to the store to get the candles and grabbed a package of 20 and a package of 10 because he turned 28 so that seemed the easiest way. Well, the package of 10 were relighting candles only neither of us knew. So Mark got them all blown out and then they re-lit and then they re-lit a few more times and we finally just got a wet paper towell to put out the rest. I really didn't do it on purpose. You can see in this picture that Mark is thrilled by the relighting candles.

Anyway, Mark had a nice birthday and I am so happy that I get to celebrate all his upcoming birthday's with such an amazing guy!

We also went to a Colorado Springs Minor League Baseball game Friday night. Mark's school bought out a level of the picnic terrace so we went to watch the game, eat, and visit with teachers from his school. The game wasn't very exciting (we lost) but the fireworks were great at the end and it was fun to visit with some of the teachers he works with.