My thirty-something-th birthday

I never post pictures of myself. There are many reasons, but one is that I am always the picture taker, not in the pictures. Another reason is that I never feel like the pictures of me turn out that great... I am always making a weird face, or my hair looks bad, or something isn't right about the lighting... it's always something.
Well, I decided that I want my posterity to actually see me in pictures and know that I really did exist, so here is one for the kiddos. Not this one immediately following (that is a cake...), but the one after. :)

For my birthday, my sweet family made me a triple chocolate cake. The girls worked together to make the cake batter, I helped them bake it, then Dave frosted it. Yes, that is a skull and crossbones on the top. What a funny guy! We didn't have enough candles, or room for the candles even if we had enough (Man, I am getting old!), so we put on two candles instead. Ciera wanted to take a picture of me blowing out the candles, like I always do for them... so I said to myself, "What the heck... I can always delete it if it turns out bad." But, lo and behold, it wasn't too terrible. So here I am, on my birthday, blowing out my candles, with my crazy Chloe.

Here is to a great year!