Celebrating St. Patrick's Day and Matt's Birthday!

The birthday celebrations began yesterday. It was a long weekend here in Hohenfels. I worked all weekend on our annual Hohenfels Community and Spouses Club Wild West Night. WWN is a casino/gambling type event we hold every year to raise money for our scholarship fund for the Spouses' Club. This year I served as the Country Store Chair. The event was Saturday night but required lots of setting up on Friday and Saturday and clean-up on Sunday.

Matt also had to work this weekend but did make it to the WWN for a few hours on Saturday night.

On Sunday, while Matt ran to get Chinese take out for dinner, MK and I wrapped his presents and wrote out our cards to him. I didn't let MK see the big present because I knew she would give it away. She's very good at that. All you have to do is ask her what it is not and she will tell you, "well, it's not a Wii". The Wii has a long story, I actually bought it before Christmas because I won a lottery to buy a Wii at the PX. Matt and I had decided to put it away for MK's birthday in April because she was already getting too much! Anyways, she is now very much into American Girl dolls and not so interested in receiving a Wii. About a month ago, I asked Matt if he would like a Wii for his b-day and we could get MK more American Girl doll stuff. He thought I was joking and was very surprised to open up the very heavy package! So, it is his Wii and he will let MK use it, too!

You'll note the picture of Matt and his teepee cake. I wish I had made it! I won the cake in the silent auction at WWN on Saturday. I decided it would be Matt's birthday cake since this was a crazy weekend with me volunteering and Matt working. The cake was all edible excluding the toothpicks used to hold the tent flaps together and a foil cone at the top of the cake. It was three layers inside, chocolate on top, marble in the middle and yellow on the bottom. It was covered with regular frosting on the surface before being covered with the marzipan layer on the top. It was truly delicous! MK couldn't wait to taste the fire pit and the bearskin rug which were also made of marzipan. We are not big marzipan people. Right now, we are all trying to get over our sugar-induced comas!

Happy Birthday, Matt! Your three girls love you very much, Suzy, MK and Mary!