Hodad's and Birthday Cakes!

Yesterday my biggest "baby" turned EIGHT! I am still in denial. Its been a few days of doing the things he has been requesting. First was Saturday when we went to Sea World. Then on Tuesday both to celebrate his birthday and Nana's last night here we went out to dinner down in Ocean Beach to a little hole in the wall restaurant (which is also a San Diego Icon) called Hodad's. It is this quirky little place with license plates all over the walls there is a huge table shaped like a surf board to eat at along with a few booths and then also the front of a VW Bus sticking out of the wall that has a table inside of it. The boys, especially Owen LOVED that. The food is really decently priced and in HUGE portions. Talk about yummy! We still have a huge bag of the onion rings and fries in the freezer for a rainy day to heat back up.

Ian's double (I think) burger. It was obscene! And that is AFTER the onions were all taken out. I don't know how he finished that entire thing. I will say though the burgers were GOOD!

Me and the boys. Note the top of Owen's head in my lap. And even better note Jacob's face. Nathan had smacked him somehow so he was all upset of course Nathan is grinning away. Gotta love it. Just totally depicts the "norm" around here:)



I just love this one of Ian and Owen. Owen was a total bear because of a way too early nap and after this picture he cried for at least a half hour because daddy was NOT holding him but I just love the sweet look on his face. He adores his daddy.

The Hodad's Bus:)

When we got home we surprised Jacob and Nathan with a new Nintendo DS to share. We had been debating on whether to get them one or a kinect to go with Ian's xbox and finally decided on the DS. The boys were shocked and overjoyed to put it lightly. I took this picture of Ian setting it up and it cracked me up:)

Nana has told Jacob she would bake him a birthday cake. He requested (randomly) a chocolate banana one. She scoured the Internet and found a recipe and holy cow was it a good one! So we enjoyed a slice and she gave Jacob his present. A HARMONICA! complete with a book to help him learn how to play and a pretty velvet bag to keep it in. He is in love. It really is cute. He had a fun time last night putting on a show for his cousin via web cam. Ian's comment to his mother was "you hate us don't you mom?" That made me laugh just a little bit.