Jonathan is 30!

Jonathan had a big birthday this year.

Jonathan's present wish list:

1. BIG plasma TV (you know...only like $800...and that's for a good deal)

2. X-Box 360 with games (only $300...)

3. Gun, more specifically a riffle. Leah INSISTS before we do that we MUST have a gun safe. (so again, big bucks)

What Jonathan got:

1. A grill (used for $120)

So how did this happen? We decided to have a party for him. Tons of people invited and Jonathan really wanted to grill burgers. So we went on a grill hunt. We got a good deal for one that was only used for like 6 months.

After all the expense of just having the party Jonathan says, "How about we just make the grill my present". My thought was, "Sweet! I didn't really want a gun or X-Box anyway". Ha

The Party

We ended up having a house full! It was fun though. Neighbors, people from work, people from church. We had to ask numerous people to bring chairs. I made Jonathan a cookies and cream ice cream cake (special request). We put 30 candles on it. People were joking (or not joking) that we were going to burn the house down.

Friends from church brought a gag gift. A little "inside joke". So here is the joke- We went to their house for dinner and played a game. The game was one of those where you watch scenes from movies on the TV. It ended up NOT working at all. First of all it wouldn't play in English so we couldn't understand it. Then it would play the same scene over and over. None of us could understand the directions. So by the end they were saying they should throw it away and were never going to play it again.

What did they give Jonathan? The game.

So there was Jonathan's birthday. Leah version. When it was all said and done I felt good about it because Jonathan said he had a great birthday this year. Not like he would say otherwise...ha!