(Erik at work with an ice cream cake...his favorite.)
I thought about it for weeks and weeks and finally came up with something I thought he would love. There were 3 parts to his present; the first being (drum roll please) a boys only golf trip to California to watch the U.S. Open. It happened to fall the weekend before I am scheduled to have this baby but I figured it'd be okay. He'd go and have fun and not stress about everything. Well, I didn't get the reaction I was hoping for. He didn't think it would be such a good idea and basically told me he wasn't going to go. "What if I went into labor?" he said. I told him, "well then you fly home". :) He was so concerned; I can tell he's going to be such a great Dad. (It's a good thing I didn't really buy the tickets.)
The second part of Erik's birthday gift were tickets to go see Mitt Romney speak at the Salt Palace Convention Center. It wasn't too exciting but was something different and it ending up being very interesting. It was a little change of pace for us that Saturday night.
The last part of Erik's gift was my favorite. Now that we own 3 businesses and are working 10-12 hour days, I knew Erik was going to have a hard time not being able to golf a lot this summer. So I bought what I thought was a solution; his very own putting green. It is gigantic and barely fits on our deck! The coolest part about it is that you can change the slope of the green a million different ways. Now when it's 8pm and too late to go golfing, but it's still light outside, he can go out onto the deck and practice his putting. Or when it's a Sunday afternoon and he's watching a tournament on TV, he can practice on the deck and watch through the window. He's only used it a couple of times because it's still so cold outside, but I think it's a pretty "cool" present.
So, I think my score was 2 for 3 in the end. :) Erik, I hope you enjoyed your birthday, will continue to enjoy your new putting green and for the last time, 30 is not old!
7 comments:
Oh, to be thirty again! I would love to feel and look thirty again, but I really enjoy sleeping in whenever I feel like it and not having to wait up for teenagers to come home at night. Happy Birthday, Erik!
Wow! That's quite the birthday:) I think I may have taken Trent out for dinner, but I'm not even sure on that:) I'm glad he loved it all I know you were stressing about what to get him.
those are some great ideas! nice work! Happy Birthday Eric!
Those were all way better than Tom's! I took him snowboarding for the first time for the both of us and during our lesson is when I broke both wrists and we spent the rest of the day in the hospital and we are still paying bills for it! What are all your businesses? Very impressive! I only know of the photography one! We really should get together someday...we do live nearby each other and are cousins after all!
what are your other 2 businesses besides the laudrymat? also where did you get that putting green?
Happy Birthday Erik! That gift sounds "cool" we'll have to come see it.
The putting green is awesome! I bet he's in heaven!!! You're so thoughtful. I want to be more like you with Randy's birthday. ;)
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