Happy Birthday to the Epitome of Manhood!

Yesterday, June 16th, we celebrated the Epitome's birthday.

He is another year older....

And wiser too...

The Epitome has done some pretty great things this past year. It's been a good one for him. For instance, here he is Dr. Anderson for the first time. That was a proud moment!

But the greatest thing that he has done this year is ......

be the dad.

The boys pondered and pondered over what to give such a guy. How could they really express their love and admiration for their amazing dad in a simple gift? So after much thought and deliberation the boys decided that to honor Dad's monumental fantasticness, they would each build him an honorary Lego Pirate Ship.

That would do quite nicely.

Isaac's

Will's

Jake gave the Epitome a one of a kind, open mouthed Jake kiss and his one of a kind nose scrunch; two of his signature specialties that he is famous for around here.

Mike will never forget this birthday, rarely does one receive commissioned pirate ships that were built in ones honor, but putting that aside, Mike will never forget this birthday because he got spend the morning at the DMV!

His drivers licence expired on his birthday, so he had to get it renewed. Why he cut it this close is a question to answer on another day. But lets just say he had to take a number and then wait 3 hours for his 3 minutes in the sun. (Or in other words the amount of time it took to take a new picture of the Epitome and create a new license.)
Lets just say the Epitome was blessed with the gift of patience on his birthday as well.
And blessed with a realization that one should never spend their birthday at any governmental agency. People that do that eventually go postal. It is not healthy.

Stay away from the DMV, the Post Office, the County Court house etc... on your birthday.

I think the day just got better and better for him though. He got to go out to lunch with is wife, he got to eat Jambalaya for dinner, and open some fun gifts, he got to eat cake and ice cream, and to top it all off he got to end the day by talking to his mom. It was her day too you know.

Thanks Mutsi, for bringing the Epitome into the world.

He is the Man we love the most!

DMV or not June 16th is a very special day.