Happy birthday David!!

Yesterday was David's 23 birthday. It was his first birthday that we got celebrate while married so I wanted to make it really special. Also, because his birthday is a few days before Christmas, it has sometimes been overlooked in the past. But not this time...

The first thing David wanted to do on his birthday was open his birthday presents.

His family got him some really great presents. He got the game Connect Four, a leatherman, lights for when the power goes off – like last weekend, two toy guns – one for him and one for me to make things fair, and the movie The Night At The Museum. I got him a lot of movies: Be Kind, Rewind; Victory; Bourne Identity; Bourne Supremacy; Bourne Ultimatum; Iron Man; and ... STAR TREK!

David loves this movie. His parents were big Star Trek fans when he was growing up so he understood all the inside jokes within the movie and has been really excited for the movie to come out on DVD. So I got him the movie and decided to make his birthday a Star Trek theme.

I found a special edition of the movie in a case that looks like the Star Trek ship, the Enterprise. I think it's really cool.

And then I got him a Star Trek shirt. As you can tell in the picture below, he was really excited. In honor of his birthday theme, I made him wear the shirt all day. It was really funny.Here is a picture of David and his presents. He is holding his toy gun and doing the "Live Long and Prosper" sign that Spock does on the show.
Then we went to David's parents' ward Christmas party. It was a lot of fun. The ward decided to have a Christmas breakfast party instead of a dinner. So we went to that.

After that, I needed to make David's birthday cake. David was great and helped me out with it. Neither of us really like cake (as many of you who went to our wedding reception know. We had cheesecake then instead). So I made a fruit cake that looks like a pizza. I made this cake a few years ago for Kaity Kobayoshi's birthday and it was a hit so I decided to try it again.

After David helped me solve a few almost disasters, we finally got it done. And it looked amazing, if I do say so myself. David really liked it.
We put the pizza in a real pizza box from Craigos – that's our favorite restaurant in Rexburg. The following is what the substitute pizza ingredients were:

Pizza Sauce: Red Cream Cheese Frosting
Cheese: White Chocolate, grated
Pepperoni: Strawberries, sliced
Sausage: Blackberries, divided
Green Onions: Kiwis, sliced
Olives: Grapes, sliced with the middle cut out
Mushrooms: Bananas, cut to look like a mushroom

Combine all those ingredients and you have an amazing pizza cake!
To top it all off, I decided to throw David a surprise party. He's never had a surprise birthday party and so I took on the task of throwing him one. I started planning it during Thanksgiving break where I secretly asked his friends if they'd be up for it. Then I got his family involved in the planning and coordinating. His sister mentioned that it'd be fun to have a theme party like little kids do and I loved the idea, hence the Star Trek theme.

David's mom bought the balloons and a Star Trek cardboard cutout of James T. Kirk (the one from the movie). It was really cool. I bought Star Trek plates and cups but accidentally left them in Rexburg so she bought bowling plates.

David's sister reserved the bowling alley and helped with the planning.

There were many times David's mom would call me while I was with David and I would have to make up some excuse about it being for Christmas or something. Even on the day of, David would leave the room and we would automatically start talking about the party. Then he would come in and we'd change the subject really fast. I really thought he was catching on.

I took him out to dinner. We were going to go to an Italian restaurant but there was a really long waiting line. We went to Subways instead. Due to this, we were done eating before it was time to go to the bowling alley. Luckily there was a movie store nearby and I convinced David to look around for a while. Then I got the OK to go to the bowling alley and headed out.

David didn't even see everyone until he heard them all shouting "Surprise!" And he was. He was so excited to see his friends there.
Here's a picture of David posing like Caption Kirk. The picture is a little blurry but it's still cool.
We bowled for a little while and then we went to David's parents' home to end the night by watching the movie, Star Trek.

David keeps telling me it was the best birthday he's ever had. I'm glad he enjoyed it and that everything worked out. I just don't know how to top this one next year. But I've got a while to plan.