I am pretty certain if you asked Vince how his 35th birthday would go it would not include a wife who was 26 weeks pregnant with twins or the flu or having to travel for work.
Vince always out does himself for my birthdays...surprise parties, weekend trip to NYC and Nashville and the list goes on. I have some major making up to do next year since this year didn't work out so well!
Vince's birthday weekend started out pretty good as he got to go to the KU vs KSU game! Kurt & Angela had invited him to go along with Kurt's dad and Reece. Vince was the only veteran to Allen Fieldhouse so he really enjoyed watching the others soak up the experience! And of course the KU victory wasn't a bad birthday gift either!
Sadly Vince's birthday went downhill from here. He woke up Sunday morning sick. So sick. I have never seen him so sick. And Vince doesn't "do" sick as he says-he always fights through it. But this was bad like stay in bed or sit in his chair all day bad. So I tried to keep Ben as far away from him as possible while I tried to make him as comfortable as I could. I felt so bad for him we had big plans of making his favorite cherry pie & dinner at Jack Stack but there was no way the poor guy was going to be able to celebrate. So we decided after he got back from his work trip later in the week we would celebrate. Monday (his actual birthday) he tried to fight through it by going to the office but didn't last long. He fought through still and made it to my doctor and ultrasound appointment. And then is was the dreaded time to leave for the airport for a conference he was attending in Boston. Poor guy sucked it up and got on that plane. What a way to spend your 35th Birthday huh?
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Monday night I started to not feel the best but brushed it off as not sleeping well the night before but I was wrong...Tuesday morning I woke up feeling awful with a fever. After managing to get Ben to school and a call into my ob's office I was at the doctor to get tested for the flu. My test came back negative but the doctor thought it was a false negative and wanted me on a zpak & tamiflu to cover all the bases and my ob's office agreed. I don't even want to imagine how much sicker I would have gotten had I not started those meds. Since Vince was out of town my parents rescued me and picked Ben up from school Tuesday and didn't bring him back to me until late Wednesday afternoon. I was so sick there was no way I could have taken care of him by myself. We are so lucky to be back in KC with our families-Vince's mom & Jimmy took Ben while we had that stomach bug and now my parents were able to save me!
Fast forward to Thursday...
Vince is back home and we are both slowly on the mend. Ben couldn't stand looking at Vince's unopened birthday presents so we had part 1 of his rain-checked birthday. Vince only had 1 gift request-new running shorts! So we made sure he got them along with a few other surprises. Ben was a very good present opener assistant!
Sunday we were both feeling much better and Vince was up for his cherry pie & Jack Stack finally! Ben my little baker was so excited to make Vince his pie that he came in from playing outside to bake it! It may not have been the prettiest pie but it sure was baked with a lot of love!
Dinner was great! We stuffed ourselves silly but there was no way Ben was going to let Vince skip over having pie! Ben picked out special candles for the pie as well as a candle for his ice cream because we still have to sing to him after we sing to whoever's birthday it really is! While it may not have gone anywhere close to how we wanted I think Vince still enjoyed his birthday! It's crazy to think next year we will be celebrating as a family of 5!
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