Jason's 26!!

Well, technically, he's been 26 for 3 weeks already, but our celebrations have kinda been spread out because Jake was busy getting married and we were all busy watching him get married right around Jason's birthday. Mutti always does theme dinners for the birthday dinners. Maybe its her way of continuing her awesome theme birthday parties from our young childhood. Anyway, its a lot of fun and a cool way to highlight something special about the person or the year they have just successfully navigated. For Jason, we did a rock climbing theme because he has recently picked up the sport again after a "Holy-Moly-I'm-a-new-dad!" sabbatical. His favorite kind of climbing is bouldering (where you don't use a harness but also don't go more than 18 or 20 feet off the ground--it's mostly technical, problem-solving kind of stuff--the stuff that Jason thrives on. :) ) Anyway, that should explain the reason there's a big rock (or, shall we say, boulder?) on the table. You can't see very well in the picture, but there are little guys climbing on it. Cool, eh?
The pie in the pictures is pretty much Jason's favorite dessert in existence. His "Turkish Delight", if you will. Anyway, over the four birthdays Jason has celebrated with our family, one crazy circumstance or another has prevented us from being able to have the ultimate birthday dessert on his birthday dinner. Thus, the look of great satisfaction on Jason's face as this Moby Dick of a dessert is finally before him. (By the way, in case you ever want to butter Jason up...the pie is found at Village Inn and called Carmel Pecan Silk Supreme) ;)