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Posted By Katie On March 19, 2009 1 Comment

Live lobster birthday

Filed Under: Family Values Tagged With: birthdays, daddy, family, family fun, fatherhood 1 Comment

A Pinke birthday celebration is official when Gma Carol arrives on our porch with a fresh homemade birthday cake. This year was no different for Nathan’s St. Patrick’s Day birthday. We love yummy cakes from Gma.
Sharing birthday cake with Gpa Eldon was a highlight for Elissa!

A birthday surprise arrived on Wednesday afternoon for Nathan. Unfortunately, he was under the weather from the night before being stricken by the flu. He made a brilliant come back and the box that said “LIVE LOBSTER” on it was inspiring for him.
We are as landlocked as you can get in North America. There is actually a “tourist attraction” in our fine state that is the pin point geographical center of North America. This does not bode well for fresh seafood. We always eat frozen seafood or as Nathan reminds we catch walleye ourselves in local fresh water lakes. (Really? I haven’t been around for a lot of walleye CATCHING…I digress.) A delivery of fresh, live lobster to the center of North America by the ever so curious UPS driver was an exciting moment for Nathan and a grand birthday gift from his lovely in-laws. I was at the dentist with Hunter when Nathan called and said he had five live lobster in the crisper drawer of our refrigerator. Excitement.

Dinner was literally delivered all in the box. Corn on the cob, lobster bisque soup, fresh clams, lemon, butter, the whole works plus the lobsters. Even the huge pot to boil the lobsters in was provided. It was the best birthday dinner ever…and another highlight of the dinner was for us to take an intermission from dinner to go to the school to watch Hunter wrestle in his first match of the season. Just a few weeks when he literally hit the wall and we wondered if he would wrestle at all this season! For the first time in his life, he took first place overall in his division. And today the dentist took the wires off his teeth and is fitting him for a mouth guard to be worn in all sports…forever. The dentist referred to his teeth recovery today as a “miracle”. Three teeth are cracked but all thirteen that were originally loose are all back in place and stable. We’ll just have to keep going in every few weeks for some time and watch them. Regardless, a birthday lobster dinner and a gold medal was a grand evening for our family.

The plate I gave Elizabeth of french toast, fruit and yogurt was not that entertaining or yummy once she saw the lobsters. She didn’t eat one but touching and checking in out was fun. She also had a fun with corn on the cob. I cut corn off the cob for her to eat. She was more interested in the cob as a toy!

Elizabeth had delivered Daddy all of his presents so she decided getting in the LL Bean box and being a present was a grand idea. Poor pregnant mommy doesn’t look very strong in this pic trying to pick up the special present. Yikes. I need spring so I can get outside to work out…oh yeah and actually use the exercise room I have just off our bedroom.

Surprise Daddy! Happy Birthday.

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  1. Kirsti says

    March 19, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    Oh I am so glad the lobster went well and Nathan is feeling better. It looks like a beautiful dinner. Elissa’s face with the cake is priceless! God is so good–what wonderful news about Hunter’s teeth!

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