thankful thursday # 26.

you know i love birthdays & blakey's is no different.

we celebrated my style - as much as possible - tuesday, wednesday, friday, & saturday.  {we would've added more but there was test taking & being on call.  lame doctor stuff.}

blakey's actual birth day celebrations included a softball game with our fellow obgyn friends!

{go merkins!}

{get in done, blakey}

{go blake go!}

how awesome are our jerseys??  merkins - google it.  blakey's nickname: porterhouse.  mine: poundcake.  love it.

{that is the massive rainstorm that ended our game.

so we lost.  but we were up to bat & totally coming back.}

then we headed home for birthday dinner & presents!!

i saw the most beautiful tomato pie on the cover of the food network magazine & had to make it.  locally grown heriloom tomatoes = yum!  you can find the recipe {here}.  i followed it pretty darn closely - apparently i do not have a "deep dish pie plate" so i made one 9" with crust & one 9" crustless.  tons of food.  i also didn't want to spend a gajillion dollars on manchego cheese, so i opted for gouda.  great choice.

it was quite delicious!  nothing like i've made before.  although it tasted quite similar to pizza.  but different in a very good way.

oh, & we ate it right out of the pie plate.  no need to let it cool long enough to solidify.  we wanted it right then.

& then it was FINALLY present time!

 {i cannot wait for his children to laugh at him 

for being shirtless while opening gifts}

i had been dying for blakey to open his birthday present.  he has been talking & talking & talking & talking about wanting an ipad for awhile now.  & i just kept saying no.  no no no.  but lisa, dave,  & i got him one :)  yay!!

happy birthday, byrds!  hope it was the best day of the year.

love love,

kjp.