Monkey Tails: Happy Birthday Tio

Monday was Tio’s 33 birthday! We all celebrated together Tuesday evening with dinner and cake and presents and fun. Poor Jenny cooked for about 3 hours straight! He requested flautas (one of the things my mom made he loves). We also had salsa, sour cream and guacamole for dipping. We had queso, beans, cilantro lime rice and chips. It was all so good! In the words of Aikman, it was so mad good. The cake she made was a new recipe and it was an Italian crème cake with the best icing ever. Think cheesecake and Italian crème cake. Wow. Aikman told Jenny it was the best cake he had ever had. It was so nice being together one last time. I know, I know, we aren’t dying, Tio and Tia and Adrian are just moving. Away. Far away. We can’t just get together whenever we want. Anyway, that is a different post. I will focus on the happy. Pete and Phil were both off which worked out great. They also brought their friend Kiefer who we have known since they were all in sixth grade. Crazy how long ago that seems. Monks has been around him before but was his BFF last night. He wanted to sit by him, share with him, play with him and joke with him. Anyway, we ate, laughed and cried. Well, Adrian shed tears when he hit his head on the floor inside a tent. He had a huge knot, poor guy. Tio opened his presents and got a CD, gift cards, cash, a beard comb and beard wax, jellybeans and hot sauce. We had ordered this bottle online called the hottest sauce in the universe. They make it with ghost chilies and the reviews I read said people have gone to the ER after ingesting too much at once. Could be fake, but I was scared. Tio tried one drop on a chip and said yeah, it was hot and it creeped up on you as time passed. He blew his nose at one point and said his nose burned. Phil was the only other one to try it and he said it was hot too. That was one small drop. Eek! Scary! Pippa ate so much! She had thirds on her little plate. I looked over once and she was eating her queso with her spoon. Wow. Lol. Sweet baby girl. The kids then started watching Lorax. We had to leave at 8 so I could do baths and Devin had to get ready for work. Thanks for a great evening everyone! Especially Jenny for all her hard work and Mike for being born!