No auroras for the hubster's birthday... Poor guy! And he ended up having to work late! Awful!
So we ended up celebrating on Saturday instead. I hid his presents around the house and ended up having to play the "Warm/Cold" game with him this morning to find them all. Apparently what I thought were logical hiding spots were only logical to me - ha!
We really don't have enough ways to make coffee in this house. We only have the K-cup machine, french press, percolator, Technivorm, the pour over set-up, Aeropress and the occasional use of instant coffee. That's really not a lot of options. ;)
Obviously, we are a little coffee obsessed. And we've had some trouble lately with the coffee tasting bitter. So when I saw this pretty little Chemex, I thought it would be the perfect gift to try out. Matt loves things that look nice and it is by far the nicest looking coffee method we have.
Thomas was at his usual post of helping out with the morning coffee. I have no idea why he is rocking the LL Cool J look this morning. Those sweatpants are my least favorite of all his pants and he seems to love them. I guess they are super comfortable so I can't really blame him for that. Also note that he is ready for business in his apron - ready to make cake!
That's right, look at my super duper helper for cake making! I don't actually have any photos of the cake part - he was much more involved in the icing part of the cake. He was super pumped about actually getting to add ingredients!
Then he was on sprinkle duty! I let him pick out the sprinkles, I'm not a fan of the little spheres - they get everywhere. One errant breath and they roll all over the place. But he wanted them, so we got them!
They all ended up in piles of rainbow goodness! Partly my fault for putting such thick icing swirls in the cake, partly Thomas' because he kept dropping them all in the same places. Group effort!
Look how proud he is of his cake decorating! So adorable! For the record, Matt loved his cake. I may have forgot to take photos of him enjoying it because I was too busy wolfing down my slice - whoops!
Happy Birthday, Matt! We love you whole bunches!