A few months back when the girls and I went to the Women's Expo there was a new company there that I had once thought of starting. It was a company that has large rooms with game systems hooked up to projectors so that you are playing your video games on huge 20' screens (just the white wall, but it was really cool.) They were signing people up for two hour play time for a really good deal so that they could get the word out about their company. It was a deal I couldn't pass up since one of the days available happened to be CJ's birthday. I thought this would be a really fun place to spend his birthday so I booked the building and told the girls to keep it a secret.
This morning we acted like nothing was different than any other Saturday morning. We made no hint that it was Dad's birthday. We all got in the car and headed towards Orem to run some "errands". What CJ didn't know was that the errand we were running was going to the Big Game Center to play video games on gigantic screens. We pulled into the parking lot and he wondered why we were there. We all yelled, "SURPRISE!!!!" and let him in on the secret.
We all had a great time! We had the whole building to ourselves for two hours. We played all kinds of games from dancing to hunting to rock band and more. He thought it was a pretty cool birthday present. To take the pictures I had to use the flash but without the flash the games really were cool.
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| CJ had fun trying out all different kinds of games on the XBOX 360 with Kinex. |
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Xander playing with his Dad. |
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| Xander playing with Rebecca. |
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| Dakota in the huge room all by herself. Don't get her wrong though...she is enjoying every sibling free moment she can get right now. |
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| Rebecca sporting her knew knee high boots. |
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| Poor Alexander. The sensor bars were just too high to see him for nearly all of the games that he wanted to play. He finally just gave up stared finding ways to entertain himself. |
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Lizzie had fun just switching back and forth between games. You can see, we worked up quite a sweat.
It was really fun at the Big Game Center. I'm just glad though that CJ had a really good time considering this was his birthday present.
After games we went home so the girls could make their dad his birthday cake.
The girls made a special cake for their dad. They like to try and be creative with his favorite flavors. This year they made a two layer marble cake with white chocolate mint icing.
Here's the old man with his camp fire or a cake. You should have seen the amount of smoke in the air after the candles were all out. (Okay, so it probably didn't help that the kids got him re-lighting candles that create more smoke than normal.)
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