Whit turns 35-WHAT???

How in the heck is Whit old enough to be turning 35? I'm just glad it's him and not me. These past few months Whit has had a few experiences reminding him of his age. The first was when the Madison football team won state. It was a big deal because it hasn't happened for 17 years. It just happens that Whit was on that team 17 years ago. Then at church Whit was talking to a guy about an experience we had with his family when we first moved here and the guy said, "oh ya they told me about that. It happened while I was on my mission." Whit was in shock and said, "I can't be that much older than you." The guy just looked at him and laughed, as if to say you're kidding right? You are ancient. Then last week we went out to dinner and we had this really young waitress that was quite interested in my pregnancy so she asked the one question I dread the most, but get the most. Is this your first baby? No, it's actually my 6th. This respose was followed by the same look of horror and disbelief that I get every time those words come out of my mouth. She then says that I don't look old enough to have six kids. She should have stopped there, but no she then turns to Whit and says I would believe you have 6 kids with all that gray hair. Poor guy. I think his gray hair looks really good on him.

Despite his trepidations about being one year older, we celebrated Super Bowl style. Whit has the great pleasure of having his birthday land on Super Bowl Sunday every once in a while. I got back that afternoon from my Time Out trip but the girls took really good care of him. Jaynie set her alarm at 6:30 and got all the girls up to make him breakfast in bed. They covered it in this Super Bowl bowl that I thought was so cute and creative. The best part is that I didn't even think of telling them to do this. They did it all on their own. I have such good kids. When I got home we went over to our friends, The Proano-Stevens, for a Super Bowl birthday bash. Marcia happens to share Whitney's birthdays so we had double the reason to celebrate. And speaking of old Marcia turned 40 this year!! All in all I think Whit had a great day.