Gary Gary Gary!

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Gary turned one year older yesterday morning. After making him his favorite muffins (orange cranberry) for breakfast we sat to enjoy our meal and he opened his presents. I gave him his gift (Mass Effect 2) the day I bought it because he thinks "If I buy it, why would I then wrap it up and wait to use it"? Good point I guess, though I like the anticipation.

Anyway, he received a nice pair of sunglasses from my parents along with a wireless XBox 360 controller. He was pretty excited!!!

He played Xbox for a while while I read about Gary's childhood. His mother has a detailed journal of what he did practically every day his first year. Then it tapers off to a couple times a week then to a few times a month til he's in middle school. I of course didn't read all of it, but enjoyed reading about his first year.

Then we went to Boulder and spent some time enjoying the Pearl Street Mall. I loved watching the street performers. We also had reservations to eat at a fancy restaurant called Med. I was excited that we got to order half off Tapas rather than a whole meal. We got to try about 6 of their dishes which filled us up for pretty cheap. I loved the lamb meatballs and the shrimp.

Then we went to Glacier Homemade Ice-Cream to try some of their most popular flavors. I was in Heaven!! My favorite was the lemon raspberry gelato! Yum!

Then we went home, watched a movie and waited to hang out with some of Gary's friends that were in town for the weekend. At 12:30 we figured they weren't coming over so we went to bed. Around 1:30 we got a text from them asking if we wanted to hang out. Gary jumped right out of bed and got ready to go! At 2:00 AM we pulled into Denny's for a midnight party! It was fun! We loved seeing some all of them!

Finally at 5:00 we got back into bed again and decided that we'd skip our church which starts at 9:00 and go to the noon one so we could at least get 6 hours of sleep. It was a great day!

Pics of the cool street performances!

Bad luck everywhere but smiles on our faces!

Today alone, I survived off of little to no sleep, I found that one of my favorite shirts has a huge hole in the arm pit and had a water bottle leak in my purse causing all sorts of messes! Luckily Gary's birthday package from my family contained chocolate. Gary kindly donated a piece to me and I'm as happy as can be! I also got to spend my day with two cute kids. We had fun singing silly songs, reading books, played outside avoiding the bees and even did hide and seek!

Yesterday I started off my day by running to Walmart for a couple of items. When I came back Gary said he was about to call the police due to a very offensive, obscene and threatening voice mail from a random guy in LA. Whatever. I handed him my phone since I happen to have Denver police non emergency on my call list. The police said they would come by to see if we needed to file a report. After the officer listened to the message he said we could file a report since it wasn't just harassment but a few threats were thrown in there too.

He said he'd turn it in to the detectives to start an investigation to find the guy and what not. I had little faith that they could or would do anything about it. I am 99% sure the phone number he used to call us was a fake since there are handfuls of reports online of pranks from the same number but from different people. Today however, we got a call back from the officer. He said that the case has been handed over to the FBI because this guy has called some government officials as well. The good news is that when threats are thrown at government, they do everything they can to find the suspect and as a result, I feel safe again.