Ever since Vance got diagnosed with Celiac's Disease last fall, food has been pretty important to the both of us. It is extremely exciting when we find something he can eat. Something that is "Gluten-Free." I finally got online and ordered a couple books from amazon that have helped us tremendously. One of them was a gluten-free cookbook and it is now my favorite book ever! I look through it at least once a day. I have gone and spent countless amounts of money on ingredients so I can start making these recipes so Vance will have a larger variety of food to eat. But not just food. Good food. There are some really good recipes in there and so far I have only cooked a couple of them. One of them I did for Vance for breakfast on his birthday. It had to be made the night before, so it wasn't much of a surprise like I wanted it to be. It was a Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake. I took that opportunity to use it as his birthday cake too since I was making a separate bithday cake for our party with my family the very next day.
The rest of the day Vance had no idea what I had planned. The day before his birthday, I found out that Pier 49 Pizza serves gluten-free pizza! I was soooooo excited! If Vance missed one thing with his new food restrictions, it was PIZZA. So I surprised him with going to eat his very first pizza in 8 months. I was going to attempt making him a pizza from scratch (which I tried before but I used a crust mix and it was not very good at all, so it did not work out. It is VERY hard to find a bread of any kind that is any good when it is gluten-free.) but this idea worked a lot better with other plans I had and it was a lot more dependable as far as taste goes too!
On the way, I had Vance open his gifts. I got him a diving set, a book on CD that he wanted, and a movie (there is one more thing I got him, but I can't give it to him yet). When we pulled up to Pier 49, Vance was way confused and had no idea what was going on. Needless to say, he was quite excited when we walked in and I enthusiastically announced to him that he could eat pizza here.
After eating pizza, I took him to the Man's Expo. Vance had been talking about going to it for weeks and weeks, and it just so happend to be going on on his b-day. The Man Expo was fun but it was definitly for men! The best part was riding on the Segways! They are so much fun. We are going to rent some for a date sometime!
Vance and a Ford GT
Mason LOVED this helicopter so the owner asked him if he wanted to get inside. But Mason has this fear of getting in or on things that are big or loud (like diesel trucks or horses), so he refused to get in. Well, I wanted him to get inside so badly for picture purposes and to help him get over this phobia so I hurried and bribbed him BIG TIME that I would get him a new "Big Toy" if he got inside. This kid will do anything for a new toy, especially a big one. So, he got in! And he reminded me over and over again throughout the night that he was going to get a NEW, BIG TOY!
Vance got volunteered to be in a workout competition with some other guys there. They used excercise bands and Vance was the only one that was given the hardest band, so near the end he was getting pretty tired!
Yes...he still uses a binky every once in a while. Mostly it's just when he sleeps and when I need him to be extra good!
After the Man's Expo, we randomly decided to go to Hollywood Connection to play around. We were trying to come up with something that would entertain the kids a little, but there wasn't much there for them to do and it got a little boring, so we ended up at Murray Park. Anyways, it turned out to be a pretty good day!
HAPPY 29th BIRTHDAY BABE!!
