Happy Birthday Ryan

We celebrated Ryan's birthday all day. It began with fruit hanging from the ceiling, and although Ryan wasn't as excited about the floating fruit, the girls and I loved them. In fact, we kept them up long past New Years.

This delicious brownie, marshmallow, chocolate-peanut butter-rice krispie desert was topped by a wonderful sparkler candle. We weren't sure what the sparkler would do when we lit it, but it proved even better than we expected.

When Ryan had a day off we went to our favorite Japanese restaurant to celebrate his birthday for a second time. It's not every year that you turn a double-digit, double-number. I think this will be an auspicious year for Ryan. You don't need a fortune cookie to tell you that; it's all in the numbers.

At this restaurant, you can only blame yourself if your meat is overcooked. The cabbage is complimentary.

This beautiful salad is topped by some sort of fried cheese creation that is easier than you would think to eat with chopsticks once you break it up. The slippery lettuce, once you have the salad dressing on it, is an entirely different story.