We celebrated Micah’s birthday last Wednesday. Birthdays are so fun with little kids. They make everything extra exciting. Jackson, Lacey and I got talking about a week before his birthday and I wanted to know if there was anything special they wanted to do for Dad’s b-day. I suggested maybe they could take him out to breakfast like he usually does for their birthdays, but Jackson didn’t think that was a great idea. He thought Dad would like chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast – so that’s what we had.  Then Micah got to open a few presents… garments and socks, then off to work for him.

At lunchtime we met him at Joe’s farm grill. It was delicious and even the kids ate well. We also had to check out the bathrooms there, that was Lacey’s favorite place.  That evening, we had the requested dinner, shish kabobs/grilled chicken/hamburgers and finally we got to the pie I’ve been trying to figure out. I decided since I’ve made a few banana cream pies for Micah in the past and he obviously couldn’t remember them I must not have had the right recipe. So I combined a couple of recipes and came up with this:

I think it looked great. It tasted great too, but I added just a little bit of cinnamon and nutmeg that one of the recipes called for, so it wasn’t exactly the good ole’ banana cream pie Micah was thinking of. I thought the consistency was perfect though, so next time I’ll just leave out those two extra ingredients and I think I’ll have a winner of a banana cream pie.  No complaints from the birthday boy or the kids though.

He got to open a few more presents, a couple of nice shirts and 3 little soccer balls, whistles, a water bottle, etc, so he could be all decked out for his first time coaching soccer! He’s now officially the coach of “The Cheetahs” (Jackson is so happy to have his dad be the coach!).

Micah got several phone calls, messages, and cards. It was a great day indeed!