Andy's Birthday

Happy 27th Birthday Andy! We started the day with some homemade cinnamon rolls. These things are really yummy...you should check out the recipe on allrecipes.com. It's called "clone of the cinnabon" Here's the funny thing. I accidently left out the sugar when I was making the dough. oops. The good news is that the filling and the cream cheese icing more than made up for the lack of sweetness in the dough. Next time I will remember the sugar though! Emma Grace had some cheerios for breakfast while we enjoyed the cinnamon rolls. Your time will come EG! Check out Andy in his new robe-a birthday gift from me. Andy bought me a really nice robe for our anniversary this year-I am really glad I have it here in the cold winter but I wasn't quite as happy when we were packing it to come over. it weighs about 20 lbs and took up half of a suitcase. Also, check out Andy's new hairdo. I like it. Kinda reminds me of my brother.

Later in the morning, the Kvernens, some local friends and I surprised Andy with a trip to the nearby xue lan milk factory. Sounds like a wierd birthday outing and it is....but Andy has been telling me for about a year now that he really wants to tour the milk factory that is about 5 minutes from our home so I made it happen! We're both really into knowing how things are made. That's why we own the series "Unwrapped."

So, a few weeks back I went with Xiao Li and set up a tour for us and our friends. (sorry I forgot the camera) It was interesting...the only problem is that the tour was in chinese so there was a bit that got lost for us foreigners. Oh well. I did learn the word for "milking" as in milking a cow. We also learned that the milk that gets delivered to our home every afternoon came out of the cow that morning! wow-that's fresh! After the tour we ate donuts (which we brought) and had fresh yogurt...we asked for chocolate milk but somehow that got lost in the language too and we ended up with yoghurt. Oh well...nothing like a big glazed donut and some blueberry yogurt to hit the spot! hehe.

Originally we planned to have a picnic at a nearby park for dinner and enjoy the awesome weather we've been having but it's turned off quite cold. So option B...we had a picnic at home (I made Andy's favorite Janet Holtz chicken salad on homemade croissants) and watched our current favorite-AMERICAN IDOL! We also had a homemade keylime pie. So all in all, a great day for Mr. Huffman. Thanks for the birthday wishes for him!