Troy's Birthday

Well, it's been awhile but you know, living in a hotel just isn't that exciting. Troy's birthday happened to fall on his last day "in the field" so I knew he would be starving and ready for something good to eat. My friend Michelle lives about 20 mintues away from our hotel and was nice enough to let me use her kitchen to make an apple pie. Unfortunately, it was a rough week for Mollie. She was grumpy and whiney all week long. She behaved long enough to get the pie made and put in the oven. She fell asleep on the way back to the hotel so at least I got about 20 mintues of peace. When we got back to the room we started blowing up some balloons. Mollie threw a complete fit when she couldn't hold all 6 balloons at one time. She then got to get in her bed and cry herself to sleep. It was so awesome once the crying finally stopped. I knew I needed to get the decorations up quick while I had some peace. Of course I didn't have any tape so I had to use band-aids. Everything was going great until the chair flipped over on me and then I thought I was going to die. My whole body was hurting. I finally got up enough strength to crawl over to the couch to recover. WOW, that was bad. Eventually I talked myself into getting back on the chair to finish hanging up the decorations. A couple hours later Troy finally got home for his "surprise" party. He was super excited about the pie and ate it as an appetizer and then after a pizza he had it for dessert.