Birthday and The Ring

We hit the road last night heading east to KY. The Man has a speaking engagement up at the college, so we got to travel back home to visit campus, family and friends. woo hoo!

It also happened to be the Man's BIRTHDAY today!

So the family had dinner with cake and ice cream ready for him. You'd thought it was LGs birthday the way he was so excited about it.

I don't think the Man blew out any of his candles as the kids were happy to do it for him.
After the little party, the Man decided to once again look for the RING.

I'll have to give you some back ground for this for it to be the story it is. Five years ago, yes 5 years ago, the Man was sitting in my mom's reading chair playing with his wedding band while talking on the phone, I believe. Anyhow, he managed to twirl his ring around and around and then dropped it. As he goes to retrieve it, he realizes it is in the chair. He tries and tries, but can't seem to get it. Later, I try to retrieve it and I can't find it either.

Every year he tries to dig around in this chair to find his ring to no avail. Once we could feel it from the outside through the fabric, but we could never get to it.

So, tonight the Man decided that this was the year, he was going to get his ring back. Here, he, Uncle and Niecey turn the chair over and are trying to go through the bottom to get into the fabric. Another dead end.

Aunt Cream gets involved and she solves problems for a living, so she was determined to find it. Here she is shoulder deep into the chair with success.

Ta Da. The RING!

After 5 years, its now happily back on his finger.