Daddy's Birthday

Daddy's birthday was about a month ago.  This shows you how organized I am, I'm just now posting the pictures.
It was a fun birthday :)

So the cake was decorated like a Canadian flag since he and mommy had just gotten back from their anniversary Canada trip.

Wow, he's OLD!

Oh more tree books.  Seriously this dude has more tree books than I know what to do with!
Now that I think of it, isn't it semi ironic that a book about trees was made out of . . . trees!?

Ok, this is what he said verbatum:

"Oooh Rosetta Stone, nice."

"Look, it's a magnet!  Opened . . . "

"Closed!"
Dad, you are a dork.

This is Sarah's reaction to Daddy's magnet show and tell.
Yeah I don't understand him either, but guess what!?  We have half of his DNA! I bet you we'll be doing the exact same thing when we're 49!

Gardening hose nozzles.  Guys really have exciting birthdays don't they?!

 HAHAHA best moment of the night!  Sometimes when a present is too big to wrap we leave it upstairs and just present the birthday person with the unwrapped gift.  Well mom had told dad that he had another present and went to go get it.  While she was coming back down, dad had started organizing all the wrapping paper mess so he didn't notice her come back downstairs.  He looked just a wee bit surprised when he turned around and there his wife is holding a pic ax in her hands right at his eye level!

We've had this bag for forever it seems.  We ALWAYS give it to dad on his birthday.  Funny thing is it applied to his 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd . . . etc you get the point.  It's the bag that keeps on giving.

Aaaaaaand these are my sisters.
See what I have to put up with?!  We're special :)

Now,
I've saved the best for last.
We have a tradition.

(Rebecca started it.)

But every birthday, for the past four years, we've sung dad a special birthday song.
(It sounds innocent.  It's not.)

The song that started it all was the Cupid Shuffle.  We turned it into the "Old Man Shuffle."  We had dance moves and used phrases like "Do the old man shuffle, you can't see straight anymore," and "use your cane, use your cane."
Last year we sang Jordan Sparks' song "No Air" and changed it to "No Hair."
Yeeeeeah we're nice :)
But keep in mind, we're singing these songs to a man who gets a kick out of a birthday card that said "Happy Birthday!  In dog years you'd be . . . dead."  So he's sarcastic and I like to think on some level he appreciates and is proud that his daughters are cultivating his sense of humor :)

So, um, this year we were planning a big song (not as big next year's milestone birthday).  Sarah had come up with the idea last year, and we could only do this song this year (unless we waited till his 59th birthday).  Ok, I know you're waiting with baited breath!  What song could we redo that would perfectly embody the importance of this, daddy's 49th birthday?!?!?

Lady Gaga's "Edge of Glory" we turned into "Edge of 50"!!!