Happy (early) Birthday Antonio!

Even though its not until tomorrow, we celebrated Antonio's birthday today because tomorrow he has to go back to work. With the holidays he's been off for about 2 weeks. Actually we've sort been celebrating it all weekend. Its sort of a big deal seeing as its his 1st birthday we've been together since he joined the Marines. Last night, our friends watched Emily and he and I and went to see the Tom Cruise movie Valkyre (was actually really good!). And today I gave him his present (I bought him a humidor for his cigars). Today we just hung out, he played some Xbox, and we are going to watch some movies from Blockbuster once the baby is in bed. Here are some pictures.
While I was baking Antonio's birthday cake, Emily was playing with her kitchen set!
Antonio's birthday cake, with 23 candles!
The birthday boy, and his baby girl
Blowing out the candles. You can't tell from the picture but Emily was helping (more like spiting!). Her birthday is going to be some much fun! I can't believe will be 1 soon!
Cutting the cake
Daddy put frosting on her nose and she didn't like it too much!
Grandpa bought her that shirt. It says "I may be small but I'm the BOSS." True story.

Today was bittersweet thought, because it was Antonio's last day of leave. He goes back to work tomorrow and then leaves for Virginia for 3 weeks on Thursday. And that is just the start of the work ups leading up his deployment this spring. It was great having him home for the last 2 weeks, it just definitley went too fast.