My dad chose fajitas as his birthday supper. Heather brought us some clementine juice and blackberry juice that they were getting rid of at her store; I love having a sister who works for a grocery company.
A great shot of our VCR, which got some use again during Daddy's party. While Daddy was reading about the Newsboys on Wikipedia, he learned that the band made a movie (we can call it an art film) back in 1996. So he promptly bought it on VHS for a few dollars on eBay. It's an elaboration on the Newsboys' song "Reality," which is a prodigal son story about a kid who runs away to join the circus. In the movie, lead singer at the time, John James, inherits a bankrupt circus when his Italian uncle passes away, and John needs to put together one more show so that he can pay his uncle's debts and let his widow retire to Orlando. (I don't know how Steve Taylor and the rest of them came up with this stuff.) Most of the circus members leave, and John recruits the other members of the band, which is at the height of its career but having a hard time getting a bass player, to join the circus for just a week. All of them along with the motley assortment of circus performers who are left are then put through a crash course circus school. Meanwhile, Newsboys bass player (hint, hint) Phil Joel, who plays the runaway son, is doing everything he can to get them to let him join the circus. It's really satirical, just like the classic Newsboys lyrics. And like their music, parts of the movie were funny, other parts I just didn't get. The only thing I didn't like was that Duncan Phillips' character was a little leering towards the twin girls in the circus; there was no reason they had to do that.
Here's my dad with his birthday presents. My sisters and I gave him an omelet pan, two polo shirts, a slim pocket calculator (the one he's had since college is finally going out), and a World Market gift card so he can get himself a bunch of snacks and sweets.
Kayley made an amazing Tres Leches cake!
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