Happy 40th Birthday Rob!

Well 40 finally came for Rob.  Despite being half-way across the world, we managed to be surrounded by friends from back home who came to visit and celebrated 4 birthdays!  Kunal, Jenn and 2 yo Ellie (Jenn's birthday is in early March), Ryan and Kim (Ryan and Rob were both born Feb 21st, 1977) and Mark, Tracey, Logan, Cole and Kate Wahba (Mark's birthday is Feb 21st, but not 1977!) all came to Auckland to celebrate.  We are so thankful to all of them for making the trek to see us.  We have such amazing friends in our lives.

We were fortunate to spend the day at the beach and pool in the sun, as New Zealand had been constantly under rain for 5 days prior.  Not surprisingly, the boys were even able to sneak in a Mini-MANathlon competition as no year is complete without one.  The four events were underwater hand-stand walking, breath hold, back flip and fish toss.  Rob managed to win narrowly edging out Greg Malin. Greg wasn't ever there but he is so awesome that he got 2nd place despite being half-way around the world.

And it wouldn't be a 40th Birthday without some impromptu shirtless wrestling!

Now that Jonah is 11, we have a babysitter!!!  The kids watched a movie while the Adults walked to Mexico (the restaurant not the country).

Then we played trivial pursuit Australasian edition.  Needless to say, we struggled a bit...

Epic birthday party in New Zealand comes to an end.