This blog entry is waaayyyy overdue... Shirley's birthday was October 29...
Anyway, Man's Golden Rule #1, after a certain age, the age of a woman is unimportant, especially if that woman is your wife :)
I don't mean to brag, but I have to say I throw a pretty good surprise party.
I ordered for a rose to be delivered to Shirley's office on the day before. When the flower arrived, everyone in her office found out it was her birthday. They threw her a birthday afternoon tea.

On her birthday, I secretly took the 3 hours off work in the morning after dropping her off work. I went to the Warehouse and bought about 70 balloons and some decorations and pumped all the balloons up - well.. I only managed to do about 50 before getting a huge blister on my finger... It was HARD work..

And I picked up the cake..

After work, we went to our favourite Korean restaurant for dinner. And this was what was waiting for her when she stepped in our home :)

The official birthday photo -
Same pose every year - different clothes, different cake.