This past weekend was filled with lots of celebrating for us and we had a blast! Jaye's birthday is on Feb. 14th (Valentine's Day) and this year I thought it'd be fun to surprise him with dinner at Miyabi (one of our favorites) with all his favorite people. I pulled off the surprise (he had no clue) and we had a really fun night! Unfortunately, I didn't get a big group picture, but here are some of our little family from dinner.

After dinner, we had everyone over for dessert at our place and completed the surprises with Jaye's gift...his Storm Trooper armor. Jaye has wanted armor for a long time now and he can't wait to start doing charity events with the 501st once he gets it all built and pieced together! Keep reading for pictures of Jaye unveiling his armor!!!
Here's Jaye with his gifts...he was clueless about what was inside! We'd all been planning this since September and were so anxious for him to open his gifts!

He had no idea...

His armor came in LOTS of pieces. He'll have to get together with his cousin Todd to custom fit and build the suit.


He will be one good looking Storm Trooper!!!
Jaye's new Mariachi, I mean Storm Trooper, boots!
No Storm Trooper is complete without their blaster. This will get spray-painted black eventually.
We will keep you posted with pictures of the progress and of Jaye's adventures as a Storm Trooper!! Maybe he needs his own blog category!!!