Birthday Boy!!!

It's the 20th September already!

Today is the is the 263rd day of the year, it's the day that the first ever Cannes Film Festival was held (in 1946) and today is also my brother Stuart's Birthday!! It's a bit of a milestone as he has finally reached the big 30 and wow how time flies! I am actually finding it quite odd that he has reached that level of maturity, to no longer be in your twenties means that you are definitely grown up! Not that he was never mature before but I'm sure he understands what I mean ;-)

Stuart's very awesome birthday card

So today it seems my brother had a good day in bed nursing a terrible weekend hang over that decided to stick around for a couple of days to see in his special birthday. However there were a few lovely highlights for the day I'm sure. He got some great presents from his girlfriend and soon to be baby son or daughter, the in laws bought him a great card which said 'AwesomeMan' on it (he says finally someone understands his liking for super heroes!), and from me he got.......POWER!!

So just to explain what I mean by this, I bought him a Kymera Wand made by The Wand Company. You may have recently seen the creators of the wand on Dragon's Den on BBC2, but if you haven't heard of it before it's basically a gadget that looks like a wand (obviously) but it is actually a remote control! It can learn up to 13 commands and can control things like your T.V., iPod docking station and other household electricals that are controlled by a remote. I have now also seen on their website that they seel enchanted candles to go with the wand so that you can now even control lighting with it!

The Wand

Look at that face!!

What I love about my brother is that he is very young at heart which makes him a lot of fun to be around and makes me feel like there is less of an age gap between us, so as soon as I saw it I knew that was the present for him and it was great to see his face light up when he saw it! The ultimate boys toy! 

If you would like to take a look at the Kymera Wand then you can find a link to their web page below, but if you already have one you can also check out some great hints and tips on how to use it and there should be some cool downloads on there as well:

http://www.thewandcompany.com/index.html

Another highlight was that my colleague  at work made some fabulous cupcakes today too so she kindly gave me one to take home for him which he really liked. Good times!!!

So a MASSIVE Happy 30th Birthday to my big brother, there is not a cooler, smarter or more caring brother than you in the whole wide world! I didn't choose you but I wouldn't choose anyone else to be my Brother! (Queue the tears!! ;-D)

Delicious!!!