Symbolism

Dear future daughter-in-law,

We humans associate symbols with many things in life.  For instance, if you see this:

you would think stop sign.

If you saw this:

you would think: Target.

Well, keep that in mind, oh love of my son, as I tell you this little story. 

It was time for Nikolai's uncle, Mike, to turn 30...yes, the big 3-0.  Like many other persons who turn 30, Mike wanted to have a special birthday celebration.  He wanted food, he wanted cake, he wanted to see his family members, and he wanted presents.  But most of all, Mike wanted to be sure we had a theme.  What theme you ask?  Well, a theme that any 30 year old would like....

Transformers.  Because, you know, they're more than meets the eye.

Yeah.  Anyway.

We went for it.  Nikolai's aunt, grandma and I all purchase transformers party garb.  Transformers plates, transformers decor, transformers napkins and a transformers cake. 

Of course, to your future husband, the cake was the most important part.  He had to stare at that thing in the fridge for a full 24 hours before I would even consider letting him have a piece.  It was a pretty cool cake mind you.  Pictures of autobots and decepticons riddled that awesome cake.  In fact, on top of the cake were little rings just like this:

The day for Mike's party finally came and the decor came out.  Nikolai's grandma and I set up the best transformer's party known to man.  It looked pretty cool.  We were sure to leave the cake in the fridge so that the little kids wouldn't pick at it until it was time to blow out the candles.
After we were all set, Nikolai woke up from his nap and came downstairs to see the awesomeness that is transformers.  He gazed in amazement (or at least, that is my interpretation of his dear in the headlights look) at all of the transformers decor. 

I finally interrupted his gaze and said, "Nikolai, what is that?" as I pointed to a picture of a decepticon taped to the wall.  He confidently and intently answered:

"Cake."

Yes, Nikolai.  Cake.

As you can see your future husband has quite a knack for symbolism.  This may come in handy in the future.  Perhaps you can just show him an episode of transformers everytime you want cake.

Best regards,

Your future mother-in-law