What a great way to spend a Friday! Your dad was pretty cool to take it so well. (I can only say from mine own pa, who wouldn't.)
PS: We share the same taste in birthday cards.
Haha thanks everyone! And pretty much, my parents have been extraordinarily cool about everything, especially considering my mother thinks that cats are horrible filthy animals because they put their feet in the litter box and then on the furniture, and she's never had shedding dogs in her house before.
Neither one of them really understand the "pony thing," but I keep telling them that it is something that makes me happy and I haven't really had a whole lot of that lately, so they are generally accepting, with a little bit of eyerolling from my mom on occasion.
Sugar.Lightning: I know, I cannot STAND overly sappy cards that have cheesy rhymes and false sentiment, so sometimes I just have to go with the funny!