Birthdays!

Derek and I both hit some big milestones this month. Derek turned 5 and I turned 30. Yikes!

Derek's birthday was a family party- all Star Wars themed. We watched Derek's first Star Wars movie- 'A New Hope'. It was funny because he already knew all the characters and the plot from his books and his computer game. He still enjoyed it, though- the Darth Vader heads filled with candy and the pretzel rod "lightsabers" helped make it festive. I made him a Darth Mal lightsaber cake. It is a 2-sided lightsaber, so I made his cake about 4' long. He got a bunch of micromachine Star Wars scenes from us (they are things like the Death Star that open up to have a scene from the movie with little characters to play with). He also got Star Wars Legos 2, a black backpack for school, and a magnetic calendar. So, all of his gifts were perfect.

Yesterday was my birthday. It was such a strange day! Some really unusual things happened- like the van battery being dead, so we had to jumpstart it, one of my spoons fell into my mixer while it was going and splattered my cake batter everywhere, Spencer peed in the sand outside, and the babysitter wasn't home when I went to pick her up. But, after Larry got home things were nice. He gave me 2 dozen beautiful roses, nice cleaning gloves, a big cheese grater, and some weightlifting gloves (all things I asked for, by the way). We had my favorite Jello cake, and then we went out for dinner with 7 other couples to my favorite resterant. Afterwards, we came back to the house for some games and a slideshow of me. It was really nice. Larry is such a wonderful husband for making it all happen. After everyone left we sat on the couch and fell quickly fell asleep.