Happy Birthday Zack!

Today is Zack's 4th birthday. Wow, where have the last 4 years gone?? Seems like just yesterday he was the cranky kid waking us up in the middle of the night crying! oh wait, that *was* just yesterday... I guess some things haven't changed much at all. :) Well you are now a confident, and inquisitive little preschooler - soon to be in "Pre-K". You want to know all of the answers and "Why?" is probably your most used word.

This is one happy boy opening his presents. It was also PJ day at preschool so it was a special day for you. Oh, and the first of the caterpillers that Sydney had gotten for her birthday decided to turn into a butterfly on your birthday, so that made it extra special! You got a t-shirt from Grandma W that has Lightning McQueeen on it, and it lights up. Too cool!

It was hard to think of some presents for you as it seems like out house is already busting full of toys. However, you did need a new camping chair, so that was one of your gifts. And what a great gift it was - especially since we'll be camping again soon, you will get a lot of use out of it. Too bad it makes your sister jealous and she wants a new chair too!

The things you asked for as gifts were socks and lip balm - no kidding!! Well everyone needs soft lips right? And running socks?, well they are just cool and who doesn't want to be like Daddy these days?

The cake was yummy (see the lip balm in front of the cake??)

Look out!! Can't wait until he gets to use this to torture us around the pool!

A Monster of a Cake

For Zack's 4th birthday he wanted a monster truck rally, so I came up with this design. The dirt is graham crackers and the grass is just frosting. My decorating tip make such great grass I try to use it as much as I can. I mean, who doesn't need a furry cake for their birthday??


I even found a place for "thumbs up" guy - who is often used a stunt man, but today he gets to rest and enjoy the festivities :)

oh, and I put this cake into our bathroom for the night so that it wouldn't suffer the same fate that Sydney's did (frosting melting when the dishwasher ran in the middle of the night).

Thomas, for Sydney?

No, it's not Thomas the Train - it's Sydney and she was telling us how she is going to marry a boy named Thomas in her school! What the heck? That came out out of nowhere - I hope this doesn't mean she's going to start getting boy crazy - she's only 6 years old! Luckily we haven't heard anymore about this. :)