Darren had a terrific birthday on the 8th! He turned 39. We have a family tradition that you get your favorite breakfast in bed the morning of your birthday. You also get to choose your favorite dessert (doesn't have to be a cake) and your favorite dinner. Darren had a breakfast sandwich with grapefruit and some juice. He chose oatmeal cake with caramel sauce and ice cream for his dessert and Papa Murphy Pizza for dinner. He was spoiled with many presents. Happy Birthday to a great guy who does so much to serve his family. We love you Darren!
Matthew has always LOVED a party. So two days later on the 10th (also my mom's birthday), he turned 7 and wanted bacon, eggs, and juice for his birthday breakfast. For dinner we had pizza and he just wanted a normal chocolate cake for his birthday. I sent him with cupcakes to school and about 12 friends from school, church, and neighborhood came over after school for a party. We played a lot of fun games and Matthew received many wonderful gifts. He said his favorite was his new football. Happy Birthday to a wonderful boy! We love you Matthew!
Matthew with some friends at his party.
Emma turned 11! This was birthday cake number 2 for Emma, given to her on her actual birthday - February 21st. I made some cupcakes for her to take to school and forgot to turn on the convection oven instead of the bake oven and the cupcakes on the bottom rack didn't bake. When I turned them over to cool, it splattered all over the counter. So Walmart helped us out and Emma took 24 donuts to school instead. On such a busy morning, McDonalds breakfast had to do - there wasn't time to fix anything! Emma asked for hamburgers and homemade fries (Darren's specialty) for her special dinner.
Birthday cake #1 at her party the Friday night before her birthday.
13 girls came to Emma's party on Friday night. (2 more came after we took the picture). Second Friday in a row for a party at our house. It was really a lot of fun. They played a get to know you game upon arrival, ate lots of yummy food, painted nails, sang karaoke (Darren was the star of karaoke that night), played outside on the tramp and swing set (a novelty for many of the girls - Nevada yards typically aren't big and lots of grass isn't common), more games, and of course cake and ice cream. Julie Moore stayed to help me paint all the girls nails for which I was very grateful! Emma's favorite gift was new clothes. (One of her favorites is below). Happy Birthday to our only girl. We love you Emma!
And I am relieved that the birthday month is OVER!!!
