December 16th

Yesterday, December 16th, my super dude turned 6 years old.  Joshua is growing into quite the boy.  He is definitely no longer a preschooler.  Watching him gain confidence, maturity, make friends and learn to read makes me so proud. 

Josh requested Star Wars cupcakes for his school birthday party.  I wasn't sure how to do it, so I looked online.  After looking at samples on geekology.com (go figure), I decided that an action figure crammed into the top of a cupcake would be the easiest and look the best.  This way each kid got to take home a treat also.  The action figures were a HUGE hit.

I didn't do just plain cupcakes, though.  I did ice cream sandwich cupcakes, and I promise to post how I did that in the next day or two.  I hope the suspense doesn't kill you.

"Haaaapy birthday, dear Joshua..."

Josh has the best group of classmates and his teacher is so great.

One happy little 6 year old.

These two love to hug each other lately.  Melts my heart!

Happy birthday to my sweet boy!

I also want to say happy 35th birthday to my amazing husband Shad who just so happens to share his birthday with his boy.  I was thinking about it and realized that I have been with Shad since a month after he turned 16.  He thought he was so cool because he had his driver's licence and a truck.  Needless to say I thought he was pretty cool too.  So here we are 19 years later and he is still as cool as he was back then, but in so many other ways.  I am so blessed to have literally grown up with this man.  I know I will never be able to give him as special a birthday gift as his first born child (Uh, well, God had a little to do with that too), but I do want to say:

Happy birthday to my Shad!  The man of my life, the father of our kids, a follower of Christ.