Our Week of Birthdays!

Jacob and Joey each celebrated a birthday this week. Jacob's was Tuesday and Joey's was Saturday. As you can see in the pictures Jake had a red dinosaur cake and Joey had a Lightening McQueen cake. The pictures make them look better than they really were but they were cute. Jacob celebrated by having cake and presents at Grandma and Grandpa Gurney's house on Tuesday but because of testing at the school this week he could not take in his treats until Friday. So Friday afternoon I had to hurry and make strawberry cupcakes with red frosting and take them out to the school by 2:30. I did not get started on the cupcakes until noon but I did make it in time.(Thank heavens) Jake also got an unfortunate lesson about disappointment this week. He has two really good friends at school and we had told him that he could invite them over on Friday. Unfortunately neither one of them could come and it just broke his heart. I really felt kind of sorry for him, but he still had fun eating pizza and watching Space Chimps with his brothers before going to the ward Christmas party.
Joey spent his birthday just running around wound up! We had Mike's cousin Dustin, his wife Teri, and their two kids came over and spent most of the day with us. Grandma and Grandpa Gurney came over with Aunt Shelly and Uncle Matt for dinner and cake. Joey had told Grandma months ago that all he wanted for his birthday was moon sand. So he was so excited when she came through for him.
I don't know if you can see it in the picture but two of Joey's candles look like antennae. I had bought a whole new package of candles on Tuesday to use for the boys' birthdays but come Saturday they had all disappeared but three. So, I had to search for two more candles at the last minute. I finally found a really really old package of sparkler candles I had bought when Caleb was about 3 or 4 in the very back of the drawer. Needless to say they were a little bent and broke up. Well when we lit them the wax caught fire and started drip onto the cake not to mention the three inches of flame shoot up from them. I got to laughing so hard I couldn't even sing Happy Birthday. Mom and Shelly just about split a gut too because Joey was having a hard time blowing them out. It was a rather humorous affair all the way around.
Tomorrow is my mom's birthday and since she has to spend the evening driving the Jr. High girls basket ball team we celebrated today. I made her dinner and cake and then left them to eat it because I had to go to the church for choir practice. After dinner we all sat down and watched the First Presidencies Christmas Devotional. All in all it was a really nice evening.