James' Birthday Celebration

I've had a few people ask me already if they missed James' birthday. Nope, his birthday is on the 14th. We'll be on our vacation then (yeah!), so we did an early party for him in Elko. James erased the pictures trying to help me clear off my memory card and did not realize he had erased his birthday shots. So I had to buy software so I could retrieve them (it will probably come in handy once the kids are older anyways. And if there is free recovery software out there please don't tell me...it took me an hour before I could bring myself to get it in the first place!). But it worked and I have them back (and they are now saved!).

James' first request was a 49er birthday cake. Well this week was very busy for me. I was working for one thing, doing the normal Mommy details. And I was preparing a sharing time and my own lesson for church! Plus getting ready for our vacation, so I was a little overwhelmed at first. Especially after trying to practice drawing those letters for the logo. The cake turned out great though. I was very happy with it, and so was James. Many of you also know that my Dad is a die hard Colts fan. He said he didn't know if he could eat a 49er cake, but he was a good sport. Afterwards we all had black mouths and teeth from the food coloring.

And I of course insisted on putting 28 candles on the cake.

And James blew them out before I even got a good shot...

I kept it simple this year. Normally James get a ton for his birthday because it's right after tax season and our refund. But we made sure to save some money for our vacation (wow we'll have money for our trip... that will be nice).

James has mentioned wanting the boxed set of the Harry Potter series. And there are a few books in our own series that are on there last leg from us rereading them over and over again. So after a lot of Internet surfing I found one that was a price I could live with and that was a steal I thought. I even convinced him that I had forgot to order it for him when I had in fact ordered it in March. For once he was surprised!