Happy Birthday, Big Brother!

Isaac at 7 weeks!

Isaac a little over one year old!

I made cupcakes and put the whistles on top.

Friends gathered around the table.

Trading cards!

Spend the night crew!

Isaac has turned another year older and I just can't believe it! It seems like yesterday that I was pregnant with him. We have kidded him that this will be his last year in the single digits! :) His actual birthday was a couple of weeks ago on a Friday. We took the kids to a Hands-on-Science Center and then afterwards we went to eat lunch at the restaurant of his choice. We received a package from my parents that had some really great birthday surprises!! Gigi came up on that Friday night and got to spend some time with us. She came with birthday wishes and a surprise too. He had a really great day and had the best time. Because Bryan was busy on the Saturday of his birthday we postponed his party until the next weekend. For his party he had asked if he could have a spend the night party. Just so it would not overwhelm this mom, we decided that he could only ask a couple of the boys to spend the night. So he invited all his Sunday School class and then his friend across the street. The boys had a great time. Instead of gifts we asked that each boy bring a small pack of his favorite sport trading cards. Once we ate supper, which was hot dogs, the boys opened their cards and mixed them all together and then they got to choose so many and then they could trade. It went better than I thought it would. The boys loved trading cards and could have traded all night. Each boy got to take his final stack of cards home, it was neat!. Isaac does not care for cake, he wanted chocolate chocolate chip cookies. Well, I made the cookies but made cupcakes also. Those cookies are Isaac's favorite (I will have to share that recipe some time).