First Place!!!!!

This is Benny and Elijah and my parents. My parents have a wonderful tradition of taking the Birthday kid out for a fun breakfast (usually McDonalds) and then often to Toys R Us where they browse the whole store and many times allow the Birthday boy (or girl) to pick out their gift (with-in budget of course!) Benny and my Dad loved this awesome cowboy costume and that is what Benny came home in. He hasn't taken it off, except to sleep. He put it right back on over his jammies early this morning. What wonderful memories the kids are making with Mom-Mom and Pop-pop Down the Block. We all love you and appreciate the many many ways you care for us! Monday Evening was the Cub-Scout Father Son Bake-off. Joel and the boys worked hard Sunday afternoon. I heard a few "whoops" and "oh no- get that egg-shell". I refused to help at all. All I did was supply a trusty recipe. It all had to be from scratch, no mixes allowed. What fun they had together. Here are Jerem and Nate putting the finishing touches on the Boot cake they made. It doubled as Benny's birthday cake also. (yes, Jerem is about to eat the decorating icing. )

All that hard work paid off!!! What a suprise!!! My boys won first prize!!! They beat out nineteen other cake entries to win. Jeremiah was so thrilled, although he doesn't look it here. All the picture taking was holding him back from sampling all those entries lined up on the table. Benny got to chose between 20 cakes for his birthday and many pies and pastries also. What a fun evening. Jeremiah told me today that he knows the secret to why their cake won. "It tastes just like Woman cake!" He told me at lunch. Indeed, it does taste just like an experienced woman made it instead of a Daddy and two little boys! Yeah!!Joel and Nate and Jeremiah.