Seven years...

Today is Ayden's 7th birthday.  I am always so nostalgic on my children's birthdays, trying to remember every detail of the day they were born.  And I want to make the day so special for them. After all, the day that each of them was born makes up three of the best days my life. 

I asked Ayden a few days ago what he wanted me to cook him for his birthday.  He thought about it for a few seconds then said, "Dirt cake!"  So of course I had to make sure he got it :) I also had to make him a snack for his class today for his "birthday snack". I got a camouflage cake mix at Wal-Mart, and my gosh was that time consuming!!  After mixing the cake, I had to divide the batter and put different amounts of food coloring in each bowl to create four different colors. Then each color had to be dropped separately into the cake pan to create the camouflage effect. I put bright orange icing on the top, and it turned out so cute.  Then after finishing that, I had to start the dirt cake...another time-consuming recipe!  I let him and Gracelyn eat the dirt cake for breakfast this morning.  They loved that!  Then right before I went to bed, I taped streamers across his door frame so that he would have to burst through them when he got up this  morning.  He told me felt like a football player because they always run through the paper sign.