Matt's Birthday

On October 12th Matt turned 10!!! Oh my, no more single digits for that boy. As a mom, I had a few hard moments. Just think, at 10 I only have nine more years to teach him to clean up after himself, treat others with love, cook a meal, have a testimony, iron a shirt, stand for truth and right, and always try his best. These are only a few of the hundreds of things that will help him be the man that I know he can become. But I am blessed because Matt is always excited to learn and master new things.

Enough of the serious stuff, on to the party. Sunday was low key with a dinner of ribs and baked potatoes. No traditional cake here, all he wanted was mint ice cream. I, of course, could not let it go at that. So we had Grasshopper Pie with crushed Oreos, mint ice cream, and hot chocolate. Presents included the much begged for Ipod Shuffle, a camera, the book "The Candy Wars", a cookbook, and a joke book. The boy was in heaven.

Matt can't wait until after church to open "just one present"

This is all we see of Matt these days or should we say hear.

Last Saturday we had his birthday party with friends. Matt has decided that he is too old for a "kid" party, so he choose to have his friends over for a movie, pizza, popcorn, rootbeer floats, and as much candy as they could stomach. By the way, nine- and ten-year-olds can stomach a lot. The movie was "Speed Racer" (very possibly the worst movie made), the pizza was Hungry Howies, and the candy was plenteous. They all seemed to have a blast!!!

I was told not to decorate but you just can't plunk bags of candy on the table. Can you?

The best idea is to stay out of their way

Sitting around watching the movie.......or not

This is the best picture of what happens when you give kids candy.....lots of candy