Happy Birthday Derrick!!!

How does 5 years go by so quickly?! This day, 5 years ago at exactly 5:24 pm (half time of the superbowl....we missed the whole Janet Jackson fiasco) Derrick Thomas Clark was born! I never realized how fast time flies once you have kids. He's grown sooooo much over time. From diapers and formula to monster trucks and transformers. Since he wasn't able to go to preschool this year, he's so excited he's finally old enough to go to kindergarten in the fall. Leroy asked him today who was gonna cry more when he goes to school, Mom or Derrick? And of course Derrick said me!! He is so right, I 'm such a baby!

All day he kept asking for his presents and all day we told him after the game, after the game. I've come to realize children have no concept of time =) I made my world famous decorated cake for Derrick today. I refuse to buy a cake for my kids birthday, it just seems so unpersonal for me. I love baking the cake and decorating it, I've been doing it since I made Leeanne's 16th Yellow Submarine cake...I think she really liked it!


We were planning on having a big 5th Birthday/Super Bowl party this year, but with the move it didn't happen. It did make me feel better when Derrick said he had a great birthday =) He did get his present he'd been wanting for the last 3 months, The Big Fighting Robots!!!! Now normally we wouldn't even have bought them for Derrick...they're $50....but WalMart was clearanceing them out at $5, so we made out like bandits! My thoughts are so all over the place, so here's some pictures to enjoy!












Pulling off the final countdown paper! The three of us during halftime! (Memories)





Woke up to balloons covering the floor We discovered static electricity






Got a card...who's it from? It's a Mickey card from Grandma Allen!