Birthdays, earthquakes, and cupcakes. OH MY!

A couple days ago, August 21st, we celebrated Andrew's tenth birthday.

As he is the baby of the family it was a pretty big deal to see him go

into double digits! Even though Dad and Jordan

were gone, I think we were able to make it a special day for him. We started by opening presents (at the crack of dawn I might add). He requested Softies donuts for breakfast, so that's what we ate. After we got home from church, he and his friends from the neighborhood played with some of his new toys; next, was a scavanger hunt in our house and then cupcakes. We ate his favorite for dinner- hot dogs with acini de pepi (a pasta/fruit salad).

We planned to go to a water park today for further celebration, but there ended up being an earthquake just a little while before we were going to leave. Yes, that's right: an EARTHQUAKE. It was really weird. Having lived on the East Coast all my life, I had never felt anything like it. 5.8 magnitude and all that. There haven't been any aftershocks though, and the quake itself was nearly six hours ago now. So, hopefully, we'll make it to the water park on another day soon.

Anyway, our baby boy is a big boy now. So, even though this is a little late, HAPPY TENTH BIRTHDAY, ANDREW!!!

Oh! almost forgot. I just had to share a picture of yet another cupcake venture. My mom actually made these simply from a cupcake mix, but I decorated them, so I think it's fair to count this in my cupcake-journal.

Get it? "10" cause he turned ten? Hehe. I obviously need to go get some sleep, so I'll sign out now.

~Hannah Grace