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Birthday Boy

Tom is now 8! We got to celebrate his birthday for whole month. He was baptized lost two teeth and had an egyptian party. He said that he wanted a "desert cake" so I decided to go with egyptian. I should have listened to my Mom who advised me that the pyramid would be hard to pull off(I guess I still haven't learned to listen) After a lot of frosting and piecing together-nothing like the recipe/instructions made it look so easy. I did take her advice on making cocoa powder to make the bricks. By the way, ground vanilla wafers make great sand. We had a hieroglyphic treasure hunt and pin the beard on the King Tut. We had about 6 boys over and then a few more including siblings andmoms. It reminded me why I have avoided parties for so long but also reminded me why they are a good experience. In other news... my husband is giving his very final attempt at finishing his dissertation. Go Dave! After 6 years it looks like it will finally happen. So that means our ev