The birthday boy.

Well, birthday week finally came to an end. Thank goodness, too because I think this whole birthday stuff was starting to go to his head, ha! We heard many times throughout the week, "but, I'm the birthday boy . . ."

Here is our precious fella on the morning of his FIFTH birthday with our traditional birthday breakfast of doughnuts. With sprinkles!

That night we took the birthday boy out to supper for family date night in his honor. Tilly! How grown up does she look here? Wow.

Sweet Story. I'm sure she's thinking. We are eating at Welcome to Moe's. Again. Don't let her fool you, my girls loves some black beans!

Summer posing for the camera.

Mommy and the birthday boy.

Tilly loving on her daddy. Man, these girls love their daddy! Love him!

David surprised Carter with some balloons for his birthday. For those of you who know Carter well, you are aware of his LOVE for balloons. I have never seen anything like it. He has loved balloons since he was little bitty, and it hasn't gone away with age either, maybe gotten worse, ha! I wish you could have seen the precious look of awe on his face when he got up from his nap and found them on his chair. There are no words.

We celebrated with brownies and ice cream.

Pure joy.

Make a wish!

Opening his present from Aunt Karen, Treasure Island. She keeps us supplied with our books, and we are so thankful. Right now, we are reading Charlotte's Web, and we are almost done. Carter said, "Mommy, we can read this one next!"

Opening his present from Papa and Gigi, his very own "video camera" as he calls it. He got a Kidizoom camera made by Vtech, so fun!

Okay, so he is totally hamming it up right now for the camera. He is opening a card from Mama, and this look on his face is just too much!

I love this face! He's opening his present from his sisters, Lightning McQueen cars, his new favorite thing.

The last thing we did was open his piggy bank. Aunt Karen has given all of the children piggy banks, and we decided that on their 5th birthdays we would open them and discuss tithing, saving, and buying. After emptying his bank and counting his money, David explained to Carter that before we do anything else with his money, we will give part of it to Jesus as an offering. We also explained that he would save a portion of his money to be used at a later time and that he would get to buy something for himself. Cute story before I close. This morning on the way to church, Carter asked David, "Daddy, did you bring my offering to church? I'm not doing anything with my money until I give some Jesus first!" Precious. My mommy heart is full of love for this boy and prayers that one day very soon Jesus will completely capture his heart forever.