Red Icing, Cheese Puffs, & Other Important Stuff

Hey y'all. It's been busy, busy, busy around this place for the past few days.

On Thursday evening our caseworker Soojin called with the good news that we are officially registered with the Ministry of Justice in Bulgaria. We've actually been registered for a few weeks, but a few people at our Bulgarian agency were on vacation so there was a delay in relaying the message. Either way, we have a number and are now on the waiting list. Yay!

It's raining here in Texas. Thank the good Lord for that. It started with a little rain yesterday, and then it really moved in early this morning. It's cool outside . . . it's raining . . . it finally feels like fall.

Yesterday, was Andrew's party. I was fully prepared for my house to be very crowded if it rained, but the rain held off for the most part. I'm thankful the kids could play outside, but I certainly wasn't about to complain about the rain or the potential for rain.

I have about eight million pictures of the festivities. My brother took a bunch with his camera, and Patrick and I took turns with our camera. Don't worry I'm not going to show all eight million pictures . . . I'll keep to around seven million . . .

This picture's really dark, but it's in our dining room right before the party. What it doesn't show is the massive amount of food in the kitchen or the enormous tub of cheese puffs I bought for the party . . . of which I may have consumed a large quantity. Don't worry Ruthie, I didn't eat the whole container . . . I stopped at half. ;) Those stupid cheese puffs are mocking me as I speak . . . errr, type.

This picture's a little brighter, but seriously, my child is going through this "I don't know how to smile normally" phase. It's so hard to get a picture of him smiling naturally.

Oh and two words of advice. One, before you download (or upload or whatever) the cutest cupcake toppers ever from an Etsy shop, remember that they will all have to be cut out, and they are circles not squares, and they will have to be hot glued to a popsicle stick, and they will need to be double-sided so they don't look ridiculous, and you will get frustrated because you don't have heck-of-a lot of spare time to cut out four dozen cupcake toppers, and then everyone will throw them away. I'm just sayin'. Two, when you order brightly iced cupcakes in blue, red, and yellow, remember that your carpet color is oatmeal, not blue, red, or yellow. And that is why the littlest cupcake eaters were banished to the outdoors.

In all honesty, the weather turned out great. It was humid and cloudy, but not too hot and not rainy. Which was good because I'm telling you, those kids were taking those cupcakes outside irregardless.

Yes, I'm rockin' the Batman shirt. Yes, my family, including my husband, made fun of me. No I don't really care . . . actually take out the "really". Make fun of me all day long you haters . . .  I'm still wearing the Batman shirt. Not that I'm literally still wearing it. Just that I'll wear it again . . . once it's been washed . . .

I mean seriously, there was no way this super adorable but insanely messy face was entering my house . . .

Batman even showed up . . . I'm telling y'all we know how to party here at the Davis casa.

The cat . . . he's a grouch . . . he neither parties nor has fun. Which is why he was royally ticked off yesterday.

And now I need to go bury an enourmous tub that is half full of cheese puffs in the backyard . . .