Happy Birthday Zack

Today is Zack's 9th birthday!! I sure can't believe it. Time sure goes by fast.

You notice that it is 10 to 7:00. When I did this post. Zack got up today at 6am. Our clock said that it was 7:00am. I didn't think it looked light enough outside, but I thought maybe it was cloudy. I got up so Rob could sleep in (his has been working 12hrs everyday all week to make up for time off for our trip) I get down stairs and all the clocks say 6:00am. Our clock upstairs has a "brain" in it! When you plug it in it will automatically give you the time everywhere you live or move to. Today was day light savings day until they moved it up this year. So it moved the time up an hour. So I got to get up an hour earlier than I normally would have. Thank goodness for Sunday!!!

I went to Zack's school on Friday to bring cupcakes. I also bought 5 helium balloons. When Zack saw me he ran so fast that he tripped and fell. He wasn't coming for me his was wanting the balloons. He was so happy and screaming and yelling with excitement. We were in the special ed room so at least we didn't interrupt his regular class room. During the party one of the aides went and got a lady who works in the front office. She and Zack are close. She wanted to come and see the party. During the party one of the aides was telling me that another aide was out of the state visiting her sick mother. She was going through a tough time with this. The aide told me that she had Zack call her and talk to her today. After their conversation Zack had really cheered up this person. The aide was so happy that she had Zack call her. When I was signing out after the party at the front office all the ladies were telling me how much they love Zack and how he makes their day!! He goes in there after lunch everyday to take some medication. I was really happy of course after leaving the party. When Zack was almost 2 and we found out the he had Cerebral Palsey. We were devastated and did a lot of crying why me, why me was said a lot! I never would have dreamed that we were being so blessed! Why me what did I do to deserve such a wonderful son! There are a lot of challenges that come with his condition and some days I am pulling my hair out, but it is days like this that make it all worth it. Zack loves everyone and has the personality to make everyone he meets laugh. He has been to 3 different schools in 3 years and every time we are leaving the school I hear how he makes them laugh everyday and when they are in a bad mood somehow he can make them happier!!! They are always sad to see him go. I LOVE YOU ZACK YOU ARE A VERY SPECIAL CHILD!!!!


I have to tell all who are wanting to have children NOT to have their kids anytime the 1 st week of April or the 1st week of October!!! Why you ask, because of Conference. I have 3!!! Zack's is of course April 6th and the twins are October 4th. Birthdays are so hard to plan in small 2 hour increments!!! Me of all people know that you can't PLAN when you are going to get pregnant. When I thought I could I got twins that sure wasn't in my plan book!!!

So we went to McDonald's yesterday. He had a friend from school come his cousins and his 2 teachers from primary. They are such a blessing to us and they just love Zack as well!!!
This is Shawn, Zack's BEST friend, They are so cute together. They always hug and tell each other how much they love each other!!!
The kids eating!

This is Shawn and his mom and uncle. His dad was working that day.
This was his McDonald's cake.
I bought a Costco cake as well the other cake wasn't big enough. What was so funny was I gave all the kids the McDonald's cake first and then started giving the adults the Costco cake. All my kids wanted the Costco cake. My kids know what they are doing :)
Zack opening presents. He got Blue's Clues notebooks. He still loves the show after all these years. He took a hiatus after Steve left. Now that they play more reruns he wants to watch again. If he sees one with Joe on it he says "no the REAL one" funny how kids think.
I think we got over 200 balloons at his party. He loves balloons. Of course most of them landed on my dinning room floor at the end of the day!