Random Birthday Thoughts on This Random Tuesday

I guess you could say it's Birthday Week in the Wray household. My birthday's Thursday, but we've already started some of the celebrating. And it seems like everywhere I go--the grocery store, church, school, the gas station--I run into someone who has a million August birthdays among their friends and family. I guess it's just a good month to have a birthday!

So for our Random Tuesday fun this morning, I thought I'd throw out a few questions about birthdays to you. Maybe they will put a little smile on your face, and will help you remember happy times. I know that all of your posts on Tuesdays always bring a smile to my face!!

Here you go . . .

* What is your favorite cake?

This is a VERY hard question for me, because all of you who know me well (or don't even know me very well, LOL!) know that I am a Sweet Freak. And cake is one of my very favorite sweets of all--I love the really great homemade ones, the cheap frozen ones, the ones at restaurants, wedding cakes, heck I even enjoy a good snack cake! But if I had to choose, it would be a tie between two of my Mom's creations--her chocolate cake with seven-minute icing (the BEST icing in the world) and her Italian cream cheese cake. Man, I'm sitting her drooling just thinking about it! Someone get me some cake, quick!!!

*What is your favorite birthday memory?

As I said yesterday, we celebrate BIG in our family so I actually have a lot of really great memories. But probably the one I remember best would be the birthday party my parents let me have when I was 12. I was just going into 7th grade, which was the start of junior high back in my day, so there were lots of changes going on as I was getting older. It was the perfect year for a party with all my friends! Mom and Dad let me pitch the tent in the backyard and I invited six or seven friends for a sleepover! I still remember the Doritos and Dr. Pepper we piled into the tent, and how silly we were telling ghost stories and imagining there was a bear right outside. I still remember it very vividly!

* If someone were to throw you a theme party TODAY, what would it be?

I've actually been thinking that I would love to have a huge 80s Birthday Bash. I'd invite tons of friends and we'd all wear our big 80s hair, dress in our best 80s clothes (leggings, Flashdance shirts, and pumps!), and listen to 80s music all night. How fun would that be??!! (In fact, I'm already putting it on my calendar for my 40th birthday in 2 years. So be warned--all of you are invited to that one!!)

So give me your--

Favorite Cake, Best Birthday Memory, and Dream Theme Party

Can't wait to hear all of your answers and re-live your memories with you!!!

As I leave this Tuesday with you, thought I'd share two scrapbook layouts I just finished. I really like both of these!

I shared these two pictures of McKenna and Delaney on my blog two weeks ago when school started. I wanted to go ahead and get them in my scrapbooks, before my memories of that day faded away. I tried to create a "school" feel to this, using notebook paper and paper clips, and wrote about how I felt as they headed off to their first day of fifth grade (the last year in elementary school) and ninth grade (the first year of high school).

And then here's one I did of Sydney--our Silly Scout. She always says the funniest things; I could seriously write a book just of her sayings! So, this is a page that just captures some of the things she says these days. Things like, "I not sleepy. I just tired," "It's cheetah-licious," "Take a picture me," and "I do it myself." Gotta remember those things by writing them down! She'll be all grown-up before I know it!

Have a great day! Cheryl's outta here!