Spencer is 6!

Spencer woke up early knowing that he got to open his presents before he went to school.  Esther and I got to join him for lunch at school and brought a birthday treat in for him to share with his class.  I forgot to snap a photo but they were nutter butter cookies dipped in white chocolate with two mini chocolate chips as eyes, so they looked like ghosts, a cute October treat.

Saturday morning he had his first ever birthday party with friends and it went really well.  He was very excited and everyone had a good time, including me!

He decided to go with a pirate theme and I found this super easy cake to make and was thrilled with how well it turned out.  We lit candles on the side (so as not to light the sails of fire) and it looked like canons firing, very cool!

This was our "Pin the flag on the pirate ship" game.

I told Spencer he could invite 6 friends since he was turning 6, and I didn't think I could handle more than that!  It was a hard choice because of all the good people here, we still feel so lucky to be in such a great ward and neighborhood.