Chad's Birthday

It's Chad's Birthday!

So Chad has always been a Superman fan.  Since childhood he has loved the Man of Steel.  This year, the new Superman movie, Man of Steel was set to premier the Friday after his birthday.  He was hoping there would be a midnight showing so he could go to the movie the night of his birthday, that prior Thursday.  

Lucky for us, Wal-Mart decided to sponsor a special engagement that allowed you to pre-purchase tickets for a special 7:00pm screening of the entire movie on Chad's actual birthday!

He woke up to a dining room decorated just for him with Man of Steel party decorations!

And I prepared red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing for him!  His favorite type of cake!

We wrapped and decorated the wrapping of all of his presents again this year.  Last year it was done out of necessity.  This year it was done because Caleigh wanted to do it again!  And yes, I freehanded that excellent Superman S all by myself!  (NO ARTISTIC ABILITY! LOL!)

Caleigh enjoyed helping him unwrap his presents almost as much as she enjoyed wrapping and decorating his presents.  (She never likes to SHOP for the presents.)

After presents were taken care of, we feasted on a big breakfast!  It was very delicious! Eggs, toast, and cheese grits!  YUM!

Since our plans were for the evening, we all headed to pick out the last of Chad's birthday presents.  He wanted some new furniture cushions for the patio furniture.  I took his picture as he was happily digging through all of them to try to find the right size pieces we needed.  This was NOT an easy task! And we still ended up getting one wrong size piece and forgetting one piece altogether!

Caleigh embraced the Superman-sort-of day and dressed herself in her Supergirl shirt. 

Our sweet friend volunteered to babysit Caleigh for us so we could go to dinner and the movie together!  I think her babysitting was one of Chad's most favorite birthday presents!  I bribed her to babysit by promising a double chocolate chip cookie cake!  It worked!  She watched 4 kids during a pretty wicked severe thunderstorm.  We watched the super long movie despite the three power outages at the theater.  

This is a very fun and very memorable night for Chad and I.  I got to spend his birthday night with just him (and his childhood hero)  ; )  Some kids get to stay kids much longer than others!  Happy Birthday Chad!  We love you!