Luke was super excited to celebrate his “Golden Birthday” this year (it’s when you turn the same age as your birthday – in Luke’s case, turning 9 on the 9th).

It was a hot day, which was perfect because one of Luke’s gifts was a slip and slide.

He and his cousins also had water guns and a pretty fantastic water balloon fight.

My mom offered to pick up a cake for Luke. She couldn’t decide and so he ended up with two. He was thrilled and tried to convince us that meant he should have one cake for dinner and the other for dessert.

It was a fantastic start to Luke’s last year of single digits.

I hope it’s a great year for him – he’s such an awesome kid.