Nathan's cake

Our little boy turned 2 last week. Scott being the great dad that he is volunteered to make Nathan a truck cake. He mixed up two cake mixes and then poured them into various sized pans. It was a mystery for me as to how all those cakes would make a truck but I let him do his thing.
After the cakes cooled he started sculpting the cake. Nathan was very interested in the whole thing.

All his sculpting produced this awesome semitruck modeled after the small red semi from the movie Cars. The wheels were ding dongs.

I frosted the cake with green frosting and Scott made windows, grills, and exhaust pipes with tin foil. Nathan was convinced it was a real truck and that it needed a trailer.

It was his birthday after all so we attached the trailer. Nathan was SO happy. Happy Birthday Nathan! Check out Megan's shocked face.

After taking these pictures we promptly started eating the cake. Nathan thought it was great fun to push a stool over to the counter and grab pieces of cake to eat throughout the day. Now when we ask him about the cake all he can say is "break". I guess he is sad the cake got broken and now is gone. Luckily he has plenty of other trucks to play with.

Today I am thankful that:

*Scott's parents are here for a visit

*Holly is headed to camp for a few days and really excited about it. She told me before she headed out what dinners we should have while she is gone (hamburgers and tomato/hamburger macaroni). Those are her least favorite dinners and we have them once a month so she wants to miss their rotation. Also she told me to not go anywhere too fun with the kids and grandparents while she is gone. She's at a fun camp and we can't do anything fun. Is that fair?

*My Chocolate Chip pumpkin muffin recipe is as yummy as I remembered it to be, we made them yesterday. I just bought 6 cans of pumpkin in preparation for a winter full of pumpkin muffins.