Zachary...and Katy Perry?

So in conclusion of Zachary's birthday weekend, overall I think he had a great 16th birthday.  He opened presents on Sat morning and had a pancake breakfast.  Saturday night he had some friends over for tacos and movies in the basement for about 4 hours.  Like Newnan, he has a great group of friends and they are very content just hanging out, watching movies, listening to music.......and EATING.

I made 2lbs of  seasoned taco meat with green chilies, tomatoes and lots of cumin, it smelled so good.  Our family of five usually eats about 1lb of taco meat for one dinner.  I was blown away that six kids could take out a crockpot of taco meat,G'ma Julies Velveeta dip, 2 bags of chips and oranges and strawberries.  They drank about a case of Vernors and Sierra Mist combined.  When the party was over Eric was looking so forward to making some nachos, and the meat was gone, it was hilarious, you should of seen his face!  He was in disbelief.......

You may be wondering why Zachary didn't have a sweet 16 cake, from his Mom who is a cake decorator?  Zachary hasn't really been a cake person since about 7th grade when he decided to take one of my extra cakes made during weekend orders and eat the entire 9x13, unknown to me.  I just can't understand why he doesn't like cake anymore, could he be sick of it?  

So, because of that, he usually requests a cherry trifle on his birthday. He had one with his friends......and oh yeah, they devoured that too!

So, even though Zachary doesn't really like cake, Avery and I still made him a chocolate buttermilk cake for Sunday dinner, because he does still like coca cola cake and a dense chocolate cake, but not with much frosting.

 We wanted to do something funny, because when we were talking about a cake with him last week, he jokingly said he would like a Katy Perry cake.  Ohhh, have I mentioned he has a HUGE crush on Ms. Katy? Eric and I are still pretty cheesy when it comes to doing funny things for the kids, so we crafted this idea up.

As a Mom, she definitely does not represent everything I want my son to be morally, but I figure in a world of drugs and drugs and drugs, and alcohol abuse.....I will pick my battles if I don't exactly think she is always morally correct.

That being said, and Eric being the photoshop king, we crafted up this funny Rolling Stones cover, and put it on his cake.  He got a big kick out of it, and he is hanging a copy in his room!  We didn't get a picture of the cake before it got cut, so here is the "cover".  By the way, Zachary is taking John Mayer's place in this picture, lol!