Sterling is 23 now! The morning of his birthday I gave him his "man basket" probably because i was excited to give it to him. Inside was a new beard trimmer (which he desperately needed), some axe shower gel, shower puff, some new church socks (he needed those too), a big bag of peanut butter m&ms, and some apple beer. Then later we made Indian food for dinner. I got the recipe off the internet and it was decent. The day after, Sterling got a cookbook of all kinds of oriental food. They look sooooo good. We love different food. We are excited to try it. We had Cheesecake for dessert on sunday. Happy Birthday!!
Uncle Sterling and little Derek
Sterling and his cousin Aaron
Me, Sterling, cousin Jordan, Jordan's wife Crystal, Melissa, Ryan
We stopped at sterling's work today and realized that we were close to the zoo. So we went! It was so much fun. We both hadn't been there since we were really little. I told sterling that my mouth hurt from smiling all day. Yes, that is how much I enjoyed it. I loved the monkeys. There was this one that I couldn't stop watching, because it was funny. It looked really old and ugly and it was just walking around slowly picking up all the stuff on the ground and eating it. It kinda was acting senial compared to all the other hyper monkeys. I guess ya had to be there because that doesn't sound funny at all. It just was though.
This is our new bed all put together. 
