Happy Birthday Derek!

It's a couple of hours early, but tomorrow Derek is celebrating birthday #23! If we were still living in central time, it would already be his birthday so it's okay to go ahead and say it

"Happy Birthday Derek!"

Derek and I became friends around the time he turned 13 and joined the youth group at church, and I am so so so incredibly blessed to have celebrated a decade of birthdays with the man who is still today my very best friend and partner in life. I love you Derek Thomas!!

We started the celebration a little early by having some cake and ice cream with our friends at Bible study tonight...a little surprise for the birthday boy. We still have some more celebration to come, so I'll be updating this post a little later on. For now, here's a little bit of celebration for you to enjoy...



Why red and black? Well, for anyone who knows Derek,
he's a huge Michael Jordan fan...what better way to celebrate
birthday #23? =)