Happy Birthday, Wally Amos!

 Happy Birthday, Wally Amos!

We had the great privilege of having Wally Amos (of Famous Amos Cookies) over Monday for his birthday.  He is one of Nate's clients and told Nate he would like to celebrate his birthday at our house baking cookies with our kids and reading them stories.  Of course, we were more than happy to have him come.  We had a fantastic time baking up the original cookie recipe that made him, well, famous (don't be fooled -- today's Famous Amos cookies are not the real thing. 

Then a week later he generously sent the girls some stuffed cookie dolls and bags of more cookies, then a week after that sent us a cookie jar.  What a great, generous man he is, and how lucky we felt for being able to celebrate his birthday with him!

 Okay, this man LOVES cookies.  His excitement for these little morsels are contagious.  I love that he puts in tons of chocolate chips so you are guaranteed to have one in each bite, even though it costs him more to make it that way.  And I love that he kept telling us to have some of the dough while we were putting them on the sheet.

 Kezia's birthday cake she made for him.

 ( Ivy and Wally, apparently having a stare-down.) He read the girls plenty of stories, and he is quite the story teller. He's a big promoter of the "Read - it- loud!" organization.  We even got to play the "Cookie Jar" game with him. 

 Nate just told me Wally sent him an email saying he'd like to come every birthday from now on.  How fun!