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Happy Birthday little man! A few days late, but it wouldn't be true mommy fashion otherwise. We love you so much and we are so grateful you are in our family. Your spunky little personality keeps us giggling (even though you hate being giggled at) and screaming (which you hate even more than the giggling). We love that you have your own mind, and like to do things on your own. We love that you need brave medicine (gummy vitamins) before you go to bed each night to ward off the bad dreams and monsters. Our hearts break when you wake up screaming(4 or 5 times a night) because of the bad dreams and monsters came for a visit. We loved when you told us that candy would be the only thing that would make your owie feel better tonight, even though we had told you earlier that you couldn't have any more candy. But you were right, you did stop crying when we gave you a some jelly bellies-the owie magically got better. We love that you are fascinated by the shows Go, Diego, Go and Dirty Jobs. We love when you say "hey Tootse" to me or your sister. We love that you ALWAYS want to wrestle. We love your stinky feet-well maybe we love your feet, but not the stink. We love you for you and we are so HAPPY you came to our family.Of course there needs to be a picture of my amazing cake making skills :)

Here are the past years:

2007



Missing picture. For some reason I can't fine any of my 2006 pictures. When my computer genius husband has a minute I will make him find them in cyber world.
This cake was an awesome blue truck with jelly bellies in the back and one side of the truck had flat tires because the cake was lopsied and I had to cut the oreos so they would proportionately right. stay tuned for picture.


2006

Again.....

I come to the blog for your opinions. I am really bored tonight-can ya tell? I took this picture this weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's cabin. I like it, but the angle kinda trips me out. Does it to you? Do you like it? or should I try again? hit me hard with your critiquing, I have thick skin- I think.

When in doubt........

try your blog. I know there are a lot of smarter more domestic people out there than me. To those that know what they are doing life I need some help. I have tons of green grapes in my backyard, I hate watching them go to the birds, squirrels, coyotes, cats, and whatever creature is living in my backyard or getting mushed into the grass which I then have to clean up. Does anyone know what I can do with them. When we first moved into the house 4 years ago I juiced them and tried to make white grape juice, they aren't very sweet so the juice wasn't good. Is white grape juice made out of green grapes? Anyway any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome Elder Turley.

Again, I am a few posts behind. Again, I will be playing catch-up. Sorry to those few people who read this blog, my catchup posts aren't very interesting. Well, they're interesting to us. That is why I must document. So bare with me.Last Thursday night one of Cache's old missionary buddies (Birmingham, England Mission) traveled all the way from Ireland to visit us, Okay not really just to visit us, but it was fun that he thought of contacting us while he was in town. The two of them had a walk down memory lane and laughed and snickered and laughed some more. I liked hearing about bad haircuts, cadbury trips, soccer games, coke runs at 7 in the morning, crazy suicidal companions, flirty sister missionaries, and of course about the people that were baptized. Elder Turley-maybe next time we will be able to visit you and your beautiful family in Ireland, I want to see your pet sheep.

Reminiscing over Cache's "T-book" (i guess it's a missionary scrapbook)

Kids that speak differently, still having tons of fun together. I could've listened to their accents all night, I loved it. My favorite part is when cute little Cameron asked me for a Torch because it was dark outside. Anyone know what he was talking about? It took me awhile to figure out what he wanted.

Peanut's new penpal. She is really excited-although she doesn't look like it in this picture.

cindylouhoo

I was able to do a senior photo shoot for one of my YW tonight, I learned that I still need a lot of practice in posing and that I am better with families and young children. Don't worry Cindy I think we still got some cute stuff. Note to self: plan photo shoots earlier because the days are getting shorter-duh-we ran out of light and need to meet up again to finish this shoot. Thanks Cindy for letting me do this.

1st grade

The picture above is blurry, it's not your eyes

Peanut started 1st grade yesterday. Tears were involved. Although they weren't her tears they were mine. I thought I would only cry when she went to Kindergarten, but no, I am losing her ALL DAY now. Again, I wondered if she is ready, does she know right from wrong, will the kids tease her, will she have someone to play with at recess, what if she gets hurt will the teacher give her a hug, will she know how to navigate through lunch? All these questions went through my mind yesterday, I watched the clock and at 2:50 I jumped in the car to go to the school to pick her up. I missed her, but she did great. She couldn't wait to go again. The only thing that was a problem was that I sent her with cold lunch and the school had changed pizza day from Friday to Tuesday and she missed out on her favorite food, she was bummed. Next Tuesday we will be sure to let her have school lunch.

Muffin meal

A big "thank you" goes out to which ever blog I was on when I saw this Idea. I am sorry I can't give the proper credit to whose idea this is, but it is great. I saw Muffin meals a long time ago while blog surfing and stored it in my brain file and finally tried it last night. Basically it is just serving whatever you would normally serve for lunch, but separating it into the muffin tins. Todays muffin meal consisted of string cheese (cut up), sliced strawberries, grapes, cut up lunch meat, graham cracker, marshmallows and choc. chips. They loved it and ate every last bite. Today we had friends over and our friends loved it too. Hopefully muffin meals will pep up your lunch (or dinner) times too.