March 09 ~ Celebrating Lucas : )

Luke celebrated his 5th year in March and what a great birthday it was : ) Luke went through a time recently obsessing with Sponge Bob. So, his Uncle Frankie and I made him a Sponge Bob birthday cake. Boy, was that a job! I bought the Wilton cake pan and made about 8 cups of butter cream frosting. So, about 5 hours later we had a beautiful cake to be proud of. I also made some cupcakes, just in case. Jake had a baseball game that day but after his game we went to the pizza parlor to celebrate Luke. We had a great time. I think the kids enjoyed the fact that they were allowed to play all the gumball machines and video games with out us saying no : ) The kids loved the "Billy Bob" teeth they all got and giant glasses that Frank gave Luke. My Mom and Carol really loved the abundant amount of black frosting we used to decorate Sponge Bob ~ Ha Ha Ha~ A great time was had by all!















Luke's celebration continued later on in the month when we went to Scandia with his Uncle Jerry, Auntie Julia and Matt. We had so much fun playing miniture golf, using the batting cages and playing on the waterbugs. : )

February 09 ~ snow and rainy day fun

We are so lucky to have wonderful friends who share there vacation homes with us : ) Thanks Jensen family, Truckee was beautiful! We had such a great time sledding, exploring the area and just hanging out. There was so much snow it was incredible. The entire porch was covered in snow. So much, in fact, the kids even sled down the steps of the porch. I think it was actually the first time I have really been in a snow storm : )

The kids and I thought it would be fun one rainy day in February to spend the whole day in a fort in the living room. so, that is just what we did! The kids had lunch in there and then we all watched a movie with popcorn and all. We followed that up making some Star Wars creepy crawlers. ( the boys version of an easy bake oven) Thanks Beth, great Christmas present! Good times : )