Monday, August 9, 2010

Blake's Birthday

Blake turned 29 last month!! I can't believe I am married to an almost 30 year old!! To celebrate we had a family party, and then went camping that weekend with some friends. We had a great time, and will remember it for a long time!.



I'm a horrible wife and didn't think to take pictures until it was time for "cake". His request this year was Chocolate mousse pie, with oreo crust, with a layer of oreo on top of the mousse, topped with whipped cream, and then sprinkled with chocolate shavings! It was absolutely delicious, and I had to give myself a pat on the back for following orders and making a delicious dessert!

We had a lot of fun camping too. Just Blake, the kids, and I went up on thursday to get things set up and to enjoy ourselves a little longer before we had to take camp down again. It was a great time! Kaleb loves being outdoors and was daddy's little helper with everything Blake did. Maylee loves the dirt! We could not keep her clean! When she would trip and fall, instead of pulling her feet under her and standing up again, she would roll all over in the dirt! When she would eat she would smear whatever it was all over her face and hair! We are lucky there were no bears around that could smell her! Friday morning we hiked up to some hot pots that were near by. The hike up was three miles and I forgot to bring Maylee's pack, so each kid got to ride mom or dad's shoulders the whole way up.... that was a lot of work! The hot pots were a lot of fun, I think Blake liked them the most though! He would bathe in a hot pot for a while, hop out and run to the cold water fall, cool off, and jump back into the hot pot! It was fun watching him and listening to him say how nice it was! On our way back Maylee fell asleep while riding my shoulders, so I ended up carrying her in my arms pretty much the whole way down! I think that may have been even more work than the way up! Here are some of the pictures we got. We ended up not getting any once our friends got up there because We had driven down to cell phone range to check to see if anyone was trying to get ahold of us, and found out then that my grandma had had a severe stroke that morning and was in ICU. So we rushed back to camp, dropped Blake and the kids off, gave dinner instructions to my sister-in-law and good friend,who had just gotten there, then I hurried and drove down to the hospital to see grandma. My sweet friends took over dinner, and made an amazing meal! But unfortunately the camera was the last thing on anyone's mind, so we have no pictures of our friends! I do have them though, I promise!! :)


















Friday, July 2, 2010

Public Again

So I have decided to have my blog public again! Since I have been private, I have wondered several times why I even update and if anyone is reading. I keep a journal and scrapbooks at home with basically all the same stuff, so if this is just for record keeping, I'm being a little redundant and wasting my time doing a blog. So I figure, go public see if people are reading and if not I think I will just stop blogging. So here goes! :)

Thursday, July 1, 2010

He's 3!







We had a lot of fun this year celebrating Kaleb's 3rd birthday! Being 3, he changed his mind every other day on what kind of party he wanted. We ended up with a Toy Story/ Tractor party. We started out at the movies to see Toy Story 3, then ended up at home for cake and ice cream. He loved that all the attention was on him, and that it was finally his day. It was really fun for me too, because he was so involved in it this year. Here are some fun things about Kaleb...
*Favorite color: Blue or red depending on the day
*Favorite food:hot dogs
*Favorite toy:A tie between his trucks and his "workerman stuff" (black & decker tool set)
*Loves his cousins
* best quote is "what'd you'd just said?"
*loves to dress up as a fireman, cowboy, workerman, or basketball player
*loves to help clean, in fact I'm in the process of creating a chore chart so he can earn rewards for all his hard work
*Knows his colors
*knows how to count to 10 (it still gets pretty jumbled after that)
*insists on standing up while going potty because he's 3 now
*loves to read books
*make believes with his toys
*wears his workerman safety goggles while playing with his toys (not just the worker man toys)
*thinks his daddy's friends are his friends (which they are!)
*Is the biggest sweetheart you will ever meet

I love you so much Kaleb! You have added so much joy to my life! I love watching you grow and discover things. You are so smart, and have the craziest memory ever. Everyone who meets you loves you, and for good reason too. I love that you've started to talk like what I think is your cool dude voice. I love your jokes that you make up. I love your snuggles. I love knowing that you are someone great, and I look forward to finding out and witnessing all that you accomplish in life. You are truly someone special, and I am so blessed and grateful to be your mother!