Life Rolls Along...

There is nothing so great as a "special shapes" cake on your birthday.  Joy and the kids made me a family camping tent this year for my birthday (38th! yuck!).   I had to ask my brother Carter how old we are this year.  

(Joy here- there is always some thought and reason, and hopefully some creativity, put into the cakes.  We got a new family tent this spring.  And we have used it and loved it.  Between family camping and camping with the scouts Jason has camped 7 of the last 13 weekends plus some week days.  We have one more family camping trip coming up in two weeks.  Thus the tent cake- modeled after our 9 person tent.  Thanks Dad for the adventures!!!  Oh and one more disclaimer, that poor cake was slapped together in about 5 min.  We had just gotten home from our spin training for our Triathlon and friends were coming over.  A sad excuse for the amount of time I THOUGHT about the cake.)

 Later this month the kids went off to school yet again!  This is Allie's last year at John Baker Elementary.  She's the big girl on campus as a 5th grader.  Her teacher is Mr. Findell, the only male teacher at the school.

Here's our handsome 3rd grader.  His teacher is Ms. Walker this year.

 And last but not least our 1st grader Wesley.   His teacher is Ms. Day who he says is very pretty.  I doubt that tucked shirt lasted too long...

That's going to hurt

At the time she thought it was a good idea to put a bandaid on her forehead over her eyebrows...

Joy ripped it off quickly while Rachel was in the bathtub this evening.  What was under it?  A red spot- clotted blood?  Nope.  She had Jello earlier this afternoon.

Good morning

These two both wanted the high chair

Mystery Solved

Uncle Jason got to take a quick trip to Bakersfield to ordain Jay a high priest for his new calling as second councilor in his Bishopric.  I had a super fun time hanging out with my nieces and nephews and brought each of them a prize.  Per prize rules you need to sit on a couch, put out your hands and close your eyes.  See the proper technique demonstrated below.

The girls received a flavored Chapstick from Joy and Andrew a bunch of cool quartz crystals.

Here is Uncle Jay getting his prize- old magazines to read and a new belt.  They were delivered with expert help.

Ilene and little Rose got a little Christmas outfit.

Thanks for the fun time, I wish I could have stayed longer!

Hair club for boys

Four boys had their hair cut today after a 7 year delay