Axel's Birthday

On Axel's Birthday we were flew back home, so it wasn't too much fun for him. We did go out to dinner with Daddy that night but that was about it. The next weekend we had some of his friends come over for pizza, football, and to play Wii. Can you believe that they didn't get to play the Wii because the big boys (Thom, Shawn, and Mike) were playing. That is just wrong. I made homemade pizza, antipasta salad, and chicken bites. I didn't get to enjoy our friends or the party because I was cooking, but they seem to have a good time. We didn't get any pictures either because both batteries were dead in our cameras. He had a great time and received several different additions to his Star Wars Lego collection.

Birthday Party at Grandma's

My mom hates that she has to miss the kid's birthdays because we live so far away. So while we were visiting we had a birthday party to celebrate the birthdays of my Dad, Axel, and Caytlynne. All three birthdays are close together so it was fun. The kids were excited because we were having another party! My dad got the final addition to his James Bond movie collection. Axel received another addition to his Star Wars Lego collection and Caytlynne got Polly Pockets. The Polly Pockets were a huge hit. She played with them non-stop the last couple of days we were there. She still plays with them on regular basis.

Happy New Year 2008

The kids and I were in Colorado for New Years Eve. My mom has always made an effort to make things special for our visits. We had a big New Year's Eve party at the house with lots of food, hats, streamers, and horns. Caytlynne was tickeled with her horn. She could only get enough air each time to blow it once. Since we were already messed up with the time difference we celebrated midnight on Eastern time. Once midnight came back home (10:00 mountain time) we called Daddy at his party and wished him Happy New Year. Then we went to bed. Funny how the parties change once you get older and have kids. Happy New Year!

2007 Christmas Morning

I have to say the we had a blessed Christmas. The kids were thrilled with their gifts from Santa. Axel got a Wii and Caytlynne got her Leapster. We had a wonderful day with our family of friends. Mike's mother comes from and Italian background and so the feast was huge. It started with shrimp cocktail then we had Italian Wedding Soup. Shortly after that we had homemade lasagna, raviolis, sauce (they call it gravy), italian sausage, ribs, meatballs, and kelbasa. Now you would think that would be it for the day. Ohhhh no! About three hours later we had prime rib with all kinds of side dishes. Then if you had room there was dessert. Poor Thom had to be rolled out when it was time. I had to go and get the kids and I ready to leave for Colorado the next day. Like I said, we were blessed!

Sprinkley Dress

This is Caytlynne's sprinkley dress that she just had to have. She already had one Christmas dress but Daddy and I could not tell her no when we saw how excited she was about it. She felt pretty special wearing it to church and everybody told her how pretty she was.