An old family photo

I decided to stick this up here since I think it's the last one we've had taken. It was a few years ago. Can you tell I'm making up for lost time on the photo's stuff? :)

Jack

Last year Jack told me 5 minutes before school that it was picture day. I told him I wasn' t planning on buying any since I wasn't sure they'd turn out. He asked me to take some pictures of him anyway. He was so cute about it. Remember this was a 5 min. deal before getting on the bus. Regardless, I'm no professional but my kid is cute.

This last one cracks me up. I love this kid who gets angry when I can't read his mind, even though he hates school and seems to trick people into thinking he's not very smart when in reality I think he's just bored and that's why he hates school. Well maybe because he's a tad bit shy too but you can't tell that from the photos.

I'm on a roll right now

I like to make purses from time to time. Here are a couple I made for some friends. I should take pictures of my little projects more often.

Lazy blogger updates from March 2008

So my hubby got promoted to Staff Sgt. Note the stripes. Some of his work friends came to help us celebrate at a fun Thai restaurant.

Jack was at school but here we are. Me, Sam, David, Mike

I am not one to make pretty cakes but this one did taste good. Do you like my stripes? I tried.

When they presented him with this at the promotion ceremony I forgot to get the kids better outfits and barely picked them up from school in time. We had the option of coming up for a picture all together. Jack did not want to go if you can tell by his face. Mike was glad to share the moment with us. The audience all laughed at Jack's face which made him feel all the more shy and mad.

Smart

Mike is in love with these little tiny cars. He has been since 2001. We saw one in Anchorage and well Mike had to get a picture of it. David indulged his dad and let him take the picture. So now that I LOVE my HUGE GAS GUZZLING SUBURBAN, Mike's dreams would all come true if we sold it and got this. Our payments would be the same unfortunately. Look how tiny those rear wheels look. It's very cute and you could probably fit 5 of them into my suburban. For now the dream will have to wait but I'm sure it will come.

Birthday Boy!

Sam is now four in case you didn't know. He loves being four and will now say he is a "Big Boy". We had lots of kids at our house but it was lots of fun. Sam loved being the center of attention and getting some fun stuff. You can see he was surrounded while opening presents.

His little friend Eli whom we call "Eli Mcfly" gave him this bionicle. He must really be a big kid now that he gets the same toys as his big brothers. Look at that face!

FYI Sam loves Mustaches. I decided that most people wouldn't want me to draw them on their children with my black eye liner. I made little mustaches from some card stock and pictures of hair in magazines and that elastic jewelry stuff. They thought they were amazing. Even our little female friend Sabrina sported one. So cute.

Up- David, Jack and Kenny Down- David and part of Jack

We have a tradition to put candles in every meal on birthdays and sometimes we relight 3 or 4 times and sing again. Sam wanted pizza for his dinner and here he is doing his job. He changed his mind 5 million times on the cake so I ended up making a smiley face cake. We often ask Sam where his happy face is when he's sad, smileys are his thing. He also loves yellow so that worked great. I didn't get a picture though. It wasn't so spectacular-not like the Storm Shadow cake my friend once made for David. Every birthday we have my kids remind me of that awesome cake. Thanks Lelu.

oops

I guess my pictures showed up differently then I thought they would.

Chickalicious

This was a fun little dessert bar that Amber took us too. It was so cool that we had to wait outside for about 45 min. to get into the place. We got in, in the nick of time. I had never been to a dessert bar before but it was really fun. I think it was $15 per person. You get this sorbet stuff to start with and then you order your dessert. Now you can see that for $15 it's not a big dessert. You are paying for the experience. After you get your dessert they give you little petite fores (sp?). Teeny tiny too but very yummy.

So this first one is mine. It was like a fig cake with fresh fig and sauce. All three bites were pretty good. The middle is Danielle's, I can't remember what it was called now but it was pretty good too. We all shared one of our three bites with each other. I think it was like a caramel pudding with pistachios and some kind of sorbet again. I think liked it the best. The last was Amber's and it was Asian pear, and a poached pear and sorbet.

What was really fun was watching these people create such pretty little edible artworks in a tight work space. The chef washed everything and put it away after each use even though she would have to get it out again two minutes later. I'm too lazy to do that kind of stuff. That's why I have "mommy's messy room". A whole room dedicated to leaving my projects and stuff out.

If you notice in this lovely picture of Me and Amber, I have a nice triangle of sunburn. My skin has been deprived of sunlight I suppose because my little exposed triangle sure pinked up nicely. It was so much fun.