Pumpkin Patch

Mirror lake highway

We had planned on going camping for my birthday, but it was snowing, so we decided to make it a day trip instead. And a good thing because it was brr baby cold! Abbi and daddy did a little fishing and we had a picnic at Christmas Meadows. Sadly for me we did not see any moose BOO!! Now that the mountains are covered in snow it looks like this may of been our last trip for the year. Can't wait until next summer!

Michael's first haircut

Michael finally had his first haircut ( yes Jason, I said FIRST haircut). It has been a long time coming, the poor boy had a old man comb over and his hair was growing over his ears. I just kept putting it off because that meant my little man was growing up and I am not ready for that! He was a excellent for Grandma, I am sure her best client ever! He looks so grown up now!

Our baby boy is 1 !!

It is hard to believe that Michael is 1! His first year went by way to quick. He is such a happy boy, the girls still adore him... Who knows for how much longer, he is a boy after all and will soon start to torment them. He is still not walking, but getting closer everyday. His favorite word is ball. Which he uses for a lot of other things too.

His birthday party went well. We did a construction theme, after all he is our bulldozer, and just plows his way through anything , so it seemed to fit well. And I am sure everyone is on the edge of your seat wondering if the cake was success or not..... Believe it or not it went just as planed, no falling on the floor and no tears! What a accomplishment, if I say so myself!
The poor little guy was sick on birthday with a yucky nose, and taking him to the Dr the next day he also found out he had double ear infections. So he was really was not in the partying mood. It was quite a chore to get him to sit still to open his presents, he thought it was more fun to keep crawling off. So he had help from big sister Abbi. When it came to cake time, he was not impressed with my extremely hard work and cried when he put his hands in it.
We are so thankful for everyone who came and helped us celebrate our baby boys 1st birthday!!

Happy Birthday Vince!

We celebrated Vince's Birthday that was last Tuesday by going camping. We had such a good time. Vince was able to do some fishing, we saw 5 moose, Abbi spotted 3 deer all by herself. It was perfect during the day, almost a little to hot in the sun. But the evenings were freezing! That heavens for heat! We also got to have a much loved unita thunderstorm. Abbi and Vince went exploring, we played Bocce ball, Abbi loved that game. We were camping a secluded area so both dogs got to run to there hearts content. Aspen was actually worn out

What do you mean this is not a ball?!?!

Michael LOVES balls. He like to roll them, throw them, hit them. It does not necessarily have to be a ball, if it will in some way roll down the hall. He will chase after it, utterly enjoying every moment of it! So when Vince's dad brought over a watermelon and honeydew the other day and put them down in the living room. Michael curiously went over to it and pushed it. And to his excitement it rolled! So he entertained himself forever rolling the honeydew around the living room.
I love these pictures because you can see all of his adorable chubbers that we love so much!

September Birthday's !

We have 5 Birthday's in our family for September. It seems like every weekend there is a party. I made a cake for Annette's Birthday and forgot to take a picture of it before I gave it to her, but it was light yellow with Lilies, and petunia's. I made this excavator cake for Jim's ( or as he likes to be called Uncle Cool) birthday. I still have not made a Cake for Vince's Birthday, we were out of town but, shh! maybe he hasn't noticed that I did not get to it yet! The big cake is coming up this week! Michael's 1st Birthday! Everyone send some good thoughts my way in hopes that this one will not be a disaster!

Fondant Cake

Here is the fancy fondant cake that we made in class tonight. You would all be so proud, I even made the fondant myself. I have only attempted a fully covered fondant cake once, that dreaded lady bug cake. And this one was so much easier with the instructor standing by to help.