Alex's friend party

Alex had some of his school friends over this weekend for a birthday party. He wanted to go bowling and then go home for pizza and video games so that is what we did. He had 10 kids there total and 8 of them spent the night. I don't know if that was one of my better ideas. Boys are alot louder than girls are!!!!!!!!
Alex and Payton are checking out the bowling ball situation.

Alex, Luke, George, and Jacob waiting for their turns.

Olivia, Megan, and Jacob taking a cake and cookie break.

Alex got a lot of great gifts from his friends.

Here is the whole clan. They also decided it would be a good idea to have a nerf gun war in the house. I am so excited for Megan's birthday to come around. They just sit and paint nails all night and text on their phones. It's so much quieter. :)

Mike's Birthday

Today was Mike's 39th Birthday. He has one more year until the big one hits. We went to dinner at Red Robin and then came back home for the night.
We made him cupcakes today so this is all he got with one candle on it. He didn't even eat it though because he and Alex both got a chocolate sundae at Red Robin for their birthday's.

Megan and Alex with the birthday boy.

We had Jim and Marilyn over last night for dinner to celebrate so he got an actual cake yesterday.

Alex was in rare form yesterday for some reason. I am sure you can tell from the huge smile on his face.

Mike got lots of great presents from everyone and he is enjoying all of them.

Alex turned 11 years old!!!!!

It's hard to believe it but Alex turned 11 years old already. I don't know where the time has gone but he was so excited for his birthday this year. It was fun to listen to him count down for the last week and be so excited to have everyone over.
He got to pick what we had for dinner and he chose to have a pizza bar. He loves Bobboli pizza's so we bought a bunch of crusts and set up a bunch of toppings and everyone got to make their own pizza's. They turned out really good and I think that everyone enjoyed them.

He was so excited to open up his gifts and he got so many great things. He got headphones, a backpack, a bunch of video games for his new x-box360, Rockband, a few books, an i-tune gift card, a hat, and some money. He had a great night!!!!!

He got this t-shirt with the Rockband game. He really likes the shirt but it is a bit big. The good news is that he has plenty of room to grow into it and I am sure he will still wear it now.

We also had cake and Alex got to pick out what kind he wanted. He seems to like chocolate and he picked a triple chocolate fudge cake with chocolate frosting. It was very chocolaty but very tasty. :)

Here is everyone playing the new Rockband game. It was pretty funny to watch. He got three different rockband games so he should have plenty of songs to practice for awhile.

I think that Alex had a great day. I took Rootbeer floats to his class at lunch and he had a half day at school so he picked to go to Burger King for lunch. All of his favorite things!!!!!

Happy Birthday Alex.....

Everyone is excited.

We got word from Stefanie the other day that her and the kids have planned a trip this direction. We were all so excited but Megan took it to the extreme. She has made a countdown and hung it on her bedroom door and plans to take a number off everyday. She has 86 papers on there right now. Yes, I said 86...... She is really excited!!!!!! :)

Hopefully the 86 days will just fly by!!!!!!!!!!!

Megan's big day!!!!!

Megan had a big day today. She got her braces on. She was actually excited about getting them so hopefully she doesn't change her mind about that as they start to hurt.
Here is her before picture. The last moments before they put all the metal on.

They pulled her mouth wide open and started putting on the cleaner for her teeth so they would be all ready for the braces.

The braces are in that white plastic on her teeth. They paste this into her mouth and when they pull it off you have finished braces.

There they are before the wire is on.

The finished product. Complete with a wire and two colors of pretty blue bands. Very decorative. They look so cute and so far aren't hurting. The nurse said they might hurt for a couple of days so we went and bought yogurt and jello. :) She will get the bottom braces in about 4 months since the top teeth are the ones that need the most work.

Merry Christmas

We started our Christmas Day at Jim and Marilyn's house. We opened gifts with them and had breakfast. The problem would be that we forgot to take our camera so you are just going to have to imagine how good we looked. :)
We had dinner at our house in the evening and got to spend time with the family. We don't get to see everyone all that much so it is always fun to get together for a happy event.
Everyone is hanging out in the kitchen. Eating lots of snacks at the counter.

Marilyn and Kay are relaxing in the living room.

Sandy and Brianne looking beautiful as usual!!!!!

Mike and Jim.

Relaxing at the table after dinner.

We had another great Christmas. We received so many great things and got to spend time with a lot of family. We are looking forward to a great New Year.

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve with my Dad and Bonnie. We had dinner and got to open our gifts. We had a lot of fun and got alot of great gifts.
We started the evening with dinner. It was really good!!!!!

Megan and Bonnie resting for a minute before we get to open all of our gifts.

Megan and Alex are ready to open so we had to get our last picture of them at the tree with gifts under it. We had to wait for my Dad to make his plane reservation back home though. That would be him on the left with the computer. Apparantely he is already to cold. :) I don't blame him!!!!!

Dad got a video camera for the computer from Stefanie and family. Now we can all talk to each other. It will be fun to see if he can figure out how to hook it up when he gets home. My guess is it will stay in the box until someone goes to visit him and sets it up.

Alex was so excited about all of his gifts. He really had a fun time opening everything and was so excited about all that he got.

Megan got a lot of great stuff also. She recieved some great necklaces and new clothes. I think that she really liked everything since she had most of it on by the end of the night.

Mike also got a lot of great gifts. He really enjoyed all of his also. He got this great kitchen shami from Maleah. He was really excited to get to use it.

I got so much stuff I didn't even know what all to do with it. I got this Hot Chocolate from Rena and I just love it. We drank it as soon as we were finished opening all of our gifts.

We had another really fun night and really appreciate all of the wonderful gifts that we received from everyone.