Thursday, February 11, 2010

Round two for Megan

I took Megan back to the orthodontist today to get her bottom braces on. They seem to be moving ahead of schedule so hopefully that is good news.
Here is her last picture with clear bottom teeth.
She is ready to begin. She has on her pretty glasses!!!!!
There they are getting glued on. That really doesn't look comfortable but she says that it's not bad.
They are done. She now has a full mouth of metal. I hope she doesn't get made fun of. :)

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Megan's a Beautician

Megan is not happy about the fact that Alex won't cut his hair so she decided to make him look real pretty with a bunch of pony tails.
I am not really sure why he let her do this to his hair but it looked really nice when it was done. He wasn't to happy about the picture but he finally agreed.
This was a beautiful work in progress. It turned out so nice but he only left it in for a few minutes and then complained that it hurt to take them out. I still just thought it was funny. :)

Our favorite frosting!!!!!

I am a little slow on posting these pictures but I thought they were kind of funny so I am doing it now. It would have been my Mom's birthday on January 24th and she always loved Devil's food cake with 7 minute frosting on it. We like to make that for her birthday every year but this year was a little different. I realized when I went to make it that we had no cake so we compromised and made brownies instead.
Everyone always likes the beaters!!!!! :)
The good news is that we normally just eat the frosting out of the bowl anyway and don't really eat the cake so it all worked out just perfect.
Megan tried some on the brownie but it wasn't all that good. She stuck with a spoon in the frosting bowl from then on.
It is fun to laugh about great memories that we have. We really enjoyed ourselves while we made all of our snacks. I can always remember how my Mom and my Aunt Peggy would just eat the top of the cake with the frosting and then would always have to make more frosting to cover the bottom half of the cake after they were done. The good news is that they would share the cake with all of us but not always the frosting. :)

Monday, January 18, 2010

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. :)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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.....

Monday, January 4, 2010

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!!!!!!!!!!!