Mila's First Cupcake

Last Saturday we were at my mom's house for a birthday party and someone left a whole cupcake in the toy room. Well...Mila found it. She had almost the whole thing eaten by the time I found her with it.

This picture looks like "Oh, no. I've been caught."

"I found something to eat and it's REALLY GOOD!"

I guess she's going to love her 1st Birthday when she gets to have her own cake!

Valentine's Weekend

What a fun weekend we had! On Saturday night my mom decided that she would babysit all of the grandkids while the adults went out on their hot dates....WHAT was she THINKING??? That's 15 kids all eight and younger, in one house, and only one adult! Jason was on call for work so we decided to hold off on our date until next weekend so we didn't have to worry if he would be called out or not and so we decided to stay and help with crowd control. Lucky for my mom too, cause it was a little CRAZY!! She really went all out for the kids to have a fun night too. They ordered pizza for dinner, played games in the dark with glow sticks and then went on a walk down the street with them, blew bubbles in the house, decorated sugar cookies, and made Valentines. (She had also planned to have sundaes with all of the toppings, but we ran out of time, which was OK because the kids were on quite a sugar high from all of the cookies with LOADS of frosting and sprinkles. The kids had so much fun and I think the adults did too. I know I'm excited about my upcoming date...

Here are only a few pictures from that night...

Here's Mila trying to get grandma's bird. She gets so excited once she spots it.

Here's where the chaos begins with the glow sticks... They LOVED it!!

These are our pictures from President's Day...

I decided to call my sister early Monday morning to see what they had planned for the day. Her and her friend were taking their kids to Freestone Park to spend the day, so we invited ourselves to join them. We had such a good time. We had a picnic lunch and then bought the kids each a wrist band to ride all of the kiddie rides until their heart was content. They LOVED it! We also took a couple of train rides around the park, and then rode our bikes, fed the ducks, and played on the playground. The weather was so nice and Jason was even able to spend the day with us even though he was still on call.

These rides were more for the little kids, but Carter still had fun.

Here's Leah on the Merry Go Round. She was so excited to finally get to ride it and then when it was her turn to get on, she ran towards the BENCH! Mckenzie and Carter decided to join her.

Mila seemed to have a good time too.

Here Jason finally convinced Leah to ride on a horse and she was TERRIFIED! She had a death grip on the pole and her face looked like she had seen a ghost. She did not enjoy that RIDE!

The kids had some random father pushing them on the tire swing. I don't know who he was, but he was their hero for a LONG TIME!

Here's Leah on her bench AGAIN!!

By the end of the day everyone was SO TIRED!

Thanks Stacey and Amber for letting us crash your party! We had tons of fun!

Parent/Teacher Conference

Last night we had parent/teacher conference with Carter's kindergarten teacher. I was a little worried going in just knowing how Carter is at home...Lately he thinks he rules the world and everything must be done his way and on his time. He has been a pretty difficult kid lately. Well I guess that's not the case at school. His teacher had nothing but nice things to say about him and even said that he is in the top group in his reading and writing. That's funny to me 'cause at home when it's time to do homework he comes across as being lazy and doesn't want to do it. Every night by the time our homework session is over I wonder just how the kid is going to make it to 1st grade. She even said that he is her biggest helper around the classroom and is always looking for things to clean, organize, or straighten up. What a shocker!!! Who is this kid I drop off at school each day 'cause it's not the one I seem to be picking up???...

Papa Welker...We miss you!!

This week has really been a rough week for me...Today marks two years since my dad passed away and no matter how much time seems to go by it seems like the feeling of missing him still doesn't get any easier. There is not a day that goes bye that I don't think of him at least once every hour. He was the best dad that anyone could ever ask for. He loved and adored each of his grand kids and I just wish that they could have been able to know him a little longer...

My dad was only 53 when he passed away.

We found out that he had kidney cancer in October 2006 and he died February 8th, 2007.

This poem says it all...

God's Garden

God looked around his garden,

And found an empty place.

He then looked down upon the earth,

And saw your tired face.

He put his arms around you,

And lifted you to rest.

God's garden must be beautiful,

He always takes the best.

He knew you were in pain.

He knew that you were suffering.

He knew that you would never

get well on this earth again.

He saw the road was getting rough,

And the hills were hard to climb.

So he closed your weary eyelids,

And whispered, "Peace be thine."

It broke our hearts to lose you,

But you didn't go alone.

For part of us went with you,

The day God called you home.

I so look forward to being reunited with him again!

Happy Birthday Eric!

Today is my brother Eric's birthday .

Happy Birthday Eric!

We LOVE YOU!!!