Celebrating Jessica's Birthday

Jessica's birthday was last week, but she was out of town visiting friends. So with work and other schedules, we celebrated it a few days later at my mom's. After a wonderful dinner, it was time for presents and cake!


I got her flowers and made the cake and cake pops.


Present time!







Goofy boys!


I don't even know...


See, I was there too. :-)



I love this face!


Now off to eat some cake!!!!
Happy Birthday Jessica!!!!

A Little Longer...

Ooops! This one is a little longer than the others. I forgot to post on here last week for my Project 366. So I'm adding a few more than I normally would have. A lot has happened in the past week and a half, including a new addition to our family!


Michael and Papa one afternoon on a ride on the quad behind our house.



Little Duncan enjoying his "Dream Bone" while I take a bath and read my book.


Cai Lynn and I visited the kitty we wanted to adopt. My mom had found her a few days earlier, so I went to go meet her after work one day and filled out all of the adoption paperwork. Later that night after a meeting, Cai Lynn and I went to go see her again. YEARS ago I had another little cat that looked JUST like her and even acted like her.


Our baby hedgehogs are one week old here! Aren't they adorable!?


We got her! She's ours!It's definitely going to take a bit to adjust to her new home.... currently she HATES the dogs and Duchess and Duchess hates her. :-/ But the humans in the house love her to pieces. There will never be another Annie, but this little "Annie" sure comes close!


What's a stop at the store without a quick read in the book section?



Annie is making herself comfortable. (Incidentally this is Ruby's spot!) She is now used to the dogs and even plays with Duncan's tail. Duchess is going to take awhile to get used to being chased around the house by Annie... THAT may take a bit longer. :-/


I just LOVE being able to run and do a session after work at the temple. I LOVE living less than 5 minutes away!


Cai Lynn had a "Thinking Day" at Girl Scouts. This year's theme was "Nature".


I love my walks in the evening after work. They will be even better once it's light longer in the evenings.


Well, there's a little snapshot of the last week and a half. :-)

Pinewood Derby

This was Jared's last year at the Pinewood Derby. He is now a Weeblo and will be heading off to Boy scouts in July! WEIRD! Boy does time fly! Jared designed his car himself with help of our neighbor helped cut it out and then did the design on the top by himself. Wow he's growing up!



He just finished adding his weights and getting his "official weight".


Greasing his wheels. :-)


A little "Move it Twister" before getting started...


A few of the cars. Once they've been "officially weighed in" and signed in, they can't be touched.


Getting the board all the up.


Some of the "big kids".


Heat one...


Our little neighbor boy came along too.


Goof ball!



I think Blake was very excited! He has won every heat.... we'll see if he can beat the other undefeated one!


All the boys! Great job guys!!!!!!!


Showing his award.... "Most creative"


The "big kids" :-)

Week 4

I have begun to really enjoy thinking of what to post each day. The different events of the day, challenges, memories, which one to choose, etc. It's also fun to see which pictures strike a chord with each individual.


So here we go...


Last Monday we finally got some much needed snow! It was a small amount, But while running errands I snapped a pic. (I know it's SUPER close up, but I couldn't figure out how to make it smaller... so there it is. LOL)



Since they got the keyboard, they have been practicing and challenging each other daily. They all love it thank goodness. :-) Here's Cai Lynn practicing before going to "Activity Days" at church.



Doing my weekly "Ruby grooming session". :-) She's so patient, and sweet. She's used to it by now.


The boys playing chess... on a Thursday evening.



Friday night was the Pinewood Derby. (More pictures to follow on that.)


Saturday was a long day of work, Michael at church basketball, picking Jared up from his friends, Cai Lynn working on her primary talk and lots of etc. There is nothing like a good book in the bath to end the week.


As usual we stopped to talk to everybody after church. Cai Lynn and I were a bit later than the boys and when we got into the car we caught Jared in her booster seat. HMMMMMMM


Have a great week everybody!

Another week at a glance...

So another week down on the Project 366... This week was very weird weather wise and we had yet another major fire in the area.

The first picture for the week I added one of my favorite sunset pictures. It looks like a volcano. I was on a walk and spotted this on my way home. I absolutely LOVE it!


Very early in the morning on my way to work and as I'm driving the kids to school we had an AMAZING cloud show! The kids were spotting all sorts of objects, creatures and people in the clouds. It took twice as long because I kept having to stop to take pictures. This one reminded me of George Washington. Can you see him?



Ok this next series tells it all! Duchess the cat STILL has not made friends with Duncan the now 9 month old puppy. He still doesn't know he can squash her, and is terrified of her. Michael was trying to take a picture of Cai Lynn and I with the dogs and cat... there were at least a dozen pictures taken... you can see how well it went here with these few.


This is the "best" one we got. Ruby looks scared, Duchess looks annoyed and Duncan is in avoidance mode.


Duchess was growling here...


She had enough!




As I mentioned earlier, we had another major fire. This time in South Reno... Washoe Valley. It was a TERRIBLE fire! All caused by neglect with ashes from a burn barrel. 29 homes destroyed, countless animals lost and families displaced. Thankfully many MANY homes and businesses were saved! The fire came within less than 100 feet from Galena High School and got very close to a major mall. We desperately need some moisture!!!!!


I did not take these two fire pictures. I got them from a local news station.



These clouds are promising a bit of moisture. We'll take ANYTHING right about now!



Michael posing with Duchess at the end of the day.


We DID get a small amount of ground covering. It was gone and melted by the rain just hours later, but boy did we need it! Jared is getting ready for a badge event.


This afternoon when we returned from church, we made sandwiches and then fruit or veggies of their choice. Of course nobody had the same choice. :-)

Have a wonderful week everybody!!!!!!!