Sunday, January 25, 2009

Michael's 2nd birthday party

After helping Kristen & Matt load up their POD on Saturday morning, later that afternoon, we headed to Margaret & Jared's house to celebrate Michael's birthday. What better way to celebrate a birthday than with cake and gumbo (and potato salad, of course)!

the birthday boy



As you can see, he loved his birthday cake...
Happy Birthday Michael!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Tagged Again!

TAGGED AGAIN...
Here are the rules:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 2 to 5 sentences, along with these rules.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual book. Pick the CLOSEST!
6. Tag five other people to do the same!
Kimie tagged me several days ago, but I am just now getting around to posting about my book.
As most of you know, I am such the reader (not really), so I had to dig around to find a book, that wasn't a magazine (since every magazine had some kind of ad on page 56). After I dusted the book off, this is what I found on page 56...
Lexie had been right--there wasn't the slightest possibility of high-speed internet access at Greenleaf, but he'd jerry-rigged a way to dial in to retrieve e-mail and do slow motion searches, during which time he might wait five minutes for a page to load.
Ok, that was a long sentence, I am only posting one...I know everyone is so disappointed.
Anyways, anyone know which book this is from? Anyone, anyone?
Ok, I will tell you. It is from At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks. I started reading this book some time ago...probably during the summer. I found my bookmark on chapter three, so I didn't get very far. Maybe I will start reading it again soon...probably need to start back at chapter one, because I haven't the slightest clue what the first two chapters were about.
Ok, I tag my sis.
Ok, did anyone know which book that sentence was from?

Monday, January 12, 2009

Happy Birthday Steven!

Today was Steven's birthday...however, we've been celebrating for the past several days :)

The fam came over last night, and he opened his present from all of us...a wii! I know, we are a little behind the times...everyone else has had a wii for a while now. Anyways, we had a blast playing it! It's a lot fun playing with Kristen...you know she's not competitive or anything...




Mom and Dad are addicted...they say they've got to have one of these now!


We weren't able to capture Steven actually blowing out his candles on the first round, so I lit the candles again and made Steven blow them out...again.

I figured I really couldn't out-do last years birthday cake (see below), so I just opted for the store bought one this year (from Publix)...which was quite good, I might add.







Last year's cake...

I will admit, this was my first ever attempt at making a cake and decorating it, other than just smearing icing all over the top and sides. Good thing I got a picture of this one...


Happy Birthday Steven!!


Thursday, January 1, 2009

April's Wedding

We all went to April and Brandon's wedding last Saturday night. Mom hosted April's tea at her house back in November (click here to see some pics from the tea).
The wedding and reception was beautiful. Here are a few pictures from the evening.


the newlyweds
















Kristen enjoying her potatoes from the mashed potato bar


the fam