Duke's party and a winter storm

I am not sure if you can see the snow coming down in this picture, but this is the weather we are experiencing now. We can't even see out of windows now and we have seen purple lightening along with some thunder. I can't believe we are having such a horrible storm!!

Here is Duke with his cake. He had on a nice shirt and a pair of jeans, but it just wasn't quite right so he came out in his pajama pants and no shirt.

This is Duke on his third birthday. All he wanted to do was go to McDonald's to have breakfast and play in the playland. So we dropped Sophia off at school and went to McDonald's. He had some cinnamon rolls and an orage juice.

Well here is the cake I made for Duke's third birthday. We did a cars/baseball theme. This cake took forever, lots of trial and error, some tears, and many hours later here is the final product. A huge thanks goes out to my wonderful mother in law who helped me make this!! And to my husband for telling me it will all work out! My favorite part of the cake is the catcher -- It is Lightening McQueen with tires on his eyes -- well when I saw the car I had to buy it because it reminded me of Cameron -- he is a catcher and wears his rec specs (sports goggles) so it was perfect for the cake ;-)

Things Going On Around Here

Well of course we thought winter was over....boy were we wrong! We are suppose to get nailed tomorrow night with a huge storm that could bring us up to 10 inches of snow, maybe more! We had a taste of spring -- you know just enough for all of our grass to show -- just enough for the kids to get really excited to think that summer would be here the next day. Sophia was so excited, she was suppose to have a field trip to an envioronmental center where she would have had the opportunity to go snow shoeing, take a walk in the woods, and eat her cold lunch!! As a four year old eating a cold packed lunch is pretty exciting! Well we got a call from her teacher yesterday that they had to cancel the field trip because of the freezing rain we are having today. She cried!!! She was so sad. But they still get to pack a lunch and eat it at school, so that brought a smile to her face.

Duke has been enjoying playing board games the last few days. We have played trouble and hi-ho cherrio many, many times! It is funny how kids will put things together. As we were playing hi-ho cherrio, Duke says, "Auntie Thuzie brings cherries." I said to him yes she does. He says she brings lots of cherries. So I asked him what she brings the cherries in and he said...FROSTING! And then he proceeded to tell me it was his favorite snack!

Well the sickness in our house will never disappear! I went to the doctor yesterday and I have bronchitis along with a bunch of pulled muscles in my stomach and my neck from coughing so much and so hard. GRRRR......I am so tired of someone being sick in this house. I really wish summer would get here soon.

Alright well have a good day everyone!!

A good weekend!

Well we had a busy weekend! The weekend started out with Joe and his buddy going to Menards to purchase materials to finish our basement. When we bought our house we knew this had to be a priority to fit our family. So we have been here almost one year and it is time to get started. I will have no part in the building of the basement! It is my own fault or should I say my own stupidity. When we were figuring out how much material to buy Friday night (all he kept talking about was "studs") so I asked if a stud was a nail -- well it is not -- it is the 2x4 piece of wood that gets nailed to the wall. Therefore because I am blonde and I would be a hinderence to the project I will stick to picking out the color of paint :-) After the materials were loaded into the basement Joe could not wait to get started. We are very excited to get this project going -- it will be so fun to have more room to play! I took the kids to a movie at the school, we saw Space Buddies -- what a boring movie! After that we came home got ready and headed to our cousins house for a birthday party. We ate lots of food and had a great time visiting with our family!! Today we went to church, Cameron had baseball camp from 12:00 to 4:00, and Sophia and I went to my girlfriend Casey's house for a candle party. It was lots of fun! Now we are getting ready to put the kids to bed and I am preparing to take my midterm exam tonight. I will post some pictures of Duke's birthday party soon.

GOOD MORNING AUNTIE THUZIE!!!

Update

Well here are the pictures I said I would post of the kids outside.. Also Sophia had her very first dentist appointment last week, and she did very well. She was a great patient. I managed to sneek a few pictures while she was in the chair!

Duke turned three yesterday!! That was exciting. He is such a big boy now! All potty trained, loves to act like his big brother, and enjoys playing with Sophia (sometimes!!). He really has grown up in the past year, it is soo scary. I can't believe what a year did to him. I can't remember Cameron or Sophia growing up and changing into such a young boy or girl so fast. When people look at him they can't believe he is only three. He just seems so much older than that. Well last night we had cake and he opened his presents. He had no nap yesterday so he was pretty tired by the time we got to the party stuff. He was almost expression-less when he opened his gifts, but today he has been playing with them non stop! Enjoy the video and the pictures. By the way the picture of Duke with is red pajama pants on and Cameron's jock strap on, is a picture I took last night -- that is how he came out of his bedroom -- I guess he was ready to play baseball. Sorry it is sideways, but I put it on here before I rotated the picture and now I can't figure out how to delete it.

I don't get it!

I don't understand this kid.....Duke! He has a blanket that he has had since he was one. It is really soft and he sleeps with it day and night, and carries it around like Linus from Charlie Brown. When he first got the blanket I remember looking at the tag on it and was thinking about cutting it off for whatever reason. Well I decided not to and to this day it is a good thing. He is obsessed with the tag. The blanket is called his taggy..........when he sleeps he rubs the tag on his cheek, it must be some sort of comfort to him. Well the part I am not understanding is lately not one piece of his clothing can have a tag on it. He will not put any clothes on until I cut the tag off. So I asked him the other day why he likes his tag on his blanket and not on his clothes, well he told me that the tag on his blanket is not a tag!!! So I give up. Kids are crazy!

Anyway I have some pictures of the kids to put on here. It finally warmed up (above zero), so they were outside playing in the snow the other day and I took some pictures. This week we are suppose to hit almost 50 degrees. I better pull out the shorts and sandals! The kids are so excited that they can see grass in the backyard, it makes them think summer will be here tomorrow. Little do they know we are sure to have another huge snow storm before winter is over! I just know it.