Our newest pictures...

I just had to post these pictures of my little ones, we had them taken here in California because back home in the part of Texas we are in there are no studios, and while I love outdoor photography, my favorite background is crisp white for little kiddos!! Besides, I love The Picture People, so I couldn't pass up this opportunity!! I hope you enjoy them!!

A Birthday cake fit for a ... Well, a five year old!

For Kami's family birthday party with the Hunts, I decided to try my hand at baking... I am definitely not going to get a job on Ace of Cakes anytime soon! I did, however, make the cake from scratch (no boxed cake mixes here)... also not a good idea! Nevertheless, this was the outcome, a double layer, vanilla filled yellow-pinkish cake! (She wanted a pink cake, I did the best I could!) So what that the cake looks like the San Andreas Fault Line, and that the top layer was two inches short on either side, don't I deserve some points for caring about my little girl enough to make her a cake?! What? I would have been better off buying my cake at the bakery??? Well check this out!! This is what came out of that cake, and by the way... It tasted great! At least according to my eight year old niece Summer, and she knows everything!

Not so bad... huh?!! She loved it, by the way, although I never asked her about the taste... I don't think I will!! Happy Birthday Kami, my beautiful five year old!!

Kami turns 5! But the outcome... not so pleasant!

Kami's Official Five Year Old picture, bumps from her tree fall and all, but it only got better as the day went on!! I had to have a party for her here in California because this is our hometown, so we went to Bounce U (it is a fabulous warehouse loaded with bounce houses, obstacle courses, slides...all inflatable) where her and eleven of her bestest friends enjoyed hours (okay, only one) of endless play... Or so we thought!! After half an hour, Kami and her best boy friend bumped heads, and he ended up losing a tooth that wasn't loose when we got there!! Kami got the better end of the deal, she only ended up with a goose egg on her forehead... Not quite the birthday gift she was hoping for!
Can you see that puppy?!! So now, Kami looks as if she was the pinata at her own birthday!! But she reports that it was tons of fun, and she wanted to go back as soon as she woke up this morning!! Here are some pictures of our Bouncing Party!!

She fell from a TREE??????

And here I thought I had a little lady!! Not to be the case, since she fell out of a tree she decided to climb to show off for the neighbor boys here in California!! Luckily it wasn't too bad, but to hear her tell the story... "I fell from the tree, and my foot got caught in the tree, and I was hanging upside down by my foot, and then Huntley (her cousin) was my superhero!" Here are our battle wounds, again, let me emphasize that it wasn't too serious, (it was only a cherry tree), but still, this deserves some blog footage!

And then of course... There's Kami!

I just have to share this picture of my little girl, who is not so little anymore! She turns five tomorrow, April 29, and it's breaking my heart!! Why do little girls grow up?

Jon Caelin's Birthday... Arghhhhh......

My nine year old nephew had his birthday this past weekend, and so of course we crashed it!! It was a Pirate Themed Party, so Jeff had to earn his keep by Swabbing the Deck... He must have done a pretty good job, though, becasue they let us stay for cake! His party was a huge success, with eighteen nine year olds what else would you expect?!

That's right... Airsick!

This is one of those things that my husband will never live down!! Are you ready for this? My husband, who has always prided himself on his ability to fly with perfection, totally threw up on his first Official Air Force flight!! Yes, it's true, he and that white bag became very close friends as Richard joined the 33% of airsick Air Force pilots... I have no idea where that statistic came from, but I think it's true!! He swears it was because he ate a heavy breakfast, but I just could not resist sharing this with everyone I know... I mean how could I keep something like this a secret?!!