The final celebration post...

Well, last but definitely not least...

Here's for Aunt Susie...

Bet you thought we forgot about you, but nope. The party ain't over yet.

I checked and there's still some party blowers left.So I looked em over and found a nice one just for you.Here ya go. :)We can blow 'em together on a count of three...

1...2..3

We love you bunches!!Here's a great bigfor you. Hope you had a wonderful day!

Can I take this silly hat off now?

And the Celebrations continue...

Today we have another anniversary to celebrate...

HAPPY 3rd ANNIVERSARY MR. TECH & SJO!!!

We still have a leftover flower for you all luscious and red. :)

Here have a sniff at it. You just put it up to your nose...
and inhale deeply...Ahhh

But don't forget to check for bugs first....

It ain't a pleasant experience to snuff a bug...
and we want your anniversary to be ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!!
(no bug snuffing allowed)

So here have the whole boquet.

Can't wait to see you this weekend and have a terrific day!

Celebrations part 2

This one's for YOU Aunt Jenn!

We didn't forget it was your birthday today. :)So here's my advice for you on your birthday... First of all have a great Day!!!

Enjoy whatever comes your way, be it extravagant or simple. :)

Let someone else clean up your messes for the day. ;)

Get into some mischief!

And party til your hat falls off...

Or your just plumb tuckered out. :)
But stop before you can't see straight. ;)

Hope you had a wonderful day!!!
We love you, and we're so glad to have you in our family! :)

*Hugs*

Celebrations...

Hi Grandpa and Grandma!

A little bird told me that its your anniversary today! And its not just any anniversary...

IT'S YOUR THIRTIETH!!!

So try and make it a REALLY GOOD one okay!! :)Allrighty-o, done with this, next prop...I sort of picked out some flowers in honour of your big celebration.

I did my best to arrange them just so..

and get it all symetrical and everything...

And I inspected all the flowers for quality.
Hey, what is that I see...

One of the roses has allready lost a petal...

so much for quality.Oh well, here they are if you still want them...
Ooops, mom says to give 'em like I'm giving you all my love.

Try this...
Much better!!! :)

We love you and miss you. Hope you had a very special day!

Valentines Day came early

It has been so gray and dreary out the last couple of days. I guess it was gettin to me yesterday. Miss Kate just needed to get out of the house and we had a few things we needed at the store too so we headed out to go shopping. The first thing she saw when we walked in the store was the big display of flowers and she got all excited when I let her stop and smell them. (Some of them actually did smell but not nearly as yummy as the roses in Grammas yard) :) Anyway, after leisurely shopping around for awhile we headed back up to pay and again passed the flowers. Miss Kate wanted to stop and smell the roses again and I finally decided I might as well buy some to brighten up the house since we rarely ever splurge on flowers. Now Miss Kate frequently climbs the kitchen chair to smell the flowers. And usually she gets too close and they tickle her nose ...

When Mr. Wise Guy came home and asked about the flowers I told him they were compliments of Miss Kate. :) She's been thouroughly enjoying them and so have I. :)





After seeing roses on the table all day it got me thinking about chocolate (cause roses and chocolate were just meant to be together) so i ended up making a batch of chocolate covered pretzels. (Dark chocolate to be exact) Mmmm. Soo good!!!I was enjoying a handful this afternoon and Miss Kate kept coming up and smiling really big in hopes of Mommy sharing with her. What? I'm not doing anything mommy. ....Until you look the other way

And then Mommy would say (in a big growly voice) HEY! Did you sneak one of my pretzels? And she would giggle hysterically showing a big mouthful of pretzel. :D
Anyway, at least we brightened up the day some. :) On a totally different subject...

Here is her favorite place to entertain herself these days.
She gathers all her favorite toys, or whatever particular objects she happens to find of interest at the moment, and pile them on and around my workout step (which is her play bench 99% of the time and my workout step the other 1%) and her little entertainment chair and plays there for very long periods of time on good days....just climbing around, rearranging things and pretty much haning out in her own little world.
She frequently likes to stand on the chair and press the crayons with her feet to make the songs play and then dance to the music and/or jump off the chair and then giggle hysterically.

I found her in a new hiding place today after hauling a load of clean laundry from the dryer to the liv.rm. couch and leaving the dryer door open.

BOO!!!

She loved it and didn't want to get out...

But I made her cause I had more laundry to dry. :)

And this...
is the closest pic I have to what she does when she is mad/annoyed/frustrated.
She runs to the farthest corner she can find to hide in and then makes grumpy sounds and every now and then usually just one little eyeball will peer out and glare darkly at anyone who might be taking note of her naughtiness therefore making the whole charade worthwhile. This picture doesn't really show that ...but when she does it sometimes its all I can do to keep a straight face ...let alone a stern look.