Happy Birthday

It’s a little late, but Happy Birthday Aunty Claudette.  Aunty’s choice for her birthday was chicken fajitas and rice.  Uncle Phil did an outstanding job cooking the chicken — this means Uncle Phil MUST always have dinner with us when it’s chicken fajitas.  After dinner, came the surprise birthday cake — Aunty was touched by […]

Baking and Decorating a birthday cake

This year Owen and Brandon have both really caught on to the excitement of birthday’s.  So for Aunty Claudette’s birthday (October 29th), I thought it might be fun for the boys to help bake and decorate a birthday cake for her, plus I knew she would think that was pretty special.  Over a couple evenings […]

Brandon’s 2nd birthday party

The Saturday after Brandon’s birthday, we held a birthday party for him.  All his friends and family came….Brandon loves everything trains these days, so we did a Thomas the Train themed birthday. Brandon and Owen were very excited that it was FINALLY Brandon’s birthday party.  We had been talking about it for some time and the weeks […]

Brandon’s 2nd birthday with family

Brandon is now two years old…love that mischievous smile! The poor guy had really really bad diaper rash the day of his birthday…but you’d never know it from the pictures!  We decided for his actual birthday we would have it at Aunty Claudette’s house.  Owen and Brandon always want to play at Aunty’s house, so […]

Dinosaurs and Trains and Birthdays, oh my!

My niece Zoe turned 3 years old in May and she really has grown into a little girl.  From the little baby that kept her mom and dad up constantly to the little toddler who was shy around her Aunty and Uncle to now this little girl who has such confidence and big smiles for everyone. […]