March Madness

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Davis 3/6

Grandpa Jimmy 3/6

Uncle Mack 3/7

Grandma Stephanie 3/13

Uncle Keenan 3/17

We love you guys and wish we could be there for your big day.  Have fun!

Brody's Day

Brody's birthday festivities all started when he got this cute frog card from his Grandma Stephanie.  He was SO excited!

Then Sunday Grandma Karla made him his birthday dinner with cupcakes and ice cream.

He got clothes from his Aunt, Uncle, and cousins, a key board...

and a guitar from his Grandma Karla.  He also got a cute pair of paints but when we tried to show it to him he shoved it away to look at...

his musical birthday card that plays the chicken dance.  He LOVES those cards!

Monday March 2nd, his actual birthday, we started the day off with blue pancakes.

Then we headed down to St. George to play at Jumpin Jacks where they have all kinds of bounce houses and kids and adults can play on.

Kurt played harder than any child there.  We also went during school hours so Drew was the oldest kid, if you exclude Kurt, and we didn't have wait in line at all!

Brody was in awe looking at...

this!  He LOVED it!

This is Drew going crazy!  She was running around hitting all these characters, clothes lining and tackling them.  I found it hilarious!

These three had SO much fun which made me completely happy.  I can't wait to be able to join them next time.

After two hours of constant playing we ate at In-n-Out Burger.

We headed back to Cedar where the kids and a long nap and Kurt and I were able to get things done around the house.  Brody's birthday cake being one of them.  So this was my first time trying fondant and beside my lack of creativeness the actual marshmallow fondant itself turned out really good and yummy!  The car was supposed to be red, and it turned out salmon.  And I had made the mistake of dying the whole roll of fondant that color so all the other colors had to be a descendent from that.  I also had no idea how to carve the cake so that's why it looks like it's gotten in a couple of fender benders.  It's a good thing I have a couple of months till Drew's birthday to practice.

The good thing is that Brody loved it!  Imperfections and all.

After cake and ice cream Brody opened his present from us.  We got him this little basketball hoop.  He loves it!

I have to say that this year I was kinda depressed when I thought of Brody's birthday party.  Since we've only been here for six months we haven't made a lot of friends his age and if we were to even have one for him with just the family, we don't have a house big enough to hold everyone.  The weather right now is too iffy to have one outside so I was just kinda sad that I wouldn't be able to throw him the party that I wanted.  Thank goodness we heard of the Jumpin Jacks place.  I embedded in my head that this day was for Brody and even if it was just us we were going to have fun.  So we invited friends and family to come with us, knowing that it was on a Monday and that people were not likely to come, and if they could make it great if not we were still going and having fun.  And we did!  The whole day was fun and seeing Brody smile every minute made me melt.  I love you Brody Boy and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Happy 2nd Birthday Brody!

More from his special day coming up...

Auditions This Friday

My 'bands' album cover.

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. (ok, the first good one, but must be in the first five)

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/

The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together (I used picnikhttp://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome , it's free and easy to use).

5 - Post it to FB/blog with these instructions in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in.