Cute-patoot!

I can't believe he is one!!! I wasn't so sure if he would be the most cooperative during the photo session, but he did great! Do you love their gimmicks to try and make your kid smile? They usually work pretty good with a 1, 2 or 3 year old, but when they tried it on my 7 year old daughter, she thought they were nuts! Saying "I'm gonna get your mommy (tickle me with a feather duster). I felt so bad for Madison, and so annoyed with their abilities to interact with the kids when the are supposed to be professionals in that specific area....where do they get these people??? Ok, I'm done :) :) :)

Happy Birthday, Eli!

June 5th was a year since little (and I use that term loosely)Eli was born. (hard to forget :) My friend was gracious enough to let us party at her home. We has great food, and a cake, a TURTLE cake!! Eli really enjoyed his first cake. Only after I put a piece in his mouth did he realize that it was not only for squishing between your fingers and throwing all over the floor, it was SOOOO yummy too! It was a great day!

These are the days.

So, I know we are the non-posters, I guess that is because we keep waiting for something thrilling (like a job) to happen, and obviously it hasn't. Our day to day activities consist of waking up, kids off to school, cleaning,applying for jobs, errands, watching Gilmore Girls and other T.V. shows that are not so innocent (e.g. 24, Lost) Madi's homework, playing cars with Peyton, my Thursday volleyball night, Matt's game nights with the boys and at least once a week we go to a friends house to have F.H.E. or play games and EAT!

Recently I have been pulling out old recipes to share with new friends. My meatballs are always a hit, spinach salad was extra good, and spinach dip, ohhhh Heaven!! And YES folks, I dared to do it, I have been baking! Matt got a great baking cook book from Mommy for x-mas. I have made lemon poppyseed muffins, choco-nana bread, and if I had bought enough cream cheese the other day, I would have made my first cheesecake! (I'll attempt that tomorrow). Another reason we haven't blogged is cause Matts lap top hasn't worked since graduation, and our computer won't allow us to put our pics on it. Ok, enough excuses! As soon as I can, I will post one about Eli who is almost crawling, (does a great army crawl count?)