A cake with girls jumping out of it....

We were at our neighbor Jason's house one night, and he mentioned it was his birthday the next day. (Remember him, he's the one with the horses. On a side note, both my girls think he's the bee's knees) Well, he's a single dad so who, I ask you, was going to make him a birthday cake?

His daughter and I schemed to meet after school the next day to make him one, complete with my old neighbor Natalie's home made butter cream frosting. (Not that it has any butter in it) It's the very best.

So, the night before, I had asked him what kind of cake he liked. He said "one with girls jumping out of it". You have to know this boy, he is DEATHLY SHY of the ladies. His daughter had this brainy idea. ^ Polly Pockets were just the right size. You can see, we gave him a full selection of girls. Blond, brunette, red head, How's a boy to choose?

Then, because he's so nice, he invited us over to sing and have a piece of his cake. He's so great.

PS he's 35! That means I'm a whole year, minus one week, older than him. Is there anyone that I'm NOT older than? DON'T ANSWER THAT.

THE end.

ITS MAY.......

Max woke me up (who am I kidding, I was already awake) at 5:30 this morning to show me this....

NOT only is it May, but it's MAY 24th, it's the last week of school until summer break!

For cryin' out loud. It's enough to hark a dog.

I feel this tree's pain.



Maddy was pretty irate about the whole situation. I tried to lighten her mood by telling her she could make a snow man today at recess, I don't think she was thrilled.

Merry Christmas? Memorial day is next week.

The END

Birthday's in Jackson Hole. . .

I celebrated my *cough* 36th birthday in Jackson Hole. I was a bummer in the morning. I don't know exactly why but apparently you are suppose to cry on your birthday when you are in your 30's. I've done it for a few years now. This year I didn't wanna break tradition, I guess. Max was a sweety and made me french toast breakfast in bed. Then he took the girls to the grocery store and brought back this!

Maybe I cried because MY CAKE WAS ON FIRE. YUP they put 36 candles on it. How Rude is that?

Mads and Ru gave me a card that said "We both think you're pretty great on your Birthday" on the front. And on the inside it said "and one of us is always right". That's when Maddy tapped my on the shoulder and pulled this face. I'm pretty sure that means she thinks she's always right. Silly girl. She won't be 100 percent right until she's a teenager.

They also brought me these lovelies. We didn't bring home the left over cake (despite the wailing and pouting from 2 certain girls) but I did managed to bring my flowers home.

This was before the cake toss.

I managed to perk up and later we went to the shops at town square in Jackson. We bought a super cute glass serving bowl (yes people I DO need another bowl) with nubbs around the rim. That night for dinner, we went to (NOT Bubba's) "Q" a barbecue place that serves fried pickles (I still haven't decided if I like them) and tells you to throw peanut shells on the floor. I couldn't bring my self to do it so I just made a nice pile on the table and put them on my plate later. My heathen family didn't have a problem with peanutty floors. Especially Maddy.

And also, the lovely vase for my lovely fleurs.

THE END. . . . Til next year.

Jackson ACTION.....

Max's parents are nice. They have a timeshare in Jackson Hole that they don't use every year. This year they invited us to use it. So we went. They're extremely nice.

On Sunday we drove around to see what we could see.

Here is as close as a truck would take us to the GRAND TETONS.

Even from far far away, aren't they pretty?

The Max and Ruby.

Maddy traipsing through the snow.......

then realizing that . SNOW . IS . COLD.


Poor Poor Mads.

We found an abandoned cabin that was out in the boonies. I just kept saying "people used to live here." It was right out of a Little House on the Prairie book, I tell you. This is also the Squirrel Mecca of Wyoming, but we'll visit that subject later.

Cute faces - not out of a Little House on the Prairie book.

This is mostly what we saw on our adventures. There was not many open roads to explore on or trip. We explored the shops and the river instead.

It wasn't warm and usually always breezy,

but we managed to entertain ourselves with whatever was available.

We stumbled on a few little neat churches that were perched in the middle of nowhere. This one had a super cool stained glass window in it. FYI....the bathrooms weren't open.

See the pretty window?

More pretty mountains.

TREE HUGGER!

More super interesting pine cones.

Some random bug eyed hoodlums.

Another tree hugger. Those guys are EVERYWHERE.

And lastly, this one's for you, MOM.

Although the weather was mostly pretty crummy, we didn't have hot water in our condo for a day and the beds were OOMPA LOOMPA sized, we still managed to have lots of fun. We ate out and in, watched movies, played games of the regular and video kind. We took loads of wildlife pictures and missed our DVR (only during GLEE). Mostly we didn't worry about school, work, house cleaning, laundry, and bedtimes. We just enjoyed being gone. And were GLAD when we came home too.

To be continued......

Next up, The Animal splendor, Squirrel attacks and my Birthday.

Wardrobe extravaganza......

Oh the joy. My one Emily friend (from bunko) is awesome, nice and generous! Plus, so is her daughter. Her daughter is 10, like Mads but instead of being a pygmy (like Mads) she is a super model. Which means she had loads of clothes that are too small for her and just right for Maddy. Her mom emailed me a couple of weeks ago saying she'd cleaned out her daughters closet and did we want a huge bag of clothes? HECK YEAH. In the bag there was oodles of darling stuff.


Like this wonderful dress, it's only problem is that it's not my size. I swear I want this dress. Maddy was doing the Hula, by the way.



And these darling polka-dot shorts and "PEACE DUDE" shirt.


a few swim options that fit her PERFECT, I think the one she's wearing was a dance costume but Mads LOVES it the most and is going to wear it to the pool.


These Levi shorts, and cute green tank. Posing optional.


And also these shorts and "AERO" shirt.

And lastly, these are the things we are saving for later. They are a tiny bit too big or just plain wintery, so we are keeping them safe for the new school year. Thanks Emily and your darling offspring for all the cute clothes, our school shopping is half done already.

Also, It's a good thing she gave us these clothes this week, or Maddy would have been going to school naked all week. She has worn no less than 3 (usually 4) things a day from that bag of goodies.

Not much to bloggy.....

I've been getting some complaints about my lack of blogginess.

My reasons are as follows:

I have no spit in my mouth, so that makes me not sleep at night, which makes me TIRED ALL OF THE TIME. Plus when I am asleep, Max decides to snor a little. My house is messy and the kids are hungry and the laundry is never finished and it's not snowy outside so I can see my neighbor friends again and American Idol is on, plus my car died a little and then it was Spring Break so, of course, we had to party everyday, and it was Easter and just vacuuming up Easter grass is enough excuse not to blog, and I'm thirsty since I have no spit, and finally, I don't have anything to blog about.

THE End

PS I will have something soon. And it is called "Wardrobe extravaganza"

April Fools Day is foolish....

This is my front door. Very Springish.


This is our view from our front door this morning. Blah.

And the view from our backdoor. The wind has been blowing for 2 days straight in anticipation for this foolish storm. That's my swing. It was tipped over, turned backwards, and scooted about 15 feet. Ruby's big wheel was IN THE EMPTY LOT next door to us, along with all the sand toys and soccer balls. She rescued them yesterday. Perhaps we should clean up our backyard more often.

Our grill has about 8 inches of snow on it.

And our back door. It doesn't look very Eastery to me.

I love April Fool's Day about as much as I love Nicholas Sparks.

Plus I had to shovel the driveway. Shoveling the driveway is treacherous.