Birthdays and Family Fun!!!

While mom was in California visiting Shalene, Dad and I went to the Humble Rodeo. It was kind of cold, but it was fun. The riders were good and the kids chasing the calfs was a lot of fun to watch too. Would you belive this is the same arena I graduated high School in?

I'm proud to be an American. I love our Flag and give thanks to those who fight for my freedom.

Mom's Birthday was a lot of fun. We went and looked at paint for the house and then dad made a pinapple upside down cake to celebrate. Happy Birthday to the Greatest mom!

This is one of my favorite pictures of my parents. I love to see the fun personalities they both have.

Blow out the Candles on your cake and make a wish! Serve everybodies favorite dish!

We also pulled out the fire pit for her birthday and roasted Hot dogs and had smores. It was alot of fun have Jason's family in town. Landon and Abby are so much fun to be with.

Landon was having a grand time eating smores. He's hands got pretty dirty.

Abby looks very excited to be roasting a marshmellow.

These two play very well together. Landon was singing for us. He sounds just like Jason did on some of our family home videos.

I love his blue eyes!

YUMMY!!!!

I think Landon enjoyed the nights activities.

Abby's birthday was just right after mom's. She couldn't decide on an Elmo cake or Scooby Doo. Dadra asked me to make a cake for her. Just so happens that we managed to get both in one cake. Abby loved it! The design of the cake pan is Scooby eating a Hamburger, so we made a minor change to Elmo, which made it a lot easier to decorate too.

Abby opening her presents and Landon loved them too.

Dannon and Claudia came over. Abby got a new out fit from them.

Abby got alittle laptop for her bithday. It was so fun to watch them all play on it.

Must have been a great afternoon. Jason, Dadra, Landon, Abby, Kyla and Dad all enjoying the day.

Still enjoying the games! Happy 5th Birthday Abby! She is excited she gets to go to school next year.

Kristen and Jared's Wedding.

Kristen was our roommate for about 6 months. She and Jared were sealed on Feb. 26, 2011. President Johnson sealed them. It was pretty cool, because he was also Jared's mission president. Bev (Jared's mom) Alona and I hosted a Bridal shower for Kristen. Alona left town that weekend to go visit family in Idaho so she couldn't attend. She did make some really fun games for the event. We missed having her there since she is an expert and documenting occassions with pictures. I am not, which is why we only have a few pictures for the occassion. Sorry Kristin!

Sister Chappell, Kristin's sister and her mother-in-law, Carrie Paige

Jennifer Norman and her adorable son Alex, Sister CookYeah for presents! Kristin had a each person assigned a room and they were to buy something to help decorate her new house.

I love making cakes and volunteered to make their wedding cake. I was all excited until the week before I got the flu and just as I was getting over that I got few poisoning just a few days before their wedding. I was getting really nervous that I was not going to be able to make the cake. Thank goodness for the Priesthood and a Dad who is worthy to hold it. He and Josh stopped by and gave me a blessing. I was perfectly fine by Friday and it only took me 6 hours to bake everything. My favorite part of the whole cake was the LEGO cake topper. I even had some white LEGO from school that Kristin found to make a stand for the cupcake to sit on. ( Doesn't the pool in the background look inviting?)

This is halfway through decorating them. The brown cupcakes were white marble and the red ones were cherry chip. I had a lot of fun making this one. I love her colors.

Would you believe that I still had to make more frosting to finish decorating all 200 cupcakes?

Jared and his sister Julie love porcupines. Apparently they would try and catch them when they lived in Alaska. I was a little nervous about making the groom's cake, but I love it. The quils are shoestring potato chips. It was 100 times easier to make than I thought it would be. I don't have a picture of the little porcupine cupcakes that went with it, but they were cute.

Jared's Family

Painting

Jason and Dadra come into town for mom's birthday. Her birthday wish was to pick out paint colors for the house. Some people from our ward came and rebuilt the fireplace and painted the trim in the TV room. I love the colors we picked out. Mom and Jason did most of the painting. I helped with a few walls. I didn't have much energy since I had got sick right before they came into town.

Finished product. Can you tell we had some very fun visitors?

I think this wall has been taped about 4 times from painting the molding to painting the wall. It looks good though!

I Love the frame the blue paint made above the mantle.