A Great Birthday!

Andrew with the new drum set, what the heck was I thinking?

This look was worth the noise I will hear for years to come.

After he blew out the candles on the mint chocolate chip ice cream cake, his favorite of course.

Opening some of the gifts that fell to the wayside after the drums came out. We had a great day despite the awful weather and thanks to all that ventured out to join us.

Happy Birthday AJ

We love you!

Beautiful

I am running around the house this morning cleaning because we are having company tonight and the house just gets away from me during the week. Anyhoo I am wearing my cleaning clothes ratty tshirt, ratty shorts, blinding white dry legs (its winter after all) and the hair pulled up in a quick ponytail... my darling 6 year old looks at me and says "mommy why do you have your hair so beautiful?" Made my day!

Chicken Pox

Andrew wanted to know how you get Chicken Pox, he innocently asked "Does a Chicken come to your room and pox your face?" :)

My Girl

Thanks Jenn give her love from me!

I love the dentist!

Me and Andrew had dentist appointments today, Andrew was first and they used Nitrous and he did great he didn't even need a shot! So I thought maybe I will give it a go, wow is that stuff great I could feel what they were doing but it didn't hurt and again no shot! 4 fillings between the 2 of us and here we are 30 minutes later, no pain, and no annoying numbness. I just love my dentist!

Lions and Tigers and Bears oh my!

We made a last minute trip to Texas to see this cute guy up here, he looked great and seemed to be feeling better.

Aus of course brought the guitar and had a few jam sessions for us all to enjoy.

Andrew(and Grandpa) enjoyed some wrestling.

Here is where the animals come in we went to a drive thru safari and these pictures don't do it justice, the size of these Bison was incredible and at one point they had surrounded the car.

Andrew being brave with the Bison gone and enjoying the smaller animals.

A beautiful picture of the Zebra, thanks to Austin.

The big scary camel, he was taller than the Durango and we did not spend a lot of time with this guy!