Caleb's Birthday Party - Dec 30

BEAUTIFUL train cake done by Jadie's mom...what talent she has!

Making train tracks with Hot Wheels and a little paint

Happy Moms, Dads, and Kiddos!

Nicole and DJ...expecting #2 this August!

Nicole and I have been friends since our middle school days...

Stephanie and little Blake...

Miss Melanie and Oren...hot momma and her handsome little angel

Trying to get the kiddos to make a train before taking turns at the pinata

Caleb is overwhelmed with excitement over this part

I think he's upset right about now that I just told him to get his fingers out of the icing

Little Brandon thoroughly enjoying his piece of cake

Coming Soon...

There are two more things to blog about, but they'll have to wait. It's getting late and all of these pictures have taken most of the night to upload and post. So now you can look forward to another post about Caleb's Birthday and our trip to Houston to visit Amanda and Brian!

Here I Am!

We've been tied up with various activities for the last 2-3 weeks, so here's what's been going on for those who are curious (or thought we'd been abducted by aliens)...

Christmases Galore!!!
December 15-16 with my family
December 22, 23, 24th with Jadie's family
December 25-26th with my Mom and sister

Caleb's 2nd Birthday Party!!!

All-Out New Year's Bash!!!
Really we just had a relaxing-good time with our good friends Melanie, Chris, and little Oren!

Trip to Houston!!!

Christmas, Take One

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Christmas with Jadie's Mom, Sister, and Newphews

Jadie's Mom with her new purse...courtesy of mine and Jadie's stylish taste

Jadie's David Crowder CD...Jadie's mom gave him this as well as an autographed picture of the David Crowder Band

Junior with his gift from us

Chris with his trio of PS2 games from us

Christmas, Take Two

Monday, December 24, 2007

Our Family Christmas at Home

Caleb's Train Backpack

Jadie's iPod...I am particularly proud of the good deal I got on this...one-of-a-kind find...this 32GB iPod belonged to a roommate of my sister's who had lost it and bought a 2nd iPod for herself...so she had no need for this one...perfect formula for a steal-of-a-deal for me!

Jadie bought Hitch for me...and Bath & Body Works...and the Notebook...thank you sweetie!!!

Caleb "helping" Jadie dig down in his stocking

Caleb opening one of his AWESOME gifts from us...or so we thought. That is until we took it out of the box and proceeded to try to inflate 6 different sections using our automatic air pump whose nozzle was too big for these tiny valves. We then proceeded to get high trying to blow up the 6 sections by mouth. We gave up after about 30 minutes and only 1 section entirely inflated. We boxed this thing back up and returned it to Toys 'R Us for a full refund...good thing we almost always keep receipts.

Christmas, Take Three

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Christmas Morning at Home

Caleb's new train set from Santa Claus...really cool...only stays put together for 5.2 seconds

Caleb's rocking chair and golf set from Santa Claus

The two boys playing with the new train set. Apparently, taxis and minivans can now travel on train tracks as well...

Christmas, Take Four

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Christmas with my mom and sister

Aunt Kristin thinks Caleb is a super genius piano player...not really...but she is very thoughtful. Caleb always climbs up onto the piano bench at mom's house, so Kristin got his this roll up piano so he could play at home too!

Caleb is a little apprehensive about the new tent from my mom (Granana)

Much better...you put a train anywhere, and Caleb's there. Even if it is inside of a scary new tent.