Tradition I don't understand!

Ok it's my blog so let me just ramble for a minute. Can anyone tell me the reasoning behind blowing out the candles on a birthday cake? Happy Birthday to me I just spit all over the cake that I'm about to serve my guests! Thanks for coming! You know I may be a bit of a germ freak but it's just gross! Lately Nana our famous cake maker has been putting the candles stuck in frosting next to the cake rather than in the cake itself, so smart Nana don't know if you're doing it on purpose but it's should be the new trend. Hey how about we cut a piece and put the candles in that piece, give it to the guest of honor, they blow spit all over their own cake and then eat it sounds great!

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. Mason decided that opening presents wasn't his thang so he went down stairs and watched T.V. while the rest of us opened gifts. After everyone got done the kids were able to coax him upstairs and "help" him open gifts. He woke up from an early nap with 102 fever so that was part of it. Jay gave him a blessing and I gave him some medicine to take the fever down. He was fine all day but the fever came back that night. Jay had gone to plow snow and I was putting him to bed he looked at me and said he needed "a bless" from dad. These little ones have such faith! The next morning he woke up without any sign of fever or other illness. Jay has been sick now for a few days and I'm hoping no one else gets what he has.

Hannah

What a great day my Hannah had a birthday. She got sick so we had to postpone her party twice but eventually I had a house full of kids, parties at that age are great for an hour. One tip I learned (I don't love cake and it's a mess) I decided to serve rice krispy treats instead of cake. I dished up the treats onto napkins and started passing them out what I didn't realize was most of the kids couldn't get the treats off the napkin. Stuck like glue poor kids were trying to eat around paper to no avail glad I noticed before I had to throw them all away. We played electricity, the bean game, and penny penny who has the penny.

Hannah has an amazing sense of humor. She is an incredible cleaner. Hannah is willing to share about anything she has treats, money, toys, you name it. She is a great little singer and enjoys primary. She's easily pleased and a super good eater always willing to try new things. We sure love her and are glad she's a part of our family!

Train Time

Mason has decided to use the potty (again) and has been amazing, since Thanksgiving no accidents. My brother Matt came over to "play" the other day (the kids had almost as much fun as we did). He asked Mason what Santa was bringing him for Christmas. Let me back up by saying that he is totally into the train phase that all boys seem to go through, but is also potty training right now. Mason looks at Matt and replies "Santa's going to bring me a potty train!" I'm not sure if those go around the track but we thought it was hilarious!

Leftovers cont.

So I had to write that I did in fact use the cheese that I put in the fridge. I think it was the subtle prompting from Megan that I remembered to use it (went great on my pizza). Funny thing is that I need to clean out the Thanksgiving leftovers, along with about 4 lunches worth of leftovers. Yeah why is that we save them? Mine can't be the only house where they turn green in the fridge and THEN I get rid of them! Oh well at least we used the cheese!

Leftovers

So last night I had made a dish for dinner that requires shredded mozzarella cheese mixed with dried oregano. I had quite a bit left over and was hesitant to throw it out I said to Megan "what should I do with this leftover cheese?" (she was doing the dishes with me) She told me to throw it away. I replied that I thought it was a lot of cheese and wasteful to just chuck it in the trash. She said "well you could just put it in a bag until it goes rotten" yeah funny thing about that is she was dead serious. Apparently I store leftovers in the fridge only to be thrown out later rather than actually remembering to use them. I still need to come up with a way to use that cheese....lasagna? maybe?

old post

this is an old video from october 12th but I just figured out how to post a video (thanks Dani) it's not that exciting but Mason sure had fun!