Birthdays

We had two birthdays in our family, Jeremy and Ayden! (last month, May)
For Ayden's party we invited family over to eat cake and ice cream. Here's her cake...






She LOVES Oswald and Weinie!!!





















This is everyone in our small living room! I was hoping we could have gone to the playground, but it had rained that day :( I was surprised we had enough chairs for everyone!














Ayden was really great about being excited to open every present! She said Wow! and Yeah! for everything. I was unsure if she would be ready for the bike we got her, but she loved it. We have gotten alot of use out of it. Her favorite thing to do is ride down our driveway. It's down hill so she goes really fast!!
Jeremy's birthday took a few days to do mainly because of his schedule. We did our date thing one night, cake and ice cream another night, and then presents on another night! Here's another great photo of him...














I feel bad that he was holding his own cake to blow out the candles, but I wanted pictures too!
I have to tell about the funny thing that Jeremy did the other day! We were at a pack meeting and he couldn't hear the prayer very good. When the boy said he was thankful for Jesus Christ Jeremy thought it was the end of the prayer and said Amen. It was so funny!!! I couldn't help but laugh! This picture is great! These are some of the "posters" Jeremy's students made to hang up around his room. They all say how Coach Scott is the best and he rocks your socks off and stuff like that! He tries to act embarrassed about it, but I know he enjoys it!














Also I could use some ideas for the summer!!! Especially from those who live around here. I am feeling guilty of letting Asher play video games and watch tv all day. I scoured the internet for cheap/free things to do and haven't come up with much. Any ideas? Maybe I'm worried for nothing. The kids would probably be happy with going to our neighborhood pool everyday, but I feel like I need to plan a variety of activities for the days. Does anyone else feel that way?
Other than that it's the same old stuff :) Hope everyone is doing well!!

Stuff

For the past two weeks, I have been back at the school thing! Sort of! I am taking an online medical transcription program. I was nervous at first because it's been a while since I went to school, but it's been fun.
Sarah came over this past week and we did a glamour shots session :) Here are a few of my favorites....


























































Asher has been experimenting with his hair style...we call it the Edward Cullen look. For those of you who don't know that's a reference to the Twilight movie.














Here is Asher with the chicken nuggets he won for his gingerbread house last year. It fed our family for 4 days/two meals a day!














We had a wonderful Easter! We got to spend time with both sides of the family. And we were lucky enough or not to go to 4 egg hunts! I don't think that candy is ever going to get eaten. We are all tired of eating candy :) Never thought that would happen with 2 kids :)
Saturday, we went to visit Jeremy's family. The egg hunt was fun! Ayden really got the hang of it and we had to get a bigger basket. Then we hung out. We have played Rock Band everytime we visit, and I'm proud to say you know a medium level drum player :)
Sunday, we went to my family and had a great ham dinner. My mom makes the best ham, and if you don't believe me, ask Asher. He is the pickiest eater, but he looks forward to her ham! Ayden and Sofia started finding eggs even before we started the hunt. I guess they were a little too easy to find.
We also had our own egg hunt at home. I got 42 eggs because Jeremy thought we should have alot. I guess, Jeremy and I hid the eggs for Asher really well because we had to give him hints on where to find most of them. Ayden even found one of his! We may have an expert Easter hunter here :) I really like hiding eggs!!!

For my sis, Amy

Amy has been bugging :) me to put up a new post, so here it is finally!
Things have been going well for us. Jeremy is enjoying school, but ready for the summer. He has been asked to come back next year!! They would have been crazy not to. By the way, the snow video was from last year :) Jeremy told his students he would let them see it and the only way we could figure out how to do it was to post it on the blog.
I got my hair cut about 6 weeks ago. I went to the salon and asked what would look good with my hair. Here's the result




























The first is almost right after I got it cut and the second a few days ago.
Our Buick broke down about a month ago and decided it wasn't worth fixing, so we got a new car. New to us anyway! We have entered the minivan world! It's actually really nice to have one and Jeremy has been joking about turning in his truck for another one :)
We also got the place to give us money for our old car so we could buy Rock Band. We have had alot of fun playing!! I've even practiced on my own.
Our photo album has been updated too, and there's some really cute videos!!

For Coach Scott's class

Ode to Dollar Tree

I have to just say how much I love having a Dollar Tree close by! Everything in the store is a dollar! And it's not like those other dollar stores where the stuff looks cheap and you would never buy anything from there. This stuff is actually nice and I always feel like I get a great deal.
The other day, I went there looking for little snacks for Ayden. I didn't think I would find much. There was so much stuff! Name brand stuff! The treasures just kept coming!
I was really excited when Jeremy saw all the stuff I got! (Silly, I know!) And I was always proud to say, "Yep, that was only a dollar!"
So I just wanted to say THANKS! Dollar tree, for your great, cheap things!

Butterflies and Cookies

This is a great post for guys, isn't it?!?
Decorating is a thing I love to do! I finally put up Ayden's butterfly pictures today.














I've had these wooden plaque things from Hobby Lobby forever. I bought them because they were on sale, and I thought I could think of something to use them for. (I do this often! Do you?)














I painted them myself and they weren't exactly what I imagined, but they turned out pretty good. The wall looks a little empty around them still. I was thinking flowers on the wall somehow. Any ideas? I'm set on her room theme being butterflies :) It was going to be sun, moon, and stars at first so that I would have neutral things for the next kid, but it's more fun to make things pretty and girly!
Yesterday was dessert day for us. What better thing to do then to make a bunch of desserts on a rainy day? There were brownies, rice krispy treats, and black and white cookies!














These are Jeremy's favorite! I always make them for his birthday, father's day, or whenever he requests them! After watching the Seinfeld episode about them so many times, Jeremy really wanted to try black and white cookies. I searched everywhere to find them, calling every bakery I could think of. A place in the Frisco mall said they had them, and I was so excited to surprise Jeremy! Turns out they just had cookies with chocolate and white chips. So we searched the internet and found this recipe. They are really good! And they turn out so pretty!

Game Day

Jeremy had his first volleyball game on Thursday last week, and a second on Monday.














The first one I brought Ayden to. We ended up leaving because she was tired and crying. I rounded up a babysitter for the next one. Thanks mom!














It was fun to watch the games and watch Jeremy be a coach. I don't know what he was saying, but he looked great! I know it's alot of work, but I think it's happy work for him.














Watching all those middle school kids brought back a lot of memories. I wish I would have played sports in school. Now I think I would like to join a volleyball league for older adults who haven't played in years!