Jake got his favorite buddies for his b-day. BUZZ AND WOODY!!! ANd I made him a transformers cake with his other favorite, BUMBLEBEE! G and G Rainey got him a bunch of cars and the little rug that you can drive them on that looks like a town. He was very excited!

Jake is 3!

We just had a little b-day party for Jake and he got his favorites, Buzz and Woody. And a Bumblebee (transformers) cake. Grandma and Grandpa Rainey sent him a whole bunch of cars with the little town rug he can drive them on. It was lots of fun, and I froze pretty much a whole cake because if it is in the house, I will probably eat it : )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ITTY BOY!

November 16th 2006 Jakob Legrand Rainey joined our family after 17 hours of labor and an emergency C-section. At a whopping 9 pounds 9 oz, he came out chubby and with the cutest dimples! Now 3 years later he brings us joy every day. I took him to a playgroup where the mom's go and chat, and one person watches the kids. When I came back to pick up the kids, the lady said, "Savanna is very sweet and that Jakob...He is ALL BOY!" Really that says it all. He growls at everything, he runs and jumps and falls and tumbles, he loves to wrestle with his daddy, and hug his mama. He gets into everything and makes messes that still suprise me. He is such a wonderful addition to our family. We love our Jaker the Baker!

OUR LITTLE JAKER THE BAKER

His little Bye Bye at the end is my favorite!

HAIR BOWS

This is my very impressive custom made hair bow collection for Savanna. It is one of my prized possesions, silly I know. This picture doesn't even come close to doing it justice! If you double click the picture you can get a close up, but it still isn't even as awesome as they are. My friend has spent hours making me bows and taking the time to match them to specific outfits! : )

MORE NASCAR

More Nascar, explanations below. : )

NASCAR AGAIN!

So our friends the Vaclaws told us back in the summer that they had extra tickets for November's NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway. Well of course we jumped at the chance to go with them! I mean having a whole weekend to ourselves, no kids, good friends, tickets to the race in an air conditioned /catered suite, free hotel room AND free room service!!! Can you blame us? We had an awesome time! We got to go down to the pit road and see all the pit boxes, or as Mark calls them War Wagons (don't ask, he has a whole list of, in my opinion, silly words and phrases that he uses sometime just to bug me I think) Anyhow, we had a great time. Sundays race was a bummer for me because the driver I like is Jimmie Johnson and he got spun out and wrecked in the 2nd lap! Lame! And then my second choice was Kyle Bush who made it as leader through most of the race, but ran out of gas with 1 lap to go! Crazy! Oh well, we really did have a great weekend! The picture of Mark in the tunnel is where you have to walk under the race track to get to pit road. And the yellow camero is "Bumblebee" fro the movie Transformers. We took the pic for Jakob because he loves Bumblebee so much. It was a really cool car with the Transformers insignia all over.

Pumpkins

I love holiday clearance and I went specifically so I could get Jakob his favorite transformers costume for dress up. Savanna gets so mad when he puts on her dresses cuz he is a boy after all. So I have been slowly collecting boy dress up stuff. Jake was so excited to see his new

"bubba-bee" (bumblebee the transformer) costume! He has been wearing it off and on every day since I bought it. Then he goes and gets his bumblebee toy that Mimi gave him this summer and shoots everything in sight. I love it! Such a boy!

Grandma Rainey sent the kids cute Halloween shirts this year which they all wore to school. Audrey got to dress up for "Hippie Day" and this was what we came up with. I don't have any hippie clothes, or much that will pass for it these days. Once upon a time I did. Although I don't know if it was hippie, or "Bag Lady Chic". = ) And we carved pumpkins too. Savanna was gonna have nothing to do with it because it was "tota-wee Be-scustin" (totally disgusting) and it smelled "willy bad"! But in the end she did touch...a little.

(you can still see Jake's bruised forehead.)

A VERY SUCCESSFUL HALLOWEEN!

Not long after we got there Jake shucked his costume in a room of the church. So we just called him a bruiser on account of the giant bruise in the middle of his forehead and the heart tattoo "mom" shirt that he was wearing. He got the bruise cuz he was mad at me and kept running into me and backing up and running into me again. On about the 4th impact, I stepped aside to scold him just as he was coming at me and he glanced off my leg and hit the cabinet. That'll learn him right? No cuz then mom felt bad, and a few days later he ran smack into the table and rebruised the same spot, and a few days after that, I opened the door to come in the house, not knowing that Jake was coming out of the house and.... you guessed it, cracked him again in the same spot. Possible permenant bruising, but only time will tell, if we manage not to smack the same spot again. I put him to bed the other night, and said "Ni-night Tiny." He sat up in bed and said "I Jake". Sorry I said! "Ni-night Jake."

Three horns never play with longnecks!

My boys sure do got growl! And Audrey can already give you the "Whatever Mom, I am totally just humoring you right now" look. Teenagerhood is on the horizon.

TRICK OR TREATS!

So Savanna was an ICE PRINCESS, and Audrey was a PUNK PRINCESS, and Jakob was a TRICERATOPS. We had a great time this Halloween. We got to do the trunk or treat at the church where my dessert won a prize. I made a pumpkin cheesecake with orange zested pralines on a nilla wafer crust. It was sinful! Delicious! (if I do say so myself) The kids had fun with all the little boothes and games and of course the candy! Then we went trick or treating with my friends Heather and Betsy. The kids all looked so sweet. My friend Heather made Savanna's costume, and I made Audrey's and we borrowed Jake's. They seriously looked great this year! But I am biased! I asked Savanna if she liked her costume and she said "Yes, but it's a little poofy. I think next year I will have pants." I love the things that come out of her mouth. And I love the look that Jakob is giving to Savi. So cute!

"Kids say the darndest things,