Some of you know that Mark is a Sheriff's reserve officer. I tease him and call it his Peter Pan syndrome. You know....I don't wanna grow up! I just wanna play cops and robbers and wear a gun and handcuff's. He really does take it seriously, and loves it. He is helping out in our community but donating his time to keep the peace. And he does look handsome all decked out in his Sheriff gear. Hear that honey..... I am giving ya props!

Savanna learned how to "SWAK" today.....Sealed With A Kiss! She has a cute pucker!

FINGER PAINTING WITH PUDDING

I can't remeber where I got the idea, but I decided to try it. Finger painting with colored vanilla pudding. You put a few drops of food coloring in with vanilla pudding and let them go to town. It was a lot of fun to watch them get into it. It was also a big mess and clean up was a pain, but worth it I think. I love trying new things with the kids and so do they. It's little things in life that they will remember most. I am so blessed to have 3 sweet kids and to be able to stay home with them. I thank my sweet husband for working so hard.

2 YEARS AGO

WHEN JAKOB CAME TO US 2 YEARS AGO. WHAT A FUN 2 YEARS ITS BEEN!

We had lots of fun at his party. We ate sloppy joes and baked beans and all the kids wore cowboy hats and sheriff badges. Even Mark got the cowboy spirit. : )

I made Jakob a cowboy hat cake for his birthday. Every time I lifted him up to see it, he would try singing Happy birthday. Well I left the room for a minute and he climbed up on the counter and the cake looked so good he had to take a handful of it. I was going to fix it before the party, and then I decided that it was only fitting that Jake's cake had a Jakey handful taken out of it. The little thing he is sitting in and then wearing on his head is a cowboy hat "cooler". Fill it with ice and soda cans. Unfortunatly it didn't last past the loving of Jake, or it came with holes in it, one of the two. We didn't get to use it for his party.