Baby Fever

This is Mason Dean. He is the wonderful little blessing that Mary and Jimmy brought into this world March 27th. Cute huh?

We can't wait until we get to have one of these!

Garrett Turns 2

Well Spring Break has come and gone. Even though I was not as productive and I wanted and needed to be, it was wonderful! I got to spend LOTS of time with my wonderful husband and we had a blast!
We got a call on Wednesday that someone had 2 extra tickets to the Thunder/Bulls game so we jumped on that one and headed to the city when Justin got off work! We watched the game and then stayed the night and shopped the next day! He took Thursday and Friday off so we had a 4 day weekend together! We had a whole list of things we wanted to get done, but I think we only did a few things on it! It was nice to just be together without a million things going on! I think we have finally figured out how to manage work and school and still have time! It took time to adjust and figure it all out - but we found our groove!

On Thursday Garrett turned 2!!! We had a birthday party for him Sunday and it was pretty fun. We had a moon bounce house deal and they thought that was cool stuff!

This is Garrett in the bounce house. He kept saying ''mon sissy (me) hop 'mon JAR (JR) hop' which is his way of saying come jump with me! (which we did!) He kept getting knocked over by the big kids jumping but thought it was so funny!

Here is Rece and Garrett in the bounce house! Rece LOVED it the most I think - he was doing all kinds of flips!

Here is his sweet face as we all sang Happy Birthday to him!

Big breath to blow out those 2 candles!

He blew so hard (and spit a little) that he got both candles!

So proud of himself! Now it is CAKE TIME! (His favorite!)

His 'big truck' that we gave him - makes all sorts of loud noises! Payback when we have kids is going to be bad!

It was a fun day! I cannot believe that baby is already 2! Time flies when you are having fun!!!

FRIDAY!

Today is Friday! Not just a normal Friday, it is FRIDAY BEFORE SPRINGBREAK!!!!!!!!!! I know everyone in this school is in need of a break!
We have no plans for the break. He of course has to work - but is taking Thursday and Friday off. So we may go out of town for a night or so - just go have fun! But the thought of no agena (except homework of course!) is so exciting to me! I love sleeping in and staying up late! I sooooo wish I still had summers off!
Rece was student of the month so we are celebrating over springbreak! He wants to come stay the night and play the Wii and watch movies! He is a night owl like me so I love him staying so we can stay up watching movies and then sleep in!
Ok well that is all the rambling I have!

Baking cakes

Well my husband loves cake (I know who doesn't?) but he likes white cake and of course I am a chocolate girl. So I decided to spoil him and make his favorite - confetti cake! Well it cooked and I got it out of the oven and let it cool. This is our convo:
Justin Ray - Will you please Ice it?
Melissa - You can
Justin Ray - But I always mess up cakes when I Ice them
Melissa - All you have to do is spread it
Justin Ray - Pleassssssssssse I don't want to mess it u p - it is too good to mess up
Melissa - OK but I am at least going to teach you how so come watch

I proceed to get a spoon and put a big drop of icing on, I go to spread it and it is taking off the top part of the cake!!!!! I don't know why but I keep going - when I finally have all the icing on and we are laughing so hard we are crying - we take a picture of my finished product that I 'taught him how to do!'

Yes I know now that we didn't let it cool long enough. We ended up taking it to my mom's because she wanted some too and of course she made it look pretty and presentable!

It is the thought that counts, right?