My Little Gerkin

I just want to document some of the many sides of Dillon.

This is the sweet Dillon after a fun trip to Build-a-Bear.



This is the creative Dillon. He had just got home from school and Molly had some yarn out for a craft she was working on. I went in the other room to take a call from my brother and i came back to this, he was making a spiderweb.



Amish Dillon.



Crazy Dillon. (a little Bob Marley-ish)



Playful Dillon. Notice the pins he put in his belt loops to act as arrows. the ukulele is his Bow.



Silly Dillon.





And this is Imaginative Dillon. He made this "speaker" from a paint brush, and few random toy pieces, and a clip from a pin.

You got to love love My Dillon.

Sweet 6

My little girl is turning SIX! Man, that just happened so fast. Anyway, we have been looking at different cakes to get some ideas. Now I'm not a master cake decorator like Sara, but I figured I could try to wing it. These are some of the cakes she admired...

No Way


A little to involved


Not a Chance


Now this one I can do, minus the house of course. So we decided on the Scooby Doo cake. She is having a Build a Bear party, but whatever. She does really like Scooby Doo and she got really excited when we found this one. Works for me. I will post the outcome, that is if it isn't to awful.

His Response

I emailed the EBay seller of the item in the post below asking, pleading with him to show me some mercy and cancel the bid, this was his response...

Dear Amanda:
How are you ? Very glad to see you here again . Sorry about the high postage .I live in China. I am very sad about the Chinese postage .In my heart,I hope all my buyer happy with low postage. If zero postage,I think I am very very happy. So I hope you can understand me .Thank you . Please contact with me if I can help you in the future.Good luck to you .I think we can cancel this deal.Ok?
Best wishes
SIncerely
Chinese friend:maoke

I am so thankful for good, understanding people. Thank you to my New Chinese Friend.

Ebay addiction turns sour

So I thought I would get these...


for her...


on Ebay, of course. Nesting dolls are her favorite thing lately and just about the only thing that will get her through church without freaking out. I was the high bidder at $3.00 and I figured I could afford that for the sake of my daughter's happiness. For $3.00 I won't mind if she breaks them, or eats them, or whatever, so I made the bid. In later observation I noticed that it said "shipping not specified." After reading the description below and looking at the details I was informed that the shipping would be, or WILL be, $48.00!!!! I could not believe my eyes, and needless to say I feel sick about the whole thing and will be paying much closer attention in the future, if there even is a future for me on Ebay. What would you do???

My Latest Addiction

This has been a real problem for me just over the past week. I discovered, what millions already know, how to but cool stuff with just one click of the mouse. The problem is that I am ending up with duplicates because I never think I'm going to win, and I do. I mean these are things I actually need or at least want, I just don't need/want them in pairs. This video is something I can very much relate to at this time. I think I just need to swear off EBAY!

Caring for baby 101

I got this e-mail from a friend, pretty funny.


























Thought these might help, just in case you aren't sure.

Babies, Screaming, Valentines, and Friends

Charlee is obsessed with babies. The baby she has taken to the most weighs about half as much as she does, so it's pretty comical to watch her struggle to drag that baby around all over the house. She has also moved into this screaming phase about a week or two ago, also pretty comical at times. This video explains it all, needless to say she pretty much starts screaming when Dillon is with in two feet of her weather he is touching her or not.




Just a few pictures from the kids school Valentines parties.



Yesterday the kids had fun decorating some cookies with their friends, Mia and Jack.


And we had some of our own friends, the Lamborns, over for dinner. Travis got creative the night before and made them a cake personalized with their name on it. This is harder than it seems because it was a pineapple upside down cake which means he had to do the writing in mirror image, props to him. It was a fun day and a great evening.

That about wraps it up.