Can we have cake please?

Dallas has reading every day in class where they read different books. This last week he was reading a recipe book and copied down the recipe for a chocolate cake that sounded so delicious. We made it today and it was sure yummy!

A Nice Surprise

I was checking my email this morning and saw this from Dallas' teacher at school. I have to admit that when I get an email from Dallas' teacher it's usually because he's missing assignments or something. This one was different and made me very happy:)

Good morning,

I just wanted to send a quick note to let you know how much I have enjoyed getting to know Dallas. I appreciate his attentive behavior and curiousity for learning, it makes me smile. His confidence in the classroom has really blossomed, he wants to do well and it shows! His is a wonderful young man!

Enjoy your week!

Busy Day

With the one day of sunshine that we had yesterday, Mike and I kept ourselves busy on projects for our home. We started early afternoon and didn't finish until we couldn't see in front of our faces, but luckily when we woke up and looked out the windows this morning we didn't mess up too bad. I spent the day staining the front porch and Mike stained all the fence around our property-inside and out. We stopped long enough to eat some sloppy joes for dinner and run to Home Depot for some more stain, but then we were at it again. The kids had fun playing outside all day yesterday and I think it looks really good. Now if we could just enjoy more days like yesterday-sunny and warm:)

Labor of Love

My sweet husband wanted to make me a super special dessert for mothers day so he made a lemon cheesecake-from scratch! It took him about 4 hours to complete it but the payoff was heaven:) It was so creamy and delicious. Thanks honey-you made mothers day very special for me...

To My Mom

Happy Mothers Day Mom. I love you so much and I hope you have a wonderful day.
My mom is awesome-she has always been there when I needed her whether it was for a recipe, advice, to vent...whatever. I am grateful for my mom. My mom is always thinking about us and her unconditional love is comforting. I know that she would do anything for me and my family and I couldn't ask for anyone better for my mom. Have a great day Mom!

Getting Closer

This is what the fence looked like when we got home from our birthday celebration at Mike's parents and Tam's home. It's coming together quite nicely. Also had a nice conversation with the neighbors tonight and they are going to pay for the rest of the fence on their side to the corner post. (Hope it looks as nice as the first part of the fence)

Cinco De Mayo

Happy birthday to my sweet husband. If you had to share your birthday with a holiday this would be a good one:)

Another Year Older:)

Another year older...another year wiser? Well I don't know about that but I did have a great birthday. My husband made dinner for me tonight and we had yummy ice cream sundeas instead of cake this year. Lots of birthday wishes from family and friends made it especially nice. My good friend Maribel invited me over for a birthday lunch with my friends April, Lanette and Melissa. It's nice being loved:)

A New Fence

We finally have started fencing our yard! Our bishop told us about a man in our ward who owns a fence company so we decided to go with him after we told him our budget and felt good about his bid. All the posts were set today and then Brian (our fence guy) told me that they will be back on Thursday to finish up. *It was pretty wet here today so he wanted to give them time to set up real good*



It was kind of funny because I told him that we had gone swimming tonight and I explained where and he told me that he had been there during the construction on mom, dad and Tam's home. Small world:) We have also been busy staining our back deck and we put some walking stones through the front flower bed-it's fun getting to decide and make things the way we like.