Happy 1st Birthday Shawn!

Shawn had his first birthday yesterday the 21st. I can't believe how time fly's by when you have kids. It's sad and at the same time it is so much fun to watch him grow and learn knew things. he is so much fun right now. The other day Elli said "Shawn is going to be one tomorrow and he won't be zero anymore." I was almost in tears at the thought.

We had fun watching Shawn open his presents and Eat his cake. We also had fun and were very grateful we had friends here to share his special day with us (Thanks for coming!). Again we were sad that we couldn't have family here, We missed you! 

Today Shawn and Elli have had fun playing with all the new toys. Elli still has a really hard time sharing with Shawn, even if they are his toys. She's getting a little better though. 

Shawn learned to go down stairs today Yay! now maybe he won't have so many bumps and bruises all the time (Probably not). It's always been his favorite thing to go up the stairs, but refused to learn to go down them, Well.....I take that back, he could go down the stairs, Fast! I'm definitely glad he can do it the right way now.

All in all we are doing good and enjoying our time here. Milt is still doing well in school and he is liking what they are doing right now. I personally wouldn't like cutting into stiff, dead, stinky, Formaldehyde filled bodies, but if he gets into that sorta thing, More power to him. He always comes home and shares the nasty details with me, It just about makes me gag, but I like to know what he is doing so I listen. Anyway, we are doing good and having fun.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAWN WE LOVE YOU!!!!

Happy Birthday Elli!

Elli just turned 3 years old yesterday the 15th. I can't believe I have a three year old daughter! We had a lot of fun though. I asked her awhile ago what kind of cake she wanted and she said "I want a castle cake!" I really didn't know what I was going to do, but the next time I went to the craft store i actually found a castle cake set. I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but I decided to tackle it. It took me a whole day to make it and it turned out ok, but when I got all finished the top tower fell over and wiped out all the towers on the left side of the cake, this happened twice in a row. We put it back together the best we could and then hurried and took pictures before it happened  again. Needless to say the cake didn't look quite as good as it could have, but Elli loved it anyway and that's all that matters. She got spoiled with lots of presents and had lots of fun! It was definitely weird not to have family at a birthday party. We miss you all so much! It will be interesting to see what Christmas will be like. It will be the first time ever that we did our own thing. I wish we could be with family, but it will be kinda fun to start our own traditions and spend more time focusing on each other. We love you all!