Blech. What a week. I finally got my house back in order. Of course now I can tell that I need to vacuum and dust. Hey maybe the thieves made that mess too! See, we are still smiling and going on.

I found this guy for sale in a catalog at work and his picture sits at my computer. I thought he sums up things pretty well.

Birthdays, Baseball and Musicals!

Happy birthday to my boy! If you can't tell, the cake is a pokemon ball. Just don't look too closely. I have been so busy at work that I didn't get to make the cake until Saturday night. So it was decorated fairly quickly.
He got to draw what he wanted his cake to look like and of course he choice something from Pokemon. See what you poor families with all girls are missing! The joys of Pokemon! We will be having his birthday party in a few weeks. We couldn't schedule anything until the baseball schedule came out.


Yes, we are spending every Saturday watching little boys play baseball. Blake is coaching his team this year so we get too watch all the boys in the family play. (and Blake has only hit my son twice with a pitch!)

Alyssa had her school's musical this last week. They did a play called "Donkey Tales" that told three stories from the bible about donkeys. It was very good. She had one of the speaking parts so they were off to the side for most of the play.
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Of course when she went to the center of the stage for her solo, other kids blocked my view. I can't tell you how many tapes we have of half her face during a solo! I always seem to sit in the wrong spot. They performed on Thursday night and then did it again on Friday afternoon. All the kids in the play signed the other student's programs after each show. Even Andrew ran around getting all the "stars" autographs