Dessert's Birthday and Update

We celebrated Dessert's Birthday a couple of weeks ago. He had his favorite meal (sweet & sour chicken with carrots, rice, and corn bread).
Then we quickly opened presents before he headed off to Awana with G&G W.
I sent cupcakes with him to Awana(they were decorated with little fish sprinkles). Everyone loves "the Bug" as you can see by all the hugs he gives and gets. :-)




You'd think he'd be sweet enough with all the hugs he received, but maybe that is why he is so sweet. :-) I think he inherited his Mom's sweet tooth.



He wanted an ice-cream cake this year made with chocolate marshmallow and cotton candy ice-cream. I convinced him that they don't go as well together, so he opted for chocolate marshmallow and chocolate chip for the cake, (I add oreos and carmel) and then cotton candy as a side. :-)

We love you!!

Spring-like weather for a week, led to the guys getting out the motorcycles. Doesn't he look cute in his gear? There was still some mud, so I had tons of laundry that week. Now we are back to cold and snow!! (Probably thanks to global warming, right....) I thought it was so ironic, that with all that fresh snow, not one kid went out to play in it. Just not interested. I had to really struggle hard to see it as "pretty." If you want to see pictures, you'll have to go to Jeannie's blog.

Drum had his 15th birthday a week later, but I can't find his pictures. I will blog about his birthday as soon as I find them.

The great news is that our computer is fixed and running fantastic!!

The bad news is that Dunk still doesn't have a job. Well, one for pay that is. Keep praying. We are hoping for a reply next week on a possible job, if that doesn't turn out - well, back to the drawing board.

We've had several items round up in the school department, and I'm so looking forward to the end of school!! Yeah!! :-) We have about a month left for the younger set. We do testing the end of April, and I'm looking forward to getting that behind us. I'm still debating about a garden this summer. I know I'm not eager for one, so not sure if I should wait one more year, so that I feel more like kicking it in gear, or if I should just go ahead anyway and the rest of me will follow along. The kids want to, but what kid doesn't at this stage of the game. Then in 2 months, who wants to weed before we head up to the cabin! Some mentioned a small garden - I don't know how to do small, nor do they! I'll let you know what happens.

Oh yeah, last week Drum & Dime went with their CAP squadron up to Grand Forks to help with sandbagging for the flooding. It was a great volunteer experience. They were looking so forward to Black Cap this weekend, but it was canceled due to the flooding (in case more help is needed). So today all the guys in the family are headed to an open house for a local motorcycle dealership. Grunt, Grunt!! Then the CAP two are headed to a volunteer opportunity in the evening.

I've got to come up with supper while they are gone. Sometimes I feel so eager to cook and do this or that, and then the mood changes and I don't feel like cooking anything. I'm trying to get out of that slump. Maybe it is because grocery shopping is depressing for how much it costs!! Plus, no more making a big meal and having it last for two. (Long gone are the newlywed days where I cooked one meal and we ate it for a week!!) Now a big meal lasts one meal with maybe some lunch leftovers. I have to make a gigantic meal to make it last for two meals. And then who wants to clean it up!! - Maybe that's the real reason - the cleanup project. My kids can inhale a pound of cheese and crackers just as an appetizer or bed-time snack. PTL for popcorn. :-)