Happy Birthday Grandpa

Happy Birthday to Grandpa.....and Bella too.

Lovin' Our Breakfast

Pancakes and eggs for breakfast today.

A special surprise for a special boy.

He was pretty pleased since his was the first one.

Oh no. Someone broke Blase's heart.

All mended now....

This started with good intentions, but ended up looking funny. Cormac was honored with the only pancake heart. He thought he needed an "I" and an "U", but his "U" turned out more like a rabbit's face. So we had a good laugh over Cormac's "I LOVE RABBIT EARS!"

Rex requested the number 75. Why? I don't know. If you want to make a number "5" pancake - flip it over from the top (thick) side of the five. It was a bear to flip without breaking it when I tried starting from the bottom of the five.

Let's Play a Game

My boys said to me at lunchtime, "We have arachibutyrophobia so we can't eat lunch."

What did we have for lunch today?? Any guesses?

Special thanks to Uncle Peter, Aunt Mauri, and Bella for the Weird but True! book that Blase and Stephen used as a reference. And YES they did have to eat their lunch, arachibutyrophobia or not!

Easter Weekend

One year old Gianna and her daddy at Grandpa and Grandma Gebes' house.

Easter egg hunt at Gebes' thanks to Uncle Brad and Kathy.

Money and chocolate - doesn't get any better.

Getting ready to decorate Easter eggs at the Mark Park on Holy Saturday.

Aunt Mauri was a good helper. We had a great time.

Uncle Paul checking out the eggs.

Prince John? And his lovely Maid Maria(n)?

Tory and I were both wearing Irish shirts. He didn't want a picture with me. I think Dirk was worried I would influence his son.

We had two calves born on Holy Saturday. As of yesterday we have 5 now. Two bulls and three heifers.

Easter Sunday morning!!!

My brother Loman found his basket hidden under a blanket.

Purple basket for a sweet girl!

A movie, Star Wars glass, chocolate cross, and other candy in each basket.

Sun, glorious sun!

Sleepy Brech found his basket.

Happy Easter 2012!!

The Three Muskateers (Lomen, Rex, and Cormac) with their faithful follower, Brech Earl.

Easter Egg Hunt at the Mark Park

We had to leave at 3 PM to make it home in time for Darren to work the next morning. This picture is as close as we got to a picture at the geographical center of the United States. We drove by it on our way home. Its north of Belle Fourche, SD if you want to look it up on a map.

Watch Me Grow

One week old.

One month old.

Two months old.

Three months old.

Four months old.

Five months old.

Six months old.

Seven months old.

We missed taking a picture on her for the 8 and 9 months.

Ten months old.

Eleven months old.

Twelve months old.

Happy 1st Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Gianna!!!

Gianna celebrated her birthday a day early yesterday with a surprise gift from her Godparents. She kept looking at us like "What am I suppose to do?"

She finally tried to pull the paper off.

After she got the hang of it - there was no stopping her!

She received two beautiful dresses and a Winnie the Pooh toy.

Today she opened her presents from her brothers.

There was no explaining how to unwrap the presents today. She started grabbing paper left and right! It makes such a fun sound.

This was Brech's present to her, a Little People car with a girl.

Cormac gave her an orange sippy cup - her very first.

Stephen gave her a bath time tea set. She already tried it out and loved it.

Rex gave her sock monkey pajamas and purple socks.

She was getting tired of opening presents and just wanted to play tea by this point. Blase had to help her open her gift from him - two new dress sets and a pink pair of socks.

She had little cupcakes for her birthday. There are some leftover to have another party at Grandma and Grandpa Gebes' house tomorrow.

Her brothers are trying to get her to blow her candle out.

She decided she'd rather eat the frosting so her mommy blew it out for her.

Cake is SOO yummy!

She had to get all the pieces she could.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE GIRL!!!