Happy Birthday Joel!
He has been working insanely hard rebuilding our snowplow truck. Seriously like from 8:00am to 2:00 am every single day and this was the first day he took off. I MADE him. Poor thing is exhausted. But we had a nice day. He wanted a new "creeper" some thing you roll on your back under cars......and yet ANOTHER X-box game---the 60+ he got in Iraq was apparently not enough, but he is worth it! We had his parents over for dinner and Morgan did another awesome job and decorated his cake!

Courtney made this Sugar Cube Temple at Activity Night at church...so CUTE!

Courtney's fort!

She loves to make forts, she made this one yesterday and slept in it last night. She finally piled up enough pillows to keep her dog from escaping!

My Birthday Cake!

So of course I had to put a picture of my most wonderful cake. I LOVED it, it was the first time in YEARS anyone has made me a cake and I am so thankful I have such a sweet and awesome and wonderful daughter. I think she did a GREAT job, I don't know what she's thinking! I know your going to read this, so THANK you Morgan, your the most awesome daughter and I am more blessed everyday to be your mom. Don't be mad I put this on here, I LOVE my cake!

I FINALLY finished the stupid tile in our entryway, what a pain. JOEL decided to try this new stuff called "Snap Stone" it's got this plastic backing that your supposed to be able to snap together (more like pound your guts out with a mallet stone) but anyway. We had to special order the color we wanted, and waited 3 weeks. Then realized we didn't have enough and had to order more, took another 5 weeks, WHATEVER. So finally I finished it. Whew. Now I just need the man with the bright idea of the tile to put the trim all back on.........................................

Happy Birthday to Mom!
Today was my 37th Birthday and it was great! Courtney made me the most AWESOME card and even had sections for Morgan and Dad since she knew they wouldn't think of it. ( I LOVE having daughters!) Joel got me this nice Shiatsu Massage thing for a chair, and after it gets done killing my back, I'm sure it will feel good. Since my B-day is always on Veteran's Day and I'm a lowly Gov't employee, I always get the day off with pay, ohhh so awesome! Joel and I always celebrate our day together since it's his day too. We went and had a nice lunch and did some Christmas Shopping. It was a nice relaxing day! Isn't my card Awesome! Oh and Morgan made me a cake but FORBID me to put a picture of it on here, so you know, I'll add it later! Ha ha!

Never did post school pictures:

Courtney 4th Grade

Morgan 9th Grade

Courtney went trick or treating with her friend Breann. They had a great time!

Morgan and a group of friends went to Homecoming, they all look a bit too grown up! But Beautiful.

Homecoming 2008

Jumping High!

We went to take family pictures today, not so much luck, the lighting was terrible and I think it was senior citizen day.............crowded with a lot of slow moving folks having a grand old time...........Anyway, this is really the only picture that turned out, and I think Courtney is the only on that had any fun! We'll try again tomorrow, we really want to take advantage of the great colors. The ones with none of us in them turned out great! Go figure.........

Cutie pie Myles. He's just so snuggly!