Balloon Girl

Laura's 5th Birthday

Working hard shoveling the driveway

Just getting up in the morning

Heading in after shoveling

Opening a birthday gift

Another birthday gift

Another birthday gift

Look at all the colors, already separated!

A bunch of gifts

Cream style corn and Ramen noodles

My best shot at a Cinderella cake

Getting ready to blow

Blowing

Eating a piece of cake

Sound asleep

Dress-up earlier in the day

Dress-up earlier in the day

Laura celebrated her 5th birthday in February of 2012.

Girls with Camera

The girls got a hold of the camera again!

Kids and Cameras

Without fail, it's always when our camera has new batteries that the kids get a hold of it and take several pictures thus the need for new batteries again.  Imagine that!!!  :)  Here is a sample...

Reindeer Cookies

I bought several different "treats" to make special Christmas cookies for 2011, and we did not really make very many of them.  I had brought the ingredients to make them during our "Christmas" in Bemidji but didn't do them then either.  I think it was in February we pulled the stuff out to make these reindeer cookies.  To be honest, I still have some of the stuff I bought (it's June now) so should get busy or it will be money wasted.  These cookies are just heart and bell sugar cookies with pretzels and M+M's pressed in before baking, but if we do it again, we had discussed frosting the cookies after baking and then putting the treats on.

Pumpkins and Dominoes

We went to the corn maze this past fall (2011) and got three big pumpkins.  Those, along with one I had, made lots of yummy pumpkin bars over the winter after we had fun trying to paint (which didn't work for us) and color on them.

Melissa made a castle of dominoes...

Aaron's 16th Birthday

I thought Aaron's birthday pictures were on the cell phone but found them on the computer.  Here they are...all three of them.  :)  He did nothing special to celebrate and had no particular foods he requested this time.  I did make him a cheesecake cake, which is what he has wanted for the past several years.