The Train Cake

Happy Birthday to our big Hannah who turned 4 on Saturday! Just after her 3rd birthday (where she had a princess castle cake) she announced that for her 4th birthday she wanted a train cake... Okay, we'll see, I thought. I was sure that by the time her birthday actually came around she would change her mind. After all, a train cake?! It really was so random. Hannah doesn't have toy trains. She watched Dinosaur Train (a PBS cartoon) occasionally, but that's about it.

Well, her wish for a train cake persisted and she added having chocolate ice cream. When anyone would ask what Hannah wanted for her birthday, she would say, "A train cake and chocolate ice cream!" So the adventure of making a train cake began:Boy it was a lot of work, took a lot of time, and made a huge mess in the process! But I also really enjoyed creating it. Hannah thought it was really fun and I felt like it turned out pretty good. TaDa!

Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

My mom sent this to me. The images and words brought tears of recognition as well as of comfort... Definitely a message all us women and mothers need to hear.
Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

playing ketchup

Well, its time for "ketchup!" I know I'll never post about all these thing separately so there's one massive post with some of my favorite pictures of late. (A post about Bryson is on my list of things to do. This one isn't it, but from this one it is obvious he needs some more face time!)

4/5/10 Bry playing in the toy box, then Hannah joining in the fun. These are super old, but too cute not to include.4/17/10 Peek5/5/10 Truck5/22/10 Thanksgiving Point Farm. The kiddos and I went to the sheep festival or wool festival... or something like that... with Mom and Ashley's family. We had a wonderful time.My kiddos loved the animals, especially Bryson...He would have climbed right in with the animals if we would have let him.We got to see a sheep getting sheered...make wool bracelets...go on a carriage ride...ride the ponies (it was a long, cold line but H and B were so happy to have a turn)...and lots of other fun things. We even got to meet Little Bo Beep at story time.

5/25/10 He's a climber!6/8/10 Hannah has been "organizing" lately. I've had her help me with some organizing projects and now she wants to organize all sorts of things. (Some of which I wish she'd just leave alone!) Here's her little kitchen all organized.6/10/10 I took a big leap and cut Bry's hair all on my own. (The first time there were 3 of us involved in the hair cut!) He sat in his highchair and I cut as quickly as I could as he squirmed. It was quite a feat! The only thing that made it possible was his interest in spraying himself with the spray bottle, right in the face! Even when I was done, he wanted to keep spraying. 6/1/10 Memorial Day. Annual Baird Memorial Day pictures with my cousins, of the great grandkids (notice Bry trying to escape and Hannah desperately trying to keep him there!), and then with the Allen grandkids holding their "B" which represents "Baird" and all that goes with being a Baird!These are just the random pictures from our every day life. But we've had some big things happen can't watch to catchup on those too!