Happy Birthday to Stephanie and Brett

I'm several days late getting this posted (Matthew you beat me to it this time!) But I do have pics from both Brett and Stephanie's Birthday celebrations. I had fun celebrating your birthdays with you and also watching the boys while you went out! Thanks for the great time in Utah last week. Dad and I love you both!

Brett's Birthday Celebration

Stephanie's Birthday Celebration

Waiting for the candles to be lit!

Aunt Margie, Noah and Cooper

Really???

I had a good laugh today as a ninth grade boy exclaimed after hearing the teacher in Child Development give a lecture about the three stages of Labor and Child Birth...."It is all just too terrible!" I guess we should be grateful that men don't have to go through child birth!

Goodbye to an Old Friend!

She's been my friend for 17 years! She helped make nutritious meals for four growing kids, lollipops for school classes, memorable Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, potluck casseroles for church events, many happy birthday cakes, cookies with grandkids and many, many dishes of Lasagna. She served many different cooks from our four children learning to cook, to cooking by each of our daughter-in-laws and even our son-in-law (great pies, Brett). She worked faithfully day after day keeping us happy and healthy. Her last great dish was this morning with Rick's famous everyday oatmeal in which he put celebration raisins. So we bid you goodbye, our dear friend. Thank you for being so wonderful to us and serving us well!

Our new friend.......

(It looks white here in the picture but it is Bisque color.) Evidentally, manufacturers aren't going to be making bisque color of appliances anymore and facing them out...the new color is a chocolate brown. So since our refrigerator is only three years old and our dishwater less than a year and both are the bisque color, we needed to get our new stove now instead of waiting. I do like the stainless steel appliances though.....well, just dreaming- someday!