Taking time to smell the flowers

I finally got around to putting together our photos from the botanical garden in Peoria into a slideshow. Our trip to the garden was something I wanted to do to celebrate my 3rd year of remission. Each year to celebrate my remission I like to do something as a family with a focus on life. What celebrates life better than a beautiful garden? We had a lovely morning walking through the dewy grass and looking at the pretty flowers and plants. We even saw a fluffy little baby bird on our walk.

Celebrating 14 years of awesome!

Evan had a great birthday yesterday.  He opened up his presents in the morning before Abby went to school.  We took him out for breakfast so he could eat his favorite...french toast.  He got to play a whole lot of Xbox 360 and just take it easy.  For dinner he requested chicken tacos so he got those along with "birthday rice".  Since Josh had to miss out on the birthday singing over dessert, we did it over dinner.  How many kids can really say they've gotten birthday rice?!?  Kinda cool.  I took the kids out for ice cream last night as well.  Here's a slide show of his party with his friends and his actual birthday.

Easter Photos

I don't know if I've made a slideshow before or not, so hopefully it turns out well. Here are our Easter photos...

More Christmas Photos

These are from Christmas Day at our house. Everyone came over in the morning and we opened gifts. Josh cooked up a mexican food feast for us.



This is my first attempt at a slideshow, so I hope it turns out well.