Happy Birthday Micah!!!

Happy Birthday yesterday to our cute Micah!!! He turned the big 9! He is soo sooo old now!!!
He had a sort of Star Wars themed birthday because he wanted a Star Wars cake, particularly a Tie Fighter.

So, I'm not any expert on anything Star Wars, but I looked up Tie Fighter on the internet, and it was this space ship thing that hopefully looked a little like this:

He got some fun presents and lots of cards from everybody (thank you!), and I think his birthday was a success!

Caleb and Jewelia made him a pretty banner for the party:

My little Micah boy! Is he really 9 years old? Has it really been 7 years since we moved into this house? He has gotten so big and tall. We made an agreement that he can have his own room when he is taller than Mommy. We will see how long that will take.

I came across an old movie on the computer from when we first moved in of Micah:

He's saying his name is "Mocka Spoot" and he is 2 years old.

We're Famous!

So, here we are. We are famous. Nothing too big, but our family is featured in the Associated Food Stores "Fresh Ideas" Magazine/Recipe/Ad thing (whatever it is, I'm not sure how to explain it). It is 12 page little magazine thing that is sent to all over Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and then some parts of Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Arizona. So, if you guys happen to see this in your mailbox, or if you shop at any of the stores, then you can see us. Or, if you go to www.cookingwithangel.com and click on Fresh Ideas you can see it. Or just click here.

It's just a cute little insert booklet that features different recipes and meal ideas, and then advertises a little of what is on sale for the month. They wanted to feature a family and then ask different questions. If you click on this you can read what it says. I think I said all this, but there is one added thing that I would like to correct. The bottom question says something about lasagna and cooking it at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Now, you could do that, but you're going to have some crunchy lasagna. Really it should be an hour.

Micah was funny telling me how he was worried people were going to try to make lasagna and then be all mad at our family when it was raw. I guess I wrote a lot and our questions got a little summarized, and I don't remember going into detail about how exactly to cook our lasagna, but just know---lasagna with dry noodles has got to cook longer than 30 minutes.

There, I'm making Micah feel better already. Our family won't get toilet papered now.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! We celebrated the ringing in of the new year at a party at our neighbor's house. Everyone got to be all decked out with party hats and masks. Jewelia enjoyed that part. We ate lots of food and the kids and Troy got to play the Wii for the first time. They were loving it.










Just so you see that Troy and I are still alive after all of our sicknesses, here is a picture Caleb took of us:

Here is our family picture at the end of the party after all the shouting, horn blowing and fireworks. Yep, not a single kid fell asleep. Our kids were wired!

Here's to a happy and great 2009!!!