"Your son has been hit with a javelin."

....Not the phone call you want to get from Joshua's track coach.

But that's the call we got last Monday. Luckily it was not very serious, and Joshua came home smiling that day. That is, after he went to the hospital to get the 1 inch wound in his leg (shin area) cleaned out and 3 stitches put in.

His "best friend" threw it while he was down field......which I would think would be the #1 rule that they would stress and over-stress on the very first day of practice. That's why I was so upset that I wanted to go down and shoot the coach, the kid, and any other spectators just for good mesasure. That's also why Cindy went down to handle it without me.

Luckily it turned out pretty minor. It could have hit him in the head, or the face, or the crotch, or the chest, or the gut....or a dozen worse places.

Family Pictures 2/02/08

Joseph

Porter

Charlene

5 months!

What a sweet baby! She constantly amazes
me with how good she is.

I couldn't imagine a better baby. She

is almost always happy!

She loves to smile and laugh.

Her little personality is starting to show,

and what a cute one it is!

More fun in the Snow

Abby & Tabitha


Sammy & Abby



Porter & Tabitha followed by Abby & Sammy

Fun in the Snow

This year is seems like we got more snow than normal and the kids loved it... At least for a while anyway. After the last big snow storm we got Chuck took the kids out on the sleds in our drive way. He said he was accomplishing two things at once (entertaining the younger kids and getting his exercise in)

Cakes!

OK, OK I guess I have kept y'all waiting long enough for a new post. So, here we go...

A few years ago Jeni gave me some cake decorating stuff, which I have tinkered around with from time to time but I had always wanted to take a cake decorating class so I could learn to do things "properly". And finally I was able to take the Wilton I cake decorating course with my sister Mindy back in January. It was one night a week for four weeks and we had so much fun!

These are the pictures of the cakes I have done. Some were before I took the course and some were during the course. I now feel more confident of my emerging talent, especially w/ how Abby's Cinderella cake turned out. Wow, what a challenge it was!