Happy Birthday Wesley!

Wesley is officially two now! He had a super fun birthday. He absolutely loved blowing out the candles on his cupcake! He is a very enthusiastic present opener. He got some pretty cool gifts. He got a Thomas the Tank Train aqua doodle. As you can see by the picture he has a very excited expression on his face when he opens it. He also got a very cool kitchen set. I know...boys don't play with kitchen stuff, but hey there are some very masculine successful chefs. And his kitchen set doesn't have any pink or flowers or anything like that. Even Austin has been caught playing cooking with Wes!! Boys do like to pretend to cook too. Cooking, it's not just for girls anymore!! :) Wesley also got a very cool cel phone. It has some awesome ring tones! It's more fun then our real cel phone. Now maybe Wes will quit trying to take ours! Thanks Auntie Dianne for the cool toy!

Eric and the boys had a guys day out at Chuckie Cheeses! Pizza and video games, what fun! Austin really likes the ski ball game! Mom had to work unfortunately, but that's okay, because she was lucky enough, or I should say blessed...because that's truly what it is....to have Christmas Eve and Christmas off! Only one more day of Christmas rush shoppers to get through!

The Early Present

Wes got an early birthday present from Grandma "P". He had so much fun opening the present and throwing the paper on the floor. We thought he'd never get it open he was taking his time enjoying the paper. She gave him this very cool reindeer that records a greeting. He liked playing over and over, but now he has figured out how to record his own sounds on there. He likes to say, "Ho, Ho, Ho." and "Don't Bug Me!"

Austin has his last football game this Saturday. His team has been undefeated so far. He thinks that is pretty cool. He is really serious on the football field. I have some great pictures of him with this intense look of concentration on the field. He is very excited about his football team party this weekend!

We finally got our tree up and decorated. I tried really hard to get a reindeer antler picture of Petey. Unfortunately, Petey eventually got his paws in the antlers and chewed them into a thousand tiny pieces. Guess he was teaching me a lesson for trying to get him to wear the antlers! I did manage to get one good photo before that happened though! :)

Cool Link

Here is a link to Pepsi's website. You can make cool virtual snow globes and it's all free and for a good cause!! :)

Check it out!

http://www.pepsisnowglobe.com/_CT/A.1000.25034.3360.834085124856&eid=17718

Pooh Covered Twenty Dollar Bill!

Okay....if I keep having unforgettable moments like I have been experiencing at Walmart....I am going to have to write a book and publish it! Today I had the pleasure of having a customer hand me a twenty dollar bill that was (I kid you not) covered in fecal matter. Be it human or animal....I couldn't say, but the smell was enough to turn my stomach. I grabbed it with a plastic bag....ran my counterfeit test marker over it....and called for a manager because I was not about to put that smelly dirty money in my register. This money looked like someone used it for toilet paper. I couldn't make these stories up if I tried!! The customer even told me he had the money in his jeans and that he didn't realize he'd been given a twenty like that. He swore he got it from the bank that way. I told him that if I were him I'd go home and burn my jeans! I was going to have a chocolate bar for my snack that night, but some how after that experience...eating chocolate just really lost its appeal.

A couple days before this happened I had a guy who was buying a plunger ask if he could go test it out in the public restroom before taking it home to make sure it works. I told him if he was brave enough to put that in a Walmart toilet and then his own toilet...that he could go for it. People are not kind to the Walmart bathrooms. Then he asked if the toilet plunger didn't work after he gave it a "test drive" on his toilet at home...could he bring it back. I said, "sure just bring it with your receipt to customer service".


It's not all bad! :) I had a middle-aged couple tell me I looked like Sandra Bullock. What girl doesn't want to be told that??!! :) I don't think I look like her, but I'll take the compliment! :)

Among other things, because I don't want to give off the idea that Walmart is my entire life...it is a very small part!! Just happens to be some good stories come from there!!
The boys continue to keep us laughing. Austin does this hysterical dance that he copies from the movie Barnyard. Great movie! It's from the scene where the Otis is dancing while hanging out of the car after returning from "Boy Tipping". You have to see the movie to get the joke! I'll have to see if I can get a clip of Ausitn dancing because it's so funny! Then Wes...well he is becoming a regular parrot. He copies everything you say and do...and it is sooooo funny! :) All he wants to do is everything he sees his big brother do! With the exception of wanting to learn to use the potty. He has no interest in that what so ever!! He loves snow globes! He will sit on the couch and shake the snow globe saying, "Look, Santa !" Can't wait to see them on Christmas!! They are going to have so much fun!! :)

You Can Eat Cake......

I was doing a trial run of a snowman cake which is what I planned to use for Wesley's birthday on 12/20. Well....I thought this will be so cool. I make the cake take a photo.... post it on the blog....get some feedback on how it came out.....well....there will be no photo of this practice cake!! I put it in our small freezer to set the frosting. Well I guess the freezer was a bit too small. When I opened the freezer door, the cake came flying out. But...oh, I have quick hands when it comes to chocolate cake!! I managed to catch that sucker like a wide receiver cradles a football for a touchdown pass! Except for the fact that the snowman was damaged in the catching process, the cake is intact and very much edible! In fact, the boys and I already had a slice. Sorry, Eric. We were going to wait for you, but once the cake was a little messed up.....well we needed to taste it to make sure it was okay! :) Hopefully I'll get a picture of the next cake...only this time I can't mess it up because it will be Wesley's party cake! :) It's really too bad I couldn't post a picture because it had light blue frosting with clear sugar sprinkles to look like snow.