That's My Ethan

I thought I would let you all in on a sample of Ethan's quirky sense of humor.

As part of his homework tonight he had to write a final draft of a story he had apparently worked on in class. What was the title of his story you ask? ...

MY PUBERTY DAYS

Matthew's First Cereal

I started Matthew on baby food about a week ago. He really like eating real food. In just the week since we began he has it down that when I sit at the table to eat he needs to eat too. I'll sit down to eat breakfast and I always sit him next to me. He watches me start to eat and he begins kicking his legs and getting ansty. As soon as I get his cereal and put his bib on he settles down and happily munches. Now I just get his cereal at the same time as mine. I guess he got me trained.

Hot Day = Pool Day

Last week we had a little heat wave. We had a few days in a row of 90+ degree weather. I went to Target and got a pool and the kids had a ball.

Happy Birthday Ethan!

Ok, so this post is a little late...

Happy Birthday Ethan on April 14th.

The kids were out of school for spring break on Ethan's birthday. I took him to Disneyland to redeem his free birthday ticket. We had a lot of fun that day. Ethan is a wonderful boy with a very sharp sense of humor. He is a very good student both at school and in the gospel. He is a good brother both in his caring for his siblings and also in his ability to be the ultimate "little brother". As with all of my other children, I can't imagine not having Ethan as a member of our family. He has brought us a lot of joy for 9 years.

A Happy Easter

I always enjoy Easter. This year was no different. Our Easter bunny is a sneaky bunny. He likes to hide the baskets in tricky places. It's always fun to watch the kids racing around the house trying to find their loot. They all seemed to enjoy their Easter morning. Later in the day Colin, Jenny (Brett's brother and his wife), Calvin (their son), and Linda (Brett's mom) came for an Easter egg hunt and dinner. We had a nice, low key evening.

Callie is getting too big. I wish I could make time stand still and keep my kids cute and little. I guess we all have to get the point of accepting the fact that our kids are going to be cute and big.

Connor was the last one to find his basket this year. That silly bunny hid it in the corner behind the computer desk.


Ethan's basket was hidden at the back of the pantry. The Easter bunny thought it would be trickier to spot with food stacked in front of it. The Easter bunny was wrong. It was the first basket to be found.

Hannah, the family princess (note the pose), found her basket behind a chair in the living room.

I think the Easter bunny realized that Matthew is not mobile so he hid the basket under Matthew's toy bar.

Matthew loved his first Easter basket.

The hunt is ON!!

For those of you who have been to my house you may recognize the spot that Ethan and Calvin are gathering eggs as the spot where I had a huge bush/tree covered with little purple flowers. Recently Ethan and his pal decided to chop it down. I had just pruned it way back for the year so it could burst out again. To them it must have looked like a fun stick poking out of the ground. I was doing the dishes later in the day and happened to look out the window and saw that my pruned bush was splinters and nothing more! AAARGH! Ethan had the pleasure of spending the rest of that day (with his friend) weeding the planters in the back yard until it was dark. They actually did a great job weeding. When they came in I told them to go out and gather up all the weeds they pulled and put them in the garbage. They informed me that it was not necessary because they had thrown all the weeds over the back wall as they went. LOL! I told Ethan that he was going to be the one to dig out the big stump he left behind. To my surprise he actually did do it. He went out the following Monday and dug and hacked for hours. Finally, he came bursting in the back door all excited and told me to come see. I went to the door to see a large stump sitting in the middle of the grass! I was very proud of him for sticking to a very difficult task and seeing it through. I know he was proud of himself too, though I don't think he will be chopping down any more trees.

Boy, I just got really distracted...

The egg hunt continues.

You would think that Ethan found ALL the eggs. You'd be wrong though. I have a little problem with moderation when it comes to candy filled eggs. Maybe I'll work it out in therapy, maybe I won't.

Ethan got his Wolf Award

Congratulations Ethan on doing all that was necessary to get your wolf badge in cub scouts.

Hannah "Beth" Campbell

Today I was driving to pick up Callie from school. I looked at Hannah in the rear view mirror and asked her, "Did you know I love you?" She nodded at me and I restated, "I love you Hannah Beth Campbell." She got a slightly puzzled look on her face with a crinkled nose and a slight tilt of the head and asked, "My middle name is Beth?" I replied that is was, in fact, Beth. She said, "I thought it was Bethie-Poo."

Matthew Says "Hi!"

Ivory Curls Wedding Cake

Here is the latest wedding cake I have made. This one is ivory fondant with curls done in ivory royal icing. The bottom and middle tiers are vanilla cake with a raspberry filling. The top layer is a red velvet cake with a cream cheese filling.