Happy Birthday… Or Something

December 22 at 11:11PM my oldest son turned 15 year old. Don't

judge his mother by the lame tea light birthday candle. This

is just the world I live in. We used to have lots of candles..

and then the man came along and threw them away without

warning… so I'm left without birthday candles.

I let my children choose what kind of cake they want. On his first birthday I made him a black forest cake. I know that's a little strange, but he loved the cherry pie filling stuff and chocolate..

Since he's been able to talk.. he's request "funfetti cake".. He could have any kind of homemade cake with homemade butter cream frosting.. and he picks FunFetti.

Who would eat a cake that looks like this? I mean the blue is the

same color as the turquoise Fiesta plate!

What’s Going On.. Because.. it’s Monday

I’ve been a little lax in my daily to do list.  I don’t think they are interesting, but my 5 readers like them.. So we have to give the people what they want 😉  I’m really late in doing this list today.. but here it is anyway.

1. School with #4 and #5 (#2 and #3 will be doing a little spring cleaning)

2. Go to the friends of the library sale

3. Upload 400+ photos.

4. Dinner: Tacos, cilantro rice, spoon bread, chips and salsa (This is#5’s birthday dinner choice)

5. Run to the grocery store.

6. Get the church’s charity auctions uploaded this evening.

7. Upload my auctions this evening.

8. work on updating my store categories **on going**

9. Make Father Daughter Masquerade ball mask

10.  Monkey’s need a hair cut.

11. List any books I bought to re-sale on Amazon.  (see list item #2)

12. Frost #5’s cupcakes for his Birthday 🙂

13. Plan Youth Group for Wednesday

14. Plan Girl Scouts

15. Write Article

16. Write up the stuff below…

Writing up Sunglasses…

BOXES of Sunglasses

Miscellaneous JUNK

More Sunglasses..

lots of slippers

Oh.. and slippers

It’s a Surprise Birthday For Lorna Lou!

I totally missed my friend Lorna’s Birthday, (she has the Shotgun Mama Blog) because of this we thought we should throw her a little surprise party.

Here’s some photos of the event!

Here they come to put the sombero on Lorna’s head!

I think she might be a bit embarrassed!

Miguel got her with whip cream on her nose…

This is actually the second time she was wiping it off…

Happy Birthday Lorna! Even if it’s a bit late.

Happy Birthday To Me…

Today is my birthday.. I have mixed emotions about my birthdays. I mean I’m thankful to be here another year.. but I’m not amused about being older. I know.. I know some people say it means something to be older.. but to me I think our society makes people of a certain age irrelevant. I have felt irrelevant the majority of my life.. so it’s a shame NOW that I finally think I understand some of it, only to find out that I am thought of as irrelevant. Does that make sense?

Enough with my wining.. lets see what was going on here today…. The cutest thing happened last night, #4 slept on the floor in my bedroom so he could be the first to tell me Happy Birthday.. How sweet is that? I took ALL of the monkey’s to lunch today and we ran a few errands… I don’t know why I didn’t take very many photos of that…

I went to dinner with a few friends to celebrate my birthday.. and to celebrate our church’s Christian Ed Director (she’s awesome) 🙂

I received this super cute.. handmade scrapbook.. (this is just one page of it) I love it!

After dinner I headed home to have some cake with the family 🙂

Don’t you love the banner? I’m not sure why it says “SUZIE” instead of “MOM”.

#3, #5, #4 showing the super cool banner and paper chain they made.

This is one of the cool things I got for my birthday.. No not the dork on the left..(you know #2)

That’s a Starbucks Insulated tumbler. It’s acrylic, and is made to look like one of the Starbucks glasses they handout.

I’ve wanted one for awhile.. but couldn’t find one. Except on eBay where they go for quite a pretty penny..

(what is a pretty penny?)

OOOH.. I wanted some new RED rubber scrapers.. and I got them!

(I keep telling The Man I am a simple woman.. with simple needs)

Here’s 4 of the 5… waiting for the cake..

#4 eyeballing my cake..

Some of my loot…

Who doesn’t want some pink shox? (besides The Man.. he thinks they are UGLY)

I also got this firm pillow top mattress. Which #4 and #5 love..

Look how nice it looks made…

It was a good birthday. I’m going to work on that whole being irrelevant thing..