Eric's 1st Birthday!

Eric had a great 1st birthday and Lisa couldn't wait to help him celebrate. She helped make the cake and then kept asking when we could eat it. Our little guy is obsessed with balls, so of course he had to have a baseball cake.














At first he wasn't quite sure what to do with his piece of cake so Scott started feeding him with a spoon. It didn't take long until he ditched the spoon and went for the handful of cake to the mouth. He was VERY mad when Scott took him out of his highchair to wash his hands. He was looking at me like "Mom don't let him take me away from this sweet yummy stuff"














He really didn't get a chance to try to open his presents because Lisa was "helping" him. By the end of the day, she was glad that Eric had a birthday. Now she wants to know when it's going to be her birthday!

I think we have a future cowboy in the making...

Eric loves to ride the horse. When he gets on he starts kicking his legs against the sides of the horse and then starts bouncing really fast. He does that over and over again. He's not quite big enough to get up on it himself, but he can climb onto the bottom rail and stands there and yells for me to come help him up.

A Great Valentine Gift For Your Sweetie

This is the best dessert ever. It's like key lime pie and chocolate all mixed together(because that's what it is!)

WHITE CHOCOLATE & LIME CHEESECAKE BARS

9 X 13 pan

2(7 oz) packages high quality white chocolate chips or chunk of chocolate, if using chunk type chop it up into pieces
27 chocolate sandwich cookies use the cookies that have the fudge filling instead of Oreos
1/4 cup real butter - melted (or enough to make the crust sticky)
1 cup cream
14 oz cream cheese at room temp
6 TBS sugar
7 TBS lime juice
2 TBS lime peel

Stir chopped white choc. in double boiler til smooth. I microwave it 1 min. and stir, 30 sec., stir and 30 sec. again. This must be done in a glass bowl.

Grind cookies 5 at a time in the blender and dump into the 9 x 13 pan
add 4 big TBS (not measuring spoons) melted white choc. and butter until crumbs are sticky. Press down hard to make the crust. It is a wetter than a normal graham cracker crust.

Whip cream add cream cheese, sugar, lime juice and peel and beat. Add in remaining white choc. and beat until light and fluffly. Pour over crust and chill at least 2 hours.

Let me know what you think!

I love each one of you tons ;)

SNOW TIME LIKE THE PRESENT

Doesn't this make you homesick?

You've gott'a love it.

We love you.

Mama & Daddy

We're moving

One basement apt. available.
- 43 F water on demand, right from the tap.
- 10-20 gallons of colloidal glacial water delivered to the storage room each day.
- many more untapped water sources throughout the unit, for you to discover.
- self-sufficient pet mice
- hot, fast-cooking oven. Zero to 600 F in a few minutes.
- wine cellar/bathroom. (it may bo too cold for wine, but you can flash freeze pizzas or make Dippin' Dots in there.)
- too many other ammenities to list

Extremely nice landlord we'll all miss. (For real.)

We're moving down the street to a house at 220 Parkview Drive. It's on the main windy road, after you go through the four-way stop.

Eric's Walking!

The day after we got home Eric started walking while pushing things around. On Sunday he decided he could do it himself and took a couple steps to reach the bed. Yesterday he walked half way across his bedroom to reach a toy. I can't believe what a big boy he is.

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