Birthday Presents

Benjamin's birth-mother is always generous and kind to all of us. This year again she sent something that Benjamin loved. Here is his reaction as he opened Dusty cropduster. Many thanks!!

Birthday boy

This is our excited Birthday Boy.  He wore his birthday badge all day at school.  He counted down the days to his birthday this year and jumped out of bed when he realized it was his special day.  Here he is with his special bookmark waiting to open his presents.

The lego set present

Scooby-Doo birthday cake

I made lego cake pops for Benjamin's classroom.  As it turned out he couldn't take them because they have a no homemade stuff rule.  I ended up going to BJ's and got cupcakes and cider for the classroom and Benjamin delivered the cakepops to his favorite teachers.  In the end it worked out well.

This morning Benjamin woke up super early.  Before 7 am -and breakfast, he and Daddy had the model plane that his birth mother sent together.  I expect to have it flying around the house upon his return this afternoon.  

Cure for cold weather

We installed a new fireplace.   I really love it.  It's so nice to hit the remote and have a fire.  It's also equally nice to be able to shut it off if it's too warm or if we are leaving quickly.  Many thanks to my brother Scott who gave up a valuable Saturday to come install it.  It now looks beautiful with our stocking hanging from it in hopes that Santa finds us.

The kids building a snow man and making snow angels.

I couldn't resist including this picture of Alec on his sled.  He will wait forever for someone to pull him on his sled around the yard.  He is the most patient of all the children.  We made lots of trails back and forth in the front yard as there wasn't enough snow to go sledding.  Ther'e snow in this weekend's forcast though -- hopefully we get enough to sled.