Making Wishes

This Mother's Day Jeremy and the kids became my wish makers :).  They created a genie lamp out of a watering can with their names on it and a little saying on the bottom.  Then they each inserted 3 golden tickets and said "Your wish is my command!" Jeremy even made tie-dye shirts with the kids for them to wear while granting my wishes.  It was so cute! I loved it so much.  

My wish makers! 

(Jeremy even made a shirt for Craig but Craig was down for a nap :)

I am carefully deciding how I am using all these wishes... I have to make sure they're good wishes!  So far I've used two and they have come quite in handy! 

Thank you so much you guys! I sure love you!

HE'S ONE!!  

Isn't crazy how fast time flies.  Just a year ago this guy was just barely 7 lbs and and still living in snooze land.  By golly not any more! He's a 21 lb speedster and all smiles :).  We just can't get enough of this kid!

His little character is coming out more and more, haha... this is him "cheesing" for the camera :)

I was wondering if he'd enjoy ripping apart wrapping paper, but he wanted nothing to do with it... just wanted to play with his new toy.

He was unsure about diving into his cake... burning his little finger on the candle didn't help any way :(

But he quickly learned how tasty this pile of  food was!

Particularly the frosting :)

Num Num!

We did a double celebration with this hunk of a cutie! Mic (My brother's boy) was born the day before (a year ahead).  So this crazy 2 year old was quite experienced on how to consume a personal size b-day cake properly!  Happy birthday Craig and Mic!!

THIS... I did not wish for though.  So while we were away one weekend, we got a phone call from a couple of our neighbors (I'm so grateful for awesome neighbors!).  From the multiple stories I was given, this is what we believe happened : At 4 am the police were in pursuit of a car theft.  They pulled down our street and stopped 2 houses down from our home.  2 guys rushed out of their cars in opposite direction.  One of them ran through our neighbors yard and up to our fence. He must have not been able to jump it, because he dropped his jacket and kicked in our fence and went on through.  During all this the police got out their dogs to sniff out the guys.  The one that went into our yard had jumped the other side of our fence and into our neighbors' backyard this time.  They saw the guy through their window and were watching the whole thing.  Well the dogs found the guy in the corner of their back yard and bit him good.  He started screaming 'like a girl', my neighbor said as he was snickering.  The other guy they lost track of, but... That was a little bit of crazy news, let me tell you! And I do have to say... I am glad we weren't home at the time.