Tuesday, March 10, 2009

We were having fun

Our first 10 days of March were packed with excitement! March is such a great month - not only is it my birth month but so many great things happen in March - for instance: Baseball, spring, baseball... okay, so you get the idea. I just love this month! Here is a little catch-up of what we have been up too:

My baby brother Chad celebrated his 16th birthday with us! As a tradition we get to pick out our birthday dinner and dessert. Chad picked out Chinese food. We had Kung Pao chicken, potstickers, wontons, pork fried rice, sticky rice & white rice. It was quite the spread - then for dessert we had mint Oreo dessert. yyyyuuuummmmm Oh, and now that Chad is 16 he thinks that he is a tough guy. He told my dad - "I can probably take you now dad - your an old man!" Dan tried explaining to Chad that no matter how old your dad gets you can never "take him" he will ALWAYS be tougher. Chad didn't believe Dan and this is the result:



Chad got taken.


Spencer is a Cub Scout now and coming up on Saturday is the Pine Wood Derby. I don't know who is more excited Dan or Spencer (or my dad). They were out in my parents garage making it nice and purdy. Dan has been researching models of pinewood derby cars and which one has the highest potential for 1st place!



He got that car so smooth! I was really impressed that he was that patient. I will show you all the finished product this weekend after the race!

My brother Tyler is finally starting to warm up to the family. He has been living with my parents since December and has really been kind of a grouch. Finally we told him to shape up and start being nice, and he has - for the most part.


Look Livy is even starting to like him now. She used to cry whenever he would look at her.

We have so much fun together - I am so happy that my parents are moving to Arizona too! I can't even imagine living far away from them again. How did we do it for so long?

Olivia is our little Carb-o-holic. If there were Carbohydrate addiction anonymous we would take her. She is OBSESSIVE, and I am not kidding. She will find ANY cracker, cake, cookie, bread - ANY CARB you have within her grasp and she will open it and devour it. As shown here with the pancake MIX!

oooh oooh! We paid off our black car! So exciting! Here is Dan reading over the title. Nice!

Noelle is really attached to Olivia, we took Noelle with us over to my parents and this is where she rode the whole time! So cute! oh what is that on the window you ask? rain. weird. i .know.

Ryleigh in her little tween-ness is loving the gossip magazines all the sudden. Here she is reading People about the scum-bag jerk of a Bachelor. rrrg

Ethan continues to make us laugh with his quirky little personality. Dan is constantly commenting on how much he reminds him of Cory, Dan's brother. He likes to run through the picture frame when I am taking a picture and see what happens. Here he is.

4 comments:

Darcie said...

What a great synopsis of our life here - well, your life really, but you're all kind enough to always include us in it. I honestly have no idea how we lived so far from each other for so long and I don't EVER want to do it again, o.k? Love you!

Duane and Jan Gibbons Family said...

Ah-h. Pinewood Derby...Dan probably has horrible memories...single mom--enough said. Now is your chance to make up for it Dan! Make Grandpa Cheatham proud Dan (oh I mean Spencer). You get my drift. You are all adorable and isn't family great!! See you soon.

Anonymous said...

They are all getting too big! Stop growing until we can visit you guys! Hurray for moving to AZ! Looks like we will be moving there in two years! Miss you guys!

Anonymous said...

Hi Jeni