Junior's 2 - it's a little Deja Vu

A few pictures from the big day!

Loved his egg free cake!

and now for the

Deja vu!

Here's Bubba when he turned 2!

Boys and Valentines

So, yesterday I worked all afternoon making these cookies for my boys!

(Mostly for the daddy boy

- he LOVES them and he doesn't get them very often -

my mom can tell you why)

So after hours of tedious work I presented my Valentine offering... and now I'm thinking I'll be changing the way I decorate these cookies... what was I thinking... white... pink.... purple?

Instead of discussing love, or sweetness, or Valentine's Day - the topic of choice?

Dinosaurs!

"Wouldn't it be great if dinosaurs were still alive? Then they might attack us on the playground. We'd have to take guns to school! Yeah really big guns to shoot the dinosaurs!"

What?

Well they are boys!

Next year I'll have to remember to use greens, browns and black.

Maybe I can make camouflage Valentine Cookies...

we'll see :)

To see my inspiration for these cookies go HERE.

Pioneer Village

We recently went on our first, "official," school field trip of the year.

(The Professor by the well at the Miner's Shack)

It took us about an hour to get to the Pioneer Living History Museum just north of Phoenix.

(The Professor & Junior in front of the school house.)

The Professor loves learning at home - however, I think all of us had a good time getting out for the morning. We learned about the early settlers of Arizona and Junior liked seeing the chickens in the chicken coop.

Right around lunch time the volunteers at the museum put on a good old fashioned gun fight on Main Street. I wasn't sure The Professor would like it, but he said he wanted to go... and I'm glad we did. Before the "show" the Sheriff and a few town people had a gun safety presentation - it was very informative and has convinced me I need to take a gun safety class - which wasn't something I'd ever thought about doing. When the gunfight started The Professor covered his ears... took a few deep breaths... but did a great job of handling the chaos. I'm so proud of him for wanting to do something that wasn't easy for him to do - he's made a lot of progress in the last couple of years!