Baking and Bon Jovi.

Baking and Bon Jovi you ask?   Both Delicious.

While listening to his CD cleaning house I decided to bake some cookies,  and since I am a big fan of Bon Jovi and a big fan of chocolate chip cookies it made sense at the time. This is beginning to sound like the "If you give a mouse a cookie" scenario.  So it bears repeating,  BOTH  delicious. (Yes, I did have a glass of milk.)

Time to party...

 As I promised, pictures of the party.

What party would be complete without presents?

He was so happy with his airplanes and helicopters.

More joy.

More delight.

The loooong awaited Apache helicopter, that he just knew Gramma was going to get for him.

Time for cake. This is not the same cake that Micah made. I made another one, just in case we needed it.

Insert the happy birthday song here.........

And,,, my most favorite photo of all....The look of excitment when he opened the beloved Apache.
Fun times.  Birthday parties for a 4 year old boy bring joy to this gramma.
Happy Birthday to You.

4 years old today.

  He told me that he would not be 4 years old until Saturday. Well today is Saturday and he is  FOUR.

Count em'  one, two, three, four.

Balloons at the door
one, two, three, four.

His happy little face.  He loved them.

Just in case you forget,, here's a big gold 4.

No, I am NOT 4

Oh how I love this 4 year old boy.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY.  I will post pics of the party soon.  Bet you all can't wait. (Debra, this means you,)

Make your cake and eat it too.

First, you must taste, ya know, for the health and safety of others.

Quality control...

OK everyone,    it is safe to eat.

Spread chocolate cool whip,  CHECK

More spreading... notice the melting ice cream

more tasting,  "yummy gramma"

stacking the ice cream sandwiches. melting.

Spreading on the cool whip frosting.

He is taking this job very seriously and insisted on doing it "by myself".

TAH -DAH   the final project... He added sprinkles...because every birthday cake needs sprinkles.

Micah helped me make his ice cream sandwich birthday cake. The fact that it was ICE CREAM should have been clue for me.  Melting, working quickly, a little boy who is being a great helper, melting, working quickly,,,melting, working quickly,  a little boy....you get the message. We had the BEST time and he loved it.  It will be served at his birthday party on Friday.  BON APPETITE

What were you doing?

Some things you will probably never forget.

Hard to believe 10 years have passed since this terrible event.
So thankful that I put my trust in a loving, powerful, FORGIVING God.

Say hello to my little friend.

Recently Micah has loved bees.  We play bees when we are together and he LOVES, I mean LOOOVES the Bee Movie.  We watched it at his house on Wednesday and when it was over, he asked me if I had a big bee.  He held his hands apart and showed me how big.  I told him that I didn't have a big bee.   I found some styrafoam balls, yarn, chenille wires and felt and went to makin' a  BIG bee.  I know this is a pitiful attempt at making Barry Benson (he is the bee from the Bee Movie),  When I gave it to him on Friday...his sweet little face was precious.  When he saw Barry... He said  Gramma, I looooveeee it. You made this.  Oh thank you gramma.  He actually said it looks just like Barry.  He quickly checked to see if it had a stinger, it does..because a stinger is very important to every bee. It takes so little to make this boy so happy.We watched the Bee Movie again on Friday and Barry  watched with us. 

Micah and Barry Benson

The happy friends.  Thanks for buzzzzzzzin by.

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

Those are the words spoken by Josh, my son after winning the Chick-fil-a biggest fan contest .It was a contest our Chick-fil-a in Bakersfield ran on facebook and the winner was determined by votes. He will receive a meal a week for a year.  My claim to fame is I am the mother of the biggest fan.  All the votes counted, the contest is (finally) over.  I think what they didn't tell him was that he will have to dress up in the cow costume and then supervise the play area.   I wonder what my title is.....let's see.  The first mother of chickenness,  The mother of all chickens.  El Pollo Loco????    That seems right.