Happy Birthday Alene!

Alene was born on April 15th and no one has yet done a tax theme b-day....until now! Chrissy, Jenn, and I surprised her at her work and arrested her for "tax fraud". We then took her out for a pedicure at Jimmy's. Sorry guys, but still not mine or Chrissy's favorite.
Here we are with the Birthday Girl! We didn't totally surprise her since she saw my car and vanity plates. Big give away. Oh well.

Jenn decided to do a manicure instead. Baby Chris got to hang out with us and was so good, till we got to dinner at least.

We had a huge group meet us at Cheesecake Factory to round up Alene's birthday. We were able to get her a nice Cannon camera which she needed since hers died 2 weeks ago. We had Liz, Shelley, Debbie, Jen T, Susan, Christina, Maya, Michelle, besides ourselves from earlier. Donelle, Leslie, and Kelly sent their love as well.

Happy Birthday Alene! We all love you!

When you give a boy a camera

We went to the riparian so Jason and Trevor could work on their photography merit badge. We also took along Chris and T.J.
When we got home to look at their photos, they had gotten some real good ones and ones that were all boy. I wish I had T.J.'s. Pics of urinals. more dead fish. pencils in peoples cracks. It was lovely. Sorry Kelly that I didn't edit them before he left.


Dead fish was a recurring theme among the boys.




This one got fixed up with a red berry in it's eye for that evil look. Nice touch.
This one is all out the white stuff next to the duck. They were amazed at output and quantity of this poor duck.

Backyard Campout

Almost as soon as I saw my first born son I realized I would have to be
a part of the scouting program. As my fifth boy was in my arms, I knew
I was now doomed to at least 15 years to scouting. Trevor needed to go
camping and cook outside to get his outdoors man. Since Cole goes camping
once a month with the Deacons, you can bet he doesn't want to go with his family for fun. He and Nick
were gone this weekend as so it fell to me. I enlisted Jason and his friends Chris and T.J. ( They were not much help.)
So here is my attempt at cooking with the kids, putting up a tent, and getting out of actually sleeping outside.
The kids loved it and he now can get his Arrow of Light as well, which is the highest award a
cub scout can get.


Cooking with the kids.










MJ is looking out for us!












My three little kiddos.












My three big kiddos. They did help out by sleeping outside so I didn't have to.

The Roaring 20's

The Howard's gave a 20's themed murder mystery dinner in honor of Gary's 30th birthday.
They put so much thought and effort into it. Each of the rooms were decorated with a theme, a menu printed with drinks were you could order, they even had pictures of their girls dressed as mobsters all over the house. And as you can see, even all the guests
put a lot of effort into the dress. I'm so sad I didn't get a picture of all the guys. Liz, please post a picture of Tyler. It's a must see.
Thanks to the Howard's for a great evening.

All the gals.















They all bought the same wig at Party City.














Cole and I . I was suppose to come with a black eye
as part of my character. My dress was beautiful but
this picture is not!


















Liz and Alene. They played their parts splendidly!














Alene was the MURDRER!