ONE - TWO - REESE IS THREE!!

January is commonly known as BIRTHDAY MONTH around here!

We have lots of birthdays:  Gail, Randy, Reese, Aunt Nita, ME!!, and Nick ... probably others that I am forgetting.  I even think Paul B's is during January too, right?

Today was Reese's birthday party at Pizza Ranch.  I really like their pizza, it is YUMMY.  In fact, its been long enough now - I could eat another piece!  Oh well!  Thanks Josh and JoDe for including us on your invitation list!  Love your little family!!

There was a good representation from all of the families -- Josh's parents, an aunt and uncle and a niece were there.  JoDe's uncle "Doc" and his wife and their little son Daniel ("Doc" is brother to JoDe's dad, Larry).  O course Joy was there with Maggie and Colton, my mom, and Nick, Randy and I.  Maggie had a friend there too.

It was fun to watch Reese open her gifts, SO MUCH more interest than last year! - and boy did she get a bunch of them.  The first one she opened was so big she ended up having to take a piece of wrapper in her hand  and walk around and around the box to get it unwrapped! 

The most amusing thing was Reese's fascination with her cards.  She studied them, she carried them around the room to show this person or that, she pronounced them ADORABLE.  It was cute.  Not that she didn't like all the great gifts, SHE DID, but she really enjoyed cards.  Who knew!?

Hover your cursor over the pics for words!

I've been playing with digital scrapbooking.  I'm using it as an excuse to learn Photoshop CS4.  I'm really excited to learn it - and there is SO much that you could learn if you had the time!  But little by little I'm starting to figure out this and/or that.  FUN!!!

Here are a couple of my first attempts -- pretty much all I have are a couple of attempts.  I'm pretty slow and NEW at it!

Christmas REINDEER GAMES:

And our little 'characters' in October:

Now I suppose it is time to get my laundry out of the dryer and then start getting ready to wind the weekend down.  Bah-humbug!  The big boss (of the a.m.) is off work tomorrow, so ... *smile*

Hope your weekend was wonderful and long enough ... oh come on!  Who am I kidding?  Weekends are NEVER long enough!

Wyn and Andy -- there's a creature in our basement who has fondly been named "Franken-puter" -- you coming on Saturday night to play with us and start bonding with Frank?  Ryan and Rhiannon are coming home on Friday - through Sunday evening ... AND Baby J is coming with them!  My arms need to do a little holding and hugging!