Happy 23rd Birthday David!

At age 11, a young boy with a lot of issues walked in our door. Cute as can be but his behavior was not so cute! As time passed he has grown into a wonderful young man. He has grown so much and made progress above and beyond anybody's expectations! He has happily turned another year older and we are very proud of him! He has learned a lot and taught us a lot over the years.

Happy Birthday to a WONDERFUL son!!

School Spirit: Tuesday-Cartoon Character

It is school spirit week at Carson High! Tommy comes home monday and says "I need to dress up like a cartoon character for tomorrow." Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!! Nothing like a little notice!! So we start googling away to find some easy cartoon character to turn him into....

Batman: no....

Superman: no....

Yugi: nope....

Shaggy: maybe....

Popeye: This is it!!

So off to the store for a little felt and a hat. So within a couple of hours he transformed from Tommy to Popeye, corncob pipe and all!

He even posed like him and tried to make his face! I LOVE IT!!! I went into photoshop and played.

He makes a great Popeye if I do say so myself!

Tommy came home from school and was soooo proud! They picked 2 costume winners from each grade and he was picked for the 11th graders!! He said he got some cool Carson beads. He can't stop smiling!!

Happy 11th Birthday Jerrud!

October 7th has come and gone and Jerrud turned 11! I don't know where the past 11 years has gone! He is growing up to be such a handsome....man....boy.....He is still a boy, not quite a man. He will be before we know it though! He has such a fun personality. It seems as if he can never learn enough! We are so proud of who he is choosing to become as he grows up.

Happy birthday Jerrud!!

So here is the cake and yes it is store bought :( And yes it is for both of them :( And yes their birthdays are a month apart :( Poor Tommy has been so patient waiting for me to make his dream cake and time just hasn't been our friend lately. So they got to share one this year and the dream cakes will come later!

All the dirt magnets after coming in to have cake and ice-cream and open presents. Just family this year so no biggy! At least they washed their hands :)


He got all hands on presents. A gyroscope (love those), a flying plane thingy,

an mp3 player and below he is working on his invention kit.

Cub Scout 2 Boy Scout

Jerrud has his crossing over ceremony into boy scouts! He would be 11 the week after this was done. Brother Lockerman was one of his cubscout leaders.

Here they are taking off all his cub scout stuff :(

The best part is that his dad just got a calling as the 11 yr old scout leader!!
So he got to cross him over into boyscouts!

So he is officially a boy scout now!

Happy 18th Birthday Tommy!

Hard to believe it was 10 years ago already when he came to our home. He was wearing the same size clothes as my youngest is now. Now he has become a handsome young man and has made us very proud! Happy birthday to a great young man!

(Pic coming soon!)