Party Time with Jude!

This is Party Day!!! We just got home from celebrating with Jude and his family at his house.  What a fun time!  Nana, Papa, Great Gran, Aunt Mallory, Uncle JC and Aunt Misty and Kyla, Uncle Matt and Aunt Lindsay, Cael and Ava, Mema, Pappy, and Josh Mitchell were all there for the Spiderman/Avengers party!  And, look!  It's Thor!!

And there's Captain America and Spiderman!!!

Superhero best buds........

We all have such a great time together.  Love this family...all sides of it!

And I feel so much better knowing we have all these superhero's in the family.  The world is a much safer place with these "bad guy" fighters in it.

Thanks, Todd and Heather for the pizza and cappucino punch.  Yummmmmy!

5 Year Old Jude!!

Happy Birthday to Jude Ezra Wallace who turned 5 on February 13, 2013!

This has been a birthday week for Jude.  His birthday was actually on Wednesday and guess what?  It snowed!

Friday, Jude and I went birthday shopping for him.  First stop....Build A Bear, which has been a custom in our family.  I take each one to Build A Bear on their 5th birthday.  So...off to the mall.... Jude picked out a gray bear with ears that light up when you squeeze his hand.

Then he picked out an Iron Man costume for his bear, Tony Stark.  The clerk was quite impressed that he knew the real names of Iron Man, Spiderman, Batman, Captain America and Hulk.  He also picked out a Batman and Spiderman costume for his other animals.

Then we went to the Food Court to eat Chic Fil A...but first a stop at the ice cream truck.

Then on to Toys 'R Us where we found a Blue Power Ranger on a motorcycle and a Power Ranger Morph something or other.  We found a movie at Vintage Stock for him then met Momma and Jadon and Haven at Wal-Mart.

What a fun day with Jude the Dude!  Jude, I love your energetic personality.  You are so smart and funny.  I can't believe you are going to start school next fall.  I will miss you and our Fridays together.  I love you!

Mema

It's 2013.......My January

January is always a really busy month for me.  It's year-end giving statements for everyone who has donated money to Global Encounter or sponsored a school child.  It's also 1099 time for those who have worked for us during the year.  It's also tax time for Gary and Donna...sad face....no refund.

However, this year for some reason I found the time to do all of those things and still get Jude's scrapbook up to date just waiting for his birthday pictures to finish it.

I also dusted off my sewing machine and bought some 18" doll patterns and made some clothes for Bailey, Ruthie, and Haven's American Girl dolls.

Here's some of them:

I haven't sewn in many years, but I really enjoyed this.  I just warned the girls not to show them to anyone who sews all the time....might be embarrassing to look too closely at my seams and stitches.

Happy New Year everyone!!!!