Happy Birthday to the World's Best MIL!

A special birthday post goes out to the world's greatest mother-in-law! Especially since I forgot to call her today. Oops. And when I called Michael in San Antonio at 10:30 tonight, hoping that at least he'd remembered to call her, he had forgotten too. Double oops.

I remembered yesterday. And the day before. The intentions were good but the follow-through was lacking. So Happy Happy Birthday Mom from Michael and I! Sorry we're such losers.

Seriously though, I have the world's greatest mother-in-law. First of all, she raised a pretty awesome son which I am very grateful for. And she has been the nicest, most fun, best to chat with, best to make you feel welcome over and over again, best to shop with, best to help decorate your house, best to make delicious pies to eat and best at lots of other things I could list but I won't because it's 2 a.m. and I really need to get to bed mother-in-law EVER. And the grandkids are pretty crazy about her too. 

Happy Birthday! We love you.

And yes, I think this will be my new Halloween costume:

Evan's 4th Birthday

Happy Birthday Evan! I can't believe he's 4 already. He seems like such a big boy now. What happened to my little baby? Ah, the parental lament about time passing so quickly.

Evan wanted a shark-themed birthday this year.  It's become tradition to do a cake in the shape of whatever image strikes the kids' fancy that year. Believe me, I tried to get out of this tradition in the beginning. A few years back I mentioned I was going to get a birthday cake from Costco when Michael went on and on about how he can still remember the birthday cakes his mom made and how much he loved them and how special they made him feel. Oh darn. It's just that cakes are not really my bag of skills. (At least the making-them part. I'm pretty darn good at eating them, you know!) 

So here's Evan's shark cake. I love the 3D effect. I found the idea from Grab Your Fork.

I had a small pizza party for Evan at the park. We played feed the shark and pin the fin on the shark. Emma got a kick out of pretending she was being eaten alive.

Is it Wrong That I Find This Funny?

Last week Michael and Evan went boating with some of our friends. Sadly, I did not get to go. I was home playing nursemaid to Emma. 

Evan was in the captain's chair feeling pretty calm and confident. Watch as he starts to get a little bit nervous in the hot seat.

Is it bad that I laugh every time I see this? By the way,  I am told neither the boat nor Evan were ever in any danger.