The 10 Photo Birthday Extravaganza!!

This has been a very crazy week here in Central Indiana. It has been COLD, I mean 40 below with wind chill type cold. To start off the week of interesting weather, we had a snow storm that dropped a few inches on us. I came home from work early to make sure that I didn't get stuck in rush hour traffic (it took me an hour and 45 minutes to get to work that day) and since I was home in the daylight I took Kai our for his first romp in the snow (temps were in the high 20's that day). He really liked the snow but he was very glad when we went back in to the house.

On Friday, Kai turned one! Mom took Kai to the Dr for his one year check-up in the morning and I went ahead and went to work as mom was going to have to work late. Since it was just Kai and I that evening, we celebrated with this helium balloon that I bought on my way home from work.

This is perhaps the best $2 that I may ever spend. Of course, the worst $2 that I may ever spend was the 2nd balloon that I bought that popped on my way home.
On Saturday, Stephanie and I filled Kai's room up with balloons. He loved that!

The balloons were nearly as big as him!
On Sunday Kai opened his birthday present from his grandpa and grandma Lesnet. He really likes the Caterpillar type thing. It has 26 legs so I'm not sure what kind of bug it is but it is pretty sweet!
Of course, what birthday celebration is complete without some birthday cake! Stephanie and I (but mostly Stephanie, of course) made a carrot cake from scratch.

We think he liked it.
This here cake is pretty good mom and dad!
Thanks mom and dad for the cake!!
Life for us has been busy and will continue to be extra busy at least until the end of February. I will try to continue to update the blog on a regular basis but please don't get concerned if we miss a week from time to time. We will get back to weekly posts in March.

The whole assembly then agreed to celebrate the festival seven more days; so for another seven days they celebrated joyfully. - 2 Chronicles 30:23

Happy New Year!

Hello and Happy New Year!

The new year is always Stephanie and my busiest times at our jobs and this year is no exception. The good thing about being so busy is that there is not a lot of new news that needs to be updated on the blog...that is also the bad part of being so busy.

We are quickly approaching Kai's 1st birthday and there should be a lot of pictures taken when we celebrate. Since there will be pictures, we needed to clean up Kai's flowing mowhawk hairdo. Kai got his first haircut on January 4th. Here are some action shots:


Here is Kai right after the haircut. He did not sit still and we were both pretty tired by the end of the haircut but he works it pretty good.
Once he saw how good he looked, he was happy again!
Stephanie and I have started doing some decorating in our house. We bought this huge 36" clock. Of course, nobody is going to notice the clock with the two really, really, ridiculously good looking dudes in their sweaters.
Kai only likes to eat if he gets to feed himself. Here he is eating some applesauce with a spoon. He wants to be so independent.We will have a big post with pictures and updates for Kai's first birthday next weekend.

If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,' - Job9:27