This is my darling bouncy little nephew! It was to cute a picture not to show.

I received some Omish Friendship Bread and have been so exited to make it. It is sooo good, but I am not a very good baker, but thought I could do this. I love to cook hate to bake! These pictures tell the story. All the doors and windows are open to let all the smoke out and Kennedy did not want to breath the bad air. I hate to give up so I will try 1 more time and hopefully get it!

I was baking chocolate chip cookies today and feeling a little lonely, anxiously awaiting Kennedy to get home from school and Darren to get home from work. I had 3 of my friends drop in and visit and eat cookies with me. It made my day. I am so glad I have good friends. Thank you girls and you know who you are!

This is how my morning started today, it is a huge RAT crawling around on my driveway and under my car. Kennedy and I ran back in the house screaming and Kennedy was screaming call 911-the damn rat was not in the least bit afraid of us. We have to get to school and work so we had to get back out there, we started walking towards the car and it started walking towards us! We had to wait until we couldn't see it and make a run for the car. I am a nervous wreck about this ugly thing. I need a hunter.

Kennedy got a spa kit for Christmas so we finally got around to having a little party today. She invited her friend Jordan out and they made strawberry perfume and lip gloss, and vanilla sugar foot scrub. We then had a little tea party with mini sandwiches and Cheetos with bug juice to drink. I pretended I worked at the spa and did cucumber masks and eye treatments with hand and foot treatments and then they took turns painting each other's toe nails. It was fun to hear all the laughing!

I have started going in and helping my Aunt Darlene with my cousins, Brenda and Lane. I just want everyone to know what amazing people they are. They have been in wheelchairs for about 33 years with a degenerative condition known as Spinal Cerebellar Atrophy. I am so inspired and want to be a better person because of how they live. They are literally trapped in their body and I have NEVER heard them complain or get upset. I get mad at some of the dumbest things. I am learning as I get older how precious life is and how short it is. They are such a wonderful example to me and my daughter and I feel very lucky to have such a great friendship with them. We were heading to Ogden the other day to go shopping and I was going to take a ton of pictures and this is the only one I got (sorry Brenda) but Lane was ready to go and he kept us hoppin all day. On that note I have to vent...we were trying to find a parking space in the mall on Friday and there was not ONE handicapped parking space available. We drove around and around waiting for someone to come out, no one did so we found a handicapped space for the building next door and started to get out ( a long way from where we needed to be) A big yellow truck pulled in next to us in another handicapped space-all 3 of the people in the truck got out and walked into the mall..it makes me crazy. My 73 year old aunt who has to get 2 people out of the van and into wheel chairs couldn't find a parking space and people who don't really need them are parking there. I didn't get to upset, but was a little disgusted. We got back to the car a while later and were just getting Brenda and Lane in the van to eat lunch. The yellow truck was gone but another car pulled right into the handi space...a little girl, a mother and another lady got out, looked at us feeding Brenda and Lane and said "Oh, we parked in a handicapped spot" and kept on a walkin. I WAS SO DISGUSTED. They should be ahsamed of themselves. I learned a lot from that and decided we all need to be a little more considerate of others!

I went in to take pictures of Kennedy sleeping the other night and when I went in Rufus was sleeping right beside her and Shasta was sleeping on her legs! I have tried and tried to get her to let the dogs sleep on the floor or in their room downstairs and I guess it's just not going to happen, so they all sleep in my bed (Kennedy, Rufus and Shasta) and we have a slumber party every night!