Happy 2nd birthday to Miss Peightin Linn~

I am finally feeling better after my sinus surgery I had on Oct 7th, and just got through making Peightin's 2nd birthday cake. She is in LOVE with dogs, and calls them dog dog, so I made a dog cake and her own little "paw" print cake. Here are some pictures of the process. Also, Mel and I went up to Moses Lake and met Jennifer, Kai and Kinleigh to exchange Christmas gifts. It will be sad to not be able to celebrate Christmas with them this year. They will have all 6 kids, so would be hard to come down, and Mel has to work. So we will probably just go over to Jared's for awhile.

Here are pictures of Grandpa Mel trying to win a toy for Kinleigh and Kai...no success.

And pictures of Peightin's 2nd birthday. You will notice her licking the frosting on her cake. Well, her brother, Quintin came along and pushed her head into the cake. Therefore, you will notice frosting on her forehead in most of the pictures.
Til later...

Update on this awesome year!

I can't believe how long it has been since I posted on this blog. I am ashamed of myself! Life has been like it is in fast forward mode.

Since April Mel and I have celebrated our 33rd anniversary on May 26th, Jared and Tammy celebrated birthdays in July, Kaeden celebrated his 8th birthday Aug 29th and Kailer celebrated his 5th birthday Sept 8th. Then we just celebrated Kinleigh's first birthday this past weekend. It was 12 days before her actual birthday of Oct 28th. Tatum celebrated her 10th birthday in July, Triniti her 9th and Riley his 8th both in August too.

Mel and I are going to be blessed with a 4th grandson, Paxtin Lee around February 2, 2011. Jared and Tammy are the expecting parents.

Then in June of this year Jennifer, Kinleigh and I got to experience a once in a lifetime trip to El Dorado Springs, Missouri for an awesome visit with Kinleigh getting to meet her Great Great Grandma Velma Irene Smith. We did 5 generation pictures while there. We also had the pleasure of Pam and Aimee's company while there. My parents were already there when we got there. It was Pam and Aimee's idea to go back and we are glad they invited us to go too!

Kaeden started 2nd grade, Kailer started Pre-school and I enjoyed making them a Toy Story Birthday party that I think they loved.

Mel and I have enjoyed several weekends at our beach house in Lincoln City. We can say we are sure loving our second home there and are proud of the work we have accomplished there.

I just had sinus surgery Oct 7th and am recovering from that.

I will post some pictures...it will be SO hard to just post a few, as so much time has passed since I wrote here.