Birthday Party!

Ben and I went to Caleb Freeman's 2nd birthday party on Saturday! We had a great time feeding the ducks and playing on the playground. :) Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of Caleb... it was all I could do to keep Ben busy and out of the water. :)

He loves steering wheels. :)

Big-Brave-Slide-Man! :)

Fun in Tulsa

Ok, fine! I can't get the pictures to move, so you are going to have to see them in this random and haphazard way. :) Ben and I went to Tulsa, OK for the Usborne National Convention a couple weeks ago. I used a frequent flyer ticket, so an added perk was that we were able to spend a few days with two of my college suite-mates and their kiddos. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of Kerri and her three kiddos (I will get a few next weekend when they come to visit!) but I did snap a few of Emi, Brian & Jane's sweet little girl. Ben and I stayed with Jane & Brian and they were wonderful hosts! Anyway... here are some pictures from the trip...
This is the front room of the Home Office. I don't think it was what I was expecting, the building was not flashy or anything... basically just a big warehouse... but they are debt free... so I will take that any day or over big and flashy!
This is the "pick line" where they put our books in the boxes to be shipped. Pretty sweet.
And the warehouse. :)
Here is Ben sitting in the President of Usborne's chair. :) As you can see... many people left Randall notes on his desk. :)
This is my director, Deb Casey. I won a contest and got a book signed by Stephen Cartwright... the man who illustrated many of Usborne's books (Find the duck :).
We had a Hawaiian themed lunch. :) Usborne always has a trip incentive going... and the current one is... can you guess.... a 7 day Hawaiian cruise. :)
Uncle Nate... I could not have made it through without him. Nate was Great and Amazing and is now in the running for favorite Uncle. :) As a very small Thank You Nate & I went to see the new Harry Potter movie! Fun fun! Too bad Nate hasn't read the 7th book. :-P
Jane, Kerri & I (and our 5 children) went to the Oklahoma Aquarium... Benjamin LOVED IT! He couldn't get enough of the "phish, phish!"
Can you spot Nemo?? Ben sure could!And finally a picture of Ben & Emi. They were so sweet together. Are they not the cutest?

Growing Up

Benjamin is growing up so fast, and he seems to be learning and doing something new every day! I can't believe he is almost 18 months old... less than 2 weeks!

You can hear Pap paw who Ben and I sometimes hang out with in the back ground. :)

He started this a few weeks ago. Yikes!

And here is a video with some of his animal noises, although in the last week since the video was taken he has added a few more. And I also had a video with him identifying body parts but the computer ate it... so I will have to load that one another day. :)

Brought To You By The Letter "L"

"L" is such a useful letter! In the past week Ben has added

Little, Lid, Ladybug, Later and a few others to his ever-expanding vocabulary.

Life is Fun

Yesterday after church we stopped by the grocery store to pick up a few things for a picnic. Just after I walked out and got in the car we saw this old man just start driving into the store. It felt like we were in slow motion, as you are watching it you are thinking... "is this really happening?" But... here is PROOF!

So funny, we were in need of a good laugh. :) The man was very cautious about pulling in, and managed to get through the first doors but couldn't make it through the second set. (I don't think it scraped at all. :) He doors could completely shut after he pulled in.