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Seriously, she won't stop "talking".

My Birthday!

Best Birthday Ever! I pretty much told Terry months ago that all I wanted for my birthday was a spa day. I've never had a professional massage before so I was pretty excited. I was not let down at all. It was awesome! I also got a pedicure. I know having your toenails painted doesn't look insanely different from not having your toenails painted, but for some reason no matter what else I'm wearing, I feel instantly prettier after a pedicure. When I got home Terry made me a cake and decorated it too. Man is he a keeper. Then he took me to a super yummy restaurant called Tucanos. It's one of those restaurants where the servers just keep bringing different meats out on skews and they walk from table to table filling your plate with it. I had never been so it was a real treat! I was so full I could hardly move. That's all I can say about that because I'm hungry right now, and my mouth is starting to water just thinking about it. But it was a great day!

Good Morning . . .

So at 5 am the neighbor's alarm clock started going off. I don't usually hear it because when they are home, I'm assuming they shut it right off. But this morning it kept going and going . . . and going. I had Terry go ring the doorbell aggressively, but alas, no one was home. Ok, so how long can one of these things go off? Surely not more than 15 minutes, 30 minutes tops right? No, the answer is . . . 2 hours. I was this close to smashing their window with a baseball bat just so I could unplug the dang thing. What kind of stupid alarm clock company is this? What kind of human being needs an alarm to go off for two hours straight? If you can't hear it after a few minutes you are either not home or dead. These particular alarm clocks must have been created to be used as some sort of torture device to get people to talk. . . "I swear I don't have any information . . . just please please . . . make it stop!"

When it didn't stop after 30 minutes I for sure thought it would stop at 1 hour. Nope . . . I tried putting a pillow over my head but even that didn't drown out the noise. I was getting frantic because I knew my babies would get up any time now and I had only gotten very little sleep. I don't deal well with lack of sleep . . .

At 6:45 I was about ready to burst into tears so I got up and decided to get a shower in before the girls woke up. I got out at 7:03 and . . . silence. Ahhhhhh.

Talking Tato

So I promised my mom a mini update and some pictures so here it is. The girls are doing great. They love each other so much. Olie always smiles when Tato walks by and Tato always wants to hold and kiss Olie.

Last week Tato cracked her front tooth. She cried quite a bit but now she's fine. I'm more upset than she is though . . . we're getting family pictures done this summer. . . She is still as cute as ever though.

Tato has been talking up a storm lately. Her first word was shoe, but now she says all sorts of things. My favorite thing she says is ouch. It sounds more like otch when she says it. She says it all the time even when she's not hurt because she knows we will give her attention if we think she's hurt. That sly little dog . . .

Terry's Birthday!

This weekend we celebrated Terry's birthday. For lunch we went to Fuddruckers (he loves that place), and then we went home to open presents and eat cake and ice cream. Last year I made a cake from scratch but I decided the difference in taste wasn't worth all the effort so this time I made one from a box, although I did make cream cheese frosting from scratch which is definitely worth the extra effort. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, mmmmm his favorite. Then for dinner I made him chicken tetrazzini.

I also made him a card (pictured above) that I found on a really fun crafting blog, How About Orange. I saw the tutorial for this card and I thought is was so cute that I had to make it. Mine clearly isn't as good a hers but hey, I'm getting better at this crafting thing.

Anyways, I hope he had a great day filled with yummy food and lots of fun!

Sunday Dress

A few months ago my sister in Texas sent my a bunch of adorable new clothes for my babies. I just had to show her how cute little Olie looks in the dress she got for her. Most days we are rushing out the door for church and are always late, and by the time we get home . . . well let's say the dress doesn't survive long. But she finally made it through church with the dress mostly clean, so we took a few pictures when we got home. Thanks for the dress Jess!