My Little Martha!

Alex is quite the baker. She got some great baking gear for her birthday and we've been testing it all out. Doesn't she look like she is having the time of her life?
LOVE it...all of it! Sprinkles and flour mess galore, it is so worth it just for this face!

The Floods of the Great Northwest!

Several out of town relatives and friends have inquired about recent local flooding they've seen or read about in national news. Though our home is safe, living on a hillside community is great for many reasons, we have encountered flood roadways. Here is a picture the dear hubby took yesterday while driving to work-- he was glad to be in a truck!

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Ok, what is it with all the smokers out there? I mean really, if you choose to smoke that is your choice, but smoking while you are pregnant or smoking inside your car with your kids in the back seat with all the windows rolled up? That my friends, is wrong, way, way wrong.

It really can happen, as the cliche goes, "Are you blind or something?" you think or say as someone doesn't get out of your way as you are driving or walking, etc. The other day I really had someone who was blind blocking my aisle in a store. The only part was, I didn't know she was blind. Her husband had left her with their cart in the middle of the aisle while he went around the corner to get something. After a few excuse me's on my part, she let me know very politely that she was blind. Yeah, good thing I had been super patience and polite otherwise I would have felt pretty dumb.

Don't you wish you could TIVO your life-- you know, instant pause, rewind, fast forward, delete-- all those crazy tv watching benefits we all know enjoy? Wouldn't it be cool to have that in our daily life situations? The other night at dinner, Brandon and I stood stunned as we heard Cade utter his first full, understandable sentence. If we hadn't both been there, I know no one would have believed it happened. But, it did. That is the amazing part. Let me set it up for you: I had made a penne pasta dish for dinner. Alex, has always been her tendency, didn't want to try any because, in her words, "she didn't like it." This dicussion went on and on as she ate everything else on her plate. Meanwhile, Cade had already finished all of his pasta dinner, and I got him out of his chair to play while we all finished. Then, out of nowhere, he comes up to Alex and says, "I like it, it's good!" We are still in shock. Crazy. Of course, he hasn't said a understandable thing since then...oh man I long for some tivo to replay it over and over.