Three good things about today....

1. I don't have to go to work

2. Getting Kent's senior pictures taken

3. My mom's birthday!!!

So I'll go in order as the day's events occurred.

Having the day off from work is great.

Next, it's time for Kent's senior pictures!!!! I can't even believe it's been 2 whole years since we've done Jade's!!! Where is the time going????? Just let me tell you how excited I am about doing his pictures...

I'M LOVING EVERY SECOND OF IT!!!

I got him 4 new outfits (my co-worker reminded me that men don't wear "outfits" they where clothes LOL). And the 2 "dressier" shirts had the fold wrinkle in them, so I thru them in the dryer then ironed the last stubborn wrinkles out. Almost had a near miss with the iron. Grabbed it from the wrong end, but with my ninja moves I was able to snatch my hand away and just felt a little warmth on my finger- close call!! Again- this picture doesn't do these shirts any justice in how bold and brightly colored they are!
Here's one of his more casual looks. He will have the shirt unbuttoned in the picture. This shirt looks so nice on him.

So it took about 2 hours for his "photo shoot" and Kent was a great sport. At first he was kinda leery about hearing it would take 2 hours, but he knew I was so excited that he played along, and he said he actually had a nice time but he's exhausted and his cheeks are sore from all the smiling. It takes alot of effort to get that boy to have a natural smile... I'm not even going to mention what the photographers had to do to get him to laugh which is the best way to get his natural smile out... all I'll say is hand puppets... that's it...

Next we're moving on to my mom's 62nd birthday. So I asked my mom what was her exact favorite cake, I was pretty sure it was a light cake with chocolate frosting. I was close. She likes a white cake with Hershey's milk chocolate frosting.

So the other day, Jade and I went shopping, she took off to get the cake stuff while I went in the other direction to retrieve other food and we met back up at the cashier, paid and went home... did you notice that I didn't mention in there to Jade exactly what my mom wanted? Did you notice I forgot to see what Jade brought up to the cashier when I just blindly paid for the food? I think I was so focused on getting my donut I wasn't even thinking about the cake. When I got home, donut eaten, I looked at the cake mix... arrrrgggg it was a yellow NOT a white cake mix and fudge frosting NOT Hershey's milk chocolate.

So early this morning I rushed out to get the right stuff, I know my mom would have loved whatever we had gotten and eaten it with a smile- but what's the point of asking someone their absolute favorite cake and then getting something (sorta) completely different????

Ok, here we are... the correct cake mix and frosting- pheewwww!!!

My parents and Misty and Kelsey came over at 4:30 for cake, and Misty was bringing the ice-cream... and beautiful flowers for mom...

My awesome daughter made the cake while Kent and I were at his "photo shoot"...

Hey it's twins... nahhh that's just Misty and Kelsey- mom and daughter not twins!Mmmmmmmmmm cake and ice-cream....

Playing with grandpa...

Bunch of cute girls...

Jade, Kent and Kelsey...

Jeromy, Grandpa and Kenton...

Ok... time to rest. What a fun day.