My Mom Got a Big Surprise!

My brothers and I gave my Mom a 20" Christus statue for Mother's Day! My excellent brother and sister in law, Ben and Janelle orchestrated the whole surprise (the rest of us just gave money! Eeeasy!)

My Mom was a little surprised!

Ooh, Aaah!

I think she likes it!!

Here it is in it's temporary place on the mantle!

Thanks, Ben and Janelle, for coming up with the idea and finding it and asking us to go in on it with you and buying it and shipping it! (whew!) You guys, rock!

(Lucas and Blaine - I think we are in the hot seat for next year! Yikes!)

Love you Mom!!

My New Neice!

My brother, Blaine and his wife Stephanie got to meet their little baby

Brooklyn on May 6th 2009. She was 6lbs. 6ozs. Yep. She's a cutie!!

Odd Game.

I think, when the date is 3 consecutive odd numbers in a row and it only happens 6 times a century, it deserves a little celebration! So here's what we did to celebrate odd day, at our house!

We rolled these odd dice.

Each person got to roll 3 times to get their odd numbers. Each of the white dice had to end up with an odd number and the total number on the blue dice had to equal an odd number. When that happened, the winner got to choose one of these three odd prizes out of the bag:

The tye dyed balloon. (Which, I think, looks like someone sneezed paint on a balloon! Very odd!)

The fast food erasers. (I think their oddness speaks for itself!)

And last, but not least, the frankenstein-animal bookmarks. Their just adorable, aren't they?!

For our odd treat, I have to thank M&M's for their timely release of "Strawberried-Peanut Butter M&M's"! They were extremely helpful in providing a very odd treat on this very odd day!

This may sound weird, but this activity was oddly, fun!

It's an Odd Day!

Hey, everyone!

Today is Odd Day! That's what I heard. 5/7/09 is one of only 6 odd days we'll have this century. So, do something a little odd today and celebrate!!

(It's fitting, I think, that my first blog is on odd day!)