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Joey turned one year old today.

We'll be having a big party on Saturday, with all the neighbors, and even an out of town guest. But for today, it was just a few of us out on the front porch singing happy birthday. As is the 1st birthday tradition, Joey got some cake all to herself. Mommy, wouldn't agree to letting her have the whole cake, so it's fortunate that she bought this neat cake that was surrounded by cupcakes.

Joey, quite enjoyed herself ...



Keep havin FuN!

Til next time ...
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As if I needed another reason to believe that the egg is an almost perfect food ...

So last night, I'm getting ready to boil the eggs that we were planning to color this morning. I find the nice big pot, fill it up almost to the top with water (this detail will become important later), turn on the burner, place the eggs in, head over to my computer, put on my headphones, and fire up a video on Amazon Prime.

... and in the process, Totally Forget About The Eggs !!!

Ana came home from a late night Wally World run about an hour later. It was at this point that I was "alerted" to my oversight. The water had boiled down from a full 5 1/2 quarts, to about an inch in the bottom of the pot. Amazingly, only one of the eggs had cracked, so I put em in a bowl and stuck em in the fridge.

We ended up coloring the eggs this morning .. the picture above is part of the result.

But then ...

Just for kicks, I decided to try one of the "75 minute" boiled eggs, just to see how …

One of Jasmine's school assignments this week was to make a Recycle Bot in celebration of Earth Day. As the resident dad, it fell to me to help her with her creation.

Upon finding the instructions, it turned out to be pretty easy, as there were only a few rules:




Has to be made completely from recyclable material
No Glass allowed (due to safety concerns)
Can be Sitting or Standing, but no taller than 3 feet
Can Not have any type of working electronics
RecycleBot should be student created .. with "guidance" from parents



Here's how Jasmine made her's ...


The body is made from the box that she just got in the mail.
The eyes are the lids from Joey's baby food
The nose, mouth, and pretty much all the "joints" were made with "100mph tape" (I hope that's recyclable)
Water bottles for the arms
The wheels/feet were originally just going to be 2 diet dew cans, but then she added a long skinny Red Bull can for balance
Finally a couple of plastic bags for t…

Today, up at West Fort Hood where I work, we had our 3rd Weather Squadron Easter egg hunt. This was Joey's first easter egg hunt; and really the first one that Jaiden really understood what was going on too.

There really weren't many people there today, but that was actually a good thing. With only about a dozen kids vying for the available eggs, everyone ended up with more than enough. It was actually refreshing to go to a community easter egg hunt where no kids were getting pushed over as they run for the plastic eggs ... and the sad part is, some of the hunts I've been to before, it was the parents doing the pushing.

Anyhow, none of that today. I was all good fun. Lot's of candy, some good hamburgers and hotdogs on the grill, and hanging out with some cool people from work. Of course I had my camera with me. And of course I took some pictures ... of my kids .. and a few of the others in attendance. Hope you like em.

(hint: if you click on the first image, it…