To celebrate Brain's birthday this year Ramona made a cake and everyone got to help blow out the candles. Then we feasted with Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream, Brian's favorite flavor. It was very nice.

Here are the long awaited pictures of our new chicks. Even David loves to carry them around. I think the kids have named them Sunny, Biscuits, Brother Beakers, and Clairabell. Although I can't tell them apart. (And Brother Beakers you'll have to ask Jessie about.)

I got an email letting me know that Jessie's 2006 scrapbook is in the mail!! Yeah! I'm hoping it gets here on Monday or Tuesday. So I wanted to post some of the pages I've started for Spencer's book. It's going to be a 10x10 instead of the 9x12 that Jessie's is. I'll get Ken to make a little sideshow of it in the sidebar, because he's good at that kind of stuff.

We ordered a new batch of chicks two weeks ago and we're hoping they come in today. We'll have some pictures of them soon hopefully. We're getting two Buff Orpingtons, two Golden-laced Wyandottes, and two Wheat Marans. FUN, FUN, FUN!

On Monday for FHE we dyed our Easter Eggs. It was really fun. Mark helped me make our own dye.

• 1 cup almost boiling water
• 1 Tbsp. white vinegar
• 10-15 drops food coloring

David's eggs read "San Diego." He also helped Mark put the fat rubber band around his egg to make the cool pink strip. Jessie thought we were dying fingers too and ended up with lovely purple fingers. Spencer kept himself entertained checking his eggs about every 13 seconds.

You will be relieved to know that Mark got a haircut that night after we were done, but somehow Spencer escaped the clippers and still needs one.

Yesterday we had a cake and ice cream for Ken and David's birthdays. Here's a picture of the cake. Can you tell who is who?

Ken and I had great time this last weekend up in Layton at a Credit Union conference. I enjoyed a day of interrupted scrapbooking while Ken was in meetings. I did take a break and we went to lunch with his staff which was fun. We enjoyed a fancy dinner and entertainment Saturday evening. One of the guys at our table is a die-hard Harley biker and started a non-profit organization to collect and donate toy to Primary Children's Hospital. It was neat to hear about the good he was doing.

The kids stayed here with David and except for Spencer waking up at 5 in the morning screaming for mommy everything went pretty smooth. The ward had planned a game and snack night and the kids had a lot of fun there.

YEAH ME!!!!

I just finished the rest of Jessie's 2006 scrapbook. I've uploaded the last 8 or so pages into the sidebar if you'd like to look at them. I just posted a couple of favorites here.

If you happen to find any typos, please let me know. I've looked over each page quite a bit more carefully this time around, so hopefully I won't have to change anything.

I think I'm going to start Spencer's book next. He doesen't have anything done for him yet. I'm excited to see how long this will take me. My goal is to be finished with his first year before school starts up again in the fall.

Yeah me! I'm so excited..... and now off to make some cake decorations for the Relief Society birthday cakes I'm making on Thursday.

Did another Stamp Day at my house this week on Tuesday and Wednesday, despite my family all having colds. It was fun to get together again.

On Thursday Jessie and I went to the Humanitarian Night for our ward. We learned how to make balls on the hat looms for little kids to play with. It was nice to be with Jessie and to learn a new skill. Hopefully we'll be able to make quite a few to donate to the humanitarian center. I finished one while we were there and brought it home. Spencer actually slept with it that night. So personal experience tells me kids will love them.

Today Ken and I went to a class to learn how to make mozzarella cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, sour cream and ricotta cheese from the powdered milk in our food storage. It was really cool and I was really surprised at how good it was because I hate powdered milk. But now when I have to use my "long-term" food storage, we can make cheese pizza. Now tell me, who wouldn't be jealous of that?