Eight is Great!!!

(Sitting in 210 balloons, I had blown up for him while he was at school.. He was so dang excited.. Odd colors I know, but they are the colors of a basketball, which made him even more excited...)

Happy Birthday today to my little guy Cole.. Here are my top 8 reasons why I adore this kid...

1- His smile.. Completely melts my heart...

2- His cute personality, love it that he tries to get the best of everyone and he usually does.. :)

3- He gives the bestest hugs..

4- He is my best listener.. :)

5- His eyelashes, completely gorgeous...

6- His willingness to learn...

7- His cute notes he writes to me..

8- The amazing spirit he brings to our family!! We are beyond blessed to have him in our family...

Love you Colie Wolie, hope you have an amazing day... I can hardly believe that he is now old enough to get baptized... Still trying to grasp my mind around that one.. Will post pics of that soon. :)

Happy Birthday Shirley...

Just wanted to wish my sweet mother in law a Happy Birthday today.. Just a few fun facts about the day she was born.. :)

7 March 1944Your date of conception was on or about 15 June 1943 which was a Tuesday.

You were born on a Tuesday
under the astrological sign Pisces.Your Life path number is 1.
Your fortune cookie reads:
A quiet evening with friends is the best tonic for a long day.
The year 1944 was a leap year.
Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/25/1944 and ending 2/12/1945.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Monkey.

The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 9 April 1944.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 16 April 1944.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 23 February 1944.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 28 May 1944.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 4 June 1944.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Monday, 18 September 1944.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Saturday, 8 April 1944.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 22 February 1944.

As of 3/6/2011 11:39:46 PM ESTYou are 66 years old.You are 804 months old.You are 3,496 weeks old.You are 24,470 days old.You are 587,303 hours old.You are 35,238,219 minutes old.You are 2,114,293,186 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Paul Cattermole (1977) Ivan Lendl (1960) Tammy Faye Bakker (1942)
Daniel J. Travanti (1940) Willard Scott (1934) Lord Snowdon (1930)
Maurice Ravel (1875) Piet Mondriaan (1872) Luther Burbank (1849)

Top songs of 1944
Swinging On a Star by Bing Crosby Shoo-Shoo Baby by Andrews Sisters
Don't Fence Me In by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters Besame Mucho by Jimmy Dorsey
I'll Get By by Harry James A Hot Time In the Town of Berlin by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
You Always Hurt the One You Love by Mills Brothers Mairzy Doats by Merry Macs
I Love You by Bing Crosby San Fernando Valley by Bing Crosby

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 9.57729941291585 years old. (You old hound dog, you!)

Your lucky day is Thursday.Your lucky number is 3 & 7.
Your ruling planet(s) is Jupiter & Neptune.Your lucky dates are 1st, 10th, 19th, 28th.Your opposition sign is Virgo.
Your opposition number(s) is 5.
Today is not one of your lucky days!

There are 365 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 67 candles.

Those 67 candles produce 67 BTUs,
or 16,884 calories of heat (that's only 16.8840 food Calories!) .
You can boil 7.66 US ounces of water with that many candles.


In 1944 there were approximately 2.5 million births in the US.
In 1944 the US population was approximately 131,669,275 people, 44.2 persons per square mile.In 1944 in the US there were approximately 1,595,879 marriages (12.1%) and 264,000 divorces (2%)In 1944 in the US there were approximately 1,417,000 deaths (10.8 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

Your birth flower is DAFFODIL

Your birthstone is Aquamarine
The Mystical properties of Aquamarine

Aquamarine is often used to experience love and mercy. It is said to help ease depression and grief.
Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Jade, Rock Crystal, Bloodstone

Your birth tree is

Weeping Willow, the Melancholy
Beautiful but full of melancholy, attractive, very empathic, loves anything beautiful and tasteful, loves to travel, dreamer, restless, capricious, honest, can be influenced but is not easy to live with, demanding, good intuition, suffers in love but finds sometimes an anchoring partner.

There are 294 days till Christmas 2011!

Hope you have a great day Shirley.. Love you tons..

My Favorite Quote..

~Try a little harder, to be a little better~

Gordon B. Hinkley

No wonder the man was a Prophet. He was brilliant... I put this saying above my piano, to look at hundreds of times a day. And every day I wake up, I do try harder, (try, remember I am human too) to be a little better... Love, love, love this quote... One of my faves.. :)

The Capital...

So excited for this post... A few weeks ago I received a phone call from Stockton's principal.. She proceeded to tell me that his school was one of a few schools in our area selected to go to the Capital and have lunch with a State Representative.. From their school only 2 students were selected to go, and they had chose Stockton as one of them.. I was elated... I got special permission to go with him, and the other girl (named Courtnee, weird huh) and her Mom... What an amazing experience.. I learned so much, and was so intrigued, I want to learn more... Here are some pictures of our amazing day... Thanks mom for watching the boys, so I could experience this with Stockton.. :)

This is called the Gold Room, nothing really happens here, just a pretty room.. Although where the flags are, is usually where they do stuff on TV... :)

Me, Stockton, Diana and Courtnee standing on the amazing staircase.. :)

Me & Stockton..

The amazing artwork.. I think the ceiling here was like 195 feet up.. Simply breathtaking.. :)

A different view from the 3rd floor..

I was totally in love with the stairs, and all of the marble in there..

This was in the House of Representatives session.. This screen was up in the balcony for us to see, who was voting and if they were voting yes or no.. Very interesting.. I was quite shocked at the start of the session they opened with a prayer, I never thought I would see that there..

The House of Representatives in session..

The Supreme Court Room..

The Senate in session..

Stockton, outside the Governors office...

The Governors office..

On the actual floor of the House of Representatives.. :)

The buttons on the Representatives desks... Interesting..:)

So beautiful...

Stockton and Rep. Newbold at lunch.. :)

The kids in our city who were invited to eat lunch with Rep. Newbold..

Courtnee, Rep. Newbold and Stockton...

Stockton... :)

What a great day, one I will remember forever.. :) So proud of Stockton and all of his accomplishments.

A Splash of Paint...

Been doing a few home improvements lately, well I mean by we I mean Troy... I pick out the colors and the decor and he paints and hangs it up.. What would I do without that amazing man.. We decided to do something different to Jades room, to make it more fun for a little boy... We decided on red, white and blue... I had this vision, and needless to say the results exceeded my expectations... I loved the red so much I had Troy paint our wall behind our piano, from plum to red.... Looks beyond Fab!!! So happy that he can do stuff like that, and not only do it, but make it look UBERLY amazing... Here are a few pics... :)


Just a few pictures of the boys helping paint... Not sure why, but kids see a paint can, a paint roller and they flip out... :) they were so dang excited...

Cole taking his turn...

Can you tell he is just a tad excited...

The in between..

Daddy spelled his name for him...

Letting Jade have a turn at it...

Covering up his name...

His big wall...

Got these at Hobby Lobby for half off, and just accented them with little wood baseball decor... :)

Corner view...

His canvas pictures...

My living room... OH I am so in love with this wall.. May get a vinyl saying, thinking of putting up "A Smile happens in a flash, It's memory lasts a lifetime.. :)

Jade, Shaking his groove thing..

Jaden was playing the Wii today, Just Dance by Micheal Jackson.. My brother in law captured it on his I phone... He is so sticking cute, unders and all... :)

Happy Birthday Tammy...

Just want to wish my cute sister in law an amazing birthday.. Thanks for being such a great friend to me Tammy.. Love you!! Just a few fun facts about her birthday.. :)

2 February 1975
Your date of conception was on or about 12 May 1974 which was a Sunday.
You were born on a Sunday
under the astrological sign Aquarius.
Your Life path number is 8.

Your fortune cookie reads:
The first step to better times is to imagine them.

As of 2/2/2011 12:28:18 AM EST

You are 36 years old.
You are 432 months old.
You are 1,878 weeks old.
You are 13,149 days old.
You are 315,576 hours old.
You are 18,934,588 minutes old.
You are 1,136,075,298 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Shakira (1977) Michael T. Weiss (1962) Christie Brinkley (1954)
Farrah Fawcett (1947) Graham Nash (1942) David Jason (1940)
Tom Smothers (1937) Les Dawson (1934) James Dickey (1923)
Gale Gordon (1906) Ayn Rand (1905) James Joyce (1882)

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 5.14637964774951 years old. (You're still chasing cats!)

Your lucky day is Saturday.
Your lucky number is 4 & 8.
Your ruling planet(s) is Saturn & Uranus.
Your lucky dates are 1st, 10th, 19th, 28th.
Your opposition sign is Leo.
Your opposition number(s) is 1.

Today is one of your lucky days!

There are 365 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 37 candles.

Those 37 candles produce 37 BTUs,
or 9,324 calories of heat (that's only 9.3240 food Calories!) .
You can boil 4.23 US ounces of water with that many candles

In 1975 there were approximately 3.1 million births in the US.
In 1975 the US population was approximately 203,302,031 people, 57.4 persons per square mile.
In 1975 in the US there were approximately 2,152,662 marriages (10.1%) and 1,036,000 divorces (4.9%)
In 1975 in the US there were approximately 1,921,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

In 1975 the population of Australia was approximately 13,968,881.
In 1975 there were approximately 233,012 births in Australia.
In 1975 in Australia there were approximately 103,973 marriages and 24,307 divorces.
In 1975 in Australia there were approximately 109,021 deaths.

Your birth flower is IRIS

Your birthstone is Amethyst

There are 326 days till Christmas 2011!