Amber's Birthday

Today is my beautiful wife’s birthday, barely a product of the 80’s (the only hint I think I am allowed to give), and since I didn’t make her breakfast in bed, I didn’t have time to let the Grapenuts sit in the milk long enough to make them palatable for her, I thought I might be able to redeem myself by posting something on her blog….a very humiliating experience for any husband.

Happy Birthday to you babe! Thank you for working so hard for us, we love you and hope you have an enjoyable day.

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Looking for Truman today and this is where I found him.

Maybe he was tired and was trying to rock himself to sleep!

Anna's Gymnastics Performance

Last weekend, Anna had her year-end gymnastics extravaganza. It was a crowded house which made for awful picture taking. I couldn't believe how people would just get up and walk right in front of everyone in the middle of a performance. Needless to say, most of my pictures are of strangers standing in the way. I even had Ellie standing on a table trying to get better shots, but we'll just say, she needs a little work on waiting for the focus before clicking the button.

Anna did a great job, though, and has loved her gym class this year. She's getting to be quite the gymnast, and my furniture is getting quite wore out!


Way to go, Anna!
(and nice farmer tan)

Ogden's Quotes of the Day

Quote #1:

Ogden: Mom, let's go buy some money so you can sign me up for swimming lessons!

Quote #2:

Ogden: Mom, can I have a fruit snack?

Mom: I don't have any fruit snacks.

Ogden: You've got to learn how to buy some.

Truman's Birthday

Friday was Truman's birthday but Justin was gone on a fly fishing trip, so Truman had to wait until Justin got home on Saturday night to get his cake and presents. Something tells me he didn't really mind.

He was so fun to watch and actually caught on to the present unwrapping pretty fast.

I think he was more excited for a big box to climb on than to actually play with his lawn mower.

I had to get a little bubble lawn mower because they always remind me of Clay.
When Clay was little, our neighbor girl had a little bubble lawn mower and he would sneak over to their house every day and steal it. He's pretty smart because my parents finally bought him his own so he'd leave hers alone.

I can already tell Truman and I are going to spend many hours together this summer.

I was trying to find a good idea for a cake and came across this little monkey one. I always call Truman "my little monkey", so this was perfect. Oh, and don't mind the creepy face. I couldn't find the black licorice ropes I needed and the only thing I could find in my cupboards were sliced almonds. I know it looks a little scary but it tasted delicious. And guess what kind of cake is inside? You bet ya, banana!! Mmm, yum!

I think he liked it!!

We hope you had a fun day, Truman, you're getting way too big!!

Happy Birthday, TRUMAN

Today is Truman's big day!! He is now a great big one year old. What a fun year it has been.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Tru!

Manwaring Adventures

So, here's just a recap of what we did last week.

Monday night we went and flew kites for FHE.

Anna and Ellie
Truman, Ogden, Anna, and Justin

Ogden

Ogden and Anna


Wednesday night Justin wanted to head up to Wolverine to pick out a camping spot for his scouts for Friday night, so we went along. I didn't think he was serious when he mentioned hiking up to forty horse cave or we would have dressed a little more appropriately. We'll just say, Justin, Ellie, and Truman were the only hikers with good shoes on.

We still had fun, though.

For Christmas, Justin's sister, Natalie, gave us a book called Back Country Roads Idaho, or something like that. Justin has been aching to go hunt down one of the spots in the book, so on Saturday, we headed out to a part of Idaho I didn't even know existed to find a waterfall.

The kids were starving for some lunch when we were only about 4 miles from our spot, so we finally gave in and let them eat. There was sagebrush everywhere, so we had to picnic in the back of the truck.

When we were about 3 miles from our spot, we had to turn around because there was too much snow on the road. We all had such a fun time all crammed in the car together, though, that we'll probably attempt it in a few weeks when the snow has melted.