What is something special about you?

Last week, I was a t a primary presidency meeting at the church and I had all 4 kids playing in the room with me because Mark was in class. It was quite an adventure. During the meeting, we decided we're going to start "spotlighting" one child each week and each of us in the presidency is responsible for our age groups. (Nursery & Sunbeams, CTR's, Valiants- we only have 5 primary classes in our ward) Anyway, my friend Rhena decided she would ask Walker all of the questions on the spotlight paper and get hers completed for the month right there. We kept having our meeting while she would ask Walker random questions while he played. She got to the final question and asked him, "Hey Walker, what's something special about you?" Without even a moment of hesitation he responded, "My unibrow." We were all laughing really hard. He is quite proud. I thought you would all enjoy seeing a picture of his infamous unibrow. Just a few facts: 1. Walker was born with it. Even pictures from the hospital you can see it. 2. He told us when we was about 3 that "one long eye brow is cooler than 2 short eye brows." 3. One day I saw him looking in the mirror and licking his fingers to smooth it out. He said, "I was just making sure my eyebrow was smooth." I really never know what to expect coming from him! It might seem like we talk about his uni with him a lot, but it hardly ever comes up. He just really thinks it is something special and I have to agree!

I Did It!!!!

I have to mark this moment and share it with anybody who cares. I have, since Dec. 1, officially lost 25 pounds and it feels great! I have been working really hard and doing it the most healthy and permanent way and every single day when I step on the scale I still can't believe that the numbers keep going down. I'm not at my final goal weight, which is 14 more pounds away, but this was a huge deal to reach and it will be celebrated! Mark and I already went out shopping together and I got a couple of pairs of new pants 2 sizes smaller and we're also planning to go on a real date here soon to Indy to see a show of some sort. I'm really looking forward to it. That's a big splurge for us since our regular date motto tends to be "the free-er the better!" It feels great to have accomplished something all by myself and to remind myself what a disciplined person I can be. It's also fun to start recognizing myself in the mirror again. Let's face it, 5 pregnancies in 7 years has done a number on me! It's good to give my poor body a little break and TLC. I am really looking forward to losing the last 14. It's a pretty fun challenge. Anyway, just had to share my excitement!

Ace of Cakes: the next generation...

Well, most of you know that I LOVE to decorate cakes. It has become a nice outlet for me and it is so much fun to try and figure out how to do new things with cake all the time. I really love it. Anyway, I also love to watch cake competitions on Food Network and I don't think I've ever missed an episode of Ace of Cakes! Once I told Walker while we were in the grocery store that I needed to get some cake supplies and he started saying, "Make is bigger, make it badder, make it awesome!" while we walked around the whole store. For Alyssa's birthday, she wanted a Princess and the Pauper cake and she said, "I know, make it bigger, make it badder, make it pretty!" (she was turning 2) This last weekend there was a new cake competition on and we also happen to get a whole bunch of new play dough, so as soon as the competition was over, Abby and Walker said, "let's go play Ace of Cakes!" Walker said his job was mixing the colors and rolling out fondant, and Abby's job was adding details. I think it's a riot that they even know the right cake terminology. The pictures are pretty cute and they created quite the masterpiece. Abby said, "The people asked for a cake that looks like a very colorful rock with a unicorn on top." I think they got exactly what they asked for! Now if I could just train them to actually assist me with the real cakes.... maybe one of them has mad piping skills....