Hey! Gluten free corn-dogs! Available at your local Meijers....for a MIND BOGGLING $7.99 for 5!!!!!!! YIKES!!!! The kids liked them, so I'm gonna find out how to make them....at home.










It's the 3 year old birthday boy...wearing the classic, birthday box hat....
















Duncan blows out his candles.... on the Cold Stone Creamery Ice Cream Cake....YUM... with spit too!











Anna, Duncan & Gabby at Stir Crazy in Great Lakes Crossing mall, Arburn Hills, MI. Anna was adopted from the Gusev babyhouse, Duncan from the Kaliningrad city babyhouse and Gabby from the Sovetsk babyhouse...representing all 3 babyhouses in Kaliningrad, Russia! Duncan loves Anna!!!!














Gabby modeling her new outfit. The skirt is a 12 month, the shirt is a 3T...the kid is 4 years 4.5 months..... She's a cutie pie tho! Hey, how many other moms of 4 year olds can pick them up with 1 hand or carry them around the mall in a sling?!!! I'll take my petite girl any day!

A friend of ours from church, Kensington Community Church in Troy, MI, is actually going to be on American Idol! Her name is Abbey Rondo--Gabby idolizes her hair! (it's long!) If you get the chance to see/hear her, I hope you are also blown away by her talent and her love for Jesus. I also hope TV does her voice/talent justice!!!

We have spent the day (and most of yesterday) INSIDE! It's FREEZING outside...well, less than freezing...the actual temp made it up to 12 F with wind-chills hovering around -25 F...the reason for most schools in the area to close! The kids are going BONKERS after being inside all this time. Steve is working "Day 3"...the (hopefully!!) last 12-14 hour day this month...closing books for clients...so I won't see him till about 9 or 10 tonight. The kids & I will just go crazy together!

Had Duncan's 3rd birthday party on Saturday...just relatives--Steve's parents, my mom & Aunt Sally. He LOVES his quiet gifts...blocks, a wooden parking garage, cars from the movie "Cars", magnets and a basketball hoop. The clothes were OK...but the toys were the best! He was so excited, he didn't even want his cake...but he dutifully tried to blow out the 3 candles (lots of SPIT on the ice cream cake!!!) Duncan's "real" birthday isn't till the 14th--but Grandma & Grandpa will be cruising around South America at that time....Living the "good life"!! He's a big 3 year old tho!

Gabby starts a new preschool class on Tuesday--new time, new teacher. We were having trouble with the little boys & some teasing/painful incidents. The teacher never thought anything bad was happening and never understood Gabby trying to tell about it. So, we leave the first preschool teacher & HOPE and PRAY for a better situation with the new teacher and new class!

Stay WARM!