I just wanted to give a quick thank you to everyone for all your prayers and concern for us during the horrible fires that have been burning so close to us. The fire has been less than 2 miles away from us. That's a bit too close for comfort. Speaking of comfort, the smoke was making us all uncomfortable. My throat was burning, Shad's nose was runny and Katie's asthma was flaring up. Thankfully the worst part is over. Katie washed all the ash from my van. I wish I had taken a picture of that for you. It looked terrible. You can smell the smoke when you go outside but it's not so irritating to the allergies now. Thankfully no lives were lost and everyone seems to be pulling together to help those who lost their homes. Thanks to our Father in Heaven for protecting us and our home and the lives of everyone affected by the fires. A special thank you to all the brave firefighters and forestry commission workers who risked their lives to fight the fires and protect people's homes. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
We've also had 2 birthdays this month. Steven turned 15 on April 17th and Shad turned 2 on April 19th. Steven loves chocolate, dark not milk, so I searched online and come up with a fudgey chocolate cake recipe. I found a cocoa frosting recipe to go with it. I wasn't sure how it would come out but let me tell you, it was the most scrumptious fudgey chocolate cake ever. Let me know if you want the recipe. I may just have to make one again this weekend. Okay, so Steven loved the cake. He had it for breakfast a couple days in a row. Healthy breakfast right!? So by Shad's birthday, I was so tired from work, being sick and running around to get everything done for b-days, I just ordered a cake from Walmart. I know, I'm such a slacker but it was a Cars cake and he loved it so much. He only really ate the icing but he loved that Lightning McQueen and Mater were on his cake. He had fun pulling them off the cake and licking the icing off of them. They both had great birthdays. My boys are growing up too fast. I love my boys so much. I'll add a couple of pics. Steven took a few interesting pics of himself.
Finally the pink hair. My lovely Katie likes to express herself in different ways and this time she wanted pink hair. I figure it's her hair and it's only temporary so I helped her out with it. Trust me a lot more of it would have been pink if were entirely up to Katie. By the way, she's got her driver's permit now and so my hair is turning gray. So I'll post a pic so you can check out the pink hair, not the gray. Love to everyone!
