Birthdays and Holidays

Sunday was Cole's 26th birthday.
Monday was Memorial Day.
We partied.
Hard.

I made Cole a scavenger hunt with 26 of his favorite treats. (He's got a mega sweet tooth.)
Cole and his cake. Notice Cade telling us that the candles are hotMy Grandpa sent Cole some of these facts. We thought they were interesting:
26 years ago....
-mobile phones were first introduced to the public
-Microsoft Word was released
-Star Wars VI, Return of the Jedi, came out
-Ronald Reagan was president
-Elton John was at the height of his popularity

Happy Birthday Sweetie!


On Memorial Day we went to the park for a BBQ. After nap time we played in the sprinklers with a bunch of neighbors from the ward. (Have I mentioned we have awesome neighbors? We have awesome neighbors.) Cade had a ball.

Big Boy

Lately is seems that all Cade wants to do is be a big boy. He is noticing everything we do and wants to do it too. Here are Cade's latest attempts at being a big boy.

Getting ready like daddy

Getting ready like mommy

Play at the park
Helping mom cook

Number Crunching

Family Book

Since we live far from all family I figured I needed to make Cade more familiar with his extended family. I used scrapblog.com and made digital scrapbooking pages of each family. If you are an immediate grandparent, aunt, uncle, or cousin, you've got a page. I printed them, laminated them, hole punched them and bound them with binder rings. Hopefully it is not easily destructible. I didn't want to post all the picture so here are the grandparent pages (because their the most important-right?).

1 Year Down, 2 To Go...

After 4 years for a bachelors degree, hours of learning about theories and techniques, and dozens of hours observing therapy, Cole has completed his first year in his graduate program. Cole will be taking a summer class and is also seeing clients. They have a family center on campus where he has classes and also where clients can come to receive discounted therapy by students studying to become therapists. He has an assigned supervisor whom he goes to for help and advice. Sometimes they are partnered with another student and work as co-therapists.

Cole will make a great therapist. He is an excellent communicator and is very sincere. He has worked very hard this first year at K-State.

(There was mucho begging to let me post this picture!)

SWAP

I have posted about this before so my SWAP has come around again. Some college friends and I get assigned another person, we send them a gift, then post about it to share to the others and say thanks. Mine came from Lauren and I was so excited! It was a home pedicure kit complete with nail polish, foot mask, lotion, and scrubby thing, cuticle pusher, file, the squishy things between your toes, and fun toe nail ideas! I have all ready done and redone my toes a few times this summer so this was perfect! My toes can officially be 'summer ready'. Thanks Lauren!

Too Good To Be True

I am sure that most of you know about the KFC offer. Oprah announced that KFC was offering a free dinner to everyone in America. All you had to do was print the coupon off and take it into a KFC to be redeemed. From what I heard it was a pretty good dinner too-yummy grilled chicken, sides, and a biscuit leaving everyone full and happy. 

We went the day we printed the coupon and of course the place was a mad house. So we decided to wait a few days for the hype to go down to enjoy our delicious free dinner in a much less crowded environment. Today was that day and we were very stoked. As we passed our coupons to the cashier she said, "Oh yeah sorry we are not doing that anymore?" Excuse me!? Not doing what? Your part of the deal? Your promise of a free dinner to everyone? She explained that as of Thursday they stopped because the company could not afford it. Really? Some accountant really screwed up his numbers then. She then gave us a sheet to fill out that gave some explanation about the overwhelming demand and that our request for the free meal could not be granted at that time. We were to give our information and they would send us coupons in the mail at a later time. We left to go pay for food somewhere else. 

We were so frustrated. Here we are hungry and all excited about our free meal (and had been since the beginning of that week) and now we are denied-all because the company messed up? Did they really not think people were going to jump at the chance of a yummy free dinner? Maybe it was just our KFC since we are in a college town and, therefore, a huge amount of the population is already scrounging around for free food? Did you get a free KFC or did you get turned away too? 

Moral of the story: If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. 

Father and Son

Cole took Cade to his first Fathers and sons camp out. When I first heard about the camp out I just disregarded it because I just knew that Cade was way too young for that. But Cole was determined to take his boy camping. I was nervous-I don't know why. They did not spend the night-I was afraid Cade would keep the whole camp up all night. But they went up, played in the dirt, walked around, and ate tail mix-and maybe some rocks. (The camera died shortly after they got there-sad)