Sam fixed the upload issues! Yay! Here are pictures from Noah's party:

Missy and Maddie. This girl got lots of love!

Opening gifts

About to blow out candles

Lunch...

One of our friends made balloon animals for the kids...Maddox and his sword

Maddie holding Maddie

This picture cracks me up...lots going on!

Stone Family (minus Maddie)

Christy and Grant

Nannie and Madison

Caden

The little boy table.

Maddie!

Nan and Savanna

Sam grilled up burgers and hot dogs

Noah and an armful of trains

Grandpa!

I must be telling Katie something good...

The cake! I dreamed about it one night and had to figure out how to make a river. It is just piping gel dyed blue.

Noah's Third Birthday Party!

I am still having issues uploading pictures, but this was my favorite one of Noah from his party. I love how his eyes are cutting over to look at his cake.

Thank you to Curt and Marla for the use of their house! We had it filled up with little boys (and little sisters). Grandpa Kovac even came down from Ashburn! It was a good day all around!!

Noah's 21 Egg Salute

I am so excited. Noah is turning three next week.

This is a big milestone for me...this time next week we will have two big boys! I have survived going through two years, back to back, with a two-year-old boy in the house!! I am really enjoying the boys growing up. I have dreamed about this day.

To celebrate, we are having our first combined friend and family party on Saturday. I am in the middle of making the cake right now. I have a yummy recipe that calls for 5 eggs and 3 stick of butter...and I have to make three cakes to put together into one big cake for the party. Not that I mind at all, because have I mentioned the cake is for Noah's THIRD birthday?? To make the

party planning even more enjoyable, this week my in-laws stopped by with my Christmas present:

Could I receive a more perfect gift? (THANK YOU CURT AND MARLA!!!)

After whipping up the first cake and popping it in the oven I started on the second one. I had creamed my butter (all three sticks) with the sugar and had put four eggs in. As I was adding the last one I dropped the shell in the bowl. I tried to turn it off so I could pick it out...but I turned the switch the wrong way and turned it ALL THE WAY UP. Have you seen a KitchenAid going on high? It pretty much shattered the shell into a million pieces. I had to dump it out and start over, and I was so flustered when I was getting the new eggs out of the refrigerator that I dropped one.

I made the cakes, but it took me 21 eggs. I am 12 sticks of butter into this cake and I have not even made the frosting yet. Not that I mind at all, because Noah is turning THREE!!!

What I want to remember about this weekend

Sam bought me a new camera this week. It is tiny and cute and best of all it fits in my purse. All week I have been taking cute pictures of the boys with every intention of posting them...but blogger is taking FOREVER to upload pictures! After waiting half an hour for it to upload just ONE picture I decided I would just post a list of what I want to remember about this weekend. (I tried to send a message to the Blogger folks about my uploading issues, but I got an error message!! NICE one Google!!)

-Charlie is a Mama's boy. I was going to go shopping on Friday night and Marla offered to watch the boys, and Charlie insisted he come with me, even after his grandma offered him pepperoni pizza.

- The boys tend to go nuts after 8:30 pm if they are still up.

- Lark Park has a very clean Wendy's.

- According to Charlie we don't say "potty." He is now calling it the ambulance or the post office depending on his mood.

- Noah still will not eat anything yellow and gummy.

- Missy's house is still the best place to spend Saturdays.

- The Sonic in Moultrie does not have a public bathroom, but they will let Charlie go post office there. You just have to step over about twenty pairs of roller skates in the bathroom.

- Noah eats at other people's houses like we do not feed him at home. I promise I feed him 6 meals a day.

- I have some pretty amazing friends.

- Toys from Roses don't last very long.

- Noah has to dig through the stack of pull-ups until he finds the one he wants to wear. They are all identical.

- Some people will never be happy so they don't want you to be happy.

- Charlie and Noah have grown up so much in the last few months. Noah did not qualify for speech at the Primary School (he scored a 103% on the test, and had to have a score below 80% to receive services) and Charlie is doing well enough that he is getting dismissed from his program, so after this week we will be DONE with speech!

- Madison has a third little boy that calls her Mimi.

- I love it when Sam is off on Sundays and can hep me with the nursery.

- We have lost Emily. Noah has been looking for her everywhere.

- I ran over a cat.

- I am so excited my Noah is turning three next week!

Thomas Love

Charlie and Noah love Thomas. It might even border on an obsession. Noah always has Thomas, or one of his friends, in his hands. Right now he is stuck on Emily and has worn the paint from gripping her all day.

The boys have a collection of Thomas books, too. We read them at least once a day and we all have them memorized. They will even act out the stories in the books with their trains. This morning it was so sweet to see Charlie and Noah cuddled up on the couch together with Charlie “reading” the books to Noah!

Why I left Facebook

You may have noticed I am no longer on Facebook. Nothing dramatic happened. I didn’t have a stalker…no public falling out…just decided it was time to pull the plug.

I started using Facebook when I was living in Texas, far, far away from my family. I used it to keep in touch with my family out of state and feel connected to other people because as you know, I hated living in Texas. When we had the boys, Facebook gave family the opportunity to get daily updates on what Charlie and Noah were up to.

Now that we are all happily located in Georgia with the majority of “my people” I am feeling the need for Facebook less and less. I am still planning on keeping the blog and updating it more often as a more formal record of what we are up to.

Also, I feel that picking up a phone or visiting face to face a better way to keep up relationships. This commercial gives you the general idea…