The V-Day Sizzle

Mike spent the weekend before Valentines Day studying really hard (as you can see) for his board exam.

Which he happened to take on the big V-Day.
We still managed to steal some time away from his napping studying to
Smile

Laugh

cuddle

and snuggle together


What a romancer he is! Love him!

It's a great day in the life of Mike Blandon

He may not be over the hill yet, but he has recently located it.

Mike turned the big 3-0 today!

Lucky for him 30 doesn't mean wrinkles and sagging body parts...

Lucky for him 30 doesn't mean going bald (because he already has).

Lucky for him all he has to do is blow out the birthday candles and he will be one thirtylicious husband!

Now that I am 30 and a half (and so wise) I can tell you, turning 30 ROCKS! So enjoy the new decade in life.

You are my hero, my love, my best friend and everything in between! Happy Birthday to you from me.

This morning it snowed and it snowed the perfect kind of snow! Perfect for making snowballs, snow angels, snowmen and whatever else you can come up with.

Blake went with the snowman

or should I say snow woman...

We built the snowman and Blake says to me:

"Mom, I want to make it a snow-girl"

"OK"

Then proceeds to add some snow and after says

"See, I put on some of those ball things girls have"


And now we have our very own snow woman!

Singing voices ready ✔

Cake and ice cream ✔

Candles ✔

Balloons ✔

Presents ✔

Piñata ✔

Games ✔

Sounds like we are ready to celebrate someones birthday!

Today Blake turned 5

We drove out to Ohio to my brothers so Blake could

celebrate with his cousins. My parents also came which

was an added treat for us.

Happy Birthday Blake!

Another highlight of the day was when this little bitter faced boy

couldn't resist the tasty looking candle

and took a big bite right out of the corner.

We had so much fun! It's been nice to have family near

for occasions like this!

It's her BeeDay!!!

She's our little Pee Wee. The baby of the family and she turned 27 today!

Which means we are all getting old, especially you mom & dad! ;)

She was so special to us that Scott and I even baked her a cake.

We have always been such great friends. We were meant to be sisters.

I am afraid this picture may humiliate me more than it will her! Yikes!

but I'll get her back with this one.

I'll also show how she's has grown into one beautiful babe, which may embarrass her just as much.

OwOw, Foxy lady! Also a Mom of 4.

Happy Birthday Shmina!

Celebrating a Philly's Navidad

Apparently we spent a lot of time this holiday smooching...

GROSS!

We stayed here in Philly this year to celebrate Christmas and the New Year.

We missed our families, but still managed to have a whole lot of fun with out them all.

Mike whipped up yet another airplane to CRASH oops I mean fly.

We took a few nights out in the city

and spent a few nights right here at home.

Feliz navidad y próspero año nuevo.

Merry Christmas to all

and to all a good-night!

Blake's cousin Max tried to out do Blake on his hair style,

but Blake cannot be beat!

We've been caught!

The explanation for this PDA,

well we did just get our braces off...

Also we're celebrating our anniversary.

Six years of marriage.

It certainly has not been perfect... and I'm not going to expound on any marital advice (for that I will leave up to my parents who have been married for 42 years).

With that being said, it certainly has not been too imperfect either.

I married someone I believe in and who believes in me.

There is no greater gift than to love and be loved by the person you adore the most.

We got our braces off. Sooooooooo,

we put on our new smiles for a little photo shoot

The picture is a little blurry, but I guess that is what

you get when your photographer is a 4 year old.

So after a little training sesson, we tried one more time.

Boo

This year Blake came up with the idea for our costumes.

Too bad it involved me being big and yellow.

That's OK, I was up for it.

Mike was our "builder".

He spent many a man hours calculating, cutting and gluing.

Nice job Mike, they turned out great!

Happy Halloween!

Today I enjoyed

Children.

They reinvent the world for us!