Birthday Entertainment

My niece Via decided our birthday party at my mom's needed a little entertainment....so here is Via the Contortionist!!!

Apparently, at recess her and her friends gather people around and entertain them all.

Happy Birthday Isabelle!

Today is Isabelle's birthday...for some reason I scheduled her check up today. So for Isabelle's birthday we have spent 2 hours in the doctors office, she received 4 shots and 2 ear infections!!! Yeah what a birthday! I can't wait to see what next year brings...

Although, she is lucky enough to share a birthday with her Uncle Greg! Happy Birthday Greg!!

Isabelle enjoying a ride on her new Giraffe! Thanks Grandma & Grandpa. Isabelle and Jack have been cruising around on it all week!Isabelle cheesing in her new car...this will be her first and only new car! (Unless Grandma & Grandpa buy her another one) Thanks Grandma & Grandpa!Now it is Jack's turn to give the pink cadi a test drive.Isabelle couldn't wait to get to her car so she just took off after it. Luckily, Lezli got a picture of her first step! We tried to stage a reenactment so I could take a video but of course she didn't cooperate :{Evidence of her birthday shots! :}

Trains, trains, trains!

We went to the annual train festival in Ogden with John and Lezli! It was the highlight of Jacks year! It was fun seeing him rushing around trying to see all of the trains. Our only problem was that we were not fast enough...we lost John and Jack for a while luckily John was able to keep up to him. We eventually caught up to them up at the big Lego train!

Jack was loving all of the trains as you can see...







I think Isabelle even enjoyed watching the trains...although she was probably wondering how she could get her hands on them.

Jack even got to go for a little ride (thanks to John's 0.50 cents!)

Isabelle got some exercise while Jack was busy investigating all of the trains!

See you next year!!

Aquarium

Friday we went to the aquarium. Jack and LK were loving it until it came time to try and touch a fish/stingray. The video below shows Jack trying to touch one...

we bought a pass so maybe by the time our pass is up we will be able to touch one!

If anyone wants to go let me know :}

Do I have something in my mouth??

For the last few weeks this is how you see Isabelle (anything she can find she puts it in her mouth)...and I can't figure out why she is always sick!!

Sweetbread

I just want to offer everyone the following advice:

If you are ever at a fancy restaurant and considering ordering the Filet topped with "sweetbreads," you should know that what you are eating is "the thymus glands and pancreas glands of lamb, beef, or pork."

According to wikipedia, "there are two different connected parts to the thymus gland, both set in the neck. The "heart" sweetbreads are more spherical in shape, and surrounded symmetrically by the "throat" sweetbreads, which are more cylindrical in shape. Although both are edible, the heart thymus gland is generally favored because of its delicate flavor and texture, and is thus more expensive[1]. Typically sweetbreads are soaked in salt water, then poached in milk after which an outer membrane is removed. Once dry and chilled, they're often breaded and fried until crisp. It is also popular to use them as a stuffing or in pâtés."

If you are looking for an image:

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I wish somebody had told me this BEFORE I ate them last week, but thank you to Terry for not telling me what it was that I was eating until after my meal was basically fully digested.

It really wasn't bad, but as Denny Crane would say, "I think I have the Mad Cow."

Playing With The FLIP

I bought Kori a FLIP camera for Valentine's Day, and let me just say...this is a great product (and relatively cheep too)! I'm already contemplating taking this one back for the HD version. We have a miniDV camera, and we use it, but the movies never seem to make it from our tapes to the computer. Here are our first productions with the FLIP:

Jack and Isabelle Offroading (in the living room)

As you can probably tell, I bought the FLIP for Kori primarily because I wanted one. Love you, Honey!