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Birthday Boy




Tom is now 8! We got to celebrate his birthday for whole month. He was baptized lost two teeth and had an egyptian party. He said that he wanted a "desert cake" so I decided to go with egyptian. I should have listened to my Mom who advised me that the pyramid would be hard to pull off(I guess I still haven't learned to listen) After a lot of frosting and piecing together-nothing like the recipe/instructions made it look so easy. I did take her advice on making cocoa powder to make the bricks. By the way, ground vanilla wafers make great sand.

We had a hieroglyphic treasure hunt and pin the beard on the King Tut. We had about 6 boys over and then a few more including siblings andmoms. It reminded me why I have avoided parties for so long but also reminded me why they are a good experience.

In other news... my husband is giving his very final attempt at finishing his dissertation. Go Dave! After 6 years it looks like it will finally happen. So that means our evenings will be spent with Dave hiding in the office and working hard. But that is all made up for the fact that his boss has approved a work at home day. So on Wednesdays, Dave utilizes our new office space as his and joins us for lunch and even dinner before he heads off to Young Mens at night. He is the YM president of our ward.




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Alainna Beus said…
You posted! Yay! Thomas looks SO much different! Wow he's growing up. Such dark hair.

One of these days maybe we'll catch each other on the phone... :) Love ya!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Jamie said…
I love seeing what you guys are up to! Lots of fun!
Monday, January 31, 2011
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