Guess Who's Turning 6?

Tinker bell balloon, the other was High School
Musical, picked by Chantel.

LJ, Sierra, Katie, Chantel and Sarah

Sierra, Katie, Sarah, Chantel and LJ

The Cake! Yum!

Chantel is turning 6. She invited 9 friends and herself. She ended up with 3 close friends and one friend's sister. She had a wonderful, hour-long party! She had a castle piñata in the garage which lasted 15 minutes, that was pretty good, for a store bought one!

Well, here are some photos of her friends and the food and fun they had. We open gifts, had cake and just played 2 more indoor games with bean bags.

Chantel had a good time for her first friend party, ever! The next one will most likely be sweet 16 or something like that! Well, maybe 10 or a sleepover or something?? Who knows!

Things to be thankful for

Going to a hockey game last night, was something to be thankful for.

We were waiting in line, when someone offered us a free piece of paper, which represented a buy one get one free ticket offer. When I took it to the window, the person had me fill in my info. on the back and trade it in for a free adult ticket, worth $19.00. (That made up for the $12.00 for parking- argh- one dollar more than last year, and two.)

Finding a new tree for Chantel's room, safer, easier to set up, and not too expensive. We found a $25.00 plus tax, white tree, at Wal-Mart. Chantel wanted white, I wasn't too sure about it, but it looks great in her room. It goes well with the pink balls a friend of ours gave her. Pinks not my thing, but Chantel loves it! So, that was a praise. (Esp. since the other tree was 38 years old, since my parents will be married 38 yrs. in December. It almost fell on us when we tried to take it down, so the stand wasn't very safe anymore and it seemed like it was leaning and ready to fall down.)

Chantel enjoyed celebrating her birthday and getting gifts along with the T-Day celebration since we decided to combine the two activities this year.

Oh yes, and we were given an extra T.V., by Ralph's mom today. It goes perfect, in our downstairs, extra room. It gives Ralph his space, when Chantel only wants to watch her shows. I really don't care, but the two of them can really go at it, about T.V. So, this will work well. We will have our space, downstairs and she can have hers upstairs, if friends and some day, boyfriends come over! (Yes, and the cable wires were ready to go!)

Heat and Electricity is a Wonderful thing!

Wow! For an hour and a 1/2 we lived by candle light. Now I know what it must have been like for the Pilgrims. Chantel was asleep in the bedroom, ours, due to the lights being out. She luckily received the last of her medicine right before we were in the dark.

The candlelight was beautiful though! We had four candles glowing above our T.V. /entertainment center. There was one in the bedroom for Chantel to sleep by.

Then, when the lights came on, Ralph noticed the heat didn't seem to be warm, just cool. So, we called our neighbor who works for a Heat and A/C company. That was really wonderful, that he could start it again and let us know about a part, that we should have looked at by our company!

Thanks for lights, for heat, and helpful neighbors. Things to be Thankful for!

I lost my 3rd tooth and look how sick I am!

Even though I didn't feel good tonight, I still wanted Mommy to take a picture of me without my tooth. By the way, I lost it on the way to Wal-Mart last night.

It's my first top tooth. I lost the bottom two and they came in again already. So, 3 baby teeth have been lost.

Well, at least the camera gave me something to smile about. I have a 101.1ºF. fever, my normal is 95. or 96. something. Pray for me to feel better, my 3rd fever in 1 1/2 months. Mommy and Daddy are concerned for me!