M.I.A.

So yes, I know. I have been a little M.I.A. in the blog world. I've just lost the blogging gusto. But I figured we did need an update from Halloween pictures. :) Plus Ben turned 2 in February and he deserves his cute little birthday noted on the blog even if it is a month late. Sorry Ben.

We had a small party with just a couple friends. Ben is obsessed with everything "Curious George" right now... so we took on a monkey or "George" theme for the party. I made a monkey cake, yellow and green color scheme, and had banana slush for our little monkey guests to drink. We also had Ben's favorite dinner, Pizza. At least that was his favorite at the time... in toddler style, we have moved on from Pizza, that was SOOOO last week. :) Thanks to all who sent gifts... He actually caught on to the "opening presents" thing and was excited to see what was inside the paper and boxes. He had a nice little pile of loot. THANKS everyone!!

It is warming up nicely here in OK. We are already planting flowers and working on our vegetable garden. I love that it warms up earlier here. Winter was just the right amount of time. Not too long. Now it's tornado season, so we'll see what adventures that brings. Hopefully I will have nothing exciting to report on that front.

Ben is a riot right now. He is talking more and more. I have to say that it is SOOOOO nice to add the communication factor to our relationship. I love that he can verbalize what he wants. Not that he always gets it, but its great that he can tell me. He knows lots of letters, is getting good at his shapes and the way he counts is SOOOO cute. He loves the "teens" numbers... he likes to jump ahead to those. He also LOVES to say hi and bye to everything. For example, while we are driving he will see a tree, or water, or a color ie. purple, or a cirlce and he will say "Hi circle..." and then "Bye circle..." when he can't see it anymore. I love it. He still calls me "Mimi" which I hope lasts forever. But it won't. They just grow up too darn fast.

Kyle is busy shucking teeth up at the Oral Surgery Clinic and sewing up drunk guys during the middle of the night in the Emergency Room. But he loves it, go figure. Gross.

I am still busy trying to get our house decorated. I LOVE decorating projects. And since residents don't make millions, I can just do one little project at a time. So slowly but surely our little house is taking shape. Thanks to CraigsList, Thrift Stores and Home Depot. :) So far we have been happy out here in Oklahoma... not a bad place to visit if you're interested. I am putting together a pretty cute guest room/office with a comfy bed!!!! Am I tempting you?? I hope so. :)

Here are some pictures from Ben's birthday bash...

The Birthday Boy with his loot.

The "spread".

Ben's monkey cake.

Mom and Dad with the cutest 2 year old on the planet!!

Grrrr. I was going to post a bunch more random pics from the last acouple months, but I am having troubles uploading any more pictures. We have really slow internet so that might be the problem. I will try again tommorrow. xoxo.