Because I just haven't felt like it

I know. It's been almost two months since I last blogged. I'll be honest. It's not because I have been too busy or even like I have nothing to say. I actually have a million things to say but I just haven't felt like blogging. So here's our brief update. But just a warning if I post some things in the near future that just don't make a lot of sense chronologically (like posting about Christmas after I post about Valentines day), it is because I am just now getting around to it.

Hyrum turned 5 last week. Wow! I can't believe my baby is 5! That is five as in he starts kindergarten next year. I'm not handling it so well. Just thinking about both my kids being in school next year is too much for me. Who knows what I will be like next August when school starts. Hyrum is doing great. His current plan is to marry me, have 10 girls, 6 boys, and 4 babies. I'm flattered.

A little side story. A few years ago I took some cake decorating classes. Cake decorating isn't a natural talent of mine but I worked hard at it and I've made some cakes that I'm really proud of. Especially because my original goal for taking the classes was just to not be embarrassed when frosting my kids birthday cakes. Well all that time and money spent on classes has come to this.

This is Hyrum's birthday cake. Even though this shot is out of focus I kind of like it because it looks like it's an action shot and the army guy's are actually moving. It's not all my fault. I asked Hyrum what kind of cake he wanted and and he told me "A strawberry army cake with yellow frosting" Huh? I tried to convince him to have a camouflage cake because I've been wanting to try out that technique but no he wanted yellow frosting with plastic army men. OK if you say so.

To celebrate Hyrum's birthday we played hooky on Monday and went up to Flagstaff to play in the snow. It was so much fun. It was both of our kids first time in snow (well technically Alan spent a lot of time in snow as a baby but as we moved to Arizona when he was only 15 months old he doesn't have any memory of it.

I made an attempt at snowboarding. I never made much progress but it really made me miss skiing. I haven't been skiing since I got married, because as we all know being married = no money. Now I'm going to have to save up money for lift tickets.

Plenty of spills but that makes it fun.