We celebrated with a few friends the Woods and Buhlers. 3 flames blew out with added huffs and puffs from Kent and we all devoured Panini's and Pies!
Kent - Leon - Everett - Malcolm An attempt at lining up the children for a pic. No major injury's. Note: take pics at the beginning of the evening not when they are all played out and ready for bed and perhaps sitting up on the floor or on the couch - not laying down all rolly-polly and hokey-pokey : )
3 decades - It was fun finding 3 pics for decorating the dining room wall with. As soon as Wade was kissed off to work I set out with Kent to look through photo albums of Wade's. Kent was just taking my word for it at first when I pointed to baby pics of Wade and told him they were of "Dad" Then I could see his gears turning as Wade got older and older he also could pick out who Aunt Beth, Uncle's Chad and Joel were and he was stumped with the rest. Kent, Leon and I set out to go to Hy Vee's photo lab to reproduce the pics into 8x10's but I quickly redirected the troops and we went to the UPS Store where they had a March Madness price for color copies. That's all I needed! I didn't need photo quality for this! 8 1/2 x 11 papers 25 cents each, perfect. Then I looked through my scrapbook papers at home and found some that worked well enough together. When it came to cutting out the digits I had to do that in a hurry and I never finished. Leon decided it looked good just the way it was. : ) 
I bet I'd have had a little crush on that cute boy in grade school. 
Haha! 20 years old and serving on his mission, here outside the St. George Temple. What a stud. He is wearing someones glasses and they got a little pose out of him. 
Now a wonderful father to our son's and an amazing husband to me. I am thankful for all he does for our family. Everyday Kent is SO excited to anticipate the arrival home of "Daddy" and so am I! He wrestles with Kent, listens to all of Kent's story's from the events of the day (which are 99% of the time about vehicles and machines he saw that day) With Leon he gets nice and close up to his face - oohs and aahs and talks with him. Leon has a lot of smiles and can sure laugh when the tickles are just right. We marvel at Leon. What a sweet baby he is. There is nothing like a baby in the home. With me, Wade sure treats me well. I feel loved, respected and admired. And I hope I return the love, respect and admiration he deserves. I'm thankful for the the qualities of dedication, perseverance, exactness, and clarity he has. He definitely helps me see things in a different light when I need to. His memory astounds me! I have a certain few categories of things that I don't forget. But Wade's categories are endless! He can sure make me laugh! The area's where we differ are good, keeps me on my toes. It's neat that this year we celebrate 5 years of marriage. Wow! Time is flying by!
Happy Birthday Wade!
Recently I learned you can use the George Forman Grill for Panini's! I've seen the proper Panini grills but greatly dislike one use kitchen appliances - space is limited in our kitchen as it is. The lean mean fat reducing grilling machine does a panini just as good as your panini Panini does! Sourdough Bread
butter the outside of each slice
provolone
roasted red bell peppers "in Brine" (Wade's always states that)
peppered turkey
honey dijon mustard or reg - optional mmm....
I cut the sandwiches in half to serve. The rest of the menu was big ol pickles (Jason's Deli-esk), Ruffles potato chips, cantaloupe, fresh cut pineapple, grapes, and for desert Boston Creme Pie with 3 candles on top and a second pie - Banana Cream Pie, just because. Beverage: Banana Slush with Ginger Ale (recipe from Deb)
The night of Wade's party I didn't do the finishing touch on the IKEA guy like I wanted to do. So this morning before Kent woke up I taped the little banner to IKEA guy's hands. Kent's reaction was hilarious! I showed him and he grinned and said "Oh wow! giggle giggle That's really cool mom!" In disbelief I inquired "pardon?" and he repeated exactly as before "That's really cool mom!" Since when does he share his opinion in this manner? Love it! Well, Happy Birthday Wade! Look forward to what's in store this year! (Thanks to Kent the Star Wars Emperor's theme song just came into my mind... dun dun dun - dun dun dun- dun dun dunnn!)
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