Let them eat cake! (Alternate title: Why we live here)

The past few days, Miss Gwen had quite the full social calender. On Tuesday, she headed off with her mom to go make mints for a baby shower thrown for our friend Marisa. With the help of Beth & Rod's kids - Lacey, Linsey and Skylar, the moms got to chatter away while pulling sugary concoctions out of various molds. We will post pictures of that day shortly, but it should be noted that Lindsey actually managed to comb Gwen's hair while GWEN SAT STILL for her!! The next day, we had a party to celebrate Skylar's first birthday. Again, we have more pictures but here are some of all the kids in attendance. For those of you not in the county, these kids (with the exception of Gwen and two others in the pic) are all 1st cousins. We consider them our adopted families, to the point that Miss Gwen gets hauled around a lot. Instead of saying "Cheese", Ty (with Gwennie in all the group pics) was told to "Hold up Gwennie" for photo ops. As you can see, his weighlifting routine wore a little heavy (no pun intended) toward the end. Hope you enjoy seeing the party as much as we enjoyed being included on it!!