Busy Week (with lots of pictures!!)

This past week I made a birthday cake for my baby boy (who turned 4.....how can that be possible?!?!)

The cake didn't end up being anything fancy. He loved it, though.
I had to take this child in for her 15 month check up....

Doesn't she just look so sweet??! Well, SHE ISN'T!!!! She just knows how to turn on the cuteness. I can tell you how to spell trouble....L-A-N-E-Y! She likes to give me little heart attacks. Today, she climbed up onto the TOP of our little play kitchen. THE TOP! (She then proceeded to fall off, head first, and bust her eyelid open.) When I took her in for her check up last week, she had to get shots. She got the Flu shot, the Chicken Pox shot, and the MMR. She then immediately (and I mean with in 60 seconds) broke out in hives on the leg she got the MMR shot in. We got to spend the next 30 minutes in the doctors office, with nurses buzzing around, making sure she was alright. She was. She just likes to be difficult.

My brother, Drew, and his wife came to visit this past weekend. You know that Laney cuteness mentioned in the above paragraph? Well, she turned it on for her Uncle Drew.


Drew, Marquesas, Tracy, and I all drove over to Orlando to try out for....
WHEEL
OF
FORTUNE
That's right!! The Wheelmobile came to Sea World and we decided "what the heck!" We might as well give it a shot!!


There were 3 separate hours of tryouts. You could fill out an application for each hour (we were there for about 7 hours total). They put all the applications into this big, gold drum, spun it 'round and 'round, and then drew out applications, at random, for people to come up on stage in groups of five. You then got to call out a letter and had 3 seconds to guess the puzzle.

And, I ACTUALLY GOT CALLED UP ON STAGE TO PLAY!!!!! It was fun, but holy crap was it scary! I didn't solve the puzzle (although I knew it by the time it was solved), but I was also the first person to guess a letter. I guessed "T" and there were 2 of them and then I guessed an "I" and there were 3 of them. Woo Hoo! They kept saying they wanted people who could "shine" onstage. If you could "shine" then they would ask you back for a final audition. I figured I would have to get called back for a second audition because I was REALLY shiny after standing in the Florida heat for 7 hours waiting for a chance to audition, but I guess that isn't the kind of shine they were referring to. I had no chance against the pyro-technician from Disney that used to be in the circus and the funny man who could juggle while surfing.
So, although I am apparently boring and didn't get asked back to go on the show and have a chance to win a million dollars, I did win.....

A HAT!!!!!!!!!! (and a key chain and a blinky pin) I know. I know....don't be jealous!!

Oh, and just FYI, this is what happens at my house when I go off and leave Daddy in charge for a day.....






(Yes, that is chest hair on Kyle)