Potty Training Day 2

We did good today!...well Wesley did good. haha He was in underwear all day and we even went out for a bit. I know..RISKY! I think he may have it! At least I hope he does. He loves sitting on his Cars toilet seat insert...very fun for him...

Potty Training Day 1

I have two strikes against me:
Strike 1: Wesley is the BABY of the family
Strike 2: Wesley is a BOY

I don't have three strikes..so there is hope. Today so far...no leaks...but it is Day 1 and I haven't gotten lazy yet. Wesley loves getting his reward...Red Vines, his choosing. And he has Thomas the Train and Cars underwear. I hope it will continue to be smooth sailing....

Lego Man

the good news...the colors were spot on perfect to the Lego brand Lego Man, the cake was yummy!, the birthday boy liked it!, and the Lego man was perfect in shape.

the bad news...I am still learning and did not compensate for the HEAT! I am still learning how to make my fondant adjust to the weather. The fondant was put on the cake and it was perfect...smooth...and I was very excited how it was turning out. Then the HEAT came into play..my fondant started to melt off...it became too heavy. So I have figured out how to make that not happen again. The lego man was perfect in shape...just the fondant fell a bit.

I hate it when I go to do something and it doesn't turn out perfect..so frustrating!! But till next time! I guess everyone has to learn and start somewhere...even the GREATS mess up right?!? (:

Date Festival and the Post of many pics

Every year while David was growing up his family would go to the Date Festival in Indio, CA. It was a tradition of theirs because David's Mom grew up there and she would sing in the pageant and her Mom would have a pork sandwich stand to make money. They would always participate. Even while David was a kid, his Mom would sing in the pageant. We continue to tradition with our family and really have a lot of fun when we go! this year we stayed for a comic who was a German man..and very funny. Then we stayed for the pageant and the concert...

Old McWesley had a farm...
The fair had a theme for us this year...FOOD....yummy snow cone...

There it is in all its glory...the kids each picked out a few flavors...
not really sure what Dylan is doing here...but Wesley is sure cute!
I love this one of Sammie...pausing while she eats the snow cone.
Wesley deep in thought. His poor face was so dirty, he fell and hit his head.
Enjoying the yummiest snow cone

Grandma and Grandpa Grogan

My HOT hubby...he is such a stud!

Wiping off my kisses...I guess I should be offended...

The Pageant stage...since the start of the date Festival the theme is always around Arabian nights...

The german comedian...

the funnel cake...it was da bomb!!! haha

Sammie and Grandma

Dylan, Grandma, and Sammie with Clifford Plummer. Claudia taught him voice lessons and he works in the Palm Springs area performing now. He was in the pageant as a main character.

Samantha and her grandpa

The kids really wanted to go down the super slide...and Dave said I should go and then the kids made me go too. It is a dark picture but we are there. The scary part was walking up the steps and then getting on the platform to get on the slide. It was rickety and shaky...too much for me!

The prize won for.....

....playing darts....they are pretty good.

the fish game...now I HATE carnival games. I think it is a HUGE waste of money...but we won ...

4 goldfish....still a waste of time and money....but the kids love it!

The fried twinkie....pass on it if you come across it....they were even frying up White Castles, we didn't brave that one.

In high school I liked several bands. One of them was the Gin Blossoms..they had a few songs that were ok. They were the concert this night. We went and about 5 minutes into it Dylan says, "Mom can we go...you are old, this is old music...lets go." So we went...

The pageant show

Wierd Science

It was Science Fair time..we had 2 and 1/2 months to prepare! Dylan was excited to pick out a project and to be involved...at first. So he chose the mentos and coke project. he also wanted to build a rocket to launch using the power of Mentos, but I that was alot of work...And you would think that we would have taken the opportunity to use ALL the time that we had and to really ROCK the science fair project. One month prior to the project being due we got the supplies needed for the project. And then in the end one week prior to the project we thought about it again. Did the research and came up with our hypothesis. And then the day before, we completed the project...and I might add...doing the bare minimum to get Dylan an A+. I really didnt care about winning...poor Dylan. (: So here are a few pics from our grand experiment.



We went to the Science fair to see all the projects to tell Dylan how great his project is. We knew he would get a participant ribbon and I knew he would totally dig that and be ok with not winning. I told him that there will be alot of projects there that may be better than ours but that for next year we can see how and what they did and do it to win. This year Dylan didnt really know what all the steps were so I was more involved than he was...and i think t hat is how it goes for most. We were looking and came to his projects and it had a blue ribbon...that said honorable mention...which was wierd. So we counted all the blue ribbons to see what was up..there were 10. And then 6 finalist ribbons. Dylan was so excited. Dylan's teacher came up to me and said that the 2 judges were from the Dept. of Defense and after they judged the projects, came up to her to talk to her about Dylan's project. (Dylan's teacher was in charge of the fair) They wanted to know about Dylan and his project. Long story short, they wanted to continue him on to the district but we were missing a few things...darn (:...but that his project was one of their favorites. That made Dylans day and mine too...(: Maybe next year we will rock the science fair...