Oh my!

Liz has an interesting growth in her abdomen. We decided to get it checked out. Here is what we found:

It has legs!

This growth is expected to come out one way or another around August 9th this year:)

Shout hooray!

No sooner had we gotten home from New Jersey than we celebrated Hiram's 28th birthday! Can you believe it? We also celebrated Mary's 29th-ish(?) birthday. Hiram has very strong feelings toward pink toothbrushes which I will never understand (teeheehee), so me and Martha (mostly Martha) made him a pink toothbrush cake. It turned out most impressively.

That smeared white frosting? All me.

The birthday girl and family at dinner

Presents from Martha. Hiram shared them with Bethany, and she never let these squishy "gloves" out of her sight!

New Jersey

Two months ago (we're blog slackers!) we took a trip to New Jersey to see Liz's parents. Though Bethany was not a big fan of the plane rides (until we touched down- then she happily said "Bye" to everyone sitting around us), we loved seeing Mom and Dad again! They were very nice to let us stay with them, and Hiram loved the real home cooking- he doesn't get much of that around here... sorry Hiram.

And Bethany got lots of loving from Nama, Papa, and Uncle. Here are some pictures of our exploits:

Bethany and Papa share a laugh over Ike.

Nama whipped out her dance moves. Too bad we don't have this as a video. Or maybe that's a good thing;)

And some of Liz's high school friends came over to make gingerbread houses (and to eat lots of candy). SO FUN! These were definitely not your ordinary houses.

Lisa S did a shipwreck, complete with corpses.

Andy had a shower coming out of his roof, we think... Engineers;)

Lisa D always has the neat house. We don't know how she does this.

Uncle Sam had a pretty impressive house too.

Liz had a forest fire

Hiram made a park (we made a zipline between the two of our "houses.")

And let's be honest, Bethany just liked having her hands full of candy.