What every one year old wants?

Bruce's big one is coming up soon. A special day is in the works, but we're just wondering what to get the little guy. Anybody have any recommendations that a walker who puts everything in this mouth would enjoy?

Umm...Happy Birthday to Me!

I had a great day! We found a new Asian restaurant, Tannah's, that we ate lunch at. I love love love Asian cuisine! I still have some shopping to do. After a light dinner I made Kirk amass a ton of candles in a peanut butter playground cake from Coldstone and sing to me. And maybe most exciting *putsongeekyglasses* I finally earned enough reputation to buy my 70 hunter a Talbuk mount in World of Warcraft.

Welcome to Homely Family

So you're wondering about the title of this entry....Kirk's family would begin their weekly Family Home Evenings with that greeting. Tonight included some hangman, Kirk guessed pretty quickly...spoiled all my fun (I think the thought and scripture gave it away), some singing of "Rise Up, O Men of God" (can't say that I've sung that before), and some scripture chasing.

Our activity, in an effort to emphasize that the most important occupation for a man to be is to be a "priesthood man", was pantomiming occupations. To add a bit of a twist and to involve Bruce, he became our prop. Bruce was a drill hammer, Santa's bag, a grocery item, and a guitar. He loved it and well, we were amused too!

Ethnically Enriched

I seem to be a festival junkie...it doesn't help that Kansas City hosts an abundance of these. Our latest (which was a few weeks ago, bad blogger!) was the Enrichment Festival held at Swope Park. Basically we were ethnically fed. We tried out food from Israel (falafel), France (crepes), Vietnam (zhenzhu drink), and Indonesia (pumpkin drink). Apparently the zhenzhu drink brought back some memories for Kirk from serving in Taiwan. They call a lot of the drinks teas, but some have tea in them and some don't. He said it was a real struggle in the beginning being in Taiwan figuring out which of the 'teas' had tea in it or not.