Birthday and Pope's

    We're back to making ice cream on Sunday nights and the people are showing up in droves. We love it!

 Second Sunday night of the year with 6 different ice cream flavors.

    Carter's 18!! It's hard to believe it was 18 years ago when I was forced to have a C-section to get this 'chubby' kid out into the world. I slept through the whole delivery and have a pretty great scar I've been sporting all these years. Totally worth it! He's fun!

Drinks and balloons to start the day.

He was surprised to get a gift since the big gift was a month off from paying his car insurance. Not photographed are the cool shoes Rachel got him and a few other fun things.

Best decision he made for his birthday, Costco's delicious chocolate cake!

    Greg and I attended the temple and did an endowment session for the first time in, literally, years. It was great and horrible all at the same time so I had to treat myself to one of my favorite things, white spinach queso from Chili's.

Man I love this stuff!

    And McClane did some research on the Pope for school and presented his work for his fellow classmates and parents today. His 'outfit' may have been thrown together 20 minutes before school, what are you going to do?!

I guess the Pope throws gang signs.

    Not photographed was the visit from my cousin Andrew who stopped by for a couple nights while making his way to Indiana. We enjoyed his visit and hope he does great things in his future endeavors. We also spent many hours on the porch visiting with friends nearly every evening and indulged in a few treats along the way.
    It's been a week with some serious downs and ups. Life is always waiting to throw you a curve ball or two. We feel blessed to have such great people in our lives who we can confide in and who in turn pray for us and bless us beyond what words can express. Life can't always be what you want but we're willing to take what comes our way and learn and grow from it. Let God prevail!