I typically consider myself a pretty bright person.  If I want to know something I do whatever it takes to figure it out.  However, when it comes to blogs I feel like such a tard!  I tried Xanga for a while to keep in touch with all my friends from TM.  I never could figure out how to post pics (part of the problem is that I have a Mac) so my good friend Logan enabled me and posted them for me!  The other problem is I just don't have the time, mostly b/c I don't make it a priority.  Where do people find the time?  Not to mention having mutiples like facebook, myspace and a blog???? It just seems like you can get sucked in and next thing you know it's been hours just checking up on people's lives.  That in itself is not bad but it just seems so impersonal to me.  All these people can read about me and I don't even know about it...kinda creeps me out.  When we were in AZ many of my dearest friends were many states away.  Now that all of my friends are long distance I am throwing in the towel.  I must become a blogger b/c it just seems impossible to keep in touch with everyone personally!  Don't expect me to pour out my deepest thoughts, if you know me in the slightest you'll know that that's not gonna happen online!  But hopefully I can keep up with whats going on in our life and stay up with whats going on in yours!

Here are the pictures of Alana devouring her birthday cake. The first picture is her reation when we showed her the cake. I don't really even know how she knew what it was. We got her a little 4 inch cake of her own. (Which is orange b/c the only little cake the grocery store bakery had was Nascar! So we took off the decals) At first when we put it in front of her she didn't know what to do...or she was in shock that I was actually going to let her eat chocolate cake! But she caught on quickly and dug in! I was hoping that most of it was falling under the tray but when I looked I discovered that she knew this was a precious commodity and not to waste it. : ) She liked to squish it between her fingers before she put it in her mouth. Within minutes the sugar set in and she got gitty. It was soooo cute! When Justin tried to take the tray this was her reaction!

Birthday pictures