Richards broken ankle.

Richard broke his ankle at work on Monday, tripped on flat cement, yes he did! Now we know where Daniel gets it, but apparently Richard gets it from his graceful mamma, so it's all in the family. So he's out of work at minimum 2 weeks, hopefully his boss will have some light duty work for him after that. He requested a big burger at Crazy Erics tonight, everytime I go there he's never happy that the burger is big enough, so this time I made sure! They made this burger special for Richard, it's not even on their menu. So what does Richard say??? It's too big! Can't win, dangit. At least he didn't say it wasn't big enough.

Elise is the big 1 2 !!!

The day before her birthday she got both her cartiledges pierced (upper ears). That's the bottom pic. For the top pic, tilt your head to the left, that's her new haircut, which is what we did for her birthday.

Don't forgot our party on Friday. And wear purple everyone! Theme is Barney.

Grandpa Shermans big 55!

Gregs birthday at the bowling alley, I think we surprised him. Andrea and Elise went and got the cake, and we all got there early. It was a lot of fun, even tho the cake was chocolate! yuck!

Famous Who?

Oh, Famous Daves, whoever that is. But Big R got a big raise, so we thought we'd better celebrate, so why'd Tab end up paying the bill? Oh ya, you raised him right Andrea, he 'forgot' his wallet! I felt like I was eating out with my dad, geez. lol. We all had fun tho, I think that's even a smile on Daniels face. And way too much food! (not complaining) Little Mia even got a rib when we got home. So 5 thumbs up!

Spring Cleaning Time?

Think its time for some spring cleaning? We spent the whole day getting our house back in order from top to bottom. Then I peeked under the fish tank table, guess it could use a sweep! Wow. I was afraid our dust bunny would rise up and kill the easter bunny it was so big! But don't be afraid children, we have destroyed it, the good will rise again. p.s. this is in the living room, Richard's chore, cause Tab and Elise's chores are clean now. FYI.

Who else, Mia!!!!

#1: Mia at G&G Shermans house, discovering her new favorite toy, a ball with holes in it so she can pick it up with her teeth.

#2: One of her favorite sleeping spots, on me! Before sleeping on my neck she was actually laying on my head! Good thing she's small.

#3: Mia's first leash experience, as you can see, not a big fan, but we'll keep trying.

#4: This is Mia's dance moves, yes I agree she's not ready for MTV or anything, but everybodys got to start somewhere. FYI, she was waving her hands in the air, like she just don't care.

#5: This is her first road trip, we took her with us to Seatac to pick Leih up from the airport. She did very good, sat on Elise's lap the whole time. Such a good puppy.

Mia, our new puppy

This is Mia, our new puppy. She's half chiuaua, half pekinese (I'm sure I spelled both wrong.) She's 10 weeks old. Daddy was 5 pounds, mommy was 8, so she won't grow much larger. Now friends can come visit without being plowed over by a big dog! I anticipate her and Chicken will be friends, since they're almost the same size!

Chicken

Just in case you guys haven't seen enough pics of our rat Chicken. Notice in the first picture he's holding the cracker with his hands, how cute!

Height Envy

This picture is proof that I was there when Ivy got out of surgery. Who knows if she'll remember, ahhh, Diluadid. Plus, I even put on her favorite shirt. Man, I must be the best sister ever. haha.

Look Mom, you got your snow!

It's so pretty! Makes our messy backyard look nice. hehe.

Do a deer, a female Ivy...

Tonight the girls (Theresa, Ivy, Elise, Mom and Tab) went to Seattle to the 5th ave. Theater to watch the sing-a-long Sound of Music. It was so much fun! Lots of people came in costume, they had a costume contest first so we got to see what everybody wore, it was amazing some of the creativity. Ivy, of course got into it with her own costume (see above). The trip started out with us playing Apples to Apples on the ferry, a really fun game. Then we picked up Ivy on the Seattle side (she was there with Rick on a hot overnight date.) She had found ahead of time this restaurant called Dick's. I'd heard of it, been told to eat there, so that was fun. It's similar to Crazy Erics, only its menu contains like 10 items (seriously). You go up to the window and order, then eat in your car. Delicious! Then off to the show. I included a picture of the ceiling, if you look closely you can see it's a dragon curled up with the light coming out of its mouth, much cooler in person, but pretend. After the show we were lucky enough to get right to the car, down to the ferry and catch one home right away. So of course this was another hour of Apples to Apples. I think we irritated the old couple behind us who were trying to read cause we got a little loud, but oh well. We even got old (per Ivy) grandma in the mix, she seemed to enjoy it. So it was so much fun, and who can beat hanging with your family (miss you Mandy). Oh, our seats were up on the balcony, 3rd row back so that was cool too.

Friday night out with the kids.

Here we are at our favorite restaurant, King's Wok. We have Elise's friend Krystal with us. And what visit would be complete without crab legs. Elise is my cracker, she's so nice to me. I'm not sure where the nose picking comes in!, but maybe she's trying to give daniel a run for his money. He is the master of not only nose picking, but flicking at our house. Yes, it is disgusting!