Tackle It Tuesday #12 - Birthday Party

Well, today's tackle, or rather this week's tackle was my son's 5th birthday party. He will be 5 on Thursday, the 15th. We celebrated his birthday on Sunday so that my parents could attend before heading back down to Florida for the rest of the winter. My biggest tackle was his birthday cakes, yes we had 2 cakes, we had 25 people including us here on Sunday so we needed 2 cakes, the first was a chocolate cake with chocolate icing with a lovely Lego cake topper.

The second cake was a spice cake with white icing which says "Happy Birthday Young Padawan" on it. The light saber in the middle is red because it is my son's favorite color and no matter how many times I told him that only Sith's used red light sabers, he wouldn't budge.

And this is the happy birthday boy.

This is what I tackled this week, what have you tackled, and check out 5 Minutes for Mom to see what other Mom's have done.

Tackle It Tuesday #11

Well, my son's 5th birthday is coming up next Thursday (the 15th), and we are having a small party for him here on Sunday. So my tackle, once again without pictures, is to clean the house put away all our Christmas decorations and find homes for the ton of toys he got for Christmas. OK, so I haven't really tackled all of that yet but it's my project for the week, so I will post some pictures during the week.

What I have accomplished is making phone calls for everything I needed to do, portrait appointment, get his allergist to call in a refill on his Asthma inhaler that he uses daily, call my husband's grandmother since we haven't seen her for Christmas yet, make his yearly doctor appointment and call same doctor to get a referral for his allergist appointment on Thursday.

I also made my New Year's Resolutions and have actually started on them. We got a Wii from my parents for Christmas and I bought Wii Fit/Balance Board with my birthday money so I've been doing the different activities on that mostly every day, I can tell you that if you are as out of shape as I am, these activities will kick your butt. I try to do at least 30 minutes per day of the different activities on Wii Fit and I'm doing pretty ok with it, I need to make sure I do it on the weekends too to keep getting better.

So this is what I have/am tackling this week, let us know what you are tackling and then head on over to 5 Minutes for Mom to see what other bloggers are tackling.

Celebration for ME!!

Well, today I turn 40, well I turned 40 around 8:30 this morning, I'm not sure of the exact time, my Mom can't remember. Can you tell I'm the middle child?



Well I got a wonderful gift from my husband and son:

A Canon Rebel XSi camera, I love it. When I used film, I had a Canon Elan EOS-IIe, but when we switched to digital we went with a Canon Elph Powershot point and shoot, I so missed my SLR capabilities. I've taken 20 pictures already of my son just playing. I haven't even read the manual to see how to use everything yet either.

I had wanted a party for my birthday, but this is so much better!! I can't wait to see the pictures I'll be able to scrap when I print these out.

Anyway, I'm hoping to make some applesauce tomorrow, so I'll post about that on Monday, but I won't be around for the weekend, I'll be too busy taking pictures.