Jon's Big Bodacious Birthday Bash

Jon's Birthday was on Nov. 19th and he turned a whopping 26!

That is over a quarter of a century!

We had a really great time celebrating with the Farrells.

We made a castle cake (I have this special bunt pan I bought at William Sonnoma) and filled it with chocolate pudding and cool whip and it turned out really yummy!

Jon is getting excited to be a dad-- him and Buster are prepared with matching BYU hats! (Notice Randall holding River upside down in the background!)

Hopefully now that Jon has a new hat the old hat (the one that he has had since high school and is totally nasty and broken-- sorry dear but it is true!) will um...accidently... be misplaced!

About the Cottage Cheese Cottage

This is me

I'm a

church going,

home birthing,

book loving,

chicken raising,

fast swimming,

doula training,

toast eating,

baby snuggling,

modern dancing,

muffin loving,

scripture studying

mother, wife, sister, and daughter.

I live in the Cottage Cheese Cottage, an old house with a very unusual stucco job.

Within those walls lives...

1) Me

2) Him


(Hint: You can see the house's stucco job in the background... very cottage cheesy)

3) A Toddler

and

4) A Nursling

Life is good
Life is crazy
Life is sweet
Life is an adventure

Welcome... enjoy... leave comments :)

Buster's First Costume

Jon and I figured that it isn't going to be very often that I will be as big, round and pregnantly luscious as I am now-- and that we should take full advantage of this for a Halloween costume. So this year, Jon went as a newsie (we just watched the movie a few days ago),

I went as a gardener

and Buster went as a pumpkin!

Jon did a WONDERFUL job painting my belly, we cut a hole in an old shirt and lots of people at the ward Halloween party thought it was just painted on my shirt! If you look close you can see my belly button in the middle of the pumpkin's nose. Jon had fun painting it-- especially when Buster started to move and kick while he was trying to do the lines!

We had a really fun Halloween-- the Monday before our next door neighbors came over and had a pumpkin carving party with us. It was really fun and now we have about a GAZILLION pumpkin seeds to eat-- yum yum!