Happy Birthday to Hayden

My baby will be 12 tomorrow! I can't believe it. By this time next year, Adam and I will have 4 teenagers - YIKES! Tomorrow is going to be another crazy day so we let Hayden open his presents tonight. Yes, we had to twist his arm . . . but ;-) He asked for a lifetime supply of Stride gum. We figured 18 packs was enough to last him for a month or two. We got him the spinner that he was fascinated with at the toy store a few weeks ago. And then he got the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records - the 3D edition. So he is a happy camper.

Guinness Book in 3-D with a mouthful of gum.

Hayden's Word Cloud Card.

I am so pleased with how this card turned out. The words were printed on white cardstock with a free program I heard about. It's http://www.wordle.net/ Check it out if you have some time to kill. You enter words and the computer randomly places them. The more times you enter a word the larger it appears in the final product. You can control things like color, capitalization, and whether the words are mostly vertical, mostly horizontal, or both. But the placement is random. So, if you don't like the look you can have it rearrange the words. I clicked about 12 times before I got the large words right where I wanted them. Anyway, it's fun - go check it out.

Gearing up for a BUSY weekend. The Emerald Coast Marching Classic is this Saturday. We will be volunteering all day at the school. So pray for nice (not hot) weather for us. Oh yeah, and for LOTS of people to come. This is the bands biggest fundraiser of the year.