May's CCC collection

May's theme was Thank You.... and that's exactly what I want to do to each of our awesome Crazy Card Club members...

Lynette

Laura

Colleen

Gail

Jean

Margy

Pat

Robin

Margie

Wanda

Ronnie

Thank You for all your awesome cards and sharing your talent!!!

Birthday Bash Pics Continues

Starting with Hot Dogs for breakfast...

Discovering some treasures.....

Opening special presents...

It's Toothless... just what I always wanted!

Official Birthday Ribbon to wear for the day!

Even got some special mail from special friends....

And Grandfather and Grandma Dee

sent some goodies....

His new bike helmet to go with the

new bike they got him...

And a bag full of pool toys from Grandpa Jerry

Grandma Gail wants to pass down the

Skipbo tradition....

Talk about traditions, Grandpa measures him on

the garage post to make his mark!

We then went down to Balboa Park for the day....

Daddy wanted to show him the biggest coi pond he knew of....

along with some familiar friends....

could he be related to Mr Turtle???

and his little guy, the next generation....

We headed toward the Natural History Museum

where they have special REAL Pirates Exhibit....

Took a quick jog around the famous fountain..

Buzzed over to Spanish Village to see 

Uncle Allen's pottery on display...

now that he's official member of the

San Diego Potter's Guild!!

Here's a little advertisement.... for those of you interested,

Spanish Village is having their semi-annual sale June 14-15

go check it out...

it's going to be incredible...

(can you pick out which are Allen's pieces???)

this is just what he has currently on display..

wait til you see what he has at the sale!!!!

Then Birthday Boy gets a ride to the parking lot

to head for home.....

Amazingly I had to convince him that we were

having birthday cake and ice cream for dinner....

honest!

Brayden picked out his cake...

yes that's Power Rangers...

not sure how that happened with all the pirate theme..

but hey, he's the birthday boy!

It was a fabulous memorable exciting day...

he's officially four, going on five...

just 364 days to go!

Happy Birthday Brayden!

Yes.. today Brayden turned FOUR YEARS OLD!!!

Happy Birthday To You Brayden!!!

You've been with us now 1,460 days.... each and every one of them precious and amazing!

Before I begin the story.... first helps to know that the night before, when Brayden was still 3,  Daddy surprised him with the transfer of Mr. Turtle.... from his home in Murrietta to his new home in Poway....They had a beautiful coi pond filled with awesome large fish but with the move, had to put them up for adoption... we thought Mr. Turtle was destined for the same, but daddy just didn't want to release him to "strangers".... thus the surprise for Brayden....

David worked hard at installing a new, much smaller, pond in our yard, now the new home to Mr. Turtle... here they are lining the bottom with some large rocks for him to climb on

This isn't an "OK" sign... it's Brayden's display

of how old he was at the time.... three.

and what he was going to be in just a few hours....

four!

We had a fabulous day celebrating... 

For now can only give you one picture ...

because my google storage account needs updating..
sorry will finish the story as soon as I resolve this
That's  what I get for downloading a gazillion pics!



good thing one picture is worth a thousand words!!!