The biggest pancakes...EVER!

It has been a LONG time since I have blogged (right, Tori?). We've had VBS, stomach viruses, a visit with Mrs. Schindler, a trip to the Mufreesboro Discovery center, church middle school mission projects, a luau and most recently, Emily and I went on a girls only trip.

We left on Sunday and headed to Chattanooga. We stayed a block from the Aquarium. Sunday night we went swimming, wandered around downtown and then ate dinner. Monday we went to the Aquarium and IMAX, to the North Shore shopping and then on to the Hamilton Place Mall - don't waste your time there!

Today we went to Aretha Frankenstein's for breakfast. I would consider it a dive. However, it has the biggest, yummiest pancakes ever. Wow! We couldn't even eat them all and we only ordered 2 each. We heard about it on the Food Network a long time ago. So that's how we ended the Chattanooga trip - very very full!

We drove back to Murfreesboro and did a little more shopping and then headed home for voice lessons. Now it's back to me being a nagging Mom.

Michael's 10th birthday continued...

Tonight we continued Michael's 10th birthday celebration with friends. We were supposed to have a sleepover, but Em got sick Wednesday night and had a fever last night, so I was afraid to have 9 boys stay overnight in our germ pit. The good news is that the party is over for the night. The bad news is that I have to reschedule the sleepover.



Michael's party was at this animation studio. They have a party room and basically do it all. The boys played video games in the party room and they pull them out a few at a time to film a short movie in a big blue room. They then put it on a DVD and the kids get to take it home. Michael got to make his own space movie. They served the pizza, the cake and cleaned up. It was awesome for Kevin and I. After our week, I'm not sure I could have done it on my own. Michael and the boys seemed to have a good time. To quote Michael...his party was "cool". Until 10th birthday part 3!

Michael's 10th birthday!

I cannot believe that my baby is 10 years old! It's just not right. His birthday celebration started this weekend in Kentucky. We visited Gram and Gramps, Karen, Matt, Tori and Luke, Uncle Charles, Grandmother and Grandonnie, Aunt Julie, Uncle Jeremy, Haley, Dillon and Jacob, Uncle Aaron, Aunt Katie, Evan, Ann Marie, Conor, Riley and Stella, AND Grandaddy and Nana. Whew! Hopefully, I didn't leave anyone out!

Today was all about him. After I walked, I headed to Kroger at 6:30 am to get a special (quick) breakfast. I brought home cinnamon rolls from the bakery and bacon. He ended up not liking the cinnamon rolls, so he ate cereal. Oh well, I tried!

He spent the morning at VBS and ate lunch with friends. He played all afternoon with a friend and then we headed out to a really bad Mexican restaurant topped off by Marble Slab.

After the pigfest we headed home to open gifts and then we watched his baby video. It was so sweet and made me miss the baby phase! Now he and Kevin are playing one of his gifts - Super Smash Mario Brothers.

His official party is Friday night. Of course, it appears that everyone invited is going to be able to be there. I'll be pulling my hair out about 10:00 Friday night wondering "Why?". I guess you only hit the double digits once in your life!