Happy Birthday Logan!

Logan Mitchell Savage was born October 10th six years ago in Knoxville Tennessee. He is now in Kindergarten and lives a lot closer to all those cousins! They all helped him celebrate on Saturday. The cold snowy weather didn't dampen any spirits and a good time was had by all.

He helped his Mom make his birthday cake. He wanted a scary Halloween cake. It was a graveyard complete with graham cracker headstones, spiders, pumpkins, ghosts and black cats.

He loves sports and is playing flag football, he played baseball last summer. He can play guitar hero with the best of em and any kind of super hero is cool. His Dad was pretty proud of the great scores he got from the parent/teacher conference last week. He is a big brother to Natalie and James and a very sweet little guy. Grandma loves you very much, happy birthday Logan!

The Cow has been taken hostage!

She is a pretty little cow.

Spends most of her time on the fridge.

Just hanging out with her little magnets on the back of her head and hooves.

Good natured little cow with blank stare on her face most of the time.

She used to hang out on my desk at work, but I brought her home, thought she would like it better there.

The grandkids all love her, always wanted to take her home, but no, she is grandma's toy.

So to my horror when I came back from Aly's house, walked in my door and there in the bottom of an empty Halloween candy dish was my little cow...

Completely wrapped up with every single elastic that had been hung on the pantry door knob.

She was a prisoner, a hostage, who could have done this?

Nate, Hillary and the kids had been staying over the night before. Hillary saw Natalie acting suspiciously, questioned her and she just said "don't look at me" as she lurked around the fridge area of the kitchen.

She couldn't have, could she?

It might have been the cat, he does tend to be a little jealous.

I just don't know.

Anyway she is okay, I rescued her from the elastics and candy dish.

She is back to hanging out on the fridge with her little blank stare.

Six out Eleven Ain't Bad!

So a couple of weeks ago Aly asked if her and the kids could come Friday night and stay over so she could go to swim lessons on Saturday morning and I could keep an eye on the little ones.

No problem, that would be fun.

She said she had a wedding dinner to go to on Saturday and I offered to keep Max and Annie while she went. It will be fun!

Friday night Nate calls and they are driving down so they can visit and go to the wedding dinner on Saturday night.

I know you are watching Max and Annie but would you mind if we brought Logan and Natalie?

No problem. It will be fun!

Saturday morning Meggie calls and asked if she could come and help me watch the cousins while the parents go to the wedding dinner.

That would be great. It will be fun!

Saturday afternoon Carrie calls and said Morgan was feeling a little left out cause the cousins are gathering at Grandma's house and would it be okay if she came with Meggie.

Not a problem. It will be fun!

Saturday afternoon at around 4:oo pm there are now six grandkids between the ages of three to eleven gathered at Grandma's condo.

No problem. It will be fun.

Logan: Can we go play on the play ground?

Grandma: Sure

Annie: I just saw a really big bee, don't go out there!

Logan: Put the "Mutant Ninja Turtles" in the DVD player.

All Granddaughters: Nooo!

Everyone sits or stands transfixed to the end of the movie.

Grandma: Anyone hungry yet?

No

Nope

Not now

Ten minute later

Natalie: I'm hungry, I want Mac n Cheese now.

Grandma: Okay, I'll have ready in about 10 minutes.

30 seconds later

Natalie: I'm hungry.

Grandma: I'm hurrying.

Natalie: I want Mac n Cheese now!

Thirty minutes later..

All kids fed and dishes done.

Ten minutes later

Six kids bored, milling around starting to form gangs in the back bedroom.

Meggie suggests a coloring contest.

Good idea!

Great pictures, Grandma judges the contest and everybody wins!

Prize? Candy of course.

No one can agree on what movie to watch next.

"Enchanted" is the next and the boys decide to watch Mutant Ninja turtles again on Grandma's laptop instead.

Five minutes later...

Logan standing beside Grandma's chair smiling, totally enchanted by "Enchanted".

watches to the end.

Kids getting restless again, another movie started, some sporadic bickering has erupted over which plastic chair goes where, some suggestions made that Natalie might be "stinky".

She denies it.

Meggie has another stroke of genius and suggests "Freeze Dancing".

Big hit, everyone involved with smiles.

Dance, dance, dance..stop, giggle, giggle..

Dance,giggle, dance, stop

Conga line! Grandma gets to be in front.

giggle,giggle

Logan and Max are reminded this is not tackle dancing.

Door bell rings

Aly and Hillary enter with two hungry screaming babies in tow and are very surprised to see Grandma not only survived but had a great time. It was fun!