On this day in history...

1780 - Americans suffer worst defeat of Revolution at Charleston.

1870 - Manitoba becomes a Canadian province.

1903 - Teddy Roosevelt's trip to San Francisco was captured on film.

1907 - Actress Katharine Hepburn was born.

1925 - Baseball great Yogi Berra was born.

1932 - The kidnapped baby of American aviator Charles Lindbergh was found dead.

1949 - Soviet troops end their 11 month blockade of Berlin, Germany.

1970 - Baseball player Ernie Banks hits 500Th home run.

1972 - The Rolling Stones' album "Exile on Main St." was released.

1977 - Husband and father extraordinaire Chris Bake was born in Parma, Idaho, the 7Th of 11 children to proud parents Van and Ellen Bake.

Happy Birthday, honey!! I love and appreciate you more than you'll ever know!

Thanks, Lindsay!

I appreciate your blogs about the cool activities you do with your kids. We've tried out a couple of them in the past few days, and it's been a big hit with my kids! Keep the posts coming!

Noah

I still can't believe Noah is 8, he's getting to be so grown up, well, sort of! Anyway, he put his Scout shirt on the other day in preparation for his Cub Scout meeting and I thought he looked so cute, I took a picture.

It's May!!

Is it officially Spring yet??!! It might be May 1st today, but here's what we saw when we got up this morning...ugh!

Finally, if only for a day...

We finally had a day above 70 degrees and sunny...yippee! It's apparently going to be short lived - only today and tomorrow nice, then back to clouds and rain, possibly SNOW on Wednesday. :( The kids and I got outside and enjoyed while we could, and here's the evidence.

Today's News...

Chris made the front page of today's Idaho State Journal! It's really not a big deal at all, his name isn't even mentioned in the story, but there's his picture front and center! He and another trooper arrested a couple of guys over the weekend who were shooting guns illegally, and the newspaper photog got a shot of it all "goin' down"! (Hee, hee!) I just thought it was cool, so I'm posting about it. By the way, he's the one on your right, not the one with the mustache. :)

Experiment...

I'm just testing my ability to post a video clip on here. This clip is of Nicolas on his 2nd birthdy, which was back in January, but it still makes me laugh.