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Been a While...

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Well, it's been a while and I apologize although I believe their are probably only 2 people who ever check here for updates. To those two people, I apologize.
The Bean household is up early this morning so I will give a "nutshell" update. Over the last couple months we have been busy bees around here. I am attmepting two, that's right TWO homebased businesses along with raising two little monsters, I mean Beans and volunteering on the base 1 to 3 days a week (with kids in tow). So we have been busy.
Baby Bean 2 turned 1 on the 11th of November and celebrated by tumbling down our wooden, unfinished basement stairs. 11 of them! Go figure. Needless to say we took him to the ER, they did a CAT Scan and in all we were there only 2 hours and he had a small bruise/bump on his head from the ordeal. About a month before that he had pulled a papertowel off the table that had a steak knife sitting on it that nicked his face just a hair shy of his eye ball. We now believe Baby Bean 2 has super human powers. We will be weary of Water for we know how that can be a weakness for super people. :)
Baby Bean 1 or the Bigger Bean is doing great. She will be 4 this month and is so excited to be having her bday party at Uncle Little Brother Bean's house with all her family and cousins. We will be in AL the 12th through the 23rd this month so we are looking forward to that. Stephanie, we really have go to let our kids meet this time around!!!!

A picture post to follow soon but enjoy the dancing elves for now......

Does this count for walking?????

Does anyone come here anymore......

Not much going on...

So there really hasn't been all that much going on just me being lazy about blogging I guess. A couple weeks ago a friend of mine here had twin boys at 26 weeks 6 days. Thank you to everyone who knew about this for your prayers. They were a welcome comfort. The babies were born on 09.09.09. How cool, huh? They are both doing great so far. They are almost 2 weeks old and both are above their birth weight, breathing with just a little oxygen mask on, eating breast milk every 3 hours and getting the amount upped every 12 hours. They have been held by mom and dad since they were 2 days old and are adorable tiny kids. Keep praying for them but they are doing good for the moment so all is looking bright here.

Last weekend was the air show and the weekend before that was some family in town for some fun galavanting. The weekend and week before that was Labor Day and we had Nana and a great friend from Montgomery in town for visits. We went to Eckert's Orchards, a Cardinals game and I also made a cake for the neighbor's birthday. He turned 27 but is a huge Cardinal's fan so I made him this cake. We went to a Balloon Glow this past Friday night in Forest Park which was really cool. It's a huge festival of hot air balloons that are lit in the evening for people to come see and photograph. Oh yeah, I made Brother Bean's Mexican Lasagna with a twist so here are those photos as well. Shredded chicken is the way to go with this.

Mr. Bean's new car as of a month ago. Red interior. Nice!!!!!!!

A Balloon Glow photo......

Mexican Lasagna in the making.

The finished product! Take that Mr Bean! I'll compete against you any day. Now if only we could get them to have a Siblings Amateur Top Chef competition.

My new camera does this!

Pujols for the Cardinals. We won 7-6 that night with him hitting a 3 run homer!

Baby Bean in a bouncy castle.

My gosh she is getting so big! She can ride these rides by herself now!

Baby Bean 2 was just chillin out with his feet propped up. Note the Biscuit's tee from the Grandparent's Bean.

the Cardinals cake I made. #5 is Pujols

A little busy lately...

So I've been a little busy lately. Busy and consumed by Facebook. I never really spent much time on Facebook or MySpace but lately Facebook has really grabbed me. MySpace, haven't looked at in probably a year. I don't like it really. It's very spastic and chaotic and just not for me. Twitter might have taken off for me had I been able to get the phone updates to work but that never worked either. So Facebook it has been. I have to say that Facebook has got some very addicting games as well and I am easily amused by them.

Anyways, I posted these pictures on Facebook earlier but here are the pictures of the Steamer Trunk cake I just finished. All the stickers are edible modeling chocolate. The only things not edible were the buckles and a couple of the accessories attached to the chocolate. The Eifle Tower though is edible and was drawn on by me with black gel icing. Enjoy the pictures!