Merrill and Roberta Simon and Family

What a day filled with mixed emotions. April 16. For all of my life, that was and of course still is my daddy's birthday. Just this year we were not celebrating it with him here on earth. My guess is they do not celebrate earthly birthday's in Heaven, but I know that I thought about him and said Happy Birthday to him just the same. April 16 will just never be the same. Now, something wonderful happened and who knows, maybe my daddy had a hand in it....at least I would like to think so. :o) We got to meet our nearly 10 month old grand daughter for the very first time. Her name is Vicktoria Rose, but everyone calls her Torrie. She is just beautiful and has the most gorgeous blue eyes. I am not sure what it is with this Hispanic combination and my guys. Michael's little girl Haylee looks just like him, but she has her mother's blue eyes. Piercing blue, beautiful blue. Then there is Torrie, she looks like her mom, but has Justin's beautiful blue eyes. It is just unreal ...

Char and LisaMarie Char It is just amazing to see how LisaMarie is growing up. That girl just totally rocks my world. She is a wonderful sister to all of her brothers. She holds hands, wipes noses, fasten seat belts, and seems to have an understanding beyond her years for the disabled, medically fragile and just plain all around different. LisaMarie is a mentor to her brothers. She loves her brothers and in return they love her. Now, do not get me wrong, she is also a pain in the neck at time....LOL. Now, LisaMarie has a mentor of her own. Char has been with LisaMarie for about two years now and it is a match made in Heaven. They do so many fun things together. This last time they got to go on an overnight snowshoeing trip. They had so much fun. It was great for both of them. LisaMarie reported that Char snores...:o) Take a look at...

This is what we did and let me tell you, it was fun. First we prepared Oreo cookies. We scraped off the filling and refilled them with toothpaste :o) The white minty kind. We got all of the kids in the kitchen, made a game out of eating the cookies. Getting them all to dunk them in milk, the older ones challenging them to eat two or three at once. It was so funny. The caregiver even got hit.....LOL. She asked for some, so we gave her two. Just as it was time for the contest to begin, she licked the "frosting" off and made this horrid face, knew in a second that it was not as she thought, but she held it together so the prank would not be ruined. We were totally prepared for one or two of the kids to eat the cookies. We gave one son normal cookies as we knew he would not get it. Then we gave McClain normal cookies as he has some food aversions. This help fuel the trust as those two were eating away.....LOL. Anyway, Micah took one bite and put it down and started making his fun...