Did you get YOUR RBK YET?

Have you EVER heard of a RBK? Neither have I.....well, not until I received one in the mail!

Yep - leave it to my first daughter, Jana. Here is how she explained it.

What does RBK stand for?
RANDOM BIRTHDAY KIT, of course!
Here's what it looks like: (minus all the gift bags that I added)

Why is Jana going to send each family one of these RBKs every year
and what am I suppose to do with ours?

She says it's just too hard to keep track of everyone's birthday and now the guilt is gone forever! Each year she will send one RBK box to each family - during any month she wants to and not necessarily on your birthday month. It won't matter when you get it because you'll get a personal birthday card, one cake per person, one candle per person, celebratory birthday blowers and streamers, a balloon for each person that lives in your household plus a family DVD that everyone can enjoy any time of the year! SWEET! When you receive your box...you will want to stop the world and well....CELEBRATE... like we did! One cool thing is that she will include packing peanuts for free. Yep. They can add to your birthday celebration because they dissolve in water or spit...which makes them easier to stick on your body you know!

Those packing peanuts also come in handy if you want to write fun birthday words......
As you can see, Joey is in great thought coming up with his words.

It was suggested that maybe our whole family should adopt this way of celebrating birthdays since there are so many birth dates to remember - and who knows how many more we'll have in the future!

BUT FOR THIS GRANDMA COOKIES........NO WAY!!


This is a GRANDMA BLOG.......so I am announcing that THIS Grandma will never combine her grandkid's birthdays! No RBK for them! Ha! Each grandchild is too special and each will celebrate their birthday with me ON THEIR DAY!
(However.....it IS sounding like a super brilliant idea for their parents!)

"OH - HAPPY DAY"


Thanks a million, Jana!

CLARK - RYAN - MATT? ...WHERE ARE YOU?

Oh - looking at my map...I can see exactly where little Clark Heiselt or BIG Ryan Bayles is! And, hey - there's Matt boy! Now it's way more fun to keep track of my grandkids - especially since they are spread all over the world! Before Jamie left for Guam, she made little magnet people of our family and we made this magnetic world map board.

Now I can see at a glance where everyone is living! (Even my missionary, Elder Cozza in Peru!) I decided to put another touch on the concept though....hanging clocks above the map to show the time across the world! Now when I am missing Clark - I can see at a glance that he's three hours ahead of my time and I can see if he's already in bed....or just waiting for my call. I can see California time where Ryan and Katie are - and they are the same time as my time and when Matt boy calls me - we're on the same time too! Yahoo! The clock that helps me the most, though, is the Guam clock! Get this...Emma and Marta are seven hours back - but a day ahead of my time! That can get pretty confusing! Now I won't make a silly mistake and call them when it's 9:00 a.m. my time. I can quickly see that it's 2:00 in the morning for them and that's a no-no! (Don't ever wake up sleeping babies - or their parents for that matter!) Also because they are "magnets" when Judy and Aaron move to Phoenix - their little magnet family will move right along with them on my map and then I'll move Joey up to Provo to take their place and all the clocks will still be in their right working order! Sooo...how about that!

Well, it's time to call a grandchild...

and I know exactly who I'll be calling!

Was it YOU?

Happy Mother's Day Grandma Cookies!

Mother's Day this year was better than ever! Not only did my own kids make me feel like a queen - but I think the grandkids notes made my day even better. I hung everything up on my wall by the stairs. I see this "coming and going!"

I have to show the picture that made me cry first! Every year - someone tries to make the right card that will make me shed tears. Jacob said, "Ah, come on! Gina's card made you cry two years in a row." Yep - you would have cried too if you were their Grandma!
Judy and Aaron - I wasn't expecting anything so cute!


Then there was Ryan and Katie! Here is a close up Katie's and Ryan's art work! I added their pictures for the sake of friends who came over and wanted to see their photos!
Super cute!

Here is Matt's adorable note. I was expecting something like - "when do I get to come to your house and ride "Quick Silver" again or something like that. (That's a horse at the nearby Walmart that he loves to ride for 50 cents) But no......he has to tell me about a tornado!
I laughed big time!

Jana has always had Will draw a picture for my card and then Jana writes exactly what Will tells her to write on the inside of the card. This year he is in kindergarten and didn't need any help at all. We all loved Will's personal message!
This one was VERY CHOICE!


Here is Rachel's art work. (super great, Rach!)

Her message brought LOTS of tears!
(a Grandmother's dream)
Thank you - thank you, Rachel!


Now you can see why my Mother's Day was so perfect.
Thank you - Thank you - I love you all so much!