September 2007

Life is moving along. We have been going to the mountains most weekends. Most weekends, we come back home and say we want to live there. I just love the quietness, the slowness, the nature of it all. It's beautiful.



School is going well. The kids are enjoying it. They have a new program this year called the Star Program. Anytime a child is "caught" being kind, nice, helpful, etc, they receive a Star ticket. They can earn prizes or become the Star of the Week. They are all earning them, with Jasmine earning the most of course.

I made curtains in the girls' room. We bought paint awhile ago and just haven't done it yet. Hopefully soon I will be doing it. I have big plans for their room. These are the curtains though....



We also got new windows on the house. They are fabulous. I'm such a home maker when I talk about my windows and get excited about them.

We will be putting a deck on the house soon as well. Can't wait for that!

Congratulations David & Michelle!

Jamie's cousin, David, got married today to the wonderful Michelle. It was a beautiful outdoor wedding. The weather couldn't have been any more perfect. It was a really nice ceremony.

Congratulations David and Michelle!

The reception was a lot of fun. We sat near Jamie's cousins and joked and laughed most of the night. We met Jeremy's (Jamie's cousin) new baby girl, Gabriella, that they just adopted. She is so sweet. Gabby and Chad had a lot of fun getting to known one another. I don't think Chad knew that there were people his size in this world. He's so used to my kiddos.

Jordan was at his dad's. James was at his mom's. The rest of the gang spent the night at Oma and Opa's house. They had a lot of fun there. Of course.

On the way back home from dropping the kids off, the driver side window shattered while I was driving. Completely scary! I have no idea what happened and how I did NOT wreck. Luckily the kids were already at Oma and Opa's and I didn't get cut by the glass. Just really scared.

I don't have any pictures from the wedding. Yet. I hope to have some soon from the ones Becky took and hoping Jeremy sends us some of the ones he took.

Happy 2nd Birthday Jenna!

Jenna turned the big 2 today! Our baby girl is 2! Where has the time gone? She is such a fun child. A real firecracker. Some would say she has an attitude problem and compare it to the one I supposedly had as a child so I don't think much about it. Here's some pics from her big day!


Happy Birthday pretty girl! **This girl never wakes up this happy! She must have known it was her big day!**




Enjoying some cuddle time with her buddy Bear.



Jenna is obsessed with Little People playsests and dinosaurs AKA dinos. Well Fisher Price has Little People Dino sets. Her best friend, Jacob, helped her open them. She totally loved them and couldn't wait for Daddy and I to rip the boxes open.



I made Jenna's cake. I did another butterfly. I was going to do a dinosaur but never got around to finding a dino cake pan.



Here is Jenna telling everyone to SHH!!! while we were singing. She really does not like people to sing to her. Ever.



Jenna picked out her dino at Build-A-Bear. Oma and Opa always take the kids there on their 2nd birthday to pick out a special friend. Her name is Jenna-saurus.




Happy Birthday sweet baby girl!

Curtains for the Girls' Room

Jasmine picked out some really pretty paint colors for the walls and I found some really great fabric to match. Hopefully I will paint it soon but at least they have curtains! Even better was that I got these in the clearance section at JoAnns! I love when that happens.