lily turns 4

May 12, 2008 in jana's journal | No comments

happy birthday my little lily! i can't believe that she is 4 years old. well by looking at the first picture i am sure you can tell that she loves princess stuff. she had a beautiful day. we went to chuck e cheese for the first time. all of the kids had a blast. it was a little crazy there and jackson wanted to run everywhere by himself. lily was so good and her favorite thing to do was anything that would get her tickets. she ended up with 50 and bought herself two rings, two bracelets and a sucker(which she devoured before we even got home.)

lily in her princess jammies and sitting on her new princess chair.

lily, maddie & sophie

lily about to blow our her candles which she blew out in one shot.

just after she blew them out. they were crayon candles and jackson kept asking me why there were crayons on her cake.

steven cutting the cake.


lily eating her yummy cake.

jackson in one of the many rides he loved.

ashy's favorite part of the party was the pizza. he wanted down so bad but it was too crazy there for him to be crawling around. he was a good boy though and ate pizza and loved riding on the barney ride. it was a good day!

zihuatanejo, mexico

May 9, 2008 in jana's journal | No comments

can anyone tell me what movie ends in zihuatanejo? well i am sure that mostly everyone can but this was our first stop on our mexican cruise. we loved this little quaint city. after our horse back riding adventure, we ate lunch in a little place that wasn't so cheap and did a little shopping. here are some pictures of our time here.

we had to take boats or tenders from the ship to the shore so we were able to get some good shots of our boat the Star Princess. here is one of them.

zihuatanejo

one of the only picture of steven and i.

we went horseback riding here and this was me and my horse.

steven's horse was a little crazy and actually jumped his hind legs off the ground and kicked the little old lady's horse that was next to his. i was behind both of them so all i knew was i didn't want to pass him at all.

park day

May 9, 2008 in jana's journal | No comments

well the weather is finally getting good enough for me to want to walk to the park. so, the other day we walked on over and since school was just getting out we were the only ones there. this park is really little but lily and jack had a really good time. lily even slid down the pole by herself she is not the biggest dare devil so it was huge for her to want to try. it seemed like she had fun but she didn't want to do it again. obviously the picture of asher isn't at the park but i had to throw it in there. i love his bum.

jack getting ready to head down the slide.

lily making her way down the slide

jackson just hanging around. (could i be any cornier?)

lily posing on the slide.

could there be a cuter body than this. ashy is just so big, i can't believe that he is about to turn 1. he is the funniest little baby.

interesting discovery

May 4, 2008 in photos | No comments

so, while we were on our cruise (more on that to come) we met someone who lived near us and happened to mention that a very famous somebody was buried just a few blocks from our house. check it out.

 





piano

April 22, 2008 in jana's journal | No comments

i have to admit that i saw jessica zimmerman's blog where she got a piano and i thought, "we really need a piano." well funny enough, that next sunday at church i over heard that someone was giving away their piano and i took it. we got it for free and it needs some work but i think it has some charm. it was made sometime in late 1800's to the early 1900's not really sure the actual year. all i know is that the company stopped making pianos in the 1930's. when we get some money, we need to get it tuned and we would like to refinish it. someone had painted it black and that paint definitely needs some work. the previous owner let their children color on it with crayon but luckily most of that came out. well here it is.



pictures

April 22, 2008 in jana's journal | No comments

i have been trying to take pictures of my children since we bought our new camera. i never realized how frustrating this could be. no one wants to sit still or pay attention at the same time. i have been able to get some good shots of them individually but not one good one of them all together. maybe someone can give me some hints. if one of them is actually looking at the camera and smiling, the 2nd is looking away and the 3rd is trying to crawl away. my camera takes fast pictures but not fast enough. here are some of the ones that i like.

i am not sure what lily is doing in this picture but i really like it.

asher trying to get away. now that he can get away, he will!

jackson and his best friend.

this is one of my favorite pictures of lily.

this picture completely captures jackson to me. he is the sweetest little boy. i only wish you could hear his squeaky little voice.

i don't remember why he was crying but i think he has the saddest crying face and i wanted to remember it.

asher loves lemons

April 20, 2008 in photos | 1 comment

so, we were out at the red robin last night and i thought i would have a little fun at asher’s expense and gave him a slice of lemon. he’s never tasted a lemon before so i thought it would be funny. i always love the faces that babies make when they taste lemon for the first time. well, that plan backfired because, as it turns out, asher LOVES lemons. maybe i’ll slip him a jalapeño next time. surely that’ll do something. and it will be crazy.



if his mouth was bigger, he would have eaten more.


testing, testing…

April 17, 2008 in photos | 2 comments

i just upgraded my wordpress installation. there’s a lot of new functionality including some new gallery features. this is just a test to see how well it works.




free jamba juice

April 8, 2008 in jana's journal | No comments

today we went to jamba juice because if you were there before 10am then you got free smoothies. so we also got a new camera and i took it with us to capture this event.

lily loving her juice!

jackson decided that he loved the blueberry one and didn't want to share it with the rest of us. i think he actually thought he could drink it in one long drink so we couldn't get any.

asher along for the ride. i actually got one of their new breakfast drinks that had peaches and granola on top. he loved it!




jackson gets a haircut (looks like his dad)

April 6, 2008 in photos | 3 comments

jackson’s hair has been getting a little unruly lately (as has mine) and we decided to cut both of our hair (would you say both of our hairs? boths of our hair? hmmm, nothing seems right) yesterday. so i pulled out the clippers and made it happen. check out some of the before and after.




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