Valentine's Day - Sick!!!

So, Jake decided that after his ear infection the first week of Feburary cleared up, he was going to get another one that was worse the following weekend!  Yes, the weekend of my birthday AND before Valentine's day!  Jake had a fever all weekend and well, that mean no daycare for him on Monday.  He had one on Monday as well (and ironically, so did Dean!!), so he couldn't go on Tuesday, which was Valentine's Day!!  BOO!  I was so sad he had to miss his Valentine's party at Day care!  But, the bonus was I got to spend V-day with my two dudes, as they were BOTH feeling better by then! :)

Anyway, his daycare had a Valentine's box decorating contest (per room) so, being the crafty person I am, took this on as a Challenge!  I did an awesome and beautiful box for him, whacha think?

Now, I know that these kids (between 10 and 18 months roughly) will NOT be doing the boxes themselves, so I went ahead just did my thing.  Then, I thought it would be fun to have Jake do some "accents" with the red paint to ya know, add his personal touch! 

Yeah, it's AWESOME, you can say it! 

Oh, and yes, we did win the contest in his room, well tied for first, but its still a WIN!

Hope you had a Great Valentine's Day!!

Scrapbooking - I LOVE IT!

Had a chance to go to a scrapbooking retreat with awesome friends and my mother a few weekends ago!  SOOOO much fun!  Total Nonstop Scrapbooking from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon!  AWESOME!

And, I got to use my awesome new Cricut Expression 2!!!  And, wow!  Inever understood what the big deal was about Cricut Craft Room, but wow-wee!  AWESOME!  I will find it hard to not use it when I can't access the internet. (http://www.cricut.com/craftroom/default.html)

And, here are some layouts I finished...

I got 48 layouts finished at the retreat!  It was Really Awesome!

2011 Blog Wrap Up - Part 2 - July to December

July - Jake's First Independence Day!! And, 2nd BIGGEST EVENT EVER, second only to Jake's Birth! Jake is officially our baby! Adoption was made final end of July!

August - not much to tell here, we worked, played, had fun!

September - again, not much. I figured that Aug and Sept will have more things once Jake gets older, school, and other activities. These two months have always been slow ones for us. We did get a chance to go to the Beach on Labor Day!  It was WINDY but we had a great time! 

October - FIRST HALLOWEEN!!! So, I figured since he takes his monthly photos with Yoda, he should BE Yoda for Halloween, turned out so cute!!!

November - Daddy's birthday and Jake's First Thanksgiving! We spent the weekend at home just the three of us, and I cooked the smallest thanksgiving turkey I could find, and it was 9lbs! We did finish it in left over sandwiches and turkey noodle soup. Jake at his first all table food meal on Thanksgiving too!

December - Jake is ONE YEAR OLD! What a blessed year we had! He is such a joy and I am so thankful he is in my life! And, Jake enjoyed his 2nd Christmas a little more than last year, he was only 9 days old last year! He loves the ribbon and boxes and paper! And, Elmo was a big hit! More on the big trip to South Texas later!

2011 Blog Wrap up - Part 1 - January to June

Let's give a wrap up of One Full year with our Baby Boy and other happenings this year

January
Started off with a "Rockin NYE party!" Well, we went to sleep at 10, baby and all, then got up the next morning and had a lovely day all dressed in matching Blue Old Navy hoodies! We took Jake to his first ever TriStar show, and he got to meet some of the Oilers, including Bum Phillips! And, Dayna had to skip a retreat for the very first time, which was a bummer because Jaime gave out monogrammed snuggies!!! Not Fair!

February
Still on leave for Jake, getting used to a whole new life and schedule (just in time to have it change). We were able to go to the Cheesecake Factory for my Birthday, first evening away from Jake. Doug and Stacy and their kids watched him for us. Now Jake being two months old, he needed to start sleeping in his own room, which was a rather easy transfer since I got a HORRIBLE case of food poisoning and he couldn't sleep in our room for that!

March
HOUSTON RODEO! We didn't go to a rodeo in Reliant but did go to the livestock show and carnival. Jake did pretty good! He was able to sleep right thru the Carnival! Amazing! I had to start back to work mid march. Was very hard leaving the boy at daycare. Thank goodness for Web Cams! We also took Jake to the Zoo for the first time!

April
Jake's First Easter was nice! The whole family went to Nonnie and Papa's house after Church for dinner and egg hunt.  We even got awesome pictures with Jake and the Easter Bunny at the mall!  So much fun!

May
We are married 16 years! Memorial day was fun, we had burgers! And, Jake tried solid foods for the first time! Let's just say he never really liked rice cereal. Just like his Daddy, doesn't like rice in anything!

June
Our first AIM BBQ - and EVERYBODY had BABIES!!! YEY! And, I went on my first weekend trip away from my boy to the Summer Retreat, was really fun and got a ton of baby book pages finished!

Stay Tuned for part 2!

Jake is One Year Old!

Last week, my little boy turned One!  This year has gone by so fast!  I cannot believe how blessed we are to have him in our lives!  He is pure joy!  Oh, and REALLY cute!

The last of the Monthly pictures with Yoda! Going forward, I hope to only do one each year.

We had a Star Wars Theme (duh!) so I had the following food:
Han Sandwiches
Obi-Wonion Dip
Jawa Chips
Boba Fett Fruits
Storm Trooper Veggies
Leia Cinnamon rolls
C3P0 Pieces (Reece's Pieces)
Droid Treats (rice crispy treats with cookie cream and blue sugar)
Wookie Cookies
Luke's Light Sabers (green candy coated pretzel rods)
Yoda Soda
Darth Vader-ade (Coke and diet coke)
Lando Limeade

And, the big finish, the CAKE!!!

That's a Yoda Action figure next to the Tree

Then, on to gifts!  He loved the wrapping paper and ribbons the best!

And, Jake's cousin Travis helped him open his Wampa Rug (from ThinkGeek.com) 

All said and done, it was a Star Wars Fantastic Party day!

Happy Birthday Jake!