world--dora, dora--world

A very important person (thing) has entered my life (once again) and thought it was pretty blog worthy!

My trusty high-school/college/college program/summer/kanakuk car has RETURNED!!!!!

Dora the explorer was welcomed with OPEN arms to Brady, Jennafer and Anabelle at approximately 3:31PM on October 1st.

Everyone in the family is doing GREAT!

so thankful for God's never-ending blessings,

jennafer

PS- On the way to work yesterday Dora and I experienced a MAJOR milestone!!!

She doesn't look a day over 100,791

the last evening

Tim and Karen have departed.  Our home feels empty!!

We had a BLAST having my mom and dad around Florida for a while!  I think we totally sold them on the sunshine state-- I'm sure they are looking into homes as I type this!  

To celebrate a magical and memorable stay at the White's house we all went Putt Putting on their last evening here!

It was awesome and hysterical!!

Here are our traditional hole-in-one shots:

Can you tell which one isn't a statue?

cherishing the visits,
jennafer

PS- happy 10/10/10!!!!!!!!  Go out and do something magical to celebrate!

mystery dinner

Brady and I attended our first Mystery Dinner!!!!!  There were SO many fun people there and hopefully our church youth group was able to raise a lot of money for their summer mission trips!

If I wasn't already in love with our church enough, this sealed the deal-- people went ALL OUT with their costumes!  It was so fun to try to guess who everyone was.

We didn't win prizes, but Brady was definitely the cutest one there!  He didn't stop shaking his tail feather the whole night!

who knew the old lady that lived in the shoe had a crush on the ugly duckling?

jennafer

a day with royalty

look who I got to meet the other day!!!!!!

lucky me,

jennafer

new pillows

While Grandma was visiting I conned her into bringing along her sewing machine to help me with my latest DO-IT-YOURSELF project.

I had been shopping at Anthropology (where I have lately been finding the BEST sales)-- and ran across some beautiful napkins.  I had been looking for pillows so I thought it would be pretty easy to make these napkins into throw pillows.

ESPECIALLY when you have a gifted Grandma to do the dirty work for ya!

1. Buy cute napkins.

2. Have your precious grandma sew them together

3. Stuff them 

4. Sew up the hole

5. VOILA!  PILLOWS!  Four new pillows for us for under $25.00 :)

come rest your head at our abode,
jennafer

first trip to magic kingdom

My Grandma has waited 82 years to experience the magic that happens when you skip through the gates of Magic Kingdom…

We had the best day!  The cast members were great at sprinkling extra pixie dust wherever she went!  We had a blast showing her around and it wasn't crowded, so we were able to do EVERYTHING!  She was quite the trooper!

riding buzz lightyear---  mom won!

meeting the princesses in toontown--  this was her favorite part!

I FINALLY saw the electric light parade!  It's INCREDIBLE!  Hopefully I'll be able to be apart of this someday!

She met the mayor… and he totally had a crush on her!

people wait 82 years to visit my office,

jennafer

happy birthday blog

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happy birthday to you



365 days ago I embarked on a journey that I thought was doomed to failure.  BUT 365 days later I can say that I ADORE blogging.  I love having accountability to take pictures when my crazy husband has the urge to go do something blog-worthy.  I love being able to keep up with friends and family that live far away.

I'm obsessed.  That's all there is to it.

Thanks for following our adventures-- here's to another year!

make a wish and blow out the candle,
jennafer

Here's my first post:

I am now entering the wonderful blogging community!  Having completely FAILED at this on WRENT'S myspace blog.... I thought maybe if I didn't think weird people were going to read this and my mom could actually navigate through my posts, then I'd give this a shot!  So here we are... 

Some things to keep in mind while being on our blog:

1) We don't have kids- so our blog is going to be pretty selfish and less entertaining...  but we do have cute nieces and nephews-- check "JESSICA" and "JAMIE"'s blogs on our "lovethesepeople" tab on the right-- they will have funny and clever things about their kids on there...

2) I was not a journalism major and neither was my cute husband...  so please entertain my mis-spelled words, lack of punctuation and not-very-clever, witty, or funny posts... 

3) We really like our dog...  we will be blogging about her often--  above you'll find a picture of her LOVING the fact that we live next to a big field...  she thinks she owns the place!

happy first day of our blog!! :)

jennafer