Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day was really fun and exciting at our house this year! Except that John and I both had to work all day. And we were all sick, especially Jenna. And we didn't have anything cutesy or yummy for Valentine's Day since I despise shopping and baking. And there were no flowers because the cats knock them over, spill water everywhere, and break the vases. BUT, John did get me a new can opener...for all the cooking and baking that I do! :)

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Anyway, I WAS planning on doing all kinds of cute things for Jenna on Valentine's Day. It's just that the only idea that panned out was her Valentine's balloon. At least the balloon was a hit! She was so excited! She loved the balloon and carried it around for about 3 weeks. Here are a few pictures of my cute sickling with her prized balloon:

Playing so safely with her toy...unfortunately it didn't end well! :)

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But we do love our family and we were grateful to spend Valentine's Day together. (We watched the Bachelor and finally made some Valentine's cupcakes.)

Little Cookie Thief!

So, as usual, last Sunday we went to church. Jenna comes to Primary with me and wanders around the room finding ways to entertain herself. Periodically, I stand up to look for her and make sure she's ok. So I'm sitting in the back row quietly chatting during Sharing Time when the Primary president looks over my direction, and starts talking and pointing. Well, since I'm not really paying attention and since Jenna never (?) gets into trouble I just figure she's talking to someone else. Finally the person next to me starts mentioning something about Jenna and cookies. Figuring I better find out what all of this is about, I start walking up to the front of the Primary room when I see Jenna coming out from behind the podium, chocolate smeared on her face and dress, with a big, fat chocolate chip cookie in each hand and a VERY triumphant smile on her face!! Oh, the excitement and accomplishment of finding and stealing TWO cookies!! I don't know where she gets that sweet tooth...

Trunk or Treat

Last night was the Georgetown ward's Chili Cook-Off and Trunk or Treat. Being in the Primary presidency, I was one of the judges. Good thing I was judging cornbread. It seems Jenna must take after me...she didn't really seem to care for chili. John brought up a crock pot full of chili and came home with an empty crock pot so it must have been good! Jenna just might have been the cutest ladybug there last night!! Not quite sure she understood the whole trick or treating thing. She looked more like a lost and confused ladybug running in circles in the parking lot. In order to get any candy we had to carry our screaming ladybug to all the cars!! But Jenna did have a great time last night! Here's my cute ladybug...

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Birthday Party!!

Grammy and Poppy came down for Jenna's 1st Birthday Party! We had so much fun with them even though it was a quick trip. Jenna sure loves her Grammy and Poppy. Here are some of the pictures from her party day.

Grammy letting her eat a sucker for breakfast...

Such a yummy sucker...

and stick!

Party Time! Banner on the front door.

Jenna's new best friend!

Party pics

Pizza for lunch

and then cupcakes.

Jenna was so cute. We helped her blow out her candle and she was a little hesitant to put her hands in the cake until she tasted the icing. She soon realized that, because her hands were still full of frosting, it was much easier to eat without hands so she started lowering her face to the cake instead.

Grammy and Poppy

Jenna's FAVORITE present! She loved it! I'd been wanting to get one of these for a while and Grammy found a very cute one. As soon as we opened it Jenna insisted on getting on...we couldn't even get it out of the box before she climbed on!

"Keep your hands off my toy!!"

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We had a lot of fun and can't believe our baby girl turned 1!!

Cooking up some Fun!

Just a few cute pictures from the other day. Daddy pushed her around and she had a blast! Loved her expressions in some of these!!

Play Time!!

Just a few pictures John took of Jenna last week. She is so cute when she plays by herself! I thought the lighting was kind of cool...

I do realize this is blurry but she has SO much fun pushing things all around the house that I just couldn't resist putting this on here!!

Mammoth Caves

Labor Day weekend we went camping at Mammoth Caves. It was our first time there and Jenna's first time camping. Our friends stayed the entire weekend...we braved one night! Jenna did pretty good. I would have slept pretty good if the sleeping bags weren't so noisy, if it hadn't been so cold, if someone's dogs hadn't started barking around 1:00 am, and if the little plug on my air mattress had been closed so the air stayed in!! :) Monday we took a short tour of Mammoth Cave before heading home for much needed naps. Next time we'll have to do some hiking and take some of the longer tours. It's really pretty there...it reminded John and I little bit of Michigan.

At the campsite. No, this was not our tent...ours was smaller than this.

At the Visitor's Center waiting for the tour.

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A look down at the cave entrance...yes, it's a little dark down there!! (Which is why I didn't get any good pictures.)

Headed down into the cave.

We survived!!

There is a great picnic area where we had lunch before heading home.