Happy Birthday to Jentri, Part II

Here goes nothing...some more pics from Jentri's birthday!

Uncle Bean was generous enough to share his wealth with Jen. I'll tell her when she's older how mean he was not to let her keep it, but she held on to it for a while. She even put it with her toys for safe keeping, as seen in the next pic.

She's Rich! For a minute at least until Uncle Bean put it BACK in his wallet. How rude! :)

So what d'ya think? America's Next Top Model? As long as I'm not her hairstylist, I suppose. I think she'll be taking the runways as soon as she can master walking though. :)

I really just snapped this pic to get her "eating ice cream that's cold" face, but hmm. How did I get such a beautiful daughter??? These glasses were a big hit, thanks Aunt Toni! We put them on her and she got so excited and scanned the whole room to show everyone how stylin' she is. SO CUTE! Now when we put them on she'll do a Stevie Wonder style head nod with a huge grin. I need to get it on video, I can't explain it well enough for you to have the whole picture. It's so funny!

Jentri and her friend Natalia playing with all her presents.

She is one spoiled girl!! Thanks everyone!Cousin Sydney and Aunt Wendy got a hold of my camera. They're pretty cute I guess :) Cousin Hayden outside with the Elmo pinata, and in his words, "I'm beatin' the crap out of Elmo!" and kept repeating that every time he got a hit. Take it out on poor Elmo!?! Are we surprised that he was the one to bust it open? Hmmm...

No, Jake isn't helping the kids with their candy, he's fighting them off so he can have his own. I tried to tell him we had a whole bowl for him in the house, but he didn't listen. He's my big kid, for sure! Needless to say, he likes pinatas. :)Cake #2 was a lot more messy, which I guess is what we were going for. ;) She dug in pretty good, but was pretty slow at it. The cousins didn't stick around to watch her finish. It was pretty funny. messy face!
Mmmm....cake.... Sharing some with Daddy, that's so nice...
After cake and ice cream we played guitar hero and the Wii to our hearts content. This pic was classic of Hayden. He was so good at this game, he beat me at it! I guess that's not saying much for me, my guitar hero skills are next to nothing, but still. He was pretty good. As you can see, he got into it.

Jen decided she'd had enough fun. I put her jammies on and thought I'd let her play with the cousins a little longer, but not even kidding within 10 seconds of sitting down with her, she was out for the count. Such a fun day!

Well that's it for her birthday, now that she's almost 13 months old. :) Just a little side note update, Jake and I got new callings. We won't be teaching primary anymore, and we're so sad! Our new callings will be fun though. Jake is going to teach the 15-16 year olds in Sunday school, and I was called as the 2nd counselor in the young women's presidency. I'll be over the Beehives. I'm already overwhelmed and we haven't even had an activity yet! It'll keep me busy for sure! I'm excited though, it'll be fun.

Well, Jentri's waking up so I must be off to more Mama duties. Happy Tuesday! Love Ya'll!

Happy Birthday to Jentri!

I know what you're all thinking, FINALLY some pictures to look at! Well, here's the mother load!!

We celebrated Jentri's first birthday!! Crazy! Her actual birthday was on the 4th, and we had a low-key cake & ice cream deal with Aunt Kristi and Uncle Casey. And then on Saturday, the 8th we had a Sesame Street birthday party. Here are a few pics from the events... The face of a one-year old. Just another day, I guess. It's rough being 1. We tried pigtails again, we're still pretty new at it as you can see. Her hair reminded me of Darla from Finding Nemo, "Fishie, wake up!" :) Anyway, moving on... :)

One month old...

12 month old...

I saw this idea in a scrapbook magazine: to take a picture of your baby every month for the first year (with the same stuffed animal) to show how much they've grown. I'm surprised I kept up with it. It sure was hard to get her to hold still these last couple of times, I'll tell ya that! She looks so big and has changed so much!! Where'd my tiny little preemie girl go?
Her actual birthday was a low-key one. Grandma Snarr came down and took Jentri and I to Brick Oven for lunch. Yum! Jentri had some of my pizza, and her first taste of root beer. She didn't like it at first, but it's growing on her I think :)
You win a prize if you can find Grandma! Jen knew just when to move her balloon I guess. Speaking of balloons, who knew that a FREE balloon was all we had to get her for her birthday?!?! I should've known! She got so excited and was very upset when I had to tie it down and she couldn't quite reach it in the car. She played with it for the rest of the day.
Ready for your cupcake, Jen? I'm ready for the mess!

Testing the waters...not really sure what she thinks of it...

Eatin' a little, but not digging in like we thought she would... More on her hands and arms than in her mouth

Pausing to do a little crowd pleasing...

AND FINALLY.....(drum roll...)

Thrown to the floor, the unfortunate fate of the cupcake.

TO BE CONTINUED....