Happy Birthday Jesus! Party

Yesterday we had a "Happy Birthday Jesus" party for Jeremiah and his friends, the "two Annas". Our party consisted of a craft, a game, and cookie decorating while we sang "Happy Birthday" to Jesus of course! Here are a few fun pictures from the morning

Craft Supplies (our version of this craft)

Ms. Leslie giving instructions about painting

Little Man's finished product...these turned out so cute!

 Next we played "Put Baby Jesus in the Manger", a spin-off of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey". I used re-positionable contact paper on my kitchen wall for the manger scene. I used my Silhouette to cut out the angel, star, and bean shape for Baby Jesus (below). I cut the manger free-hand.

Our ultra-quick and not particularly accurate "Baby Jesus" wrapped in swaddling clothes of course.

Ms. Nicole blind folded the girls, who definitely enjoyed playing the game...Jeremiah just wanted to watch.

Finally, we had snacks and the kids decorated sugar cookies. So fun!

You may have noticed we had birthday plates, napkins, and even balloons. We wanted it to seem like a real birthday party. It was lots of fun and I hope it becomes an annual tradition!

Happy 2nd Birthday Jeremiah!!

Happy Birthday, Jeremiah!  You are pretty excited to be TWO!

On your birthday, we met Nana & Uncle Perry at McDonalds for breakfast. You had a big breakfast (not surprising), then had Perry walk with you all over the McDonalds and adjoining gas station. Perry even bought a ball and bat set for you - an instant favorite!

After breakfast, we headed to our local park to play because it was such a gorgeous summer morning - unseasonably cool & overcast. Perfect park weather! Unfortunately, I didn't get many good pictures of you. Pretty much all my pictures these days look like this...
 

or this...you're too busy having fun to slow down!

We had to cancel your birthday party due to unforeseen circumstance, but that just meant you got to spread it out...a morning with Anna & Ms. Nicole, an afternoon with Mimi & G-pa, an evening with Nana & Popa, some time with Granny & Popa G...just lots of birthday fun.

You are certainly loving life as a two year old!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

This post is a little late, but better late than never :)

Yesterday was Big J's 29th Birthday. Only one more year in his 20s...he's getting old! hehehe! Anyway, we've celebrated the last 2 weekends with our families & eaten lots of good food. The Wolfpack even gave Josh an early present with an exciting WIN against Pitt Saturday. How nice of them! :)

Little J & I wanted to take a special moment to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the best husband & daddy around! We're so thankful to be in this little family & couldn't imagine life without him. We're looking forward to many more great years to come!

Here's a recent picture of my two favorite guys...it just makes my heart melt!!

What have we been up to lately?

Josh told me I need to update the blog. He's right, I do. Hopefully I'll get back into my blogging routine soon. Until then, here's a quick recap at what other things I've been busy doing, like...

celebrating a first birthday...

watching this sweet baby girl for 2 weeks...

working on a quilt...

enjoying snack time in the wagon...

relaxing in the mountains...

and chasing after my TODDLER!

The picture is blurry for a reason...it's hard to capture a moving object on film! Well, you know if we used film anymore :)

A lot to catch up on...

I've fallen down in my Blogger Duties & have a lot to catch up on. In the meantime, enjoy this "Sneak Peek" of some photos we had done this week.

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Happy 1st Birthday, Jeremiah!!!

I really cannot believe that Little J is a year old today! What a bittersweet day...I'm mourning the "loss" of my tiny baby, but celebrating surviving (& thriving!) the first year with such an awesome kid! The past year has flown and creeped by all at the same time. It's almost impossible to imagine life with Jeremiah now. We are so blessed to have such a happy, healthy little boy.

Even though J's party is Saturday, we had to do a little something to celebrate today! We ate lunch at Sagebrush (yay for a lunch date Daddy!). The waitress brought Jeremiah a Brownie Sundae for all of us (Nana & Dale were with us) to share. Here are some pictures of his birthday dessert - he enjoyed it, but didn't get too messy unlike last time he had chocolate dessert.