Thursday, June 30, 2011

Happy 33!!

Well this last Sat. I celebrated another year older, 33 whopping years! I think it was the best birthday ever, our good friends the Tora's offered to watch all of our kids while Josh and I went out to eat and to the Akron Aero's baseball game. We had a gift card from our friends to the Cheesecake Factory, which I have been dying to go to, I had never been there before and I LOVE cheesecake! We had also won 2 tickets to the Aero's game from a raffle we entered for a friend and they were playing home Sat. night and I love baseball! It was such an awesome day! Josh and I get to go out about twice a year on a date and its usually just out to eat or to a movie and back home. It was nice to have almost 7 hours of time with my hubby not worrying about chasing kids. The Cheesecake factory is my new favorite restaraunt, the food was absolutely delicious, thats all I kept saying the whole time I was eating my dinner. The game was so fun, Josh even surprised me with the birthday announcments during the game, they were flashing them up on the screen and I was fiddling on my phone and then I heard "happy 33rd birthday to Jennifer Anderson" caught a glimpse of it, I wish I would have gotten a picture, but I thought that was so sweet, I have never had that done before, I have an awesome hubby! My dad got me a Zero Gravity folding Chaise lounge chair that I have been wanting, I take it to Daniels games (and I try to sit in the sun with it because I just LOVE to lay in the sun, but Josh usually puts a stop to that pretty quick because he doesnt want me getting skin cancer) and it is SO comfortable to sit in, too bad Justin has taken over the chair now because he loves it too! Josh got me midnight tickets to see Harry potter the last movie with my friend, Natilie and my sister is going to0, I am so excited, I had also needed a pair of running shoes really bad, I had holes in both of my shoes, but shoes are so stinking expensive, so we went to our friendly Gabriel Brothers and found some shoes, now I need to get my butt in gear with training for the half marathon coming up! My sister and friends got me adorable gifts as well, it really was a special day, and I haven't had that kind of day in a VERY long time. I love my family and friends, a HUGE thank you to Ursala, Patrick and Gabriel for watching our kiddo's for so long!
Josh and I at the cheesecake factory before dinner was brought outAt the Aero's game :)
I could not decide on what cheesecake I wanted, there are so many choices, I wanted a slice of everything!
My dinner, which was FABULOUS! It was Louisianna chicken pasta, and I LOVED it!!
My friend Anna and I ran a 5k 2 weeks ago, it was Akron's race for Autism. It was an awesome event that is dear to my heart with having our little Wade who has autism. The temps that day sucked, it was 99 percent humidity, hot and we found out once we saw the map, that the whole last mile and a half was totally uphill, I thought I was going to die and had the worse cramp, but we finished it and I was so glad to be apart of the event!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Happy Fathers day and park fun






On Father's day my dad came over after church and I made a huge dinner for Josh and Dad, I had also forgotten that I signed up to feed the missionaries on that day and my nephew was coming over to spend the night, so we had a full house but it was lots of fun!
Me and My daddy wearing the shirt we got him, that says worlds best day and we put our handprints on the shirt, all 7 of us :) he loved it!
Josh has been wanting a grill forever, and our tax refund came and gone on bills and paying back money we owed to everyone, for holidays josh and I usually cant afford to get eachother presents but I snuck out and got this for him with taxes, its not a huge expensive one (he would have killed me if I bought something like that) but he loved it!! He was a little bugged at first that I spent even that amount, but I figured when he started cooking on it he would get over it quick :) I am so blessed to have an amazing Dad, father in law and husband, I couldn't have asked for greater men in my life and am so thankful everyday for them.
I love this picture of Justin
Delaney just wants to go go go now.....

My cute girls!

My cutie boys (minus Daniel because he was at baseball)

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

DELANEY'S 1ST BIRTHDAY BASH

This year while I was in the party throwing mood, we decided to do a big 1st birthday bash for our sweet Delaney. We had LOTS of friends come, after we went through the pictures there was about 34 people (kids included) who came to celebrate with us, we are so grateful for wonderful friends! Delaney did so good, she was so easy going just taking in everything, she loved the food, cake and presents. Delaney also had her 1 year well check up yesterday as well, she got 2 shots and had been sick with a few things but is doing well and her ear infection is almost gone. She is 90th percentill for weight, length and head size. She is 30 pounds, 32 1/2 inches long and has a big noggin (following the steps of her brothers Daniel and Justin and mommy, yes I according to the boys genetics doctor I have a very big head lol) The first two pictures are of an adorable dolly and me dress we found at gabriel brothers for 10 bucks, my dad got Delaney a cabbage patch doll so we put the doll dress on that. I have ALWAYS wanted one of these for a little girl (and I dont remember them 11 years ago with Natilie), I was so happy I could finally get one!



another little doll she got that she loved, we switch the dress back and forth on her dolls



I cant wait to put this cute bathing suite on her :)

she loves books!
She was so excited to see all of the colorful bags

The cake wasn't enough so she had to move to the decorations


She LOVED the eating the birthday cake

I made a another simple cake in addition to the crown cake to make sure I had enough cake for everyone
I was SO excited to make this princess crown cake for Delaney, the cookie template I printed out was not the best, so if I ever make this again, I will have to think of something different to do, but it didn't turn out too bad...

she was so excited


These two pictures were after she was done with dinner, I had made a huge pasta dish and she loved it, hence the sauce all over her face and her cute grin

Here are pictures of our friends...I had another friend who took about 300 pictures, but I dont have those yet, he is putting them on a cd for us, but this is what we got on our little cheapo camera. Emma with one of her cute twins in the picture above
Sarah and Andrew Whitman, and Jesse, Jordan and Britany in the background
My Dad "Pa" as my kids call him, Ursala and Patrick and Cheryl Peters
Patrick Tora, Daniel, and Krista (behind Patrick is a friend of theirs who just moved into our ward and is super cool she has 3 cute kids and another one on the way) there is also little Eli Redd next to Daniel

Cheryl Peters, Barb Juhasz, Anna Pavkov, Sara and Michael Redd, Jody and Dee Dee Fedor