Boo at the Zoo

Today we went with Clint & Kara's family to the zoo for some trick-or-treating. Jake was a hit! Everyone just loved his cute little costume. Here's a cute picture of him with the penguins at the zoo... He's the one on the right:)

Here he is with another penguin

Our little family with the elephants

Happy Birthday to Me!

My birthday was yesterday and was a wonderful day. Jacob must have been so excited and anxious that he decided to wake up at 6:15 am (not his usual 7:30-8). He was cooing and all happy so I let him lay there until after 7, so I could get in my birthday sleep.

To make things less stressful on Wesley with birthday gifts and such, I told him he can take me to whatever musical or play is in town. I picked the play "You Can't Take it With You". In the morning though, the doorbell rang with a dozen roses waiting for me, something definitely not expected but much appreciated. They were beautiful, here's some proof:

I dropped Jake off with my sister-in-law Kara so I could go get a manicure and much needed pedicure. I'd been wanting one since before I had Jake and boy was it worth it, so relaxing!

I had a flat bread salad from Quiznos for lunch which was so delicious.

That night we had a couple at church watch Jacob so we could go to the play. He's been really clingy to us so we hoped he'd do well. He cried when we dropped him off but they said he calmed down after a bit. He took a liking to their daughter so as long as she was around, he was fine. Hopefully he'll grow out of that, I guess we need to get our anti-social selves out and about with other people.

Anyway, we ended up having front row seats at this play which was hilarious. I would see it again if I could, I loved it. I loved getting all dressed up (in my new birthday pants). When we got home, we had som grape sparkling cider. It was such a fun day!

Happy 1/2 Birthday!

When your paying so close attention to your child's development, a year seems like such long time away to celebrate a birthday so we opted to split it in two and make Jacob's 1/2 birthday something to celebrate. I found a cute idea in Parents Magazine about this so I tried it myself by baking a chocolate banana cake (praises to Mom Vick for the recipe) and cutting it 1/2. We took it to my brother and sister-in-laws house and ate it up for him since he couldn't eat any of it, poor thing. I sure enjoyed his portion though!

A few random things

Yes, random it is. Wesley was working in his office and looked out his window to find a fox in our backyard in the middle of the day. We were shocked to see it just chillin' in our yard, enjoying the sunshine and our soft grass. I mentioned it to a lady at church and she said, "yeah, that's why it's called Fox Hollow." Well there you have it. I guess to see a fox is pretty common around here. It was quite a sight!

Wesley looking all sorts of handsome in his cowboy hat while at work. It's such a long commute, oh wait, he works from home! This is my typical self, barging in on him while he's hard at work. Honest though, I only go in when it's important (isn't everything in a woman's life important?)

GO BRONCOS! Even in his sleep he's cheering for his daddy's favorite team...or maybe he just sleeps like that normally:)

A Trip to Texas

Well, I hate being alone when Wesley is out of town so this last time he was gone, Jacob and I decided to go to Texas to visit my sister Lea and help her get ready for the new baby. We were there from a Monday to a Friday and had a great time! Jacob was unbelievably good on the plane both to and from and we were lucky enough, although both full flights, to have an empty middle seat going there and an entire row to ourselves coming back... how lucky were we? That made it 12 airplanes he's been on so far! It was so nice to visit with Lea in person instead of the daily phone calls we make to one another. Abby and Mason got along so well with Jake and were so good with him. Always making sure he had his pacifier, blanket or toy nearby, he was definitely loved during this trip. Although I wish I had more pictures to show for it, Lea took most of the pictures on her camera, but I do have a cute picture of some of the cousins. Brooke (Jeremy's wife) was able to come visit for an afternoon which was so much fun, and all the kids were able to play - minus Jake, he's just too little so he just gossiped with us moms which he must have enjoyed.
This picture is of Ashlyn, Brenden and Caden (Brooke's kids), Mason and Abby (lea's kids), and Jake who is being held by Mason. It was so much fun that day!
Other activities included shopping (of course), a trip to the Blue Bell ice cream Factory where Mason declared that he wants to be one of those workers when he grows up, we went to a Texas BBQ which was really yummy, and we spent a day in Houston.