Jack's Birthday

Jack is 1!!!

June 12th Jack made the transition from month old to year old. We had several changes occur in our house. Jack could eat cake and ice cream, Jack could drink cow's milk, and Jack got his car seat turned around. We had a fun day from pancakes in the morning to lots and lots of cake in the evening. Here is a picture diary of the events:

Just needed a little encouragement!:)

Here are some of us during the day:

Brittany did such an awesome job with Jack's Cake. That cake decorating class is paying off!!

Jack got a basketball hoop for his birthday. You can see that he is getting better.

Last couple of weeks

Here is an update in pictures on what we have been up to lately.

These first ones are when my parents were here for Memorial Day weekend. The kids loved to have them here and we had a blast!

This is the final cake that I decorated for my cake decorating class. The class was a lot of fun and I learned a ton of cool tricks. I'm going to wait a couple of months for the next one though, we were a little cake overloaded:)

Here are pictures of when we went to the zoo with our friends the Wardles. The girls have fun together and Jack is getting to the stage where he loves to see the animals. And there is a great splash park there which was great in the hot weather.

Last, but not least, this month we went to Epcot center to see the flower and garden festival and we had to meet Mulan. She is in the China part of Epcot and so we had to get to her too. We had so much fun, but it was very hot! I think this might be our last trip to Disney for a couple of months. We'll let the summer pass:)

And yes, Jack is walking. We just have him recorded on our video camera. We will try to remember to get it on our camera so that we can post it!

Jack's first haircut!

Jack's hair wasn't too long, but it was starting to get shaggy and really bothering me and so I decided to take him to a kids salon and have his hair cut. (I would have done it myself, but come on, who really wants to have to deal with a squirmy baby:) They did such a great job. They had him in a boat, watching a Baby Einstein, blowing bubbles with a ton of toys! It was a fun, and sad, moment:) Here are some before, during and after pics.

Before:

During:

After:

Here is a video of Jack's cut. You can see how good he did. He was awesome!

Fun Saturday

Our Saturday was filled with fun activities all day long. Savannah and I went on a date while Dad and Jack stayed home and worked in the yard and on the house. Savannah and I started out going to garage sales and then Toys R Us. We love to look around and play:) Then I took her to a kids hair salon and she got her nails done, sat in a train while they cut and styled her hair. Then they put a vanilla scent on her hair as well as glitter. She loved it! We finished it off with a trip to Coldstone where we traded ice cream because I had the better pick:)

Here is Savannah's hair after. I forgot to bring the camera to the place, maybe next time.

Dan put up a ceiling fan as well. Here is the help he got:)

The finished product.

Isn't he so cute:) Not too far from being one.

Oh, and here is a funny video of the kids.

Garden update!

I know I haven't posted pictures of my garden every week like I said I would but oh well, life is busy:) Here is an update on my garden that I am so happy about.

Here is an overview of the whole thing.

This is a picture of our lettuce and beans. We have three kinds of lettuce and two kinds of beans. We have already had lettuce from the spinach plants and the romaine, but if you notice the lettuce in bottom left that is where Jack first reaches if you let him down in the backyard and turn your back. He goes straight for those ones and have dug up two, so I have had to replant seeds twice. I don't have bugs just babies:)

This one had three pepper plants, which have taken some time, our strawberry plant and rhubarb, which is taking a break right now but hopefully comes back:)

This one had broccoli on the left, carrots next to that, peas and then squash.

The last one has four watermelon plants and four cantaloupe.

We love our garden and really can't wait to get more from it soon:)

Easter

We had a great Easter. It's so nice to be able to celebrate holidays together with family and friends. Here are some of the pictures we took to remember the day.

Here is Savannah after she found her Easter basket, yes we hide our baskets.

Here are the pair before church. Savannah got a beautiful new Easter dress, wouldn't wear a hat though, and Jack didn't get anything. I did get in trouble for this and believe me this will be the last year Jack didn't get a new Easter outfit as well:)

The two kids with Mom

And with Dad.

And now it's time for the Easter egg hunt. We went over to our friends house and they hosted a lot of people, thanks Wardles! The kids had a blast finding the eggs and playing together.

Now it's the babies turn, their eggs were filled with cheerios and other snacks they could eat:)