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Thursday, September 3, 2015

4TH OF JULY

4th of July is probably my favorite holiday of all time. I love the summer, the food, games and fellowship! We always have a big party at Mom and Dad's house and a lot of the church family attend. I didn't participate in very many events because I was 5 months pregnant at the time. I did play lots of volleyball and Brandon even let me do the crosscut saw contest with him! (which was so stinkin hard by the way!!!!) We actually got a semi decent family photo even though Padre decided to wear black and not blue. Who does that? Haha We had so much fun, and the food was super delicious. :)

Lynn's dessert for the dessert contest.

Outdoor eating area :)

Bad picture...But at least we all match :)!!!

My beautiful niece and her adorable headwrap! 4 weeks old! (she likes me best )

Isn't she so cute??

3 legged race. Me and Julia had an epic fail at this. Thankfully there are no pictures to prove that. LOL

Lynn with some friends from church!

Wheelbarrow race! Haha epic fail for mom and dad and there are photos to prove it. haha :)

He blames her. lol

The winners! Joylynn and Jonathan

Crosscut saw contest....Winners were....I can't remember! (pregnancy brain)

Me and My Main Man!! :)

SISTERS!

(missing one) :(

Crazy fun, but exhausting day! Can't wait till next year!!!

Until next time.....

~Janel~

Monday, July 13, 2015

KINGS ISLAND!!

KINGS ISLAND was a lot of fun...even though I couldn't ride anything! People told me I could ride and I was like "yeah right, I'm not going to scramble my baby's brains for a dumb roller coaster" but I do love roller coasters. My favorite being the DROP TOWER....it is the scariest for me...haha :)

After waiting in line for one ride everyone decided on buying fast passes so the wait went from about 3 hours to 10 minutes....definitely worth it if you're only going to go to a theme park about every two years. They're way too expensive otherwise.

Here we are...obviously this was taken at the end of the day...I am like FRIED! Except of course my upper arm where I wanted to get sun because now I'm still stuck with a crazy farmers tan!

We finally convinced Julia to go on the Flying thing...Ughhh I wanted to go on it so bad! It is so much fun! Super scary though! :)

3....2....1....FLY

Julia was screaming so loud...LOL

DROP TOWER....my favorite ride!

Me and Brandon.....5 1/2 months Pregnant....My feet and back were killing me at this point!

AIDA....She did so well and pretty much slept all day. The noise and the heat didn't bother her hardly at all!!

I look like I'm mad at the camera but this is what I did all day...carried a sleeping baby around and shielded her from the sun. It was so HOT!!!!

We were supposed to stay until 10:00 but we were worn out by 8 so we left much to my happiness....walking around an amusement park all day at any stage in pregnancy is murder. LOL I was completely exhausted and worn out. My hands and feet were swollen from the heat and my back and feet were burning. A cold shower felt so good and my nice comfy bed. Tons of fun, but so glad to get back home.

Until next time...

~Janel~

Sunday, June 28, 2015

BABY SHOWER FOR AIDA!!!!!

Planning this baby shower was a lot of fun...however it was a TON of work! It turned out so good though...better than I even thought it would. Almost all of the ladies of the church showed up so we had a FULL house! :) we played 3 games

1. "what's in your phone?" kind of like the what's in your purse game but with what is in your cell phone..baby related of course. :)

2." The price is right." This was a lot of fun. I bought all the items like diapers, rash cream, lotion etc... and you had to price all the items and come up with the closest total without going over. We had a lot of close guesses but the winner ended up only being 58 cents off!! That was pretty amazing.

3. "My Water Broke" game. I froze little plastic babies in ice cubes and once your baby was free of the ice cube in your drink you had to yell "MY WATER BROKE" first lady to have their water break won a prize..haha it was so funny since the woman who won was our pastors wife!

The big event of the shower was the diaper raffle. Julia told me while I was planning the shower that the only thing she really needed was diapers. So I found this cute idea of doing a diaper raffle on pinterest. For every 20 diapers you brought other than newborn size you got your name entered in a drawing. Everyone participated and Julia got TONS of diapers! :)

For food we did a Yogurt Bar. We had yogurt with fresh fruit to go on top. It was really good and everyone loved it! :)

Head bow station....Everyone made a head bow for baby Aida and it was a lot of fun creating them.

Sugar rimmed glasses. This adds such a fun touch to a party without being hard at all! You just swipe a lemon wedge around the rim and dip it in sugar! Super easy and it looks great!!