Ray's Asia trip

10th Percentile YAH!!!!

A year ago... after many tests and a year in the not thriving category my little man Braden was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Monday I took him to his GI for a quarterly check up and he is now in the 10th percentile for weight!! This is a big acomplishment for him and it makes me so happy that he is thriving. I had to share the good news.


Braden a few weeks ago helping me make dinner!!

I Have to Brag

Bare with me...I have to brag :) Today I went shopping at a local grocery store that had some good sales and I just so happened to have coupons for most of the items as well. I purchased 9 bags of Nestle 12 oz. chips of various flavors, 2, 25oz. boxes of General Mills Cereal, 6 boxes of Quaker chewy granola bars, and 10lbs of C&H sugar all for $13.36. Can you believe it! This is a first for me so I had to share my good moment :) Thanks for baring with me :)

Our Football Star

Brett had a great game this past Saturday. He was seriously on fire and played a great defensive game. He made some great tackles and was really a great team player. I was so proud of him. It's so fun to see him out their doing his best and loving every minute of it. Football is his passion to say the least. He pretty much eats, sleeps, and breathes it.

Here's to good friends and a wonderful daughter!

So..... Ray's been gone for almost 2 weeks now and let me tell you being a single parent definitely has its challenges. I feel for the parents whose spouses are overseas fighting for the freedoms and joys we have that we so often take for granted. I've needed a night out with the girls for a few days now. Not that I'm sick of my children...I truly cherish them and love them to pieces but let's be honest adult conversation definitely has it's perks. My sweet and wonderful daughter watched her brothers tonight so I could go out with two of my good friends. I'm really blessed to have a loving and responsible daughter. I must say though it's still a little weird for me to have a daughter that has reached that time in her life that she's of babysitting age...... it seems like yesterday she was in preschool..... so not fair. Anyway, it was a well needed and greatly appreciated gift that Breanna gave to me tonight. I'm so grateful for good friends. I really feel blessed to have so many great friends that would seriously drop anything and help me out. Yah for girlfriends and a great daughter :)

Gabrielle, Kristen and ME!


Awesome daughter!

I forgot to mention that I chopped 5 inches off of my hair today!!!

My little sis is a mommy!

My little sister Heather just had her baby this morning. I'm so excited for her and her husband Chris. It seems like yesterday that I had my first little baby. It's times like this I wish I lived back in Cali so I could be there to hold that sweet baby girl and be with my sister. She weighed in at 6lb. 8 oz. 19inches. They named her Paisley Eleanor...pretty huh.

Finally!!!

This post is mainly for Ray to see (he's still in Asia) that the valance has been hung...Yah!!!! I had this valance made over 6 months ago and embarrassingly enough I just hung it today. The Drapes next to it and the valances in the kitchen we hung right away but, for some reason we puttered out and never got to this one. My friend Melanie was over last week and said "Jenn, we need to hang your valance...I'll help you" and, so she did. She called this afternoon, came over and we hung it in about a hour. It sure is great to have good friends.