V-Day Gifts

This post is a little late, but i wanted to wait until the gifts got into the hands of the recipients. I copied my friend kelly in this precious gift idea.
They are not as cute as hers - but they turned out pretty good. My friend magen gave me the idea to use jayden's feet to make it into the shape of a heart for a valentine's look.  So that was a fun addition.
Jayden had a great time putting his feet in the paint and was very proud of his work.
I also am adding some v-day pics from our mom's group at dana's. The boys decorated cupcakes and painted with their feet(again). Dana is so good at thinking of fun and inventive ideas for us to do with the kids. (i want her to start a blog and post some of these ideas). We had a great time!

Table for 14 Please . . .

It might not seem that bad, until you hear that it is for 6 adults and 8 children. Yes - that was our fun adventure on Thursday. Thankfully it was a beautiful day and they sat us outside (imagine that :)) at good ol' Chuy's (my favorite). Our dear, sweet friend Shalene was in town with her two adorable kids (Alayna and Silas) so we all got together and had a great time visiting together and catching up.
I tried to get pics of each mom and child. (i didn't get you tiffany - sorry ;))
Hope you all had a good V-day and weekend.

What I've been doing . . .

Yes - jordan had knee surgery (it was actually almost 2 weeks ago on thursday). He had 2 pieces of his femur floating around his knee cap and had to have them removed and then they did what is called a "micro-abrasion) which meant that they put holes in his knee or femur (i am not actually sure) to allow more blood flow. So now he has a couple of divets in his femur where these chips were and is taking medicine to hopefully rebuild the bones.
You might wonder - how in the world did that happen? Good question. We are not actually sure. It happened during our churches annual "turkey bowl" which is a flag football game before thanksgiving. We did not get hit but the doctor said that he must have turned or twisted his knee in just the right way to allow pieces of his femur to be taken off. Before he had surgery it has been extremely painful - as you can imagine if you had a piece of bone chip floating around your knee would be. It has also been so hard for jordan because he was not able to exercise until he had surgery. He really had a hard time walking too - he walked with a limp - which funny thing about that is that jayden started walking with a little limp as well. Funny how much they watch us :)
Anyway - since the surgery Jordan has been doing great! I was really worried that it was going to be a hard road ahead of us. Jordan doesn't do the best with pain (and the doctor said it would be VERY PAINFUL recovery), Jayden is a busy boy, and being pregnant with not as much energy BUT thankful it was not that bad at all. Jordan did not have much pain at all - which I think was God's grace on us! So he is back at school today and able to ride the bike 20-30 minutes for rehab.
Just wanted to let you know what we've been doing. Also - chasing around little cutie! He is so busy - he loved jordan being home for the week and a half, but didn't quite realize that he couldn't do everything he was use to daddy doing with him.
Hope you are well!

Good Bye MB!

My sister Mary Beth left on Monday to study abroad in Florence, Italy. We were able to spend the weekend together in Waco at World Mandate and had a wonderful time. We will miss her but know her and Meg will have a wonderful time taking in all the fun adventures Italy has to offer. You should check out their blog at: www.megmbitaly.blogspot.com to see more about their fun adventures. She will be studying italian and sculpture while she is there.
We will miss you MB and we hope that you have a wonderful time!

Gardening Helper

i have been inspired these past two days to make my dead front yard look a little better. my neighbor across the street always has the best landscaping and she just recently planted some pansies. so - i got inspired and with the beautiful weather we have had the past two days it was a perfect combination.
i had a little helper - he had to learn not to step on the flowers, and as you can see from the pictures he is still not sure the correct way of using a watering can. it was fun and i think it turned out pretty good!

Smoothie Fun

lately i have been making jayden and i smoothie's for breakfast. i think it is a great way to start the day and pretty healthy too! i give jayden the smoothie in a "big boy cup" without a lid to make it a special treat. well - he always finds a way to have more fun with the treat then i had intended. oh well - we can always clean up:)
my smoothie recipe:
1 cup frozen fruit (i like blueberries)
3/4 cup fat free vanilla yogurt
1 banana
4 -5 ice cubes
put it all in the blender and mix it together
(it is a little thick - so kids could eat it with a spoon or you could add some milk or something to make it thinner)

Enjoy! Have a good weekend!

What we have been up to lately . . .

sorry it has been so long since we have posted. i crashed our iphoto with too many pictures so jordan got me an external hard drive for christmas that is just for photos and extracted all of my photos onto that and now i have the tedious task of going through each picture and organizing them. it is a long process but i am glad to do it and from now on will try to have my photo's organized and copied to cd's every month to save time and energy!
we had a great christmas in waco and enjoyed the time jordan had off from work. i am going to work on being better with posting (because i love it when all of you post - so i feel like i am being greedy (taking from others without giving my share:))
happy new year to everyone!