Birthday Fun

For Jedidiah's Birthday, Jed and I picked up DJ for lunch and went to Noodles & Co.  Then we dropped off DJ, hung out with Jared at CCC for a few minutes, and headed to Petco to look at some animals.  But I realized that there were only fish to look at at Petco, and I actually wanted to go to Petsmart. So we got in the car and headed there.  He LOVED watching the dogs.  We could have stayed there for a really really long time.  Then DJ came home from work and we opened up some presents from Uncle Andy and Aunt Jenna, then Grandpa and Grandma Hornacek came over.  Jed got some building blocks and played with them forever! Finally, DJ and I celebrated surviving one year with a baby by making shakes! 

exactly one year old!

Happy Birthday, Jedidiah!

Today is the day! Happy Birthday, little buddy!  This was the fastest year of my life!  Today we are celebrating by going out to lunch! Here are the stats on our one-year-old:

Jedidiah...

-learned how to stand up without holding on to anything

-signs for "more" by clapping his hands or yelling at the top of his lungs

-takes lots of steps around the house

-always looks toward the window when he hears our neighbors' dogs barking

-knows what a sheep says

-says "ball" over and over when he is playing with one

-fell off of our bed (yikes...he was okay)

-went down a slide with Bentley for the first time

-can turn on and unlock an iPad or iPhone

-is wearing the exact same onesie for all 12 months!

Happy Birthday, Jed! We're so glad you were born!

four years ago

Four years ago, we were driving to Knott's Berry Farm in the morning after a week of VBS in Mexicali. i was texting DJ.  He was lying to me. Ha! He had to make up stories to text me because while I thought that he was in Omaha, he was actually just a few blocks away from me, waiting to go to Knott's too.  I went on the first roller coaster with Shawn, and when we got off I looked at the people standing outside the ride and said, "Whoa, that guy looks like DJ."  And it was!

We spent the day riding the rides, then he took me to dinner in Huntington Beach, and then he proposed on the beach that night!

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friday phone dump + videos

It's April 5th today--Jed's due date last year! As much as I tried to tell myself that he probably wouldn't come on his actual due date, I was a little shocked when I woke up and I hadn't gone into labor yet. But he came 6 days later. And that means that we will have a one year old in six days!! Happy Friday! 

he just put his head down and laid like this for awhile.  then i showed him this picture on my phone a few days later, and every time he looked at it, he would lay his head down again. 

lunch.  i determined today that leftovers from someone else is super unappealing. but when you discover that last night's dinner is in your fridge and you don't have to scrounge around to make a boring sandwich or eat oatmeal for lunch, then leftovers are AWESOME!!

Easter package from Grandma!

legs everywhere. and so intertwined!

feeling good about making an easter tie. 

my first attempt: total fail.

it looked terrible. 

2nd attempt: great! until i put it around his neck and it was too small. which is why he is pulling at it in this picture. 

there was a lamb at church last friday when we visited dj.  it was there was the Good Friday service. 

finally got it!

Easter morning.  DJ is on the left.

we dug out the baby pictures on Sunday so Jen could get some photos for her wedding. here's baby dj. 

sitting in the sun

just checking out the apps on the iPad

we're getting pool memberships this summer! 

we ate at Zio's and they give kids a ball of dough to eat play with while you wait for your food. 

trying to eat playing with clay with Bentley.  

B is for bird and Bentley

jed got this ring around his leg and each time he tried to pull it off, he just kept pulling his own leg up. 

classic head-stuck-in-the-railings episode

i went to lunch with some paddock ladies.  actually, 4 of us were former paddock staff!