Jacob Turned 2!

I know I am totally skipping Christmas and I promise to back pedal and get to it, but this past weekend was Jacob's 2nd Birthday party and boy oh boy did he have fun! The Sesame St. theme was awesome and everyone seemed to really like the cakes I made and the decorations I put up. I owe a huge THANK YOU to my friend Nicole for helping me with some of the details. She made these amazing invites

            And then also put together these signs for me to put next to some of the food we had out!

(a.k.a. SunFlower seeds!)

                                                            More party details to come!

Happy Halloween!



 We celebrated Halloween this year with a Monster Mash! Jacob and his little buddy Eli had a costume party and it was a hit. So much fun to see all these little kiddos dressed up and trick or treating. Nothing like candy being handed out from door to door to get them running EVERYWHERE!


Jay Cutler and Aaron Rodgers...our cute little quarterbacks!!



This was about as good of a group shot as we were gonna get...some kids are still missing.

Princess Amelia

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Princess Amelia and her little brother Isaac the Moose!

Taylor the scary witch and her sister Sydney who is ready for the HOP

Mario and Luigi

One BEAUTIFUL fairy with her horse

The moose and his quarterback friends

                                                                  Happy Halloween!





The Entringer Wedding!

My best friends little brother got married on 10-10-10. What an easy date to remember huh?! You know now that I think if it I bet a lot of people got married on that date. huh...Gosh I can be so slow sometimes.
OK anyway, the wedding was nice and fantastic weather! Good thing too because the wedding was outside on a beach. I was all ready to be wearing a coat and as it turns out I was sort of hot. Hard to believe that was only a 25 days ago. As I type this the wind is just howling outside and there is a real chill in the air.
Happy Day Kyle and Kellie Entringer!! We had a great time, and everything was just beautiful.

                                                      Arick and I had a GREAT time dancing!

                                                               Mr. and Mrs. Entringer

                                          Mr. and Mrs. Motl, better known as our great friends!

                                                         Also Mr. and Mrs. Entringer!                                           

                                          My Godson Isaac...look at those eyes! I am pretty sure
                                                 I will have to give him whatever he asks for.

                              Phil and Lisa dancing the night away with their Granddaughter Amelia

                                                        Amelia and Mom dancing together!

                                                        OK, seriously check out these pumpkins!

                             Lindsay and Lisa made them, and oh WOWZA did they turn our great!

                                    It was a great night, and again CONGRATS Kyle and Kelly!

On Wisconsin!

Back in September I was able to make it to a football game and to make the day better I won tickets to a tailgate party before hand from a local radio station. I took my friend Kait as Arick is a field assistant for the UW Marching Band, so he already had front row seats! Every home game by the way...so jealous. He gets paid to stand on the side lines. Needless to say he LOVES it! OK on to MY game day fun....

                                         Do you know which one is Arick? Good me neither!
                                         I do know who the girl in the white hat is.

                                                                    The SEA of Red!

Homemade SALSA

Our friend Barney brought us over homemade Salsa, and let me tell you YUM YUM! Chips, eggs, salads...on and on we love it on everything! THANKS BARNEY!!!!

A single man...who can make SALSA!

Dinner and a Fire with The Motl's

Last night we went to the Motl's house.

Remember them?

We love hanging out with them!

The kids have a great time playing together

Look how big Isaac is getting!

We had a fantastic dinner and enjoyed a little bit of this...
I enjoyed A LOT of this!

Ice tea is my favorite and Lindsay made an entire pitcher. I seriously had maybe 5 glasses!

OH and we sang Happy Birthday to Arick. The kids loved helping blow out the candles.

I love this girl

She makes me silly

And I love her for it! Whenever we hang out with this family we have lots of laughs. OK so maybe Lindsay and I have more laughs then the guys. I think they share a lot of eye rolls to be honest. See Lindsay and I think we are really really funny! When we are together I will usually laugh until my stomach hurts or I cry.

Everyone needs a friend like this!

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Our Family Summer Vacation

Arick, Jacob and I took our first family vacation for 1 whole week! I mean we have taken many long weekend trips but never for an entire week. We went to a cabin at a resort in Montello, WI called Scharenberg's White Lake Beach Resort. The Venable family has been going to Scharenberg's for over 40 years! My Grandparents found this family friendly resort and I loved growing up going. We were so excited to take Jacob and enjoy some family time. I have not spent one whole week from sun up to sun down (haha get it sun up to sun down aka son up to son down) with our son since my maternity leave! Much needed it was and I feel like we really learned so much more about our son and each other. I must say we have a really funny, and happy little guy! Oh and a pretty cool family too. ;)

Be prepared for a long post with LOTS of pictures!!

We started our vacation with lunch at the Mecan Lodge before we could check into the cabin. Great restaurant and really a pretty lodge!

It was a beautiful log cabin and Jacob thought it was a house, so my polite little boy knocked.

Jacob was a little cranky and inpatient at lunch so like any good mother on vacation
I gave him SUGAR!

After lunch we went outside to the beautiful deck to enjoy their fantastic garden

Then we were off to meet our new house for the week!

So another photo regret...I really wish I would of gotten more pictures of the actual cabin. Here are the few random shots I did take. I loved the wood ceiling and the high ceilings. It was a very open feel...very beachy!

I did remember to take a picture of my fruit pizza!
I really should make this more often...YUM YUM!
OH and obviously I needed this picture of my very 1st good morning, you are on vacation coffee from a 1985 coffee mug!

We had some friends come up and hang out at the beach. The boys were able to squeeze in a game of golf.

We were so excited to have the Krueger's spend the night with us. It did not go as planned but the first half was fun! Eli ended up getting very sick and it became a really scary situation for everyone. He is doing fine now but that little boy sure did not feel good.

If I had to pick a favorite time for Jacob during our friends visit it would have to be his rides down the big boy slide with Auntie Stacy...that boy was all smiles! We as a family are so blessed to have so many fantastic, supportive, loving, and caring friends in our lives. How does that sayin go? It takes a village to raise a family?? Well we have a small village and I am so thankful for that village. So much wisdom, laughter, and love in our village. I have so much comfort in that village.

It was a great day with beautiful weather. Here is my favorite picture of Jacob from our friends visit. Picture is courtesy of his Auntie Kaitlyn. I just love the baby face and the sand on the brim. This boy L-O-V-E-S sand.

So many great pictures and so many wonderful memories were made. I have so much more I want to share so stay tuned...