Jenna's Baby Shower

 We celebrated Jenna's baby shower at the end of October. (I am way behind on posts.) We rented the KC hall in Watertown. It has a full kitchen and tons of seating for guests. We had a brunch with croissants, fruit, yogurt, and egg bake. The food was really good and we had a pretty good turnout.

 I gave the girls my cheap canon camera and they went to town taking pictures. I love seeing things from their point of view.

 Kelly probably isn't going to like this one very much. Oh well. 

 Here's a close-up of Aunt Sarah.

 We decided to play a couple of games. We bought quite a few different jars of baby food and made Jenna sample each one. She had to try and guess which food it was. It was VERY funny.

 She didn't like any of them as you can tell from her face. I think she only got one right.

 The kids had a blast watching her try them all.

 Instead of giving Jenna a tiny bit, Kelly loaded the spoon up with baby food. 

 I saw those little hot dog chunks in a jar at Walmart. I never bought them for my kids because they look absolutely disgusting. I had to get them for Jenna!!

 This was my favorite of the kinds she tried. Kelly thought it was equally as funny.

 After she tried all of the baby food, she said that she will never buy baby food for Margaret.

 Next, we played the candy bar in the diaper game. She did much better with this game. I think she only had one wrong.

 Next, it was present time. Do your kids love opening presents as much as mine do? They were tearing at bags as fast as they could and Jenna was trying to keep up with them.

Isn't she cute? Margaret (Midge, Marge, Margo, Magpie) is one of the easiest babies I've ever seen. I don't know how Jenna lucked out! She hardly ever cries and smiles constantly. She's so sweet.

Happy 10 Year Anniversary to Us!

Mike and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary on November 22nd. I can't believe it has been that long! These years have flown by. I'm lucky enough to be married to a great guy who loves me and who happens to be my best friend. I hope God blesses us with many more years.

I was hoping for a trip to Europe or an exotic vacation to an island somewhere, but it didn't work out. We didn't want to spend thousands of dollars on a vacation right before Christmas and it turns out our passports are expired.

We still wanted to get away over our anniversary and ended up going to Kansas City for the weekend. We had a good time! We ate lots of good food, went to the second "Hunger Games" movie, and did a little shopping. It was nice sleeping in and being relaxed. It was just what we needed.

Funny Pictures

I thought it would be funny to post some of the funnier pictures. I think you can see their personalities shining through in some of these photos.

I had them sit on a wood railing and Ethan kept shaking it. Riley thought she was going to fall off of it, hence the worried look on her face. The sweet girl is still trying to smile though.

Mia can be such a goofball! There's Riley smiling again.

Here's Ethan and his silly face. He did something similar in almost every picture.

Here are four pictures of Mia snapped really quick. I wanted to show what happens to her hair.

Doesn't she look annoyed?

He gets distracted easily.

Riley looks like a diva here.

Kelly told them to jump.

Mia must have a death-grip choke-hold. She always seemed to be in the middle and put her arms around Ethan and Riley.

Mia isn't as innocent as she looks...

Ethan and his silly face. Do you see Mia's hand around Riley's neck.

I told Ethan to open his eyes. Mia decided to help me.

Oh, Ethan. I should repay him with silly faces when it's time to take pictures of prom or his wedding. :)

Pictures for our Christmas Card

 Kelly and I took the kids to a local park to take some pictures for our Christmas card. A lot of wedding photographers take their clients there for pictures, so I thought it would be a pretty spot.

The kids were slightly better behaved when compared to last year's photo session. I'll say again that I could never be a photographer. I took hundreds of pictures and Ethan usually is making some silly face. I had a few that turned out really well.

 They're getting so big. It's hard to wrap my head around sometimes. I love these little boogers.

 Ethan just had to wear a Buzz Lightyear t-shirt under the shirt I picked out for him. You pick your battles, right? I realize now that I should have fought harder. I didn't realize we would be seeing Buzz's foot.

This would have been my favorite if Ethan would have had his mouth shut.

Picking Out Pumpkins

 I took the kids to pick out pumpkins at Hy-Vee, which is our grocery store. They had a cute little set-up and it was just as good as going to a real pumpkin patch. ;)

 They had fun choosing their pumpkins. Ethan and Riley chose the biggest pumpkins they could find while Mia chose the smallest. Hers looked pretty dinky next to the others.

Maybe next year we'll go out to the pumpkin patch. This was pretty convenient and I killed two birds with one stone--getting groceries and getting pumpkins at one time!