Animal Crackers+Dog=mischief

caleb loves to feed gabby, our dog. he thinks it is hilarious. before caleb started solids, gabby really never had human food and she was satisfied that way. Caleb has changed that. every time he is in his high chair, gabby is underfoot waiting for the droppings.

today, i was giving caleb animal crackers while he was playing and he decided to share (awww). he gives gabby a bite then he takes a bite and so on till gabby or caleb gets the whole thing in their mouth. disgusting, i know.

what i don't have is the mischievous grin Caleb gets when i give him a cracker. he knows exactly what he is doing, he knows i am asking him to just eat it. he loves to ignore it all and honestly, i can't help but laughing. i suppose someday it will matter more-for now, it is free comedy.

cooking venture

Sunday Nap-i was cleaning up from my baking fest the night before where i made mile high apple pie.





My second mile high apple pie. i love to cook, but i especially love baking. i found this recipe on the internet around thanksgiving.

Rediculously pathetic but everlastingly innocent

i just love the gilmore girls. it is such a relatively clean show. it makes my heart quiver. i love romantic, melodramatic girly shows. i am watching season 7. i already finished season 6.

rob approved of the show. he got his grin that is so supportive, tolerant and amused at my girly obbsessive nature. i just love that smile. i feel like a teenager all over again. thank you to the gilmore girls for giving me my moment of rediculously pathetic but everlastingly innocent enjoyment.

Betty Crocker Jill style

i love berries. so far as i can tell, jam is the best way to preserve berries so every year i embark in jam making. i always make strawberry jam but this year the local market had my favorite berry: blackberry-on sale therefore...we have blackberry jam. this is the fruit of today's labor.

i make freezer jam so it is very simple, no heat required. just fruit, sugar, pectin and time. follow surejell's recipe's exactly and whala! homemade jam.

Walking

This is caleb walking with his truck (thanks uncle jared!). it was 3.14.09 this acutally happened so this post is about a month old. For my birthday, he crossed our family room all on his own. he is all over the place and loving it!

Birthday's and Family

i just love my family. i love my immediate family and my extended families! today is my 26th birthday. my brother jokingly called me and old fart. haha-right. i am thrilled with my life as it is right now. when i got married i thought there was no way i could ever love rob and my life more than i did then. i am convinced that we have much more joy in store for us than we are capable of conceiving.

for my birthday we had my family and my in-laws over for cake and ice cream. the cake was my favorite cake-homemade carrot cake from my mom and ice cream. i was in heaven. it brings me such joy to have my two beloved families around me to celebrate my life on earth.

i am so grateful for my parents and their efforts to raise a balanced, confident and happy daughter. i am so grateful for my parents-in-law and their loving acceptance of me and who i am. i love my in-laws and all they exemplify. if i can be a mother like my mother and mother-in-law my children will be fortunate.

so, on this my birthday, i think of my son and the joy he brings to my life. i think of my husband and the bliss i live in with him. i marvel and am deeply grateful for my Heavenly Father and his wisdom-filled plan of salvation for all His children. truly, joy is all He wants for all of us. i am deeply grateful for this gift. I am grateful for an older brother-Jesus Christ-who chose to be the hinge that makes the plan possible. i am grateful to be alive, in love and trying to be a good person-despite the challenges i am consistently offered without hesitation. :)