9 years ago today!

On a beautiful fall day, me and my honey, were married.
Happy 9th Anniversary Joey!
<3 me

Jael

Happy Birthday Jael, Happy Birthday Jael! Happy Birthday Dear Jael! Happy Birthday to you!!!
Hope you have a great birthday =)
We miss you!
Love,
Jacob, Emily & Meri
(And Uncle Joe & Aunt Heather of course!)

The party

Meri's 3rd Bday party was Saturday for supper. She had a fun day as she was at her cousin's house playing during the day and then came home for her party. I caught her here just as she was tasting her cake =)Most of the kids blowing out the candles. Meri seems to be blowing at Jake =)

Ooooh

She got a few new dresses from Grandpa Ben & Grandma Linda. She had to wear this one the rest of the evening.

Cousins at conv. Time. flies. I remember when I was living in Madison, Erika was Emily's age when I moved. So....when I blink, Emily will be 15 and driving and grown up...**sigh** Us-current for another 3 months...

• So here I sit. I finally gave up trying to sleep at 5:00 this morning. I woke up at 3:30, couldn't go back to sleep and tossed and turned until 5. I'm not real sure why this happens to me during pregnancy, but its been this way for the last few weeks. I guess I'm just getting used to being up 1/2 the night ;-)
• I had my 6 month checkup yesterday, the baby is doing good! 145 heart beat/pm. Ultrasound last month showed everything is fine. I am so thankful...
• We've had a good week so far, Jacob is doing awesome with school! He's starting to sound out words and I am just thrilled, and of course, SO IS HE!!! I guess that was one of my main concerns that I could actually teach him to read and pretty much everything else he needs to know. I guess I can! Emily is doing really good too, she knows most of the letters and a lot of their sounds already, I guess she wants to keep up with big brother =)
• We're hoping to do Meri's birthday party this weekend...finally! I'm making a princess (Barbie doll) cake and doing the whole princess thing, it just FITS her. She'll probably be wearing one of her princess dress-up dresses anyhow =)

Since convention, Jake loves flying paper airplanes. Him & Luke had a lot of fun flying them at conv. (unfortunately I have no picture of that) The 3 kids Sunday--yes, it was windy--Meri looks like she's about to tip over =)

Bday party #1 in the camper! Fun stuff from Grampa Rowe & Gramma Ruth. . . she loves Polly Pockets and was kept busy during much of the meetings playing with them. Thanks!