Happy Birthday Bill

Bill's birthday is not even here yet and this has been the "Best Week Ever," in quote of him. So I decided to make this week Bill's birthday week. Everyday night before we eat dinner I have given him one of his birthday presents. I topped it all off with giving him his big present last night, an wireless speaker I{OD docking station. HE LOVED IT. This thing is so cool too, the speakers have a 150 feet radius from the docking station. Which was awesome last night when some people were outside with one speaker, and the others were in the kitchen listening to another speaker. Anyways back to the weekend, I wanted to surprise Bill with this party, but unfortunately Bill never lets anything go unknown with him- and let's face it, I cannot keep a secret.

So I called Bill's two best friends Kyle and Donald and wanted them to come to Auburn to surprise Bill for his birthday. They were more than willing to come down, so Kyle, Donald, and his wife Katrina ventured down to Auburn for Bill's birthday weekend. Well, Bill wanted to go to a movie on Friday night, but I was just not "feeling well." So Kyle, Donald and Katrina got in town while Bill was the movies. So I picked them up and we parked next to Bill's car in the parking lot and waiting for him to come out. When he walked out, he was just so excited, it was awesome, they were all jumping around like a bunch of school girls. So then we all went downtown for the night and left Bill's car at the movie theater. It was awesome. Bill was so surprised and he said he had no clue. Another fabulous surprise was Bill's brother Dan came in town as well. Oh it was just the best weekend!

Now, after a week of chaotic planning, we had the best birthday party ever. We had a ton of people here, plenty of entertaining games, and a fun time was had by all. I think the highlight of the night came when Bill's crazy wife lit 38 birthday candles on his cake (do not ask me why I chose 38 candles) then suddenly a moth flew on the cake. So she decided the best way to get the moth off of the cake was to blow it off. So crazu Jenny took a deep breath and successfully blew the moth off of the cake, while blowing out 20 or the 38 lit candles. It was great, I just walked away and said, "I'm done!" Now Bill's true birthday is not until tomorrow, but I think it will be celebrated with a quiet dinner between just the two of us.

Happy Viewing


I decided to go with a tropical theme, the decorations were the easiest to get. Anyways I had the whole house decorated and set up when Bill got home from his session, and his birthday present was in the middle of it all. And of course the dogs had to get in the photo.

Radly hanging out with the decorations. Dan's girlfriend Kelly helped me get everything set up too. She also made brownies, sweetheart!







The beautiful cake. My best friend Jill Adams made this cake and it was quite a process to decide on what to make. After some debating we decided the psychology dorks should have a brain for their birthday. The cake was a blueberry cake with cream cheese icing, dang it was good!

Lovely Ladies

Blowing Out the Candles

Group Shot

The Andys

Okay, this is all happened because a group of large men decided to ride three deep on our litle bench and the whole thing just cracked. Andy hit the ground hard and really hurt his bottom, don't worry I rushed to his assisstants with ice!


Bill & Mike (we celebrated Mike's birthday too)


Happy couple after a long night, this was probably taken around 1ish, too late for me.

Kate Update

Last weekend Bill and I played in a soccer tournament in B'ham and the Koseks ventured over to let Kevin play too. We hung out at some friend's house and played with the babies. The other pictures are from a play date Kate had with some cousins, enjoy!


This kid loves the playground


I think she is trying to tell me something...


Hanging out with gross Aunt Jenny


I love doing the airplane with her


Bill's really taking in everything!


Watering the Garden


Already taking after mommy

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD

Just a little update with my dog story. After 4 days of waiting for his owner to find him, my little black mix was reunited with his best friend (his owner). The guy said he switched his collar out and forgot to switch the tags with it. Usually I would be very weary of this story, but I do that all the time with my two babies and I love animals. Maybe I should start being a little bit more responsible with our dummios.

Anyways, I want everyone to know I am 4-4 of reuniting precious stray dogs with their present loving home or a new loving home. Bill wants me to stop picking up stray babies for our dogs's safety. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate him always looking out for them, but this will be a tough task to take on. Last week he heard a story on Rick and Bubba about Speedy adopting a dog with Parvo and it got his dog sick. So now he thinks every dog, besides our own, has Parvo! I have tried to convince him otherwise, but we are both so stubborn we all know how that turns out.

Well, maybe I can invent a parvo detector, similar to the breathalizer invention. Have a dog blow into it and it is either positive or negative. Damn, I'm a genius! Nothing can stop this girl:)!

Ooops I did it again

First, I want you to think the whole time you are reading this, "Well I am not surprised!" So, this morning was just like every other morning. I woke up, birds chirping, dogs farting, and breath a kickin. I left my house around 7:30, of course after seeing if Zach Morris would confess to stealing the driver's ed car on this morning's seat clinching episode of Saved by the Bell. Loaded the two holligans in the backseat (Radly & Kramer) and headed to work. For those of you who do not know, every morning I drop our dogs off at our friend Luke Madsen's backyard to play with their girlfriends, Shadow and Kari.

After taking the babies I headed to work, I am teaching summer school, when all of the sudden a saw something that made my heart melt. A black lab mix walking across an apartment complex parking lot. It was at this moment I had to make a decision, keep going and avoid a fight with my husband, or pick up the poor little baby and find his precious heart a home. I think we all know what I did.

I turned into the parking lot and tried to coerce him into my car, but that did not work. So I followed him slowly as he continued to cross two streets and almost get hit by two cars. Finally, he turned down the street that my school is off of. I had stopped at Starbucks earlier that morning to pick up a delicious peppermint mocha and cinnamon swirl coffee cake, on a side note the diet is going great:). So when I stopped I lured the dog over with my coffee cake. He put his paws up on my window and ate all of the cake right out of my hand. After he was finished, he got down walked around the front of my car and proceeded to jump in my car through my passenger window. By the time I turned around to tell him to get out, he was laying down in the back seat as snug as a bug in a rug. So clearly, I almost started crying- Like I said, tell yourself, you are not surprised.

So I called my co-worker Beverly Helm, whom also has a soft heart for animals and asked her what I should do. Her immediate response was I hate you, becuase she knew I had pulled her into the situation of finding cutie pa tootie a home. So, she called her friend who works at Four Paws ( a dog grooming/daycare facility). So, I turned around from my school's parking lot and took the baby to Four Paws. He willingly let me put a leash on him and just jumped right out of the backseat, tail wagging the whole time.

Today is probably one of the busiest days I have planned for a long time, but plans have changed- I have a home to find! I will post pictures later. Now that you have heard it all, are you surprised- I didn't think so! So I will leave you with the words of my mom when I told her the news, "Oh no you didn't!" Love you momma!

Growing Up

Well, after a request, I felt the need to put some recent pictures up of my precious niece Anna Kate. About two weeks ago, I ventured to Pickering, MO with my sister and Kate to visit my grandma Shirley and my Great Gran, and my mom was there as well. While we were there, my Great Gran turned 95. I mean talk about living a full life. I only hope I can look back on my life when I am her age and just smile at all of my accomplishments. God has truly blessed her in every aspect and she just lights up every time she gets to see her great, great grand daughter. Kim is the one who got all of the awesome pictures, but I thought I would include a choice few. Enjoy!