Jenell is walking!

She is now 9 months old and she took 11 steps today! I caught the second run on camera!!

Surprise visit!

We got a pleasant surprise on Sunday when we found out we would be seeing Grandpa Mark, Grandma Michelle, Uncle Alex and Uncle Walter! We had so much fun and Jenell loved having such an attentive audience! :) We went to The Cheese Steak Shop.. yum! The last few picture are just some stragglers from March. :)

Grandpa Mark and Uncle Walter helping Jenell practice

Grandma Michelle walking Jenell around.

Jenell guarding her water from Uncle Walter. Just kidding! :)

Grandma Michelle and Jenell getting some water

Yay!! Getting swung around like the monkey she is. :)

Walking with Grandpa Mark

Just being silly

Uncle Walter and "Keys". That's what he nicknamed her. :)

Loving being the center of attention... LOL

Strolling with Uncle Alex

Uncle Walter, "Keys" and Uncle Alex

She cracks herself up!

Showin off the pearly whites!

Helping mom with laundry!

What a difference nine months makes!

The surprise was...

Breakfast and then... a spa! I've never been to one and it was so nice going together! We spent sometime in a whirlpool, had chocolate cake (at 10 in the morning LOL), got heated foot treatments and then an hour couple's massage. So wonderful! Here are the few pics I took... I thought it was probably weird to take pictures at a spa.. but I wanted to remember our special day!!

It was really dark in the room- but this was the whirlpool

Tim enjoying the "bomb" chocolate cake as he called it. It was reallly good, though.

Time for our massage!

Blue Hat, Green Hat

Riddle me this... seriously. Tim has a surprise coming up for me on Saturday and I can not figure out what it is from the clues he's given me!!! So maybe you can take a stab at it...

- I have to bring a swimsuit for a portion of it

-It will take up most of Saturday (he has Grandma lined up as a babysitter)

-When I asked him if it was fancy- he said it's between a wine tasting and Wal-Mart. What the heck is that supposed to mean??

I'm starting to wonder if he is just making stuff up... we'll see!

Here are a couple pictures left over from St.Patrick's Day and a few of Jenell enjoying the last couple sunny days we had. We knew the rain was coming, so we got outside as much as possible!

This video is of us reading a new book we received tonight. I got it, some other books, and PJ's for my growing girl after putting a "WANTED" ad on Freecycle. If you aren't already on Freecycle, you need to be! Anyway, I was reading the book to Tim because I was so excited about it and Jenell started chuckling so I read it to her and she's in love. (So am I!) As a result, I now want every single Sandra Boynton book for our library. Amazon, here we come!

We also went to the thrift store half-off sale and got a zillion books for five dollars! Yay!

"Oops Book" (Blue Hat, Green Hat)

In the backyard that we seriously need to mow.

She woke up soooo happy!

She loves being on daddy's shoulders!

In the backyard at lunchtime.

Grandpa pushing Jenell on the swing.

St. Patrick's Day

See my cool teeth?

It totally looks like she is doing our sign for bee/bug but she didn't do it on purpose... Can't lie.. :)

Just being cute

I'm just posting these because I think they're cute! :)

"Yeah, yeah, mom."

This was just a silly moment that ended up on my camera! Not just because of Jenell, check out Tim's block-balancing skills... :)