Dad's birthday party

On Saturday our extended family went to Golden Corral for breakfast to celebrate Dad's birthday together. It was fun and the food was good. I took my camera so I could get lots of pictures...however, my memory card was still in my computer from the last time I uploaded pics to it. Oops :( So I didn't get very many pictures but here are a few. Sorry that most people are not looking at the camera.

Mom and all us kids got him a gift certificate for a flying lesson.

Opening his gift from everyone else.

They got him this really nice OSU watch.

A group picture of most of us.

Aunt Jean Ann...Dad's older sister.

Another group picture.

Uncle Mike and Aunt Mary....Dad's brother and another sister

Please excuse the Steeler's fan...he isn't a relative!

And the answer is...

Tom Hanks! The person in the black shirt in the below post is Tom Hanks. He and Ron Howard (played Opie in The Andy Griffith Show) and someone else 'famous' who I had never heard of and can't remember his name came to the same game that we went to. Kinda cool. Security would let us go down any farther...believe me I tried many times:) Here is another picture where you may be able to tell it is him. (if you enlarge it)

Wishing for Warmer Weather!

Brrr! It has been so cold around here; I wish it would warm up! I found a Dog Park near where I live and would love to take Jax, but I don't want to go sit in the cold! I heard it might get into the 50's next week so maybe i will have an opportunity to take him next week. I know he'd love to go run! Here he is helping me pick out pictures to put on here.

Please excuse the messy background and the non-matching pj's!

Even though it's only January, I'm sure time will fly by and it will be spring time :) With that comes baseball and I love to go to games. Here are some pics from a game I went to awhile back.

It had rained early in the game so alot of people had left...we took some of their seats :)

Can anyone guess who that is with the black shirt?

Well, gotta run. Off to obedience class with Jax.

Happy Birthday Dad!

Tomorrow (Monday) is my Dad's birthday. We were told not to say a certain number so I will just say that he is no longer in his forties :) Here are some pictures I dug up to post in celebration of this special day!



Hopefully he has matured a little in the last
two years so we can all enjoy the cake :)



Grandpa with his lil buckeye.

Riding the mini bike

I'm guessing he was winning in this picture? :)

Dad, I hope you have a wonderfully Happy Birthday!

I love you!

Sunday at Mom & Dad's

We spent the day at Mom and Dad's house. Here are few pictures I took while we were there.

My favoritest little person smiling big for Aunt Erin!

Hannah told me lots of stories today :)

Jax found a comfortable place to sleep while his mommy

tried to get the perfect picture of Hannah.

Josh got a new haircut.

Notice the curve to his mohawk!

Can't wait for vacation!

I am so ready for vacation. The bad thing...I still have to wait about 3 months :( My family has rented a cabin in Gatlinburg for the third year in a row. (I didn't get to go last year because of meetings at work so I kept the doggies.) Here are a few pictures from when we went in 2006.

Home for a week and what a nice home it was!

Everyone outside the Apple Barn. Absolutely the best place for breakfast in Pigeon Forge!!

Grandma eating an Apple Fritter from the Apple Barn. Yummy!!

Starting out on our "easy" hike. We decided that easy only means that the trail is paved!

Stopping to take a break on our hike.

Riding the skylift.

Grandma & I agree that once is enough for an entire lifetime :)

Aunt Karen - my roomie for the week.

So sweet!

A very serious game of pool.

Obviously something intense going on in the theater room!

This is Jax, my puppy. He is about 7 months old now, I got him back in August.

No hearing problems! :)

What a difference a few months have made!

This picture was taken at my parent's house in August while I was out of town.

(He weighed about 9 lbs. here...last check he weighed 32 lbs)

Too many guests for one day!

We had a baby shower at our apartment for my sister back in October. After everyone left, Jax sacked out on the floor.