Jack's 1st Birthday(Happy version)

We celebrated Jack's 1st Birthday this past Sunday with friends and family. Jack is very lucky to have so many people who love him and want to share in his special day. A big thanks to everyone for helping us celebrate! Here are some pictures from Jack's big day.

Jack's 1st Birthday(Sappy version)

Ayear ago, on November 16, 2007 at 1:40pm, my dream came true. I gave birth to my sweet sugar Jack. I can't believe how quickly the last year has gone by. I remember the days leading up to his birth so clearly. The mixture of excitement and fear when my Dr. scheduled my induction. The very uncomfortable night before in the hospital. How so intently I watched the monitor to make sure his heart beat was staying consistant all night. The suprise at the amount of strength I found to bring this life into the world.(a man could never do it.) The complete and utter fear that ran through my head when I was told his heart rate was dropping and they had to do an emergency c-section. The tears from both Darrell and I when they delivered Jack. The moment the nurse told me Jack was okay. When they place this little tiny wrinkly bundle of blanket in my arms and those big baby blue opened up and looked right at me. And the moment I realize I was a mom. I look at him today and think how did this little tiny 6lb. person grow into such a big chunky monkey. Happy 1st Birthday Jack! I love you very much.

Busy Bee

I haven't had much time to post the last two weeks. I am in party prep mode. My sweet sugar will be turning the big 01 this weekend and I've been running around trying to get all my ducks in a row. I'm sure I'll have plenty to post about after the party.

I think we have officially hit autumn. The leaves on our pretty tree in the backyard have all fallen and it has turned colder. I think I even saw a few snowflakes blowing yesterday!!!!

And the winner is...

Me!

Yesterday at work we had a costume contest and I won, $25. Or should I say Sister Mary Margret won!

Happy Halloween

We hope everyone had a safe and sugar filled Halloween! Happy Birthday Dave!!!!

Last night we all got together at our friends, Dave & Laura, house to celebrate Halloween. The kids had a blast and we had fun handing out candy to all the cute little trick or treaters.

Autumn

We had our first trip to pick out pumpkins this past weekend. We invited, my friend and fellow blogger, Cindy and her two kids to join us at Rombach Farms. Jack was not much interested in the pumpkins so much as the dirt they sat in. Typical boy! Anyway here are some pictures from our visit. And I threw in one of our pretty tree in the back.yard.

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I usually don't bring this sort of thing up in my blog, but an incident in a grade school here is St. Louis has prompted me to.
A local grade school had a student initiated "spirit" week in which they participated in "hug a friend day", "high five day", "hit a tall kid day" and on the next day..."hit a Jew day".
I encourage the kids to interact with one another , however when the word "hit" comes into play this should have been stopped. I am sad to see students being singled out by race, religion, gender, etc. Where were the school administrators while all of this was happening? Where did the students get the idea that something like this would be "ok"? Hitting is not to be tolerated.
The follow up to this incident has been the suspension of some students and sensitivity training for all students.

I am very disappointed in the fact I'll have to explain something like this to Jack.