Sharing My Jennarocity

We spent some time outside yesterday and went sledding!    And today, it's just too too cold to get outside and the roads are worse than yesterday. Looks like it's a stay inside kind of day.

For starters, let me tell you that I am not one of those people who feel like everything is worth making from scratch. Some things just aren't worth either the money they save in time or are just as expensive, if not more so, when making it at home. However, making it from scratch almost always means it going to be more healthy for you, usually with less sugar and preservatives. I will make things from scratch if I have the ingredients on hand and am feeling especially studious, or if I just really want to see if I can make something just as good and cheaper of something I usually buy. For example, protein bars. They are expensive and I can make them cheaper at home.   Anyway, we always buy breakfast fruit bars. I usually buy generic from Aldi and they are around $1.89 for a box of 8. So, the homemade version is not any cheaper. It's one of those times it's actually more expensive to make them from home. But, the version I buy is loaded with sugar, and even though they...

Avery and I needed an excuse to get out of the house yesterday, so I decided we go to the mall. It's a nice way to spend the morning!!   We saw the really, really tall tree -     We even saw Santa. Avery only thought she wanted to go talk to him, she even waived from afar, but then quickly changed her mind when we got closer. I am not one of those people who make her take pictures with Santa if she doesn't want to. Maybe next year.   I do love this playground. I never feel like I have to follow her around, it's that soft foamy material and even if she fell off it's all low to the ground, so it wouldn't hurt. I just let her play and play and play and play. My daughter is always about a head taller than most all kids her age, even kids a little older than her. I always say my daughter is so tall, and people tell me, "It's OK Jenna - her parents are tall!" like I am saying she is tall because I don't like it. I love that my daughte...

We drove down to San Antonio last week to visit Nawnie and Poppy for Thanksgiving! Can I just say, I haven't been down to SA for a long time, and man, is it NICE! We were in the north part of town and it was so beautiful and new. It was definitely a nice place to visit, wouldn't mind going back and spending more time in all of the restaurants!!   Thanksgiving day we ate and wanted to lay around, but Nawnie wasn't having any of that. :-) We went to a really really nice local school playground and spent some time playing b-ball and chasing Avery. She found a mound of dirt and was pretty happy for a good half an hour before it was time to leave. My child, through and through.       My selfie. Ha ha.   Friday, we ended up going down to the Riverwalk. I really thought it would have been more crowded, but it didn't end up getting bad until we were ready to go.     We stopped and had some pizza. Apparently, Avery wasn't into...

Avery had a superhero party this year! Do you know how hard it is to find girl superhero party stuff? It's hard. The lack of appropriate girl superhero toys (and I mean, girls that are superheroes, not superheroes that are purple and pink) is atrocious. Three of the girls that Avery goes to daycare with where superheroes for Halloween, I am thinking they would like to have a cool party once in a while.   Anywho, she had a fun time! This was the first year I invited her friends from church and daycare so she had a blast!!   (Sorry Brooke, I love this picture so much)     And she had fun "opening" her presents. I actually opened them and at one point she just ran away to go play.   I got the kids little party favors and we decided to take a picture. Pretty handsome if you ask me!!   Such a cute picture, especially the fact that she is wearing her new princess gown with her black sparkly boots.    She has p...

Happy birthday, Avery! Every day, I look at you and can't believe how much you grow and learn. I had no idea how much you'd enrich our lives and how much I would absolutely love you.   Avery, you are growing in leaps and bounds every day. You love to write and color, you love to learn new things, you love to read and you love, love, love to sing. You can sing so many songs and it's your daddy and my favorite thing to do - listen to your beautiful voice sing songs. You sing songs to God so much and I know He loves the sound of your beautiful voice too. You love to dance and watch movies and play. You got a camera for your birthday of your very own because you love to take pictures. Maybe you will be a photographer when you get older!!   Your personality is really shining through. You are truly an extrovert and love to meet new friends and be around people. You love it when we have people over and are so friendly. You love to play games with new friends and get al...

I stole these pictures but thought I would post them on my site!! Avery had her Thanksgiving feast at MDO today. So cute!!!   Once again, all of the people who get 7-2 and 3 year olds to sit quietly have my mad props.     I also got a chance to have a mom's coffee time with other moms from the program and it was such a nice time! One of the other moms and I bonded because her son and my daughter are friends. I now know who Nicholas is when she talks about him which is always nice!!   I love women getting together and getting to know each other and encourage each other. It's so wonderful. We are doing this monthly and I am really looking forward to it. Thank God again for the blessing of being able to have time to participate in these events in Avery's life!!