Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! My parents and Jeremy's family came over to our house. This was our third year hosting Thanksgiving and we love it.
Leo had a wonderful time visiting with his cousins, Ella and Zak.
Here are a few pictures of our fun day.
I hope everyone else had a wonderful Turkey Day!

It started snowing on Thanksgiving and we had to take Leo outside! I swear if my Grandma were alive she would have choked on her peppermint. Don't worry Grams,
we just stepped right outside my front door.

What's up?

I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgivings as much as we did!

Love,

Jenny and Leo

Cousins are cool!

Leo got to hang out with his cousins last weekend, Grace, Paige and Ella. They live in Miamisburg, Ohio and came for a visit. Unfortunately, Jeremy and I were not able to spend too much time with them because we went to the Bears game in Chicago and watched them lose. Grandma and Grandpa watched Leo for us so he was able to spend some time not only with his cousins, but with Uncle Doug and Aunt Michelle also.

Following are just a few cute photos taken from the visit. We are looking forward already to seeing them at Christmas!



Have a wonderful week!

Love,
Jenny and Leo

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, everyone! As you can tell, Leo is a tiger for Halloween this year. He looks adorable, of course, and we are looking forward to Trick-or-Treating on Wednesday. We will hit a couple special houses, but Leo doesn't get to eat all his candy by himself this year!
Here are a couple of pictures we snapped this weekend. I'm sure we will have more with Leo in his costume on Wednesday!

Mr.Serious

Leo's Aunt Nichole visited us from Florida this weekend!

She is trying to pursuade Leo to come and visit her. We would love

to go and visit with Uncle Brette and Aunt Dawn too!

Nichole had not seen Leo since he was just 4 weeks old, so she was amazed at how he has grown!

He loved her from the first minute he met her and she loves him too!

We hope everyone is doing well and hope to talk soon!

Love, Jenny and Leo

Happy Fall!

We had a fun weekend! Saturday we just hung out around the house during the day. In the evening our friends from Purdue, Max and Kelly Katz came for a visit. It was great to see them and I loved showing off Leo. They are expecting a baby on Memorial Day, 08! We are so happy for them!

After going out for a yummy breakfast with Max and Kelly, our plan on Sunday was to go to the Pumpkin Patch. Someone recommended a place which is near our house. I thought it sounded great, and it was just down the road! We get there and it is not a "pumpkin patch". It more more like a "pumpkin driveway". I was bummed for a minute, but quickly got over it. They had some fantastic looking pumpkins and some lovely corn stalks to hang on our light post, so I was happy. I didn't necessarily get the pictures of Leo in a big pumpkin field, but there is always next year. I have a feeling he wasn't too disappointed.

Until next time!

Love, Jenny and Leo

I love my mesh feeder!

For anyone who has a teething baby, I highly recommend a mesh feeder! Leo just loves his, and that is what usually occupies him while Jeremy and I are eating dinner at the dining room table. We just pull his high chair up and he joins us for dinner! We put frozen banana's, apple juice ice cubes, or frozen pears in it. Tonight he had the pears and loved them.

We hope you are having a great day!

Love,

Jenny and Leo

Happy 31st Birthday, Jeremy!

Sorry it has been so long since my last post! I have not been taking pictures lately (bad, bad Mommy).

Yesterday we went to Wings, Etc. to celebrate Jeremy's 31st Birthday. It was Leo's first trip to Wing's Etc. and he had a fun time. He loves to be out and about.
Of course, once we got there, we thought it would be good for a photo opp., but I didn't have my camera. Jeremy had his phone, so I took a picture with his camera-phone. That is why the resolution is so awful!
I have really been wanting to post something, so this is going to have to do.
I think we are going to the pumpkin patch this weekend though so stay tuned.....

Have a great week!

Love, Jenny and Leo

Happy 31st Birthday, Jeremy!

The Zoo

We had such a wonderful weekend! Grandma Sally and Grandpa Doug went with us to the Fort Wayne Zoo. It is such an awesome place. Growing up in Fort Wayne I remember going to the zoo with my family a lot. It is neat that Leo is getting to do the same thing at the same place I did. Leo really did have fun looking at all the animals, especially the monkeys, penguins and fish. There is something so special about a child at the zoo. At this age, I realize it is more about us, but who cares! We really had a blast. How can you go wrong with a zoo that has two Dairy Queen's in it?

Here we are in front of Monkey Island. We have the same picture of my dad holding me at the same place when I was about Leo's age!

This drinking fountain has been there for at least 30 years!
I couldn't tell you the number of times I've gotten sips
from it throughout my childhood!

Leo and Grandpa rode on the carousel! Leo really enjoyed it.
Next year we can do the pony rides!

What a cutie!

Grandpa's little buddy

Here are some of the cool animals we saw. The penguins were so cute!

We just had to hit the gift shop on the way out. This red monkey really caught Leo's eye. He was immediately drawn to it! So guess what?
He got to take it home!

Leo's first visit to Hall's.
The two things missing, however, are Uncle Brette and Aunt Dawn.

After the zoo and Hall's we were all tired, but no one was as tired as Leo.
He had a nice nap on the way home. I am sure he was dreaming about all the fun things we did that day and the new animal friends he made.

I hope everyone is doing well! Don't forget to leave your comments, its always nice to see who is visiting the site!

Until next time, lot of love!

~Jenny and Leo

Leo's first Blueberry Festival

Friday night Leo hung out with Grandma and her friends at the Festival. We all had a great time! Leo even got to hang out with his good friend Vaughn. Grandpa Doug came later that evening with friends, after golfing Friday afternoon. Not just any normal Friday golf outing though...Grandpa Doug got his second hole-in-one!

Way to go, Grandpa!!!!

We had a wonderful Blueberry Festival visit with Heather, Dave, Ella and Zak. The cousins had a good time playing with each other, and we enjoyed watching. The boys had on their Notre Dame jerseys for the game on Saturday, but it didn't bring the Irish any luck.

We hit the festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We didn't make it to the park on Monday, but did walk downtown and watch the parade. It was great! Leo really enjoyed watching all the bands, floats, dancers, and yes even the politicians. Everyone knows a politician loves a baby.

Here is a family picture at the parade. Thanks to Heather, we had front row seats in a prime location.

Aunt Heather, Zak, Uncle Dave, Ella, Jeremy and Leo

Ella could hardly wait for the parade to come. She kept sneaking into the road to look down Michigan Street to see how far away the parade was. She is such a doll.

Of course we had to hit the carnival rides! Ella loved the cars. She would have prefered to be riding in a boat, but since there were no boat rides, the car had to do.

We hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend too.

Until next time,

Jenny and Leo

Can you see my teeth?

Leo's bottom two teeth are really showing now!

We had a nice Labor Day hanging out at home. Leo helped Jeremy smoke some chicken for dinner!


Until next time....Bye, bye!


Love,
Jenny and Leo