Our new addition!

Om January 14th, we adopted a beautiful 10 week old baby girl from the Animal Rescue Foundation.  One of the workers found her and her eight siblings in a trash bag, thrown by the side of the road when they were only 4 days old.  She took them to work and got them all cleaned up, and started round the clock care and getting them healthy enough to find their "forever" homes.  When we picked her up, we instantly fell in love with her....just look at this face, how could you not?

They named her Willow, and she is an American Bulldog mix (with what we do not know, but whatever it was, they made pretty babies!)  Her new official name is Willow Deen Jordan! She has already been spayed, dewormed, is up to date on all of her shots, crate trained, potty trained and knows how to sit.  She is such a joy to have in this house and is very playful! 

She has also discovered that when daddy (Jeffrey) is home, he is the most comfortable place to fall asleep on after playing hard all day! How sweet is this I ask you??

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Growing up so fast

Today my baby boy turns 11 years old!  Time flies by way too fast these days and keeping up with the "surprise" tradition of 2011, Jeffrey and I threw Tyler a surprise party yesterday afternoon! 



We told him that we couldn't afford to have a party for him this year, because we had spent so much money on his birthday present....his response, "It's ok momma, I have my family to celebrate with", little did he know what we had in store for him.  When he walked in the door, everyone yelled surprise but he still didn't seem to understand what was happening. 

He asked me if this was all for him, presents and all....and when i said yes, he finally put a smile on his face.  He even stood on a chair and asked everyone to come close to him, and then thanked everyone for coming to our house to celebrate with him.  That's my boy, so grown up!

Tyler, Jeffrey and my Mother In Law Brenda

Jeffrey and I finally got him the flatscreen tv that we have been looking at for a while now.  I think it was his favorite present of the day; Although he racked up with a lot of goodies from the guests, and he would probably tell each of them that their gift was his favorite... ;)

My 34th Birthday Surprise Party

My adorable husband took it upon himself to throw me a 34th birthday surprise dinner party and enlisted my best friend Hilliary to make all the calls so that I would be none the wiser.  He wouldn't even tell Tyler, because he can't keep a secret from anyone...  Since my birthday (Decemebr 29th) fell on a Thursday, we had a low key dinner alone and decided that we would celebrate my birthday on New Years Eve.  So around 6:45 pm, we started to head to dinner and he blind-folded me and took me all around different neighborhoods so that I wouldn't know where we were.  Once we finally pulled into the parking lot, he helped me out of the car and took my blindfold off and we were at one of my favorite Sushi restaraunts...Bamboo Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi! 

To my surprise when we walked in, I saw ten of my closest friends waiting around a hibachi table for the three of us!  Jeffrey even went as far as picking up a cake and taking it to  the restaraunt a few hours earlier, so after dinner, the owner and the entire staff came over to sing to me...then the whole restaraunt chimed in!  It was an amazing way to spend my birthday and ring in 2012!   Hilliary managed to get one picture of us throughout all the commotion...



Christmas 2011

It's only two weeks past Christmas, but I have finally found time to post a few pictures of our family time together...

I fall deeper and deeper in love with this man every day..I'm so glad that he found me!

    The greatest mom and sister a girl could ask for! I love y'all...

         I love my sister so much....i think I'll keep her! ; )

                          My version of a perfect little family!