Happy Birthday Jade!!!

HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY JADE!!!

My baby is now officially 17 years old!

Her official birthday was last Thursday, so I was able to take the day off and just have fun with her all day! We had a huge party planned later in the day, but we thought we would take a little quiet time in the morning with just Jade, mom and grandma Cindy!

First, we went out to breakfast at Shari's.... grandma and Jade...

Jade and mom....

Then, the 3 of us went to get pedicures... my mom took this picture of Jade and I... Here's our toes drying... mine are purple, Jade's are green and my mom didn't want a color- she got just a clear coat....
Then it was party time... YUMA close up of my watermelon fruit bowl...
Time for presents... Jade scored almost $200 in cash and gift cards... spoiled, but she does appreciate everything she's given...
Just LOOK at her SWEET face.... Laura and Hannah.... so cute!!Jade blowing out her candles.... Some pretty awesome teenage boys... Austin, Kyle, Kent and Philip... As the party was dying down, we started to make dinner.... Julia helped me with the taco meat for our taco salads/ burritos we were having for dinner...Grandma Claire stopped by a little bit later....After dinner, the kids had been anxiously waiting for the game we were going to play, because I kept saying how fun it was going to be but I wouldn't tell them what it was! It was a scavenger hunt! Here's all the kids with the treasure map... they were pretty excited to get started...Here's a close up of the map.... there were several clues they had to figure out, some easy some hard. But each clue led them to 3x5 card that had a single letter on it...

When they found all the letters they had to unscramble the letters to find out where their treasure was. Here's the kids all trying to rearrange the letters to find the treasure.... I have to tell you I personally had alot of fun making this map and hiding all the clues....After a while, Julia figured out the letters spelled out "microwave" so all the kids ran to the microwave, and this is what they found... treasure- to teen/pre-teen girls anyway!There was nail polish, lip gloss, socks, gum, candy, ding dongs, wavy straws, suckers and a ton of curly cue ribbon to make it fun.... they dumped it all out and divided up the prizes, there was one of everything for every girl....The girls were diggin' the socks...Then we played board games late into the night, some kids played video games while others watched movies..... I have to add that my team one the game, our team was myself, Julia and Shane...Then we all crashed!
The next morning we had breakfast, cleaned a little and that rolled into lunch, and then finally we had our banana splits! I meant to have these the night before, but we all just had so much fun (and sugar) that there was just no time (to eat any more sugar). So we had it the next day, but worth the wait!

We had ice-cream, raspberries, strawberries, bananas, crumbled chocolate cookies, crumbled oreos, chocolate and caramel syrup, whip cream and sprinkles.... the kids loved it! (Me, too!)

The infamous twins.... Tea' and Nadia...

Tessa....
All the kids....
My baby girl... can she really be 17??? Well, I guess she doesn't look 3 any more... sniff sniff...
Ok, get ready to jump topics here, Jeromy has been so busy working lately with his handyman business (his T-shirt business for that matter, too) but he did have a little accident on friday. Poor baby! But he did say in all his years working in all the different environments, this is the worst injury he's had. He was using a mallet, and smashed his finger, taking off some skin and part of his finger nail... OUCH!!!
Ok, jumping topics again, today we had Jeromy's grandpa's 80th birthday party to go to. Here's Jeromy in the middle of his grandpa- the birthday boy, and his grandma who is 90!

Here are those "J" people: Jeromy and Jade, can she get any cuter??? Love that girl!

Jeromy and I....
My kiddos.... Jade and Kent....
And as if you haven't had enough of our cute faces, we got our family pictures back, and I love them! I love all the purples, of course Jeromy's not wearing purple, he's wearing plum.... hahaha!

I usually don't care for the pictures when they ask us to do something goofy. But after they told the girls to kiss their brother on the cheek (first I have to say that I'm surprised that none of them refused!) and I saw the expression on Kent's face, I though it was hilarious, so I only got a couple....
So now I am going to bed, sorry this took so long mom to get Jade's b-day posted. I wanted to get it sooner but was so busy! See you soon, to give you your pick of our fabulous family pictures!