Jenna's Rentchler Party

On Friday Jan 21 all Farm Credit Services employees along with their spouses were invited to Louisville for the "Big Event, Celebrate 2010".  We celebrated 25 years of the Farm Credit System.  We had arranged it with my sister to watch the girls on Friday, meet up with my mom and have Grammy and Poppy watch the girls Friday night and Saturday. 


Lance and I had a nice time in Louisville.  That was the first night that we had both stayed away from both of the girls.  It seems as if the end of January and beginning of February have some pretty busy weekends.  My mom suggested having Jenna's birthday a little early.  We celebrated Miss Jenna's second birthday with the Schenk's, Beckley's, and Rentchler's. 

Here is the cake that Mommy and Daddy got for Jenna.  She LOVED eating the polka dots!

 I told her the candles were hot and she blew at them, but could not manage to get them extinguished.

 She knew exactly what to do with the wrapped presents.

 Jenna shared her new toys with cousin Ciara.

 The kids had a nice time playing together.

Visits

Saturday night, we had a little family get together with Ivan, Angel, Kaity and Kent.  I did not take my purse, so I didn't have a camera, so I don't have any photos of the kids playing together.  Jenna took a little bit to warm up to her cousins.  Once she finally did, they had a ball playing together - literally!  They got out a ball pit and the kids had LOTS of FUN playing.  Kaity brought out a Koosh ball (see picture below) to join in the mix. 

Ivan introduced her to the "hairy ball" and she was absolutely terrified of it!  Ivan threw it to me and I tried to get her to play with it and she still wanted nothing to do with it.  The adults decided that Lance and I needed to invest in a few of them and put them in places that we wanted to keep Jenna out of or away from. 

On Sunday, some classmates from Purdue came up from Vincennes to visit.  They have a little girl that is almost a year older than Jenna.  We had a nice visit with the Althoff's.  It was a weekend of visits, which was nice to spend time with family and friends.

Up Do's

While Jenna was sitting on the potty over the weekend, Mommy fixed her hair.  It was not perfect, but I thought it looked cute.  She looks so grown up with pigtails!

 How could Mommy fix Jenna's hair and leave Shelby out?  Shelby got her first alfalfa sprout over the weekend.  She looked so adorable.

7 months

Miss Shelby turned 7 months old as the New Year rolled over.  She is growing like crazy!  Daddy wanted her to wear her John Deere outfit and bibs.  I think she looks a little boyish.

 She wants to chew on anything that she can can get her hands on.

December 2010

December brought Christmas and decorating for Christmas.

 What would December be without snow....

 ...and little people playing in the snow?

 Miss Shelby turned 6 months old and could sit up on her own!

 Shelby in front of the tree.

Jenna in front of the tree.

We celebrated Christmas with the Gumbel family.

We celebrated with the Hofmann family on Christmas Eve.

We celebrated with the Rentchler family on Christmas day. 

(Thanks Angel and Carla for the pictures of the families at Christmas)

After Christmas, we laid low until the New Year came around.