boo

i have a stomach bug...and am working on my taxes...go ahead...kick me in the teeth...it would have to be better than today :)

--JJ

Ollie is 3

just three years ago i was having panic attacks in the hospital b/c i knew very soon they'd be seding me home with a baby to be responsible for. my mom reminded me of that this weekend. it was not so funny at the time but so funny now.

i had no idea oliver mccall jansen would be so amazing and my best buddy. i've had the best time being ollie's mom and enjoy watching him learn and grow.

this week we celebrated ollie. thursday we had a chuck-e-cheese party with a few other 3 year old kids. saturday aunt ambo, gigi, paw and our neighborhood friends came over for a lil birthday party.

in action blowing out the candles.

grrr...he got this lion costume from our neighbors

3 years old and riding a bike like a big boy

he goes to preschool and wears a backpack

OLLIE IS:

• clever


• courageous (we've seen the emergency room occasionally in his 3 short years of life)


• adventurous (hence the er visits)


• exciting


• witty


• funny (he like to make up knock knock jokes...like our friend, jackson smith)


• encouraging (he is always quick to praise his dad for a good swing of the golf club)


• atheletic (the kid is a golfer he's got his golf clubs and practices daily)


• kind hearted


• loved

my sweet mother-in-law has a prayer and verse for each of her grandchildren. this is the prayer she prayed for ollie from day 1.

"may you always be healthy, happy, holy, wise, kind and capable."

"he is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields it's fruit in due season and whose leaf does not wither. whatever he does prospers."
psalm 1:3

--cj

i'm losing it...

238 this morning...25 lbs down

--jj

Crazy Craving

It is possible that I haven't been getting enough fat in my diet. Those who know me well will find this hard to believe. But I have been really trying to lose weight since October, and it starting to pay-off. Believe it or not, I am down 23 lbs. The morning of 10/13 I weighed in at an embarrassing 263. It really is humiliating to write that. I am down to 240 with an end goal of 193. As a side note, my college roommate Dave Sartain (affectionately known as "Swole" to those in the loop) has just gone from 285 to 199. Pretty impressive.

All that to say, one of my main focuses is calorie restriction. Most days I log everything I eat on http://www.thedailyplate.com/ and I highly recommend this to anyone on a quest to shed a few. Something strange happened to me on Tuesday though. I stopped by the grocery store on the way home from the office to pick something up for Candice and from the moment I walked in the door, all I wanted was cheese. Not just any cheese; I wanted expensive, full-fat, gourmet cheese. Mind you, I have never purchased gourmet cheese in my life. I headed straight to the deli and was confronted with a shockingly enormous amount of options. Texarkana, TX is definitely not the place that you would expect to find brie or roquefort (sp?), but it was all there. I knew I wanted something creamy that I could spread on my "everything" bagel crisps, and here is what I ended up with.

(fancy photshop montage)

Kaukauna Pepper Jack Cheese Ball, Alouette Elegante Spreadable Gourmet Cheese with Olive and Roasted Red Pepper Tapenade (sounds fancy eh?) and Denmark's Finest Creamy Havarti with Dill...it was all good...very good.

--JJ

wow

my friend from college aaron ivey and his wife jamie are in the process of adopting 2 kids from haiti...pretty amazing/stressful/challenging stuff...keep the sweet ivey family in your prayers as they go through the process...jamie is in haiti with the kids right now...you can read about it at:

http://dreamingbigdreams.wordpress.com/

jj

Daddy got a new camera

ottomatic for the people

cassy and fred's party...good times

ollie on his "bike"...it has a bell

cute kid...cute mama

champ

Four Years.

Candice & Jeremy 12.6.03