Full of February

It isn't even here yet but it is going to come with a bang...
1. At the last minute I'm going down to stay with my sister & nieces and nephews for a week (this Monday - Saturday) while her husband is in Louisianna helping with Good News on the Move.
2. My beloved husband has his birthday a week from yesterday on February 1st! Unfortunately I'll miss it but... I've got some surprises cooking for him :) (I wonder if he'll read this)
3. My niece Katie's birthday party is the 4th but I can't make it because my plane won't get in until 6:30 ish.
4. Sunday the 5th we have a youth group outing the the Unique Thrift Store and then regular youth group after that (like every Sunday).
5. Monday the 6th I can FINALLY get my new cell phone for free because 2 years is up. (So sorry for the inconvienence I've caused the last 6 weeks to everyone because my phone is junk!)
6. Wednesday the 8th is Ladies Bible study and I have to bring the breakfast dish (the study is every Wednesday too).
7. Thursday the 9th is my niece Katie's actual birthday. She is turning 6! What happened? I thought it seems like yesterday I waited in the waiting room all hours of the morning for her to come.
8. Oh yes... and the Ladies Tea is this same day on Thursday at WBF. I'm going for fellowship and NOT for tea, don't you even dare think I'll drink that stuff... it's as bad as coffee!
9. Saturday the 11th Peggy is moving and we've, we'll I've volunteered to help.
10. I have my niece and nephew from Wed. the 15th thru Sun. the 19th as their parents are out of town... also all the other relatives except Andy and I.
11. Oh yes... and I had to get a babysitter for me (the babysitter) on the 18th because we have a wedding to go to (Emily & Jake congrats!).
12. Two of my classes end on the week of the 20th.
13. Weekend to Remember by Family Life is Friday the 24th-26th.
14. Thank goodness there are only 28 days in February!
-Jenelle-

Peru Reunion

Awww... brings back so many memories. We need to all go back to Peru. I can't believe the additions to the group since then (3 marriages and 6 more kids). Yesterday after Andy and I got off the plane we headed straight to the Doeringer's and didn't leave their house until about midnight for this reunion.
-Jenelle-

Houston, Texas

As I write we're in Houston, Texas. The weather has been gorgeous. Each day it has been up to 75 degrees. That sure beats the snow up in Ohio! We've been here since Tuesday and today we have to leave around 4pm here (or 5pm Ohio time EST). I don't really want to go back to cold weather. Anyway, here are some pictures to share with you. Last night we went with some new friends to check out downtown Houston. Then 10 of us were in Maggie's cargo van. How fun! This aquarium place was so cool, however the restaurant was a bit pricey. Oh well, the food was delicious (and they even had a few selections that weren't seafood!). I wish Cleveland had a cool place like this. Maybe then more people would enjoy going downtown.
-Jenelle-

Congratulations!

Go Bryan! We're so excited you got accepted at Liberty University.

The Luxury

Tonight as I write I have the luxury of making money just doing this. Isn't it wonderful! Sure... anytime you want me to babysit (especially after the kids are to bed and when I don't have to put them there) I'll be there! I love making money doing nothing (what I would normally do at this time at my own house). How odd... you want to pay me for house sitting? I guess I wasn't too annoyed that you turned the tv on when you asked if I was doing homework and I said I was (especially since you offered me some chocolate cake!). Oh well... forget the homework... I guess I couldn't be paid enough to do school work. I'll just sit here and get paid for eating chocolate cake with walnuts, compliments of the house owners!
-Jenelle-

The Picture

Jenelle said that she didn't want to embarass with the picture. Us guys don't have good enough sense to be embarassed. I think it was really her that didn't want to be embarassed. So just in case you wanted to see the picture and in honor of the upcoming wedding... here it is.
-Andy

How Exciting!

I'm so excited for Carrie & Eric. Carrie's is doing such a great job and so is Eric. They're so on top of the planning. I can't believe she got her dress :) This is going to be so awesome. We're honored to be a part of your special day. Many memories... and just for the guys I left out some cross dressing pictures, lol. I don't think anybody at that softball game will ever forget our great cheerleaders! (fyi - we just found the costumes)

the not so obnoxiously dressed cheerleaders

the cool Eric & Andy

Carrie & Eric at prom

beautiful members of the NHS

Nice socks Eric!

No pictures taken this year yet!

This is so sad that we haven't taken any pictures this year yet... I guess there will be an opportunity to do so soon though :) On Saturday I acquired one more longerberger basket that is so cute. It has little handles and could be used as a cute little purse, but I won't. Here are some more pictures from the holidays:

Morris family Christmas

Dutch blitz game

baking cookies

Wow... jenelle just finally told me we have a blog. I had no idea. And all this time I was feeling guilty because we had this web page but never did anything with it. Now I can just blog and be cool like Becki, and Paul and Jessica and all of the other cool (Like Davis) people that have blogs. I will take the domain name and point it to andyandjenelle.blogspot.com and feel much better :) so what that means is all you have to do is go to AndyandJenelle.com to get to this page. I'm sure you are excited about that as well... aren't you?

-Andy

What... it's 10 o'clock! I can't believe we slept in. Today it is raining/sleeting/snowing outside. At least Mom & Dad Morris' house closed today. It's official, they finally sold their house! More memories to share of the holidays:



snoozing at Jeff & Julie's after Christmas dinner


opening gifts


The Hylton's house


Jenna-Samuel-Libby


Bryan & Faith just seconds before the New Year

Wednesday already

Today I went to the Ladies Bible study. Some of us went out to lunch and then afterward home to watch a whole weeks worth of lectures. I can't believe some people actually have to sit in hard chairs and leave their cold homes to go to classes. At night to prayer meeting and then home. I enjoyed looking at some of the holiday pictures... I'll share some
-Jenelle-



Levi who loved the tissue paper


Morris family Christmas on Dec. 22 at our house


4 on the couch and could easily fit more!


Dec. 23rd at Tower City Center downtown Cleveland

Back to Life

What is today??? Oh yeah, it is Tuesday.
Dishes
Laundry (3 loads)
Kitchen
Vacuum
School
Grocery
etc.
On top of this we went to the Markovich's for a Bible study at 7pm
-Jenelle-

To the Westcott (Mom & Dad) residence we went. Games all afternoon but not really because the Fiesta bowl was on. Go Ohio State!--- obviously they won. Bryan was sick so we never saw him as he was stuck in his room. Guests were: Mom and Dad, Jeff & Julie, Nick, Katie, (4 friends?), Grandma & Grandpa, Aunt Susie & Uncle Terry, Andy & I.
Can you believe my classes already start today online??
-Jenelle-

Yesterday, after church we went out to Panera with all the Morris fam minus Paul and Jess plus Christian Aichele and Georgiana Stewart. However, Levi was sleeping in the car so Nate and Anita enjoyed lunch there. Interesting.
We took Becki and Danny home with us so I could change and then headed to the Morris (Mom & Dad) residence to play games all afternoon.
Peggy joined us later in the evening and we ventured to a "ghetto" movie place to rent a movie. Thankfully we then went to Friendly's for ice cream. Andy was a little too friendly and left the guy a nice tip... believe me it was nasty!
Next we went back to the Morris residence to watch some wierd movie. Dad claimed scoops out of everyone's own ice cream treat. I don't remember much of the movie. I woke up and everyone was gone and then I went upstairs to look for them and they were all in Danny's room watching the movie... strange how these things happen...
-Jenelle-

Happy New Year!

Yes it is still early in the new year... Here is my new years kiss at midnight :) or not! We made it up almost all night at the Doane's house. There were about 50 kids there and 6 adults (only 2 kids made it the whole night). Andy dropped around 5am and I around 6:30am just in time to get up at 9am for church.
-Jenelle-