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jelly belly land

jennifer, dan, mom-in-law cindy and i took a great trip to fairfield, ca to check out how jelly belly jelly beans are made.  hopefully these pictures will show you how much fun we had.

jennifer displaying how to wear the hat for the tour.

this old man couldn't figure out how to wear his jelly belly hat.

ronald and nancy were proud supporters of the jelly belly.

a beautiful nature scene made of jelly bellys.

check out our free jelly beans!

i even got to meet the jelly belly mascot!

happy belated birthday!

i know these are a bit late but i thought you would enjoy seeing how we celebrated jeremy's 25th birthday. after a great dinner (and birthday desert) we headed back home for presents and birthday cake.  jeremy was thrilled as you can tell.

the big 2-5!

great dessert!

jennifer and dan enjoyed it!

lost puzzle 1 of 4

pan's labyrinth

planet earth

wine decanter

make a wish!

Choose Our Own Adventure!!!

I just found out yesterday that we have the 18th of Feburary (Presidents' Day and my brother's birthday) off at my work.
So the question is - what are my wife and I going to do over the extended weekend?

Now accepting suggestions!
Choose what to do for us (since neither of us are good at making decisions)!

UPDATE::
Check out the new poll!
The poll will be updated as we get ideas!

An Appetizer

Here's something (by my good friend Ryan) to hold you over while I work on my reveiw of the Harry Potter series.

Realizations

This evening I believe that I discovered why I haven't posted as often as I would like to. Other than wanting to simply veg out after spending the day at work, I came to the conclusion that after eight plus hours in front of a computer screen entering numbers and sending emails, the thought of spending more time in front of a computer screen, typing wasn't the most appealing option available to me upon returning to my apartment.

This is a problem because I truly want to post and have content floating about my brain that I want to actualize.
Since these are still fresh ideas, I'm still working out solutions.
One idea that I might work on is writing out what I want to post so that I don't have to do as much spontaneous thinking in-front of the computer.

Let me know if you have any ideas.
I think I have a Luddite tendency somewhere in my veins.

Especially after reading this.

christmas in a winter wonderland

we had a great christmas in michigan! our flights were smooth, the weather wasn't too bad, and we were able to spend lots of time with family and friends. we are very thankful we were able to head to michigan for christmas-it was good to be back to see many of you!
some of the things we did and saw while we were in michigan:
1. opening stockings and then christmas day service at beckwith
2. extended snow christmas party at uncle jim's
3. breakfast and settlers with the davenports
4. hours of time at baker book house
5. klaver christmas party
6. watching enchanted, meet the robinsons, ratatouille
7. snow family christmas dinner and presents...mmmmmm steak dinner :)
8. baking with grandpa vandermeer
9. haircut with morgan!!!
10. seeing jen and dave's new house
11. seeing the beckwith babes
12. hanging out with friends
13. denouden family get together
14. vandermeer christmas party
15. snow falling...slushy parking lots...wearing boots :)
16. new years eve party at the schreibers!

us in front of the christmas tree in belmontit took forever to finally get a good picture of these crazy siblingsdad and mom looking stylishjeremy and owenmichele and jeff...loving the suspenders jeff!aunt diane and seanaunt denise, uncle brian, hannah and noeljackie, hannah, claudia and noel playing with photobooth
brrrrrrrrrrrr cold-but fun!
grandpa klaver, dad, hannah, andrew

ryan and brad

grandpa, jackie, jeremy

grandma, jen, philip

mom and uncle dan were there too...but the photographs of them had their eyes closed...just kidding :) we missed you aunt kim!

pictures from thanksgiving

thanks for the new pictures mom!

me sitting at my desk :) it doesn't normally look this neat during a school day.

inside our sweet apartment

at mount hermon

the kids

the parentals

our table with many family members!