Thursday, September 17, 2009

Blackjack!

Yep, i'm 21! Sept. 9th was by b-day, pretty cool right, 9-9-09? I thought so. So I worked all morning (lame I know) and then came home to Brandon and then after awhile he says hey lets go to dinner! (This was after he tried to tell me he was going to make a wonderful dinner out of the random things we had in the pantry aka. pasta, sauce, and chicken aka what we eat normally :) ) and he said it was a surprise where we were going and made me put a pillow case over my head in the car on the way there. I think people driving by were concerned.. and I couldn't tell where we were going so I started to think he hadn't thought of where to go so he was driving around trying to pick somewhere so then we ended up at Olive Garden after a way longer way to get there and 3 circles in the parking lot. He makes me keep the pillow case on as he leads me into the Garden and I can tell where we are from the smell but nope gotta keep it on so I stumble in only to have him whip it off and my friends were sitting there with balloons waiting for me and yelling "Surprise!". Now it is pretty hard to surprise me and I was SURPRISED. It was awesome :) I've never had a surprise party. I <3'd>

A few weekends before that Brandon's brother Michael, his girlfriend, and his son Braeden came into to town to visit and so we hung out with some of the Welling side (Grandma Charmaine, Brandon's uncle Andy, and his family Tori, Lane, and Abbey, and his dad Wendell) and went to the Park City alpine slide that was all metal and pretty fast, it was alpine-tastic!


Also recently we got a new member of the family, Bagheera! He is a Blue Bar Ambilobe Panther chameleon and his colors are gonna be amazing when he gets older! He's about 5 inches long right now but he already gets some cool colors.





This is Fabian, we got him on our honeymoon he's only about 3 months old but he's a Rudis chameleon and we love him, he's teeny only about 2 1/2 inches long but he's our baby.










Last weekend Brandon's mom Christy came to visit! Unfortunatley we had to take her to the hospital the first night but luckily it wasn't too bad and she recovered fine and we tried to make the best of the weekend and her time with us! On Sunday we went to Bridal Veil Falls and took some pics and had a little lunch, it was beautiful. Brandon and I like to go up there sometimes and just walk around because it's so nice, especially right now.We had a lot of fun with Momma Morris and hopefully next time we'll get to do even more fun stuff with her!
The weekend before my birthday my family came in town to celebrate! We went to lagoon on Saturday and I don't have the pics from that yet but we had so much fun, my sister Aubrey and her family came and Christy brought her friend Tayler. We had a blast, my favorite ride was Wicked I think it's called? It shoots you straight up and straight down again, it was fantastic. On Sunday we went to my cousin's house and had a big family dinner with my aunts and grandma and all the little kids. I'm proud to say my little cousins made me queen and I got to wear a crown :) I'll have pics from that later. This is my nephew Ethan. He enjoys his feet. Christy came up to college a few weeks ago! We went grocery shopping for her while my family was here and I'm pretty sure she's set for her whole college career... It was fun. It's cool having her up here even though I don't see her much because I'm working and we're in school all the time. She's having a blast.







Well I think that's the full update! I just procrastinate blogging and then have a ginormous post, but oh well you take what you can get! Also one of my best friend's Brittany Baxter got engaged a couple days ago! I'm excited for her! I need some married friends around here :) All is well in Welling-town!

3 comments:

Courtney said...

Goodness Jackie. That really is quite the post. I didn't know you and Brandon had such a love affair with iguanas? I wish I could buy all that cute stuff at Nordstrom from you- but that is not going to happen. So I will watch from afar. :(

Jackie Welling said...

Chameleons courtney! Iguanas are lame!

Hillary Varley said...

So here is the link I was talking about, it's Nie Nie not Dee Dee... hehe :) http://www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/
Also the link to our slide show is...
http://www.jamiehammondphotography.com/webslideshows/scottandhillary/
By the way your chameleons are way cuter than I thought... I love their eyes! :) See you at work!