Our 5 Year Anniversary & Jared's 1st B-day!

This past weekend was an extremely busy one! We celebrated our 5 year anniversary Friday and Jared's first birthday on Monday. For our anniversary, we left Jared with his grandparents (both sets took turns!) and we left for a cabin in Gatlinburg, TN. It was really neat, because the cabin we rented on our honeymoon was just across the way from ours.

Here's this year's anniversary picture. True story about the bear sign: I always want to see things like bears, crocodiles and sharks in the wild, but I'm absolutely terrified of them at the same time. Thanks to this sign and one posted in the kitchen telling about how bears will wander through the yard at night on their way to the dumpsters, I had nightmares the first night about bears and kept waking up because I thought I heard one at the window! haha!

I absolutely loved our front porch! The hot tub was so relaxing, especially since Isaac ended up with a kidney infection and we ended up just chilling out at the cabin all day Saturday.

My breakfast spot every morning!

This was the creek that our front porch overlooked. I love the sound of babbling water! :-)

I've always wanted to go to one of the dinner & show things in TN, so we tried out the Black Bear Jamboree. It was kinda silly, but we enjoyed ourselves for the most part. The food was okay, although the soup really was as amazing as all the reviews said it was. They performed music of different genres and times. The music was fun, except that we realized that the 70's really sucked!

Afterwards, we checked out the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum. It was pretty fun. I'll admit, some of it was hard to believe! :-)

I LOVE my mother-in-law! I almost cried when I found out that she was going to make Jared a cookie monster cake! I felt bad asking her to do this for me, since we woulnd't get back until time for the party, so I only asked for a plain cake. Of course, I wanted something special for Jared's first birthday, but I didn't want to put anyone out to do it. So, basically, THANK YOU, Momma Hall for being so amazing!

Jared couldn't get enough of the cake! He was licking his plate clean!

Here's my favorite shot! I think Isaac took a picture on the camcorder at the same time, so the timing was just right and I was actually able to capture a pretty cute picture of a very messy little man!

We took Jared to Benihana in Indy on his actual birthday (Monday).

I think he enjoyed it! He was stuffing noodles into his mouth in this picture! He really enjoyed the noodles, fried rice, zucchini and just the show in general!

Our little family picture inside Benihana! He was enjoying that straw! haha!