Christmas 2010

Whew!! We made it through Christmas without anybody getting sick and the weather cooperated! Jeremy and Momma (Jackie) now have colds but seem to be getting better. Joshua is doing good. Dec. 19th we finally got to have the "family" birthday party for Joshua. Jeremy was sick on the 5th when we were supposed to have had it. The birthday party ended up being part of Christmas too, since Uncle Kelly, Aunt Roxie, their family and Brad and Sara couldn't be with us on Christmas Day. We all had a great time!! Josh got lots of presents and had fun with his cousins.

Christmas Eve was spent with Grandma H at her house. Grandma T. went with us, too. We went to Christmas Eve service at her church and Santa made his visit early and had left the kids their presents when we got home from church. Jeremy got an electric scooter and Joshua got a "manual" scooter!! Of course when they walked in the door, Josh went right to Jeremy's scooter and wanted to ride it!!! After that, we opened presents and played with gifts.

Christmas Day we ate dinner and then headed back home to host Momma's side of the family minus those mentioned above, for an evening meal and celebration. We had a great time with all of the kids, Joe, John, Cayden, Joshua and Jeremy. They all make Christmas so much fun!! We opened presents and played games until the little ones needed to go to bed. What a great day!!

Sunday was spent recuperating!!!!!!!! We shopped a little. Watched a little football and installed or put together some of our Christmas presents!! It was a great weekend!

Now Jeremy is home with Mommy (Di) who is busy with her online class she is teaching for intersession at KSU. Joshua is going to the sitter and Momma is back to work. We will all be home on Friday and then it's New Year's Eve and time to PARTY!!!

We will post pictures later. They haven't been downloaded yet. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and 2011 will be a wonderful year for you!!!

Dear Santa I want a.....

Yesterday I took the boys to see Santa while Jackie worked on cheesecakes. I was very happy that Joshua wasn't the least bit scared of Santa. Jeremy was thinking he was too big to go see Santa but since he is such a good big brother, he agreed to go so he could help Josh tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas. Yes Joshua is missing a shoe and sock. Josh doesn't really think that shoes and socks are necessary so anytime he is forced to sit in the car or stroller for longer than 2 minutes he removes his right shoe and sock...then begins on the left one. We've considered duck tape but haven't resorted to that yet. On this outing we managed to keep the shoe but the sock was lost.

Other randon photos

Can you see the orneriness in this smile? He may be an angel, but he defininately has an extra heaping spoonful of orneriness added!!

He loves his 4 wheeler!

He can drive it on his own, but there are things in our backyard that are paying the price, ie the shed, the slide, the steps!! He's hit them all!! He thinks the object is to run into objects rather than avoid them. He may be a demolition derby driver someday!!

It's hard to believe that Joshua is 2. Our baby is a toddler now. The terrible twos are here!! But he's our angel!! We love him very much! We are so fortunate to have 2 wonderful sons!

Joshua turns 2

Joshua turned 2 on December 2nd. We let him open presents and had cake. He really liked blowing out the candles. He did it 10 times!! We got him this electric 4 wheeler.

Here's Joshua eating his cake.

Jeremy got Joshua an airplane and some Little People DVDs.

Picture taking time!!

The above picture is of Jeremy when he was around 2 years old. The picture below is of Joshua when he is almost 2 years old and wearing the same clothes and boots that Jeremy wore.


We went to Sears and got the annual Christmas pictures taken, plus Joshua's second birthday pictures. We had a blast! The photographer took over 90 pictures!! Joshua was a hoot!! The photographer was laughing so much I don't know how she actually got any pictures taken!!

Joshua 2010 Christmas

Joshua 2nd birthday next Thursday!!

Here's the fam!

Here's the boys!

Here's big bro!!

Hope everyone has a very nice Thanksgiving. We will go to Grandma T's on Thursday and Grandma H's on Saturday and Sunday. In between, Momma will put up Christmas decorations and Mommy will study for her prelims the next week.

Joshua has been a trooper attending almost all of Jeremy's football games. Mommy and Moma get to watch the game the most when Josh decides to nap...or when we can keep in contained in the stroller. Although next year I look for him to be mixed in with the other "little brothers" playing football.

Halloween 2010 and Josh is 23 months today!

Here's Jeremy, Joshua and Mommie (Di) getting ready to go trick or treating. They went out with about 8 others and hit the neighborhood. Everyone came back with loads of candy!!! Momma stayed behind to hand out candy to our trick or treaters.

Can't believe that Joshua will be 2 in a month!! My how time flies!! He is putting several words together now. And most of the time you can understand what he is saying. He continues to be very lovable and caring. If he does something to hurt you, he will say "sorry". He has the concept down of saying please and thank you at the appropriate times. He won't let us feed him anymore. Unless he's mooching off of our plate!! He will eat his meal, say he is done, then come over and mooch food from us!! We have the same thing he had, but I guess it tastes better off of our plate!

He has grown quite a bit this Fall. He is in 3T shirts and pj's and 2T pants. We just sent his 18 month clothes off to Zeke last week.

Jeremy's football is about over. They had some good games at the end of the season. He is getting ready to start basketball this week. They have 3 practices!! First tournament might be in 2 weeks so they have a lot to do before then. He is doing great in school. 4th grade is the first year they get letter grades and he got all A's and 1 A+ this first quarter. We are so proud of him!!

Mommie is getting ready for prelims this month so she is studying a lot. After this semester she will be ABD ( all but dissertation). Once her dissertation is done, then it's Dr. Di!!!

The lawn business is winding down and Momma is happy about that. It has been nice to have some free evenings. We spend a lot of time on the sun porch. It's so nice having the windows in and being able to control the temp on the porch. Joshua will especially love having the area to play in this winter.

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!