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!

October 2 Joshua turned 22 months

Joshua is 22 months old! He is talking a lot now. He can just about repeat any word you say. He's funny...we put him in time out when he's not behaving...when he thinks he's been there long enough, he looks up at you and says in a soft gentle voice "have". ( his version of behave). He seems to be starting to understand what he can and can't do. He still does what he isn't supposed to do, but then runs:-) So we know he gets it! Now it's just getting him to not do it!!

Camping season is over except for winterizing the boat and camper. We are all sad!! But with Jeremy's football, we are busy every weekend. And they will be turning off the water in a couple of weeks. It's not near as much fun to camp when you don't have running water!!

This Saturday we are going to KC to the Renaissance Festival. It will be our first time. I'm sure we will have a blast! There will be llama rides and elephant rides for Joshua. And jousting for Jeremy!

Labor Day

Zeph and Josh went on a scooter ride together. Josh loved it. Not sure what the cops thought :-)

Joshua was hamming it up for the camera. We are on the deck of the USS North Carolina in Wilmington, NC.

Joshua got a break from all of the traveling to go to a playground and have some fun.

Joshua had a blast at Kure Beach in North Carolina. We went there for vacation from Aug 4 to Aug. 10. This was his first experience at the ocean!!

Joshua and Aunt Laura were playing in the sand at Kure Beach.

We vacationed in North Carolina the first part of August. We had a very good time at the beach with Laura and visiting a couple of days with Linda and Kim. All pics of vacation are on Jackie's facebook.

Jeremy started football this month. His first game is this Saturday. He's pumped!!!! Jeremy and Mommy (Di) started back to school this week. Joshua is going to Grandma H's so we can get some mowing, etc. done this week. Had to take the camper in for some repairs and it's finally done so we will go get it this week and get it set back up. Also, having boat issues this week. It caught on fire last Sunday!! The mechanic thinks it was the voltage regulator that went bad and caused the fire. Thank goodness Mommy (Di) got it put out quickly!! But It should be ready this week. Expensive week!!

Can't believe Joshua will be 21 months in a week or so. He is talking a lot now. He uses sentences, but sometimes some of it is still mumble jumble!:-) He does say quite a few things that we can make out. He loves for us to read to him. We put storm windows on our screened in back porch to make it an all season room and Josh just loves to play out there. He's about 1" from riding his tricycle. He has the concept down, just not long enough legs!! He did very well on vacation. Jeremy and Josh both were very good for Jackie. She was a bit skeptical, but it ended up very good! But we decided we prefer to vacation with Di, rather than without her!!

Catch you all later!

Joshua has several "firsts" this weekend!!

The tubers!! Josh after his first ride. He almost fell asleep! I guess we were moving to slow........!

Zeph and Jeremy tubing!!

Joshua, Jeremy, Zeph and us went to the Riley Co. Fair last night. Joshua rode on the cars, motorcycles and the merry go round. It was his first time to ride the rides at the fair.

Jeremy and Zeph took Joshua on the merry go round.

Joshua also got to ride a pony for the first time!! He started slipping off, so then Mommy walked beside him. He wouldn't hold on!! What a cowboy!!

Joshua liked driving the cars! He layed on the horn the entire time!! Beep, beep, beep!! Oh what fun the fair is. All of the boys had a blast!! Mommy and Momma were tired!!!:-)

Earlier in the weekend we had a garage sale of some of our stuff and Mom's stuff that was left in her old house. Had a good sale. We only had to take a few things to Good Will. Her house has sold and they are closing this week. It's sad to have that part of her life gone, but we are happy to have her in a smaller place that she can manage for years to come, if she wants to. Have a good week!!