Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy birthday to the best mom ever! Dr. Mom as we like to call her. She knows all fixes to all problem relating to your, your kids, your husbands health care:) We love her! The whole family got together after not seeing each other for about 3 weeks due to all the sickness in everyone's family (this time frame is a long time for our family!). We all went to Mom and Dad's house for the birthday celebration, which is really just for the kids at this point. Dad smoked ribs...delish! Mom made baked potatoes and salads. Yum yum! Angela made a chocolate on chocolate cake. Low carb/No card Mom actually ate some of this. It is always fun to get together with family and celebrate loved ones. We love our Momma:) Here is most of the clan together. I think the Dad's and Emma were off painting somewhere.....

Kentucky

Hello Kentucky! Hello Snow! Hello 9 Degrees! Hello ANDREA and FAMILY:) I had so much fun while I was there. Thank you to my friend of 20 years, Andrea Corbett, for buying me a ticket and flying me to see her and spend some quality time together. We had a blast! This day we decided to go cut down the Christmas tree. Never mind that it was snowing and bitterly cold that day:) I mean b.i.t.t.e.r. I made a joke that it was the fastest tree buying experience I had ever had. It really wasn't a joke. 10 minutes give or take and her hubby had that thing picked out and purchased and we were out of there! I had to stop and snap a shot of me with my version of the Charlie Brown Tree. I thought it was too cute to not have a picture with him. I also got one of Andrea with her two little ones, Gavin and Sabrina.

We did a lot of things those few days, had many conversations about the past, and some about the future. I am always amazed at what this woman can do. She runs a company, runs a home, and still maintains a great positive outlook about everything even in the face of extreme stress. I am so proud of her and and so thankful that we can call ourselves lifelong (20 years) friends. Thank you, Andrea, for the trip to Kentucky. I am so truly blessed to have you in my life!

My Little Man

Just a little post to brag about my little man. I love him with all my heart. He truly is such a sweet boy:) Poor guy has been suffering for 3 whole weeks with a head cold that turned into an ear infection only to be followed up with 3 days of the stomach flu. Yes, he is attached to me at the moment and only wants his Momma most of the hours in the day, but he endured all this sickness and still found a way to smile about it and be loving to all those around him. Today we ventured out to Lowe's with the family. He loved being able to walk around and "talk" to people and actually be in civilization again today! After Lowe's we went on an appointment with Daddy. Owen thought it was so cool that he could get out of his carseat and move around the truck without having to be strapped in. He was cheesing it up for the camera so I thought I would snap how happy he looked on his first real outing in almost a week. I love my tough trooper:)

Bathtime

Don't all families have one or more of these type's of shots? If you don't, don't tell me because I just love sibling photo's in the tub:) I know I can remember seeing ones of my sister and me when we were little! Memories....

Last night I decided to snap some photo's of the boys together in the tub. There have been many baths taken here lately with all the sickness going around. I figured you didn't want to look at pictures of them puking or having explosions in their pants (sorry if that's too much t.m.i.) so I snapped some of them playing together and hamming it up in the tub. Look at Owen's pink cherub cheeks. Doesn't that just make you wanna squeeze them and give him a big slobbery kiss???

Rhema 2010

Merry Rhema season to everyone out there! Last night we went to visit Rhema for the first time this holiday season. I think most of Broken Arrow and Tulsa also had the same idea. The place was beyond packed. You could hardly stop for one second to take a picture with the amout of people everywhere. Once you stopped to snap a shot, you started to hold up all the other 200 people in line behind you. Craziness!! The boys loved it though and were in awe of all the beautiful lights, sounds, and people. We sure had a lot of fun and I am sure we will go again! Merry Christmas everyone!

Ho Ho Ho

He willingly went! I didn't pressure him. In 4 years of his life Will has never wanted to be near Santa. Not even the fake ones at Lowes. Today, he walked right up to him, picked a table beside the big man, sat down and started eating like he wasn't scared in the least. He wanted to go touch him, talk to him, and listen to him Ho Ho Ho. Strange. Never thought this day would come.


Will even went as far as to want to hold hands with Santa. This I couldn't believe. Hold hands with a fake, somewhat scary looking pretend Santa but then be freaked out to high heaven over the real not so fake Santa at Bass Pro? Who knew?


I asked him if he wanted to finally try and sit on Santa's lap tonight when we went to Bass Pro. He thought for a second and said, "I better not. He's a little scary." Oh well...baby steps.

Snip Snip Owen

The time has finally arrived for Owen to get a haircut. I looked in Will's baby book last night before we set off to take O and W had already had 3 haircut's by the age of 16 months! Owen's hair took a little longer to fill in. He really only needed one patch in the back of his head trimmed up. That thing stuck out like a crazy man:) He was a good boy. Not great, but not horrible. He was not too interested in sitting and STAYING in my lap. When he wants to be held, fine, when he doesn't want to be held, not fine. All was well in the end though with a big smile, kiss from Momma, and a sucker. All was right in the world again and the crazy man patch in the back was gone!