Where's Joel??

Every Sunday morning it is the same routine. We all try to sleep in. Eat breakfast at 10. Then shower everyone and then eat lunch at 11:30 so that I have time to shower and get ready for church.

Well this morning I thought...Why am I making 2 meals an hour apart? Why not just have breakfast a little later and lunch a little earlier. AKA brunch!!

AH, the stress that was lifted off my shoulders. So as we sit down to eat at 11:15ish I look around and count heads only to find that 'thing 4' is missing. No one has seen him all morning.

We call out, but no answer. We look in his room, no Joel. Weird!!! So I go in and check his room and there he is sound asleep at 11:15 in the morning!! Now there's a kid after my own heart!

1st Missing Tooth

Jared finally lost his first tooth. He has been asking when his turn would be to loose a tooth. Many of the kids in his class have already lost teeth and he wants the tooth fairy to came-BAD!


This morning he told me his tooth was loose. Well if this was Ryan or Josh it would have been a week or more before they got up the courage to pull it out. But Jared remember, wants the tooth fairy to come, so uncle Jeff said he would pull it out for him. A few minutes later he comes running in my room to tell me...'it didn't even hurt'.

He sounds so cute talking through the hole in his mouth. At church he opened his mouth to everyone to see if they would notice that he was missing something. Darling!!!

Snow and Santa

Last night we were anxiously awaiting the highly publicized snow when finally around 7:30pm it came!!! Ryan had just gotten out of the shower and was in PJ's. Josh was in shorts. But as soon as it was spotted the kids ran out front to be in it. Well as soon as they stepped outside Santa arrived!!! There was so much screaming that the neighbors ran out to see what was going on. It ended up being a block party with EVERYONE on the street out. Joel wanted nothing to do with it. 'His car is too big'. So we stayed by the house and watched from a distance.


Ryan and her friend Sade.
The kids with our darling neighbor and her baby.


Santa comes every year into our development, but because we live on a dead end street he never stops at our house. It was so fun to be out in the snow and be with wonderful neighbors.

John dressed the kids in there snow stuff and we finally called them in at 12. Yes he let them stay out until MIDNIGHT!!! (he's the fun one. I wanted them in at 10, but dad won)

Flag Football

Coach Allen, Jimmy, Coach Dad and Josh

John and our wonderful neighbor Allen coached Josh and Jimmy's flag football team this year. This was our last game so a dad brought those things to go under their eyes to help with the glare from the lights. :) The boys loved it!!



Josh-running like the wind :)

Josh loved getting the ball and he claimed he was the fastest so I took this shot with a long shutter speed so it looks like he was in fact, like the wind.
(just a little bit of braggy, brag from his mom...he is super fast and hard to catch once he got the ball.)




Coach Dad & Josh

I'm not sure who liked the season more...John or Josh? It was wonderful to have John out there helping the boys and spending time with Josh.

We hope that John will be able to do it again next year for both Josh and Jared.