Our Little Pumpkin

Visiting Jessica

Friday night we went to the hospital to visit Jessica. She had to go back to the hospital about two weeks ago because she keeps losing amniotic fluid. It keeps replenishing but they are keeping her in the hospital till she delivers. She is almost 31 weeks now and baby Eden is over 3 lbs. and doing great. Jessica is healing well but has a lot of pain. Her hips pop out of joint when she lays on them and she has vertigo really bad. I'm sure she has seen about all she will want to see ever of a hospital room. Continue to keep her in prayer, she just keeps plugging along. The kids had fun terrorizing her room, and Ethan was about to go stir crazy after a couple of hrs but we had a fun visit.

Twinkies

Avery and her cousin Malia being "twins".

Polly Pockets

Avery and her polly pockets. She plays so good and quiet for me while Ethan naps in the morning.

Last Weekday Of Work!

I worked my last scheduled weekday shift tonight. I have been working during the week at Chilis a couple of nights and also on the weekends, and soon Johnny and i are going to switch places with the busy schedules as he starts coaching basketball again in November. I will probably pick up a few more shifts before practice starts but i won't be on the schedule except for my Sat and Sun. night shifts so that will be nice. Some days I get a little overwhelmed having 3 part-time jobs, they keep me pretty busy, but then i stop and think about it... I'm so grateful that i'm able to work around Johnny's schedule so that he can be with the kids when i'm at work and that i am able to be home with them during the day! And one of these days when we become filthy rich (hee hee) i'm not going to have 3 jobs! :)

Loves The Basketball

Much to daddy's delight Ethan loves the big orange ball. He walks around the house with it yelling "da da" "da da".

Silly Kiddos

The kids were being silly while i snapped some pictures of Trey's hair that was in great need of a haircut. Ethan got a trim too, which is quite the challenge these days as he doesn't like to sit still at all. I ended up having to sit and hold him in my lap . Avery just watched and helped entertain Ethan. She has decided she wants to grow her hair out long again so that she can wear ponytails.

Ethan Digs In...

Ethan didn't have any trouble digging into his cake. Our oldest two didn't seem to want to get messy and we ended up having to smear their faces for pictures so we were holding out hope for Ethan.... and he didn't dissapoint....

Ethan's First Birthday Party

Friday night we had Ethan's birthday party. Here are a few pictures... can't believe our baby is 1 already!

Ethan Turns One!!

Today our little guy is 1 year old! We are so thankful that God blessed our family with Ethan! He keeps us all smiling alot. Happy Birthday Ethan, we love you very much!

Daddy's Boy

I found Trey sitting at the table drawing this morning. He has been sitting there all morning. Johnny loves to sit and draw and it seems his boy is picking that up from daddy.

Garbage Can Obsession

The little stinker throws away just about everything he can get his hands on, and if he's not throwing something in he is digging all the trash that he can reach out. He keeps mommy very busy!

Welcome Home Jessica!!

Tonight we went over to welcome our niece Jessica home from the hospital. Most of you know the story, but if not here is what happened...Jess is 6 months pregnant. Last Thursday night she was driving back to Topeka on I70 from Bonner Springs, it was raining and she hydroplaned and wrecked on a bridge. She got out of her vehicle and was told by a man who stopped to help to climb over the barrier in the middle to get out of the way of traffic. She did exactly that but didn't realise that there was no middle to the highway, it was a 50 foot drop off. She fell and landed in the creek bed below. It is a miracle that Jessica and her baby are alive and doing well! She has a broken pelvis and broken rib, and got a pretty bad concussion, and has a lot of recovery time ahead of her. She will be having surgery after she has the baby and about 3 months recovery time after that. Her baby girl is doing great, what an amazing story Jessica is going to get to tell that little girls someday!!The kids were so excited to see their cousin Jessica tonight because they were not able to see her when we all went to the hospital because she was in ICU. They have been praying for her every day. Thank you to all of you that have prayed for her , please continue to keep her in your prayers as she has a long haul ahead of her.

A Little Facelift In The Kitchen

Johnny had a granite tabletop made from scrap at work. He put it on last night but then had to take it back off because he has to redo the base of the table to make the legs further apart to steady it better. It looks very nice and once we have it back on i will put a picture on. I have been wanting to do away with my wallpaper in the kitchen for awhile now and do something different. I found almost a full gallon of the paint that we used for the upper wall so for right now im just ripping down the wallpaper and painting the bottom of the wall. I will decide later if i want to go with a different color once we get the new table in. I put Julie's kids to work while i had them last night.:) Actually they were all begging to help, and had fun ripping the wallpaper down. Julie, I had a little talk with Meredith that Aunt Elisa's house was the only place we rip down wallpaper in case she got any ideas anywhere else.:) Avery helped me again this morning do another whole wall. I just have two sections to go... Oh yes, and the picture at the top of just the wall, Avery made me take a picture of it before i ripped anymore off because she said it was a litle girl with her hand up in the air. I didn't see it at the time but i do see what she was seeing now that i see the picture. :)

JOG-A-THON

Today was Trey and Avery's jogathon at school. Trey completed 25 laps and Avery 18 laps. I was a little worried about Avery with her asthma but apparently the nurse came and gave her a couple puffs of her inhaler before it started and she did great! Trey did lot's of racing with his friends so had to take some breaks walking. Avery hardly stopped the whole time. She had a nice little pace going and just kept plugging along. She asked me to run with her towards the end so i ran 3 laps with her. They had a fun day raising money for their school.

Trey's Witnessing

Trey's exciting news today when i picked him up was that he witnessed to one of his friends and the boy asked Jesus into his heart! Trey said "mabye i have a BIG star in my crown now mommy!" He said that he is going to tell all of his class so that they can all go to Heaven! I am SO proud of Trey!! I just pray we don't have any calls from the principal about upset parents!!

Loved Blankie!

When Trey and Avery were babies i bought a "backup" blankie for their much loved Gymboree blankets for when i had to wash blankets and in case we ever lost one. Avery's "backup" blankie is in perfect condition because it is rarely used. She always wants her "ripped blankie" Her blankie is very loved!! Remind you of anything??? :)

Some Random Pictures...

These are a just a few random pictures that iv'e taken the last couple of days. The picture of Ethan is with his new shoes that SO FAR he can not get off or even seem to care to try to pull them off! He doesn't have any problem walking in them either! After putting on socks at least 10 times today on our errands i decided we HAD to find some shoes for this boy!

11 Months Old

Ethan was 11 months on Monday. He is a busy little guy these days!

My Big 2nd Grader

Trey is really liking 2nd grade. He has gotten 100 on all of his spelling tests so far this year so we are proud of him! Today when he got in the van he was busting with excitement. The first thing out of his mouth was "I have a Christian in my class, mommy!" Apparently they were having a conversation about why they don't "use the bad finger". (scary that they know about it in 2nd grade but at least they know it's bad and not to use it) Anyway in talking about that, Trey said he doesn't use it because he's a Christian and it uses Jesus' name bad (so at least he doesn't know the word yet!) and the other boy said he was too, and they both started talking about how they are going to go to Heaven. Trey said he told the other boy "you know we are supposed to tell the other kids about Jesus". My little missionary is at work.:) Trey said that they both were going to go home and tell their daddy and mommy. It was so fun to see his excitement, you could just tell it made his day!!