He's all grown up! :)

For the last month Joe and I have bought pretty much every sippy cup ever made, nothing worked, he wanted his bottle. He would drink water out of the sippy cups, but NO milk. Well, I finally went and bought the cheapest sippy cup on the market and he loves it! :) So no more bottles! He is also competely off formula now and on lactose free whole milk. I cant believe how fast it is going!

Today we are going to go to the park and run around. I will take some pictures! Hope everyone is doing well!

finger painting!

Trying to come up with some new activities for Alex to keep him occupied. He is sick of being at home sometimes.. today we decided to do some finger painting!

He is a little artist haha! We definitely had bath time after!








the finished product:


He then ran around the yard putting paint all over the patio.. whatever its washable for a reason! haha.. :)

here are a few more of him:

a friend got him a charger's shirt.. just to spite Joe.. haha.. don't they know Alex is a Texas fan? ;-)



he likes to relax when he eats his dinner! haha


hope everyone has a good weekend!

Alex's birthday!

I got some pictures form his party.. wanted to share!

Pirate theme!











All of us, with frosting on our noses! :)


Captain Alexander!


hmm...what is this?


this sugar is pretty good..



here Dad you have some!


Presents!




Alex and his friend Lee playing.


Ashley, Me, and Danielle :)

Wednesday.. hump day!

Hey everyone! It's Wednesday finally, I feel like this day has been dragging on. Today I have my first book club meeting, so Joe and Alex will be flying solo for dinner. I am excited about it, its a new book club so this will be the meeting where we all meet each other and decide on our first book. :)

I put up another picture my mom sent of Alex on his birthday. He looks fascinated with something.

Joe has been on the rifle range all week so he is getting up earlier and get home later. The poor guy is tired! Thankfully its only a week.

That's about it for now. Need to get the dog and get ready for a walk! See you all later.

great quote...

we all know i love Marilyn.. I love this quote, wanted to share.

Is it the weekend yet?

Hello! I got a picture from my mom of this weekend, so here is Alex being Alex.. probably talking up a storm as usual. ha!

Right now we are dealing tantrums and more tantrums. Not sure where they are coming from, but we are trying to ignore them and not encourage it. Hopefully its a stage and will get over it for now. Save the tantrums for the terrible twos! :)

Besides that we are just hanging out. Joe is at the range, shooting rifles or whatever they do ;-) this week and next week. I am trying to stay ahead with my schoolwork so that I dont get overwhelmed. I like to stay ahead of the game if I can.

The weather is starting to cool down a little. At least for now. I am happy about that. I am so sick of heat! Its time for summer to leave.

Hope everyone is having a great Thursday!

Better than yesterday!

Hello! Alex's temperature is back down and he a little cranky but he isn't attached to my hip. So that is a good thing :)

I posted a picture of him on his new giraffe rider. Joe's friends from work got it for him for his birthday. He is not sure what to do with it yet. He will sit on it and I push him around, or he stands at the front of it and pushes it while he walks but I am sure in a few days he will get it.

Hope everyone is having a good day!

**megs

Giving this a try.

I wanted to have a whole "blog" dedicated to the our family, so friends and family that live further away can catch up on our daily lives and what is going on with all of us. It will probably mainly be me writing but Joe might every now and then come on and tell everyone a little story whatever he decides.
I will post pictures and try to keep this updated as much as possible.

Anyways,

Alexander is ONE years old. His birthday party was Saturday Sept. 6th, in my eyes, was a great success. Thanks to family and friends that helped us that day. I wouldn't have been able to do it without them. (you all know who you are!) I will post some pictures when I get some. We got so many clothes, which is what we really needed! So that was great. Alex is going to be styling! :)

Sunday was a clean up day and that was about it. Just resting up for the week to come.

Monday Alex had his 12 month appointment, he weighs 21 lbs and is 30 1/4 inches in length. He is on track with everything and in good standing in the percentiles. We are going to start giving him whole milk now, but he has to still drink the lactaid kind, the lactose free milk. He got a few vaccinations, but not all of them, we will be waiting on a few of them. Last night he had a pretty bad fever and is still a little feverish and tired from them. :( I am sure he will be back to his normal self tomorrow.

I started school on Monday! I am doing an online degree program for Early Education. I will be doing that for a good while and then eventually I will transfer to a traditional college to finish it up. I would love to be teaching by the time Alex starts school, so I have a few years! Alex and I are going to start going to a play group a few times a week to get out and meet more people up here. Something to get out of the house. I am such a homebody, but know that we both need to get out. I also signed up for a book club, which meets in a few weeks, it will be nice to do something I love (read) and have an activity to do alone. We all need some alone time!

Joe is doing well, work is stressful, but he is still working hard as usual. He is building me a bicycle. Well, sort of... its taking a while, but he only has weekends to work on it, and we usually try to have some family outing on the weekends, so time is limited.

Things should be picking up and getting busy now that Fall is coming. I am really ready for it! I am sick of the heat! Even though it doesn't get too cold here I cant wait to snuggle with some hot coffee and sweats in the morning! I also really crave some rain! :)

Here's a recent picture of our family! I will post some more soon!
Thanks for reading and check back soon!