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!