Old

I am now 31. I am old. I am decrepit. I am ancient. I am an old fart, geezer... Whatever.

Actually, I am no different that I was when I was 25. But it was my birthday. I had such a nice birthday. It was one of the few years that I actually enjoyed. It's always around Thanksgiving which makes it hectic and sometimes even forgotten (which is GREAT with me!). But this year, I had a great time. Jeff took me to lunch at Red Robin, which I love. And then for dinner we went to Cheesecake factory. Since we had such a big lunch, most of my dinner came home with me, as did a piece of cheesecake. Yum. :) We also went to the Thunder vs. Suns game on Tuesday night. How fun! We love the Suns since we are both from Phx. We had such a great time! Even Ethan liked it. Thanks Jeff for making it a great day!!!

Blessing

Ethan and I went to Missouri for our cousin's blessing. Brittany had little Benjamin blessed on November 2nd. She made his cute little blessing outfit. She's is such a talented person! Welcome to our family little Benjamin!!!!

We had such a nice time. Ethan LOVES being around his little boy cousins. He loves watching them wrestle and play. Ethan and I stayed at Aunt Celeens house. We always have so much fun going there. Cousin Brigham shared his blocks with Ethan, which we discovered he totally loves. So we had to get some when we got home. Thanks Brigs!

Anniversary

November 17, 2001 Jeff and I were married. We just celebrated our 7th anniversary. I just wanted to post a little note telling him how much I love him. You are an amazing husband and father. I am so happy to be your wife. Here are some things I love about you.

• Generous heart
• You are always willing to help, even after someone has taken advantage of you
• Service you give to others
• Undying devotion
• Complete loyalty to anyone in your life
• The Hotness factor (always a plus!)
• You always put others, especially your family, before you yourself
• You never quit anything
• Your love for our son
• Your love for all animals, even the smelly ones
• I love that all children love you and that you are kind to all of them
• Your love of music
• You always let me choose (that is a blessing and a curse)
• You are always protecting me and those that I love
• You make me laugh, even when I'm down

I love you Jeff! Happy Anniversary!

7 Months & Monkey Costume

Ethan is the cutest 7 month old that ever lived. :) Do I sound like a proud mama??? I am so grateful for him. His father and I totally adore him. His 7 month birthday was Halloween... Fun! He also got to visit the Dr. for his stats and of course shots... :(
He made the cutest monkey! Jeff loves gorillas and so I bought this monkey costume last year before he was born. It soon became evident that it was the right costume, as we call him Chunky Monkey. Or now it's ChunMonk. The costume totally fit.

Lola and Cousins

While we were in Phoenix we were able to spend some time with Jeff's family His mother, brother, Chris, sister, Melissa, and their kids. We took the kids to Peter Piper Pizza one day and that was a ton of fun.

Daddy and Ethan on a roller coaster ride.

Ethan did NOT like Bozo the clown. Who does???

Silly boy

Me, Little Christopher and Jazmyn - I love you!

Ethan has such a fine example to look up to! :)

Lola and the grandkids. Frankie, Tatiana, Ethan, Emma, Jazmyn, Christopher

Tatiana and Ethan

Visit to Arizona

Here are some random pictures of our visit to AZ.

Grammy Karen and Jimmy

My sister Stacey with Jimmy and Ethan

Daddy and Jeff

My sister Jodie... Crazy

Jodie and Ethan

Ethan loves his Papa. He would be content just sitting with Papa. He would laugh and laugh when Papa would play with him. He loved when Papa had Hida or Pearla (dogs) sit with them. We love you Papa!!!!

Visit with cousin Jimmy

We went to Phoenix to visit my Dad. While we were there we had so much fun visiting with Ethan's cousin, Jimmy. They had a ton of fun cruising in their walkers. Jimmy was ready to walk so he was much faster than Ethan. He'd kind of help Ethan with his by bumping him. Ethan could only go backwards... The weather was beautiful at night so we spent a few nights eating outside and the boys loved it!

Aunt Stacey, Jimmy, Ethan

Cruising outside

Uncle Joe and Ethan

Little Jimmy

Playing so nice!

Cruising in the living room . Happy little boy!

6 months

Ethan is now half a year old. He is quite the cutie! He laughs at most anything. He has started making this growling sound constantly and thinks he is cute when he does it. He sounds like a baby dinosaur. He loves his jumper, is getting the hang of his walker and loves to sit up. He can sit up on his own if you set him that way. He isn't quite able to pull himself to the sitting position. But he sure tries! It's kind of funny to watch him doing mini sit-ups. He still has no teeth (thankfully) but they are ready to come. He is VERY clingy with mom (that's me! :) and I don't get a lot done without toting him along. We are thankful for him every day and feel so blessed to have him in our home!

These are his 6 month pics from Penny's. They asked us to sign a release so they could use them in their "book" or whatever. I didn't care because we got some free! :)

His stats will come next month - we had to reschedule his Dr. appt.