Shaving already?

Joe walked in on papaw in the bathroom this afternoon... he was shaving. Joe just stood and watched him shave. Papaw picked up the shaving cream and started putting some on Joe's face.



Joseph walked out of the bathroom licking his lips making this face like..."ew that's gross" and walked proudly up to my mom as to say look what papaw did.

Then back over to me and said "Cheese!"

Once papaw was done shaving he helped joe "shave" the shave cream off. It was cute Joe kept touching dad's face (who's had a beard allllll winter) like where did it go? I love watching them together...

It's 4am...

Well it's 4am and I'm sitting up watching the Nanny pretend birth twins... thinking.... that wouldn't happen that way.. much like I always do during anything medical on TV. I don't even know why I'm up at this time of night... probably the curse of working nights even though I haven't worked in a few days.

Anyway... started packing yesterday. Oh boy this is going to be fun. I had no idea we had so much CRAP. I mean I found stuff that I haven't seen in years. I'm sure the further I get into packing the more I'll find. Plan on spending all day tomorrow getting stuff ready as well. We move April 2nd, and I feel like it's going to be here before I know it.

Eric got to come home for a night last night. They were driving through on their way to Georgia. I know I've said it before, but I am so proud of him. He stuck with something, like an adult. I mean I wish he had done this years ago.. about 3yrs ago he had talked about getting his CDL and becoming a truck driver, but never did it... something's clicked finally. I think the worst part of all of this is the fact that he's gone all the time... Mon through Fri for the most part except for these first few weeks. We'll get to see him again probably just before vacation April 6th.

That's something else I need to start thinking about is getting things ready for vacation. Yeah that's right we're moving April 2nd and going on vacation April 6th. I'll be coming home to boxes I'm sure, but what are you going do... So we're going to basically Charleston, SC. My cousin is getting married right there on the water, so we decided to make a vacation out of it. Unfortunately almost nothing has gone the way we had originally planned. We were supposed to stay from Thurs to Tues, but some things have changed and now we only have the place until Sunday.... bummer. So we don't know if we're just going to cut the vacay short and come home, find someone else to stay with us in the same place or the final option is to find another place to stay. After talking to my mom I guess we're just going to go down there and see what happens. I'm such a planner that I hate that idea, but I just have to let it go and have fun!

New Beginnings

A lot of things are changing in my little family's life. First of all Eric's started his new job as a CDL truck driver with H.O. Wolding in Wisconsin. He'll be gone for the next month then Mon thru Fri, but home on weekends to hang out with Joe and I. I'm happy for him and for us!! Finally he'll be able to take care of his family like he's been talking about for the last 19months and the stress of being the sole breadwinner will be off of me.



In other news... WE'RE MOVING! It became official a couple of days ago and it's happening fast. Probably faster than I thought I would want it to happen, but I know that I'm ready. I'm ready to have our own space and home. So it's in Martinsville just a few minutes from my mom and dads and Cheri's. It's 3br/2ba townhouse.



It looks a lot smaller than it actually is.

I'm really excited, but have so much to do! With Eric being gone, I've got the responsibility of getting utilities changed over, pack, buy stuff for the new house, arranging for the move... then Eric will come home and we'll move in :-)

On top of moving...I'll be starting a new job. Well same job, different hospital. I've taken a positin on OB at Community South. I'm transfering! Starting April 11th, I'll be working in Greenwood. What a change it's going to be to drive 30min instead of an 1hr to work. I love my job and the girls I work with at North, but the commute is exhausting. I've made that commute for 4yrs and feel like I just can't do it anymore.

So big changes coming up. I'll keep everyone posted!!!

The Boy Can Eat...

Well he comes from a long line of them... eaters. big eaters. Joseph is showing great potential. He's eating 5 or so meals a day and growing like a weed...

Cinnamon toast. It was kind of a tradition between my dad and I. He'd make cinnamon toast and we'd share... now he shares with my son.

He loves his "nummies."

Cereal with milk on it... well on everything else too :-)


Beets. My mom loves beets. Everytime she brings Gray Bros. home for dinner she gets beets for herself. Mom decided to share...

Didn't know I could love someone so much. Until him.

Holly Jolly Christmas

This Christmas was so much better than all of my previous ones put together. All because of one tiny little human... my tiny little human. He actually enjoyed it more this year... last year he just sat there in his bouncy chair and watched us open presents... this year he was helping daddy put his toys together :-)


Eric enjoyed his Christmas with a new Gap sweatshirt. Just one of many new items of clothing...


Joe got a new rocking chair from Aunt Jodi and Uncle Chris. He'd climb into his chair put his hands onto the arms of the chair and throw his feet onto the ottoman and rest his head on the back of the chair... with a look on his face as if to say... "get me a beer." Well he got a present instead :-)



Daddy got Joe a little tool set... he decided that the tool box belonged on his head.





We finished up presents at our house, ate some breakfast, then headed to my grandmas to hang out with the rest of my family. That house gets crazy with our entire family in it....

Joseph made his rounds starting with daddy...

Then papaw...

We got all the kids together... Jacob, Grace, Joseph, and Sophia

Jacob wanted to "hold Jojo".... Good luck buddy.. He sat there long enough for me to get an adorable picture then "Jojo" moved on...

Onto Jacob's pillowpet... which he didn't want to share... It was hilarious to watch him lay down on it though!!


But really all he wanted to do was play...

First Snow

We enjoyed the first accumulating snow in a different way this year... Joe got to play in it for the first time. He was a little too small last year..

He really didn't know what to think of the white fluffy stuff. Eric, who had gone out earlier that day to buy a sled, decided to take him for a ride...

These are some of my favorites from the day...

Joe finished his day in snow by making his first snow angel...

Tree Time

Every year the weekend following Thanksgiving we pick out our Christmas tree. We've been getting a fresh tree every year since I can remember... and we're continuing the tradition with Joseph. It was a beautiful day, but cold!


Joseph had so much fun running around in the fields. It was a little nerve racking for me though because of all of the stumps around, but he did great only fell a dozen or so times. :-) He eventually toddled over to papaw. He played hide and seek around the trees and Joe finally found him!


We picked our tree and then daddy and Joe got to ride with the tree in the gator! Eric said he was giggling most of the way... unfortunately just not in the picture.


While we were waiting for the tree to get the shake down, hole drilled in the bottom (for our cool tree stand that makes it straight), and wrapped, we occupied joe with a little red wagon.


Then we all enjoyed some Hot chocolate... some more than others ;-)