Memorial Day

I love long weekends! Lately Josh has been waking up between 5 and 6 in the morning, but often if I feed him a bottle I can put him back down for another hour or so. Yesterday I did this and actually got to go back to sleep for about another hour, and he didn't wake back up until 9:00. That's his record...wahoo!

This past week we got to have Casey and Sophie come over to play with us while Tiffini went to the dentist. They seemed to have a good time, I think Josh enjoyed the company. Other than that, not too much out of the ordinary for us. My dad, however, had some excitement. One of my brothers organized a trail ride through our old pastures up in Snowflake that several of my family members went on. We decided not to go up, since we will be going out of town almost every couple of weeks for the next couple of months. Just before stopping for lunch, my Dad's horse got spooked and started bucking. Dad got thrown off and beat up. They took him to the hospital up in Show Low where they found that he had 8 broken ribs...OUCH! He is now home in Snowflake recovering, but he'll probably be in pain for a while. Not fun! They also branded the calves yesterday, which I was sad to miss out on, but we did some fun things down here to celebrate the holiday instead.

Saturday David's Aunt JD and Uncle George invited us over for a bbq where there was tons of good food to be had. Then yesterday we went to another bbq with some people from our ward down at the pool in our complex. It's so nice to have such a fun and friendly ward! We were going to take Josh swimming for the first time, but eveyone said the water was pretty cold, so we didn't venture in. Soon enough.

Here are some more pictures of my cute boy:

Much to David's chagrin, Josh loves macaroni and Cheese. David calls it "yellow death".

Here's Casey and Sophie and Josh playing. Casey is really feeling the music.

I finally got a picture that you can see his first tooth in (barely). The other day one of his top front teeth broke through, and the other top one isn't far behind.

Lately Josh has started sticking his tongue out a lot. Funny boy.

Josh also likes to see how high up on shelves he can reach. He's becoming quite the climber. This is at George & JD's house. I was barely able to save the bowl on the 3rd shelf from the bottom before Josh pulled it off. Whew!

Aunt Lydia sharing some lemon sorbet with Josh. He didn't pucker up as much as I thought he would. What fun aunts Josh has!

Josh wanted to send Grandpa Flake a get well card.

Trip to Thatcher

We've had a pretty fun week. Monday night my city league basketball team (the Vote For Jake Bruisers) played two games and ended up winning our tournament...wahoo! We have a few new girls this season due to most of our original team having moved, but we still have a lot of fun. We had to play two games, one at 6:30, and then the championship game at 8:30, so by the time we were finished this out of shape old lady could barely walk. Seriously, I was hobbling around the house the rest of that night and again the next morning until I got loosened up. It's rough getting old!! Tonight my parents threw a little ice cream and swimming party for us, which was fun. Thanks Mom and Dad, for sponsoring us and for the party!

On Thursday we went to Thatcher. David's retainer broke, and since his old orthodontist in Thatcher doesn't work on Fridays he got himself a Thursday appointment and gave us a good excuse to go for a long weekend visit. David, with the help of Grandpa Orr, was able to make me a new piano bench (I'll post pictures at the end). They salvaged the legs and hardware from the original piano bench so that they would match the piano, but he rebuilt the bench and box under it, since they were trashed. We still need to sand and stain it, but they did a great job! David also had Grandpa help him weld some gadget for his Jeep. Of course he now wants more tools. I told him we have to have a house with a garage before he can get any more tools. :) David also went to his parents' ward's Fathers and Sons outing with his dad, brothers, uncles and grandpa. While they were gone we had a fun girl party watching movies (P.S. I Love You and 27 Dresses--both cute stories but too much language) and ate delicious brownies that Aunt Janice made. Fun times!

Now we're back and trying to get back into the swing of things. David had a really bad migraine last night and still wasn't feeling well this morning, so he didn't go into work, poor guy. I spent the day doing laundry. I think it ended up being seven loads. That's what happens when you skip a regular laundry day and go out of town. I'm excited for when I can have a big washer and dryer (right now we have the little stacking set). According to David I "adore" big washers--I just might.

Here are some pictures from the weekend:

Rub a dub dub, two boys in the tub! Joseph (David's brother who just turned 3 today--Happy Birthday Joseph!) and Josh taking a bath.

David holding Joseph holding Josh.

Josh loves to play with his Aunt Jalayne.

The unfinished product. Didn't David do a great job?

Laughing and Diving

Here are a couple of cute videos of Josh from the past week:

Josh has the best belly laugh and when I hear it, it makes me so happy. For some reason he thought it was hilarious when I would smell the flowers. He was laughing even better before I decided to take the picture, but this is still pretty good.

Josh kept following David around and around like a little puppy dog, it was so cute. Here I caught the tail end of it.

I crack up every time I see the nose dive. :)

Happy Mother's Day

Yesterday was my first real Mother's Day, and my thoughtful husband made it wonderful! I woke up to crepes--yes, crepes--for breakfast (I'm lucky that David likes to cook) and Josh gave me some chocolates. David is going to make me a piano bench this weekend when we go to Thatcher, since the bench that goes with the piano bit the dust a long time ago. (I guess that's what happens when you get a hand-me-down piano that went through who knows how many of my mom's piano students.) Anyway, I got to teach the YW lesson at church, so I didn't have the day completely off, but luckily the lesson went fairly well. After church we went out to my sister Mindy's house for dinner, along with several other of my siblings and my parents, in order to spend some time with my mom on Mother's Day. That evening we were able to call David's mom to wish her a happy day as well.

I am so grateful for the wonderful mothers in my life! My mom is so patient and selfless, and I am so grateful she didn't give up after the first "few" (11) kids, so that I could have her as my mother. I'm also so grateful for David's mom, Cindi, for raising such a wonderful son. He is so thoughtful and takes such good care of me, and I know it is because he had such a wonderful mother (and father) to teach him! I'm also thankful for wonderful grandmothers. My Grandma Flake was the only grandma I knew, and she passed away when I was 18. She always made me feel loved and special, even though I was one of 70 of her grandchildren. And I'm very fortunate to have married into 2 more wonderful grandmothers! Thank you all, and I hope all you mothers had a wonderful Mother's Day!

In other news this week...Josh finally got his first tooth! I can barely get him to open his mouth for me to see it at all, much less get a picture of it, so we'll probably have to wait until it gets a little bigger to get a good picture.

This week also marked the 2 year anniversary of mine and David's first date. So we had my niece Shelby come over and baby-sit so David and I could go out to eat and see the Jerster'z comedy show. We had a great time! In some ways I can't believe that 2 years have already gone by, but then I think of all that has happened (getting married, having a baby), and it seems funny that it has only been 2 years. But, they have been the best 2 years of my life! I am so blessed!

9 Months

Okay, some people were having trouble viewing the pictures the first time I posted this...I must have copied some html code wrong. Anyhow, I posted the pictures the "old fashioned way" this time (one at a time), and David said the pictures came up on his computer this time, so hopefully all is well. Hopefully I'll get the hang of this! Sorry to those of you who commented the first time and they got deleted with the original post.

My baby is 9 months old today. I can't believe how fast he is growing up. It seems like just a couple of weeks ago that I was working 60 hour weeks, and now a whole busy season came and went without me. It was definitely the fastest (and most enjoyable) busy season I've ever had!

This past weeks we've all been sick. David came down with a cold after we came home from Snowflake for Jewel's wedding. Then Josh started getting a runny nose (I thought maybe he was finally going to get some teeth, but no) and later a cough. Then last Sunday I caught whatever it was that David had. Tues. night Josh decided to make it more exciting and threw up, and again the next morning, then on Thurs. he couldn't keep anything down. I took him to the doctor and they said he had a gastro-something (can't remember) virus that usually lasts about 3-5 days. They had me loading him up on Gatorade to keep him hydrated and giving him soy formula for a few days, since the regular milk formula is more likely to upset the stomach, they said. He seems to be mostly over it now, thank goodness! I don't think there is anything more sad (sadder?) than a sick baby!

Because Josh does so many cute things, here are a couple of pictures from the last couple of months:

First time in a real swing was during our ward bbq at Riverview Park back in March...he loved it!

We went camping at Apache Lake with the Orr's back in March. We dressed Josh up in a furry teddy bear outfit for the cold nights. Here he is with Grandpa Orr.

Josh will often drop snacks down to the bottom of his Excersaucer. He recently discovered that he can crawl in there and eat them later.

Fun eating carrots.

Josh has discovered lots of fun new places to play.

We've got a little prodigy on our hands. Since he's grown tall enough to reach the piano keys he loves to make noise!

My First Post

Well, I broke down. I've finally decided to start my own blog. Since I had Josh I was introduced to the world of blogging and have loved looking at others' blogs and decided that I really am missing out on sharing a lot of the cute things that Josh does...and documenting them so that I'll remember them a year (heck, a month!) from now. So, here is my attempt to remedy that.

I hope you all enjoy it!