Friends and Family

The holidays are great for getting together with those we love, here are some of the functions we have attended.

The Fox Family Christmas Sing-along

Joey is hugging Molly, the look on his face is great!!!

The two Joes, Joey and Joe

Reading an early present from Molly and Parker

Playing with Uncle Rick

Peek-a-boo with Nicholas

Here is Joey smiling and flirting with the musicians. At one point during a serious song he went up and started banging on the piano : )

The Oak Ridge Christmas Parade

Our Hometown parade, the three of us

Joey and his Da in front of the Santa float

Petting a rescue golden retriever

Meeting the Jefferson Eagle. Da and I were both Eagles, maybe Joey will be one too!

With our pals and Joey Godparents, Bob and Robin Harvey

Joey and Bill

Fantasy of Trees

Joey and Bill on the carousel

Joey loved playing on the Santa train

We went with our pals Tony and Kim and their kids Nicole and Anthony. In this pic Joey is surrounded by FOUR girls...Aha Gotcha look close at the arrow Kim is pregnant with a girl : )

Bill and Joey doing the "tough guy" look

Joey making handprint potholders....he thought getting his hand painted was SO FUNNY!!!!!

All the boys, Bill, Joey, Tony and Anthony

Decorating for Christmas

Well this year we have had the best time ever!! decorating for Christmas. Joey has loved helping and really is not destructive at all. He has "his" ornaments and he takes them off and puts them back on the tree. He loves all the santa's outside and inside the house and even trys to "share" his milk and snacks with them.

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Here he is in his toy bag from last year. Very cute.

Helping decorate the candy tree.

Adding Playdough to the tree...now why didn't we think of that??

Then he stepped outside to decor with Da. Aren't my boys cute!!!!

Hey where did Da go, I want to go up too!!

Helping Da unwrap Santa and his reindeer.

Kissing Santa...gotta get those good boy points in : )

Kissing the reindeer

TRYING to snuggle with Santa....Joey has really taken to snuggling with his toys and us....but he found out this Santa was a little uncomfortable.

decorating the tree in his room with Mom.

Playing with the Pooh Ornament Grandmother Fox gave him at Thanksgiving...can you tell he likes it.

Helping us decorate the Crystal Tree. Joey confiscated our gold beads and wouldn't give them back.

The tree looks much better from this angle : )

This is a great pic.....we asked Joey where Santa was and even though we have about 1,000 santas inside he went and looked out the window...how do they know??? Must be a kid thing, the magic of Christmas through a child's eyes. Truly amazing!!!

Happy First Day of December!!!!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!! Happy Dec. 1st everybody. Only 24 Days til Christmas!!!!!

So, of course we had to take Joey to see Santa and he had a GREAT VISIT! He is absolutely enamored by Santa. He kept saying "Ho, Ho, Ho" and looking at Santa like he was the most incredible thing he had ever seen. Here he is with Dad ready to see the big guy.

Now its his turn, he looks a little nervous. But no worries, Joey has been a VERY GOOD BOY!

With the big guy...so excited. What a great moment in our life to get to share in our sons love of Christmas. We are so excited that he loves this Holy season as much as we do.

Happy Turkey Day!!!!

We hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. Here are a few pics from ours. Unfortunately we didn't take a lot of pics...maybe 'cause we were tired or too stuffed : )
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Here is Joey with his cousin Gabe. What a cute pair of gobblers ; )

With his beautiful cousin Tiffy, he wanted to play with her Ipod...and she let him...what a SWEETIE!

With the always gorgeous and playful Kelsey. (For some reason we had no pics of Whitney and Joey....but we will be sure to get some next time.)

The we headed over to Grandmother and Grandaddy Foxes for some absolutely fabulous cream corn and apple pie. Here is my Aunt Martha and Joey's Grandma Martha (as he will call her) letting him play the piano. He had a blast and ran around like a wild man- with Martha never far behind him. Doesn't he look like a natural!!!

Christmas Card Pictures & Happy Thanksgiving

Some of you may remember the great Christmas pictures I was able to take here at home last year with a white sheet and a few props. They turned out so great...I thought I would do the same this year. Well this is a whole new ball game folks!!!!!

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Joey had no patience for me and let me know it too! In this first picture he is really mad at me...can you tell??? He's still cute even though he is mad and pouting.

Then he wouldn't sit still or keep his hat on.

And he thought he should be taking the pics instead of me.

Finally one where he is sitting : )

Trying to climb in his toy chest

So then I thought maybe it was the suit that wasn't comfy so we moved to PJ's....Obviously that did not work either.


anyway....HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!!!!!!

Misc Stuff....

Just a few misc. pics from the past few weeks. This is a great pic...we had been TRYING to get a holiday photo of Joey in his PJs (more on that coming up later) with Rusty and in a Santa hat. So as he headed upstairs to bed I had the camera and he turned to wave at me, holding his best buddy Rusty Bear. What a cutie...if only he had his Santa hat on...darn!!!

And here he is playing a recorder I bought him...he loves it and actually plays pretty well.

Here is my grown up boy "reading" to himself. You can see he sets himself up with a sippie next to him and you can't see it, but his play cell phone is next to him also. If I go over and try to read to him he gets mad at me. He will mumble aloud to himself and occasionally a real word sneaks in : )

Here he is in his adorable hat, everybody says how cute he is in it. Daddy can always make him smile and laugh.

Me and him at our special tree, Joey loves to plant a kiss on me when we meet on either side of this tree. A special moment for Mom.