New House and Guests already : )

We have been in our new house almost 2 weeks now and we still have boxes and boxes and boxes. It is driving Bill crazy and he is in turn driving me crazy : ) Also, one of our packers was very sick when she came to our house to pack and wouldn't you know it Joey and I have been hacking our lungs out ever since. Joey is adjusting well but was a little homesick this week. He kept asking to go to the "old house" and to "Nana's house"...stay tuned though we are going to see if we can cheer him up this weekend with a little trip to a certain mouses house : )
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Here is our little man among a sea of boxes.

We have had some visitors to our new house already...but not the human kind. Who knew a tropical backyard had so many creatures : ) We already have a designated bowl that says "Lizards Only". Joey calls them Lizzies and tries to catch as many as he can. He loves to show me so I can act terrified : )

Another visitor came in the house hiding in our shoes. (We have since learned in Florida you DO NOT keep your shoes outside or in the garage. A big huge ugly warty toad...but Joey thought he was GREAT!!!! He still hangs out in the backyard : ) Eating our mosquitoes...yay!

Joey and Da freeing our Toad

Now for our favorite resident.....I say that because I think he lives on our back patio...a beautiful tree frog. He changes colors and watches us as much as we watch him. He is an awesome addition to our life. We caught him at first to get a closer look. You can see Joey is in awe!

Peek-a-boo, I see you


Finally this week we were all able to get out and about...here is Joey at our Neighborhood Pool Club. He is trying to decide which one to jump in...the sprinkler pool is like ICE!!!!

There was no one at the pool and the Manager told me that in the "summer" there were more people. I had to laugh because it was a balmy 90 degrees or more when she said that...in fact I did not use sunscreen and burned..... : )

and last but not least we FINALLY made it to the beach....you can see Joey was SO HAPPY!!!!! he took off with him arms in the air and I had to chase after him!!! The shells were great and the water was warm...best of all it took about 5 minutes to get there from our house :) I think we have a beach baby on our hands....Lord help me if he starts to surf. The surfers were out there and he thought they were great!!!


Anyway, if anybody wants to visit the beach, come stay with us!!! Four empty bedrooms upstairs....2 pools...2 playgrounds...a fishing dock...5 mins to the beach and 1 1/2 hours to Disney. Love and miss everyone!!!!!

Moving Day(s)

Well we are all moved!!! Here are pictures of our three day move : ) The packers, loaders and drivers were all very nice and FAST. Joey had fun with all the commotion and thought the big semi parked in our drive for 2 days was awesome!!!
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Here he is on the loading ramp...we kept having to pull him out of the way :)

Inside the truck...can you believe we took up a whole semi!!!!

Having fun on the empty bookshelves

Saying goodbye the last night in his room...very sad. Since he was very small he has asked his Da to hold him up to see Owl.

Knock-knock on Pooh's Door

Pooh's Red Balloon

He LOVED his bee's

We will all really miss that room we so lovingly painted while waiting on our little miracle to arrive : )

Happy (Belated) Grandparents Day

Happy belated Grandparents Day to all the wonderful Grandparents and Great grandparents in our lives!!!! We took Nana out to dinner and Joey took her a dozen roses to celebrate.

GOING AWAY PARTY

We threw ourselves a Going Away Party so we could say a big Good-bye to all our wonderful friends. We all had BBQ and lots of fun. Once again we rented a huge blow-up for the backyard and all the kids went loony!!! You have never seen so many happy, red-faced, sweaty kids : )

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Here is Joey, Michelle and Gabe Playing on the slide

Joey, Rayna and Michelle fixin' to slide down....you can see the slide was a hit!!! Both Bill and I woke up sore from head to toe from us playing in there too!!

My old time pal Donnie pushing her son and Joey's pal Jacob, and Nicholas swinging in the baby swing....ahahahah lullaby and goodnight : ) Gotcha Nicholas!!!!

Joey discussing the game with Uncle Rick and Aunt Martha

Beautiful Laura and her handsome wonderful son Benjamin

Joey giving some good loving to his God-parents Robin and Bob

Bill's family talking and laughing at me trying to get a good picture! Doesn't Whitney look like quite the woman!!! Woooo-weeeee!!!!! What a dress!! Watch out boys, she isn't of-age YET!!

Everybody watching and cheering on the game!!!


We had a great time and are going to miss everyone so much!!! Anyone and everyone is welcome to visit us ANYTIME!!!! We love all of you!!!!

Longboat Key

Sorry for no updates for a while but we have been VERY BUSY!!! So with only 1 1/2 weeks until we move I thought I better upload some pics.

Here is our trip to Longboat Key, Florida. I would recommend the island to anyone looking for a nice, quite vacation. since Longboat is a "winter" community it is cheap to stay there in the summer and empty...there were times we were the only people on the beach.

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Plus, the shells are AMAZING. Here is one of Joey's favorites

And here he is searching for more, we could hardly get him to leave his shell bucket behind

Getting a back ride from Mama

Heading back to our house, isn't the walk nice!

Riding the waves with Da

On our front porch with Mama, we had our own little cottage :)

Joey discovered floaties on this trip and loved being independent in the water. Even though we were never far behind! He hated having us hold him and would go and go.

Our little beach babe : ) with a kool-aid cocktail

We were there when Hurricane Dean hit Mexico and the waved were awesome, Bill TRIED to boogie board but they were so tall!!! Makes him look like a speck in the water

Bill and Joey caught some hermit crabs and Joey is telling a little girl he met all about them

Joey and Da torturing more crabs...this one was ready to FIGHT!

Were home and we found a home!!!!!

Well finally we are home from Florida! We had a great trip and found a house, yay!!!! Our new house is 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths so we are excited for guests!!! Especially since it is ONLY 3.7 miles to the beach from our driveway!!!!

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Joey had a few mishaps though, as you can see here with his first black-eye ever. We were at Toys-R-Us searching for a road toy when he fell and hit a display face first. Poor baby. Then while house hunting I noticed he was shivering and was hot as fire....so off to St Lukes Emergency room in Jacksonville where he had a 104.9 Degree temp!!! When I saw it I gasped out loud and felt kind of faint. But turns out it was just an ear infection and the next day after some Ibuprofen, Tylenol and Amoxicillian he was all better and we headed out to Longboat Key....more on that later so stay tuned.

Joey snooping around our new house, this is the 2 story loft overlooking the family room and kitchen...a cool area.

Waving at Mama

Opening and slamming drawers, what fun!

Stay tuned for Longboat Key pictures : )

Happy Birthday Da!!

Happy Birthday to Bill, Joey's Da!

I won't say how old he is :) haha It has become a tradition for us to go to Big Eds on Da's birthday. So here are my boys enjoying pizza and cheesing for the camera

Joey waiting patiently to get his handful of cheese, we kept making him say "Cheese Please"

Joey and Da blowing out the candle together (Joey thought it was still his bday :) This is a funny story because I HAD a cool Star Wars cake made for Bill. Joey and I left to pick it up and Joey was so excited to get what he kept calling "Da's cake". We brought it home and I put it in the laundry room on top of the dryer and closed the door. Next thing you know I can't find Joey and then I hear "See Da's Cake" a thud and an "uh-oh". Cake was all over the place!! At first I was mad, but then I started laughing and we went back out and got a cookie cake and stuck Yoda on it. Who knew the kid was #1 that tall and #2 could open doors! Funny story!!!!!

Opening Da's presents

Also, wanted to include some pics of Da's Shopping Center. Stores are finally open, yayayayayay!!! We are so proud and happy of him. Can you believe this used to be houses!!!
Meijer Grand Opening!! Meijer is like an upscale SuperTarget located mainly in the Midwest, an awesome store!!

Good side view, what a great design!!!

Also, a little update...we have sold our house and are headed to Jacksonville sometime soon to buy another. We don't move until Sept 27th, but that will be here before we know it. Stay tuned for pics from our new home and the beach!

2 Year Old Checkup

Well, Joey had his 2 year old checkup today, unfortunately his last with Dr. Padgett and her great staff! He weighed in at 28 lbs 9 oz (56th Percentile) and is 35 1/2" Tall (78th Percentile) a great relief to Bill and I since the kid seems like he hardly eats enough to keep a bird alive. Dr Padgett also said she was very impressed with his great talking, she said he is very advanced in talking and putting together sentences.

Here are his 2 year old pictures, our little conductor.

With his tongue out, a Joey trait when he is concentrating

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