Happy Memorial Day and Misc.

Happy Memorial Day!!!! Thank you too all the heroes who keep us safe and free!!

I thought this pic fittingfor the holiday ...As I mentioned before, we are cleaning out our attic and Bill found these great old Army helmets in one of his boxes. Him and Joey had a great time playing with them. Doesn't Joey look adorable : ) and very much like his Dad here

Wearing Da's shoes around the house, the boy loves his Da and does EVERYTHING Da does.

Joey's pals Jacob and Benjamin came over for some play time...handsome boys!!!

All three eating some good Popsicles...they each had three that day!

Look at those faces...can you tell I caught them trying to climb on Daisy and ride her like a horse and then they were trying to get her to eat rocks.....boys are funny creatures :)

Mine!

Many of you will remember this little blue sling (sat on the coffee table) that we used to lay Joey in as a newborn... he learned to rollover so quickly we didn't get to use it for long. Now we are trying to clean out our attic and I brought it down to donate to the Salvation Army, but.....

In typical toddler fashion Joey claimed it as still being "mine!" and carried it himself from the garage inside and made it his chair for a day or two. He is a little tall for it now!!!!! I am waiting for an opportunity to sneak it away.... even though a part of me LOVES seeing the glimmer of baby still left in him when he asks me to rock it and sing to him while he lays there.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful mothers, aunts, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, etc.... who have made a positive influence in my life and the life of my son. We had a wonderful day! Bill and Joey made me French Puffs for breakfast and brought me roses in bed. I am SO THANKFUL to God for the best gift of my life, Joey!

Helping me open my gifts...I think he is going to claim my Godiva chocolates : )

Giving me my card, he was very serious about giving it to me and then he ran and hugged me...very cute how he wanted my approval of his card....and of course his worry is for nothing since I think everything he does is great!

Then we went to the Edison Park Steakhouse with the Gallmans, Roberts, Foxes, etc... we were quite a gang and as usual had a BLAST!! Unfortunately I did not get as many photos..a.I was too busy having fun:)
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Here are three generations of Mothers (well Molly is a Mom to he furbabies..they count too!) Beautiful women!!!!! Makes me proud to call the family!!!

Joey giving Molly kisses and hugs as usual!!!!!

That evening we went to visit Nana...here Joey is giving her a rose!

And then giving her some good kisses!!!! He sure does LOVE his Nana and we thank God for her being such a great-grandmother (pun intended : ) influence in his life and in ours!!

Day Out with Thomas

Sunday afternoon we headed to the Chattanooga Railroad Museum for a Day out with Joey's favorite train Thomas. I am not sure if I have ever seen him that excited (maybe when he saw Santa).

Here is Bill and Joey walking in to see all the cool trains!

Of course we had to visit Sir Top 'm Hat....Joey was so thrilled, just look at that smile!

And the petting zoo, Joey really wanted to see the cows, but being the overprotective Mother that I am I did not let him pet the animals since there were not any nearby facilities for washing. But he watched them and said moo at them : )

Then he got his pic with both parents in front of Thomas, it was all we could do to get him to look at the camera and not Thomas. He kept saying "Hi Thom"

Waiting in line to board the train with great anticipation.

Giving his very own ticket to the conductor

A very happy and excited boy to be on board Thomas!!!!!!!

Timeout to give Mama a kiss!!! Sweet boy

Watching the world go by in awe

Waving Bye-bye to Thomas and the Conductor

Weekend Trip

Last weekend we took a quick trip and detoured to the shore for what we thought would be 5-10 minutes. But it ended up being an hour or so with Joey and I all wet. Once Joey saw the waves hitting the beach he was off and running. He was not very happy at all when we had to leave.

He had absolutely no fear and pretty much just ran right into the water and waves. (Which incidentally scared the poo-poo right out of Bill and I, we went to school with friends whose father drowned in the ocean...so we are both a little leery of the undertow)

He loved trying to grab the waves and having them break on his feet

The wave heading for him here was HUGE....but he loved the water and thought it was great when it hit him.

This is a funny picture, you can see Joey is pointing at something, well that something rolled right up and soaked us both : )

He also loved standing there and letting his feet sink into the sand and then pulling them out.

A cute pic of father and son.

We met this very nice gentleman at a Chili's restaurant and Joey struck up a little friendship with him. He would talk to him when he went by and give him high-fives. Much to our delight and surprise he gave Joey the hat you see him wearing and so Joey paid him back with a big hug and smile. Joey may not be a perfect talker yet, but he seems to have a personality that helps a lot of people "speak his language" anyway. Joey loves people and is so affectionate to everyone he meets. (Can you tell his Mom is writing this, sorry sometimes you have to brag a little. God really blessed Bill and I with an Angel as a Son)

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everybody! We had a great, relaxing day. Here is Joey eating a chocolate bunny!!

His stuff from the Easter Bunny!

Seeing it for the first time.

Loving on his new lamb who he calls Baa Baa

It was so cold we decided to setup an indoor egg hunt and Joey had a blast searching for and finding the eggs and goodies.



Then we packed up and went to Grandmother and Grandaddy Foxes for a delicious Easter dinner. Joey liked "tickling" Jeff's beard.

Giving Martha a hug

Cuddling with Grandaddy

Of course it wouldn't be Easter unless we stopped in to see Nana. Joey loves his Nana so much he cried when we had to leave. Playing with the talking bunny he got at her house along with a ton of other goodies.

Giving out more kisses.

A beautiful family

Visit with the Easter Bunny

We took Joey to have his photo taken with the Easter Bunny at the mall and he was so excited. We also took him again this year to get his picture taken with live bunnies, if you would like to see how they turned out.... the proofs should be up tomorrow at www.memoriesportraits.com , go to previews and enter session ID: Zanoni033107 ( the Z must be caps). They do a GREAT JOB and we would recommend them to anybody!!

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Waiting in line, the excitement building....you can see he is rearing to go.

Finally its our turn and he takes off like a flash.

And lands like this in the Easter Bunnies lap...I think the entire staff did a collective "awwww". Joey is real into hugs and kisses right now.

We could hardly get him to stop talking to him and face forward for the pic.

This kid loves the holidays!!!!!!!!!