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

A beautiful profile

Happy 5th Birthday Jacob!!!

We all had a great time at Jacob's Pirate Pool Party!!!

Here is a good pic of the Big Five Year Old!!!! Happy Bday Jacob!!

Joey driving the pirate ship

Our little scoundrel

Slip sliding away

All the boys playing the fishing game Jacob got

A group pic of the pool

Thanks for a great time!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Joey

We had an spectacular day on Joey's birthday. That morning we woke up and headed to Gatlinburg for some fun. Joey got to stop and ride some Kiddie Rides and he really liked them and then we headed to the Aquarium which he really loved.

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Joey riding the spin cups

The kiddie swings

The Train with Da

The Merry-Go-Round with Mama

He LOVED the airplane

He started waving to people during the ride, funny boy!

Seeing his favorites the Jellyfish, he told us you bounce on top...like in Nemo ( a favorite movie)

Touching a shark, Joey calls all sharks Bruce, another Nemo reference

He loved the coral reef

Finally we found Nemo and Dori

He really liked crawling "inside" the aquariums


Then after his nap we had Nana and Aunt Mare over and we all watched Joey open gifts and eat cake.
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Here he is blowing out his candles. The cake isn't as pretty as the one we bought for his party, but it was made and decorated by Mama with Da's buttercream icing....so it had more love in it.

His BIG gift the train table and Sights and Sounds Accessories Bench.....he hasn't stopped playing with it since.


Showing Nana his favorite train he has been wanting and wanting called Mighty Mac

A great facial expression when he realize he got Buzz, Woody and Jessie : )

A big hug for his Nana

I wish I could put all the pics on here, he got lots of gifts and loved them all. A great 2nd birthday...what a big boy we have.