Valentines Day 2010

Let me say UP FRONT that I am well aware of what a terrible blogger I have been recently. However, our family has been going through some struggles lately and it takes a while to get back to normal during hard times. I would ask that if you are reading this blog and you are a person of faith, please say a little prayer for us. We have a lot of hard decisions and trials in our future and a little divine guidance is sure to help : ) Thanks in advance and I will try and update more regularly. Now on to what really matters!!!

Valentines Day!!

The Valentine's Box filled up by the "Cupid", the dog was from Mom and Da!!

He loved it best of all, we knew he wanted it!!! He named her Daisy, isn't that sweet!! It really seems to have helped with his sadness and mourning at her (our real dog Daisy) passing

Ohh look at those goodies!!!

Yay, he got his power miner legos!!!

Joey also had a Valentines Party at school and I volunteered to help. Here he is eating Valentine goodies at his assigned table, YUM!!!

Me and him in his class. I felt so extra-special blessed to be able to be there for him during his school party!!! My Valentine!

Christmas Day 2009

I am finally doing Christmas Day (sorry) we have had A LOT going on on our lives right now. So without further delay here is Christmas Day 2009!!!

Joey had us up at the CRACK of dawn, and as you can see from this first pic taken, he was READY!!!

So while Da went to see if Santa came yet, Joey opened his Elmo stocking (Santa fills two at our house, one upstairs and one down : ) Joey was partial to the dump it all out method this year : )

Turning the corner around the stairs and first seeing that Santa came!!!!

Most important!!! Santa came with his Toy Machine...what a happy kid!!! Joey had been saving and saving quarters in anticipation, but Santa also brought him 2 extra rolls of quarters, woohooo!!! He emptied the entire machine in a little over a day!!! Let me say when Joey put this on his list Santa just about had a coronary...but actually they are pretty reasonably priced ; )

Only one per quarter??

Joey got a great little tool kit and wore his safety goggles almost the entire rest of the day, too cute!!!

Yay, he got his fishing pole!!!!! Him and Da have even been fishing already, more on that later!

Again with the dump it method of stocking stuffer removal

A Fireman costume from Mom and Da, it has become a tradition for us to buy him costumes, good thing too, all the stuff from his dress-up box was too small!

Christmas Eve

Joey filled out his Santa plate himself, writing in he wanted a Toy machine, candy and an alien creator

Putting out his cookies to Santa, he INSISTED they should be on the table

Reading night before Christmas

Santa's footprints on the hearth BEFORE Joey had gotten up, you can see Santa put his toy machine right up front!!

The loot before he saw it....as usual Santa went overboard, but Joey was a great boy!!

Santa ate the cookies, drank the milk...and overate, look under the table and you can see he lost a button ; )

Christmas Disney with the Fam!!

Molly and Joey, is this not the cutest picture you have EVER seen?!

All of us girls and Joey with our light-up snowmen on, lotsa fun at Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party!! Free Hot Cocoa and cookies, YUM!!

Joey chose this Santa hat, very cute!!

The Merry Christmas Float

We had breakfast with Pooh and Friends at the Crystal Palace in Magic Kingdom

Joey has grown a whole inch since Thanksgiving and rode Space Mountain for the FIRST TIME EVER!!!!

A hidden Mickey on Santa's butt!!! We all thought this was so FUNNY!!

Beautiful Gingerbread Carousel

Dancing with Molly at the Osborne Family Christmas light show

With Molly and Laura... I didn't get to hold his hand all week : )

All the girls bought Joey a pin for his collection, he was so excited!!

Martha bought him a huge monorail set!!!

Playing with his monorail at home, he LOVES IT!!!

A WONDERFUL TIME!!!!!

Joey's Christmas School Performance

Joey's school had a great Christmas performance. Joey was so excited to perform, his favorite song was Happy Birthday Jesus. Here he is with his teacher Mrs McCubbin


With his twin girlfriends, Angelina and Arriana

His other girlfriend Angel is the cutie pie blond to his right : )

They did a great job and Joey had a good time with his friends Jon and Michael (also twins) at the reception after

Here is a portion of the performance, Joey is right behind the first tall microphone

Merry Christmas and Santa Visit's

First let me say Merry Christmas 2009 everybody!!!! We had a great Christmas and hope you did too!!! More pics coming from Christmas Eve and day soon. In the meantime, here is Joey waiting to see Santa at West Town Mall : ) Isn't he handsome!

He was just talking Santa's ear off...yadda yadda...I want a candy machine really bad!!

Finally we got him to sit for a cute picture

and a hug, gotta get those good boy points in!!

and then he was right back to telling Santa ALL about it, haha!!

Then our neighborhood has their annual sleigh ride and Santa greet. Here is Joey climbing into the sleigh

In the horse-drawn sleigh with Da

sitting on Santa's lap....you can see his face looks DEEP in thought...and on our walk home he informed us that THIS was not Santa, that the real Santa was in TN and this guy was just a lowly elf from the North Pole standing in for Santa. Guess next year we need to visit only one Santa, heehee

Up next....was Joey good enough to get his candy machine from Santa?

Merry Christmas Eve!!

Merry Christmas Eve- Eve everybody! Joey is so excited it was hard to get him to sleep tonight, just wait until tomorrow ; P Anyway, here are some highlights of our decorating... Joey became a huge fan this year of pretending he was Santa, so here he is playing the bug Mr.C, so cute!!

and again, I busted "Santa" filling our stocking with his own toys : )

Joey and Da decorating our live tree

Decorating the tree house : )

Making faces at Mom as she TRIES to get sweet pics : )

Picking out our live tree

Decorating Joey's tree in his playroom

Decorating the candy tree in his Buzz Lightyear PJs

More of the season coming....Disney and Santa!!