New Trick

Today Gail and I woke up to the sound of knocking on a door and Nolan saying: "Mommy, Daddy!"
Gail got up and went into Nolan's room to discover that he was standing behind his bedroom door. Yes, he has figured out how to climb out of his crib! :) So our little Monkey is really starting to grow up! Funny thing is that I was out shopping for paint and fabric yesterday to re-do our spare room for him. I found the fabric to make his bed spread for his new big boy toddle bed. He must be trying to tell us he is ready to move into his new room and new bed! So Candice and Deb I need help deciding on paint color!!!!!!! :)

Terrell's Christmas

This year Matt and Candice hosted their first big holiday in their new beautiful home. They did a great job, and their house is looking really nice. Candice should be an interior designer. (You can come and re-do my house anytime girl!) :) Thanks again for hosting a wonderful Christmas dinner and family gathering. Here are some pictures of our fun day. Oh yeah we also celebrated Gail's grandparents 70th Anniversary!! (click on picture to enlarge)

Hon's Christmas

My brother and his family came in to celebrate Christmas on Sunday afternoon. It was nice spending time with them. We opened up our gifts on Sunday night, and then had our dinner, games and more fellowship on Saturday. I just wish I had felt better!!! I hate being sick, but more so when you are pregnant!!! Something funny about our family is that since Gail and I have been together 5 out of 6 Christmas there has always been a duplicated gift. Can't remember the right order but here is the load down. 1st Year my brother bought my parents a DVD player, and so did Gail and I. 2nd Year: my brother bought my parents and Us George Foreman Grills and my parents did too. 3rd year we bought my brother the same play station game that he bought Gail. 4th year brother bought parents a photo printer, Dad also bought mom one. Well this year was really funny because we had decided to not buy gifts for adults. My brother and I would buy gifts for our parents and my parents just for the grandkids. So we thought for sure there would be no duplicated gifts. Well we were wrong. My brother and I bought our parents the same gift. We got them the picture frames that you download a lot of photos and it displays the pictures like a slide show. How funny!!! Here are a few pictures of the Hon's Christmas: (Click on picture to enlarge it)

Fantasy Football League

My team name was Shockwave

Some of the girls at my church decided to have a fantasy football league of our own this year. Now if you know me I am not much of a sports fan. However, I began to really like playing fantasy football, and learned a lot more about football this year. I even sat down and watch a few games with Gail, my husband. This made him very happy. Well I can't believe it, but I came in 2nd place in our league. Wow!! I was just thrilled to make it to the playoffs, let alone 2nd place!!! I might of had a better shot of actually winning if my QB Jon Kitna and Greg Jennings would have had a better game. Oh well.... I am still very pleased with the results. I hope to play again next year!!!

The Hall Kids Sleepover!!!

Wednesday night we had the Hall kids spend the night with us after church. Josh, Rachel, and Abby are Nolan's cousins. The night started off good with playing video games, board games and attempting to watch my Fair Lady. We were not impressed with this movie and did not finish it. Anyways while I was making cookies last night Josh was tossing a very small soft football up in the air. Really no big deal, I did not even think anything of it, because it would of been something I or Gail would have done. Well somehow it barely hit a picture hanging up in the kitchen and it fell down and broke. I was just thankful it did not fall on Josh. Thats all we need another run to the emergency room for stitches! Anyways the next morning all was well. Until Abby went to use the bathroom. Yelp, somehow she walked out of the bathroom not noticing that when she flushed the toilet it was overflowing. We did not discovery this flood until Gail walked into our Laundry room to find an 1/2 inch of water on the floor. He then discovered at least 1 inch of water in our bathroom and the toilet still flowing over. The water ended up in our back bathroom(not bad) and are hallway. Thank goodness for a shop Vac. We were able to clean up the water. However, I have to wash every towel we own because we used them up to clean up the mess. One good thing came out of the flooding. I got a really clean bathroom, and more importantly I was able to throw away Gail's gross electric toothbrush and replace it with a new one we had on hand. That thing was Germ heaven! :) Well the kids have now been returned home. We had fun and got two really fun stories out of the night to tell. And yes if you are wondering we will have them over again. They are great kids we are blessed to have them as are nieces and nephew!!! :) Plus Nolan had a blast with them. They are really good with him. I wish I would have gotten video of Josh and Nolan dancing to a singing dog though. Very cute!!!

Nolan waking up Josh

Rachel starting to wake up

Abby with cute bed hair

Nolan and Abby playing

Josh playing a video game

What a Day!!!

The day started off well getting to sleep in, however, right before Gail was leaving for work Nolan decided to try and give us a heart attack. Gail was getting ready in one bathroom for work, and I in our bedroom bathroom. Nolan follows me into our bedroom and was playing with his cars. As I am in the bathroom I hear a crash. I yelled to Gail to come quick. Nolan had knocked down our full length mirror. He was crying, but stopped when Gail got the mirror off him. (the mirror is light thank goodness.) We proceeded to clean it up and Nolan even stood watching me vacuum up loose mirror pieces. After about 5 minutes later I look over at Nolan and I see blood running down his leg. I think oh No he did get cut. I washed the cut off and saw a nasty cut that I thought might need stitches. Gail came in from cleaning his car off to look at it. He squeezed the wound together and put a ban aide on it. That helped stopped the bleeding. Then we called the doctor and they told us they do not do stitches we would have to take him to urgent care or the hospital. The first Urgent care the doctor looked at the wound and said he needs stitches, but would not do it, he has to be taken to Children's downtown, because the one by us does not open until 6:00 pm. So we took him to anther urgent care that would do stitches, but when we got there they did not take our insurance. Finally after driving around forever and calling a number of different places we took him to Mercy Emergency, where he got the royal treatment. Thank Goodness he did not get stitches, they used the glue treatment instead!!! :) Then the doctor gave him a yummy Popsicle. We are just so thankful that it was a small cut on his leg. I don't want to even imagine how bad he could have been hurt! Thank you Lord for watching over him today!!!
One funny thing did happen today. We stopped at McDonald's on our way to Mercy. Gail pulled up to the first window to pay. Then started to drive off forgetting to go to the next window to get our food. I asked what he was doing and he said going to Mercy. I said what about the food. I had to get out of the car and walk up to the window and retrieved our food.

Nolan helping daddy shovel snow

Saturday we woke up to snow starting to fall. It accumulated nicely so Gail went out and shoveled the drive way and put down salt. Nolan decided he wanted to go outside too and show daddy how to shovel snow the right way. So with his little red shovel he helped for awhile, then decided to eat the snow. He got a real kick out of me making snowballs. I would make them and he would throw them. Here are some pictures of our snow day.

He was done showing daddy how to shovel snow

Young Marrieds Christmas Party.

Our church had its annual Christmas party this year. It was really nice. We started off with a yummy dinner and than played our annual Christmas gift exchange game It was a long game. I ended up with a gift card to Donato's pizza and Gail got lotion.. :) He will be smelling good now! HAHAHAHAHA!!! It was a really nice night getting out and fellowshipping with our friends. Here our some pictures of our night.
OH yeah Congrats to our friends Amy and Scott on their new addition. A bouncing baby boy, born yesterday night. Two babies born this week. Cool! I am the next one on our growing list of expecting moms to have the next baby. I can't wait!! I can't believe I will be 27 weeks tomorrow. Next Sunday I will be 7 mts. Cool!!! :)

Billie and Steve Layer

Scarlet, Keven, Angie, Jen, and Greg

Baby Makeena, Johnny, and Tara

Abby, Candice, and Matt

More Christmas party pictures

Jen and Greg

Steve and Deb

Sara, Kristy, and Dave

Jason with his cute pink PJ's that he got.. I think someone stole
them from him..

Me and Marshan

Oh Happy Day!!!!

Well I got my Christmas gift early this year!!! :) Well it is not really a Christmas gift but an answer to prayer!!! I don't have gestational Diabetes!!! :) Yeah!!!! So I get to enjoy Christmas dinner with my family....:) The doctor told me that my blood test came back in the normal range! So that is even cooler. So this baby might be born on Nolan's b-day after all! :)

Shoes

Last night Nolan surprised us by putting on his own shoes. He even had them on the right feet. (He does better with that than I do. If you only knew how many times I put his shoes on the wrong feet.) He did it today too! :) He is growing up too fast! :( Still have not heard from the doctor about my gestational diabetes test. Hopefully sometime today I will hear. If not I will call tomorrow. I am ready for a nap already. Nathaniel would not let me sleep last night. I think he is preparing me for his feedings every so many hours when he arrives! ;) Congrats to our friends Tim and Alicia they just had a baby girl last night at 7:00 pm. She had an emergency C-section due to the baby's high heart rate.. but all is good with mommy and baby! :) The baby was 4 weeks early and weighed 7 lbs 5 0z only 1 oz less than when Nolan was born.

6 month check up for baby and me

Well I took my beloved orange drink today. I actually drank it on my way to pick my mother up to go to the doctor's office. I actually did not mind it this time. I guzzled it down fast and it did not taste that bad this time. Go figure. However, when I got to the doctor's office they took me into a room to draw my blood. The nurse took one look at my veins and said there is no way I am going to be able to draw blood. (my veins are so small, always have been!) So the doctor had to draw the blood. He tried first in my arm, that did not work, then he had to have a butterfly needle (it is a IV needle basically put in my right hand. That did not work either. So He finally got a vein on my other hand... Oh yeah!!! So my hands are really sore and black and blue. But it wasn't that bad. I should find out my result tomorrow or within the next few days. Fingers crossed!!! I hope I don't have it, but I probably do have gestational diabetes. I can't believe that I am already going to start seeing the doctor every two weeks now! Wow!!! They were going to schedule me for Dec. 24th but I was like I don't think so... So I go on the 21st. Can't believe how fast it is going bye!:)
Funny story: When I was in with the doctor Nolan was sitting out in the waiting room with my mom. I had my stuff next to the chair I was sitting in before going into see the doctor. A mother and daughter walked in and the little girl went to sit in the seat I was using before going in to see the doctor. Nolan started crying saying: "That's my mommies chair!" He was really heartbroken about someone sitting in the chair I used. So the mother was kind enough to have her daughter sit in another chair. She thought it was pretty cute and funny! :0)

Nolan and his baby

My mom and I went shopping the other day. Nolan saw this cute boy baby doll that cries, laughs, and says a few words. He got attached to it at the store so we got it for him. Every time the baby cries he would pat it on its back and say it's ok. If you know my son he is very attached to his shoes and must have them on almost all the time. Well his baby did not have shoes and this upset him. Where's shoes? he would ask me... So I had to put a pair of his socks on the babies' feet. That satisfied him. Here is a picture of him taking care of his baby doll. He had to have one of his old bottles to feed him.

I hope this is a sign of how well he will be
with his baby brother!!!! :)

Nolan's Doctor Appointment

My Child's doctor is pretty cool. He told me to not bring Nolan in at 18 months unless there was a problem. Instead he told me to bring him in between 18mts and 24 months for a check up. So Nolan had his 20/21 month check-up today. The doctor told me that I did not have to make a 2 year or 3 year check up since he would be seeing me and the new baby a lot. (It is cool to have a doctor that is not out for your money, and he is great with Nolan and cares for him too.) Anyways, Nolan did not need any shots!!! :) Yeah!!! Doctor said he was looking good. Here are his stats..
weight: 28 lbs 7o percentile
Height: 33 1/2 50 percentile
Head C: 20 100 percentile (so yes my kid has a big head!!) :) But it sure is a cute one!!! :)

Nolan and Snow/Ladies Ornament Exchange

Last year Nolan was not for sure of the snow. He liked going laundry basket sledding with daddy, but he did not like how cold the snow was when it got on him. He also loved eating the snow. This year G-ma Hon found him a cool sled. Which by the way he calls his boat. We took him out for a few minutes on Wednesday, and he loved it. Of course his favorite part about the snow was eating it again... :)




Thursday Night was our annual Ladies Christmas ornament exchange with my church. It was fun getting together with everyone. There was some great food and some really cute ornaments. Some of the ladies get pretty brutal over wanting a certain ornament. (Just kidding) :) I walked away with two cute ornaments and gave one to my Husbands Aunt. I have not decorated our house for Christmas in a few years now. My excuses are, I was pregnant did not feel like it, than the following year I had a crawling/walking toddle, and this year I am pregnant again. So we will see about next year, because I will have a 2 1/2 year old and a 9mt old. I only took 3 pictures of the night, because I was enjoying the fellowship to much. So no pictures of the activity.

Gail's work party

Gail's work party was a lot of fun. They started the night off breaking us off into teams. We were told to bring our digital camera tonight and the reason why was our teams went on a savager hunt taking pictures of various fun things. Each thing you got had a point value attached to it. The team with the most points and back on time won. Our team won!!! Yeah.... So our teams members split the $ prize and Gail and I got $100. Cool! It was a nice evening out with a fun savager hunt game, dinner, and we got to see everyones cool pictures displayed that night on an overhead from a computer. Here are just a few of the savager hunt pictures from the party. Oh yeah this would be a great activity for our young marrieds class!!! :)

Hanging upside down

Bye Bye Gail!!! :)

Fireman and me

This picture says it all!!! :)

Hugging Big Boy!!!

Kaleb's B-day party!!!

Nolan was invited to his first b-day party today. It was for Kaleb's 3rd birthday. He is a boy from our church and he is adorable. We went to Chuck E Cheeses and played games, ate cake and watched Kaleb open up some really cool gifts. I almost brought my camera, but was glad not to carry it around.. so no pictures. But he had a lot of fun playing with all the boys and girls. HAPPY b-DAY KALEB!!!! Since we were close to g-ma and G-pa's house we stopped by there to visit awhile, ate lunch, and then help G-ma put up the Christmas tree. Now we are home and someone is on the cranky side due to the fact he did not get a nap today. Oh well. Word World is on now and he is happy. I love that show, and he is learning so much from that show and Super Why. He can identify the letters, a, b, c t, s, and o. He will even say ABC for you.
Well Laundry is calling my name, when is it not... but thankful all is clean just needs to be folded and put away. I can't believe the amount of laundry 3 people can produce.... My hat is off to all you mothers out there with large families. I don't know how you keep up with the laundry.....

Terrell"s Thanksgiving

Today we ate Lunch at Carolyn's house (Gail's mom). We had a nice lunch and a relaxing time just kicking back and talking with the whole family. Here are some pictures. (click on collages to make bigger)

Rachel (Top left), Candice and Deb (top right)
Josh, Abby, Elaine, and Carolyn

Nolan of course had to play video games.
He loved sitting and just watching the fire in the fire place.
The big kids and adults played with Nolan's new toy more
than he did.

Hon's Thanksgiving

Gail, Nolan, Lion (our dog) and I headed up north to Indiana on Wednesday. We stayed until Friday and had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with my brother, Thomas, his wife Gina, and their 5 great kids. Gina's side of the family were there too, and it was great getting to see and talk to them again too. Nolan had a ball with all the kids. You see my brother has 5 kids, Gina's sister has 6 and her brother had 4 there, but him and his wife were busy in the hospital giving birth to their 5th child on Thanksgiving day! Yeah It was a girl. It was nice for Nolan to have so many kids around his age to play with. IT was cute watching all of them. Here are some pictures of our trip and Thanksgiving in Indiana. (if you click on one of the collages you can make the pictures bigger)

Fall Photos

Here are Nolan's fall pictures:

More Fall Photos

Dear God,

Why must my mommy take pictures of me
every month?
Love,
Nolan

Cute!!!

Last Sunday was Fast Food Sunday. After our regular morning service we all went and grabbed some kind of fast food and came back to the church to eat and fellowship. Than we had a nice afternoon service. When we got home around 3:00 that day we put Nolan down for a nap cuddled up on the couch and watched a movie. Later we ordered pizza for dinner. When the pizza arrived I told Nolan to go sit on his chair at the table. As Gail and I were putting pizza on plates we looked over to see Nolan at the table head bowed, hands folded in his lap, eyes closed, and he was mumbling something. Than at the end he said AMEN! The cute kid prayed all by himself over his food. It was so cute....

Morning Sickness stinks!!! :)

Ok, so I have been getting up around 6:00 am to eat breakfast now. Yes I go right back to bed after I am done eating, but I am determined to stick to this gestational diabetes diet. However, breakfast that early does not settle very well with me. I almost got sick yesterday, and today I did get sick. On top of that Nolan must of heard me getting sick this morning and decided he needed to wake up at 7:00 am. OH yeah!!!! Then decides to leave a very pleasant load in his pants almost sending me straight to the bathroom again. This new baby has given me more heartburn and morning sickness than when I was pregnant with Nolan. I really can't wait for March to come and meet him. Plus I am looking forward to NO MORE MORNING SICKNESS!!!!!!! OK Venting is over.... Plus side of today is that I am hoping Nolan will take an early nap since he got up earlier! :) Fingers crossed!!!!

Marshan's 30th Surprise Party!!! :)

So our Sunday School Class (Young Marrieds) had a late night bowling activity planned. Well My friend Marshan's 30th B-day is this week too so I helped her husband pull of a surprise party for her. She was totally clueless on the party.

Surprise!!!

Yummy Cake!!!

We had plenty of gag gifts for her too. She had to wear all of them,
well most of them.....:)

So cute!!!!