Family Pictures

We decided to get Family pictures taken this years at Walmart instead of Sears. We thought it would be nice to change it up a bit. The gal taking pictures was really good with JW. She got him to pose, and smile really well! JW behaved really well, and made me look forward to the next time. I was really not looking forward to these pictures because the last few times we got pictures taken were awful!! I can tell that JW is growing up, and we are getting through the terrible twos!

Jake is working diligently to clean up our horse pasture. His boss was very nice, and let us demo an excavator, and we are using it to clean up the blackberries, and level the pasture. Jake has been outside working from sun up to sun down. JW and I were out there the other day, throwing wood on the burn pile, and watching Jake drive the excavator. We might actually get the pasture looking presentable. Here is the LINKBELT!!!

Halloween '08

I am the worst when it come to procrastinating!! I have known for a long time that halloween was coming, but I still kept saying I will get JW's costume later. We couldn't really decide what we wanted him to dress up as. He is still young enough, that we wanted something kind of cute. Since I put off shopping until 2 days before halloween, all the cute costumes were gone. The ones that were left were either to small or they were to scary for JW. He didn't want a mask over his face.

Jake came up with the idea that we dress him up as a logger. We found some red suspenders at Wilco, and Jake bought him some worker boots at Goodwill. Jeans and a flannel shirt finished off the outfit. Jake let him wear an old hard hat that he had. I didn't think the outfit looked all that cute, but when we took him trick or treating, everyone commented on how cute he looked, and how they loved that we didn't just buy an outfit. I guess my procrastination paid off!!

Here are some pics of him in his outfit, and also with the pumpkin that his Nana and grandpa grew in their garden for him. He has loved going to the garden, and seeing his pumpkin get bigger.

Pumpkin Patch 2008

Jake and I decided today would be a good day to take JW to a pumpkins patch. I got home from the gym at about 11:00 am, and asked JW if he wanted to go to a pumpkin patch. I asked Jake if we should call JWs nana and invite her along. He said that sounded like a good idea. I called her, and she said she had to finish work, and would be at our house in a little over and hour!!

At the age of two, my son doesn't forget anything you say, no matter how much you try to distract him. For over and hour, he kept say "we going punkin hatch mommy?" It sounded cute the first 20 times. I kept explaining to him that we were waiting for nana, and then we would go. He ran to the couch, and looked out the window yelling "Is nana here yet, we go punkin hatch!!!" No matter what I did to distract him, every three minutes he would run to the window and look for nana. Nana finally got to our house, and we loaded up into the Durango and headed out. We went to a local farm, and looked at the "buful fowers" (beautiful flowers), and headed out to the horse drawn wagon that would take us out to the pumpkins.

Now, I have never been out to a pumpkin patch before in my life, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined that picking out the perfect pumpkin would be such a hard task. Every pumpkin that we pointed out to JW, he would say with conviction "that punkin no good!". I finally after looking at 50 pumpkins had to say, look at this baby pumpkin JW. This is mommies! No, my baby punkin! I have that one! Thank goodness, he finally found one he liked!!

Emergency Room

So, I met my girlfriend at the gym on Saturday morning. I just signed up, and it was the first time I have gotten to go since joining. We did cardio for about 40 minutes, and then Tosha said she was going to show me how to work my lower back. I felt really good during the cardio, and was excited to keep going.

We went down stairs, and got some water and headed to the workout machines. Tosha showed me how to do some exercises on a certain machine, so I went ahead and did them. When I stepped off of the machine, I felt a little dizzy. I told Tosh that I was going to sit a minute, b/c that is what I usually do when I am dizzy. The feeling didn't go away, so I said to her husband that I still felt really dizzy. I put my head down, and then I heard someone saying my name. I looked up and I was surrounded by a bunch of people. I was told that I had fainted, and that I was unresponsive. Next thing I know, they have called 911, and I was in an ambulance. No matter how much I said was fine, they said I needed to go to the ER. They took me in, and Tosha called Jake, and he met me there. We did an EKG, and blood work, and all is well. They don't know what caused it, but I just need to be a bit more careful.

Needless to say, I got up and headed to the gym this morning, and everything went fine. I doubt I will use the machine that made me dizzy again, but I am not going to let it stop me from getting in shape. A few guys came up and teased me a bit about leaving the gym on a stretcher, but now at least I know a couple of other people at the gym!!! I try to look at the positive.

Big Boy!!

It is 8:30 at night, and I went to put my sweet little boy to bed, and he said "no mommy, I do it". He didn't want me to help him go to bed. HE IS ONLY TWO!!! I never realized how quickly he would grow up. He wants to do everything himself. He wants to get out of his carseat by himself, out of the car by himself, zip up his coat by himself! But, there is one good thing to all of this. He went pee on the BIG BOY POTTY! All by himself! Yeah!!!

I am beginning to realize that he is never going to stop growing. I so miss the new baby smell, cuddling with him in the chair, and waiting for that first adorable little smile. But, every day he does something that makes me love him a little more. My sweet little boy is going to become a sweet man someday, and I pray that I am around to see him through every stage.

I love you John William.

New family member

Well, Jake called me the other day from his job in Klamath Falls, to let me know that I needed to puppy proof the house again!!! He just got us a new little family member. He had gotten an 8 week old Border Collie puppy. We already have one, but Jake thinks he is lonely, and decided he needed a new little buddy, and that JW needs a new little friend. So needless to say, I picked up all of JWs toys, and got out all our puppy supplies, and headed to the store to get some puppy food.

We have had the puppy for 5 days now, and he has got to be the easiest puppy that I have ever had. He goes out the cat door, that was here when we moved in, to go potty, and absolutely loves JW. JW is a little rough, but the puppy just runs outside if he can't handle it. It is nice, because now JW has someone to play with. I think he gets a little bored with just Jake and I to play with. I can only drive cars around the table so long before I get bored.

Hopefully someday we will have a playmate for JW, but until then, I guess it is pets for us!!!

We fianlly settled on the name Cash for the puppy. We figured since we never have any real cash, that this way we will always have some Cash around. LOL. I know, my sense of humour needs some work!!!

Keeping up with Family

I decided to start posting on here so that family and friends can see what is going on in our lives. Not many of my family members are on myspace, so I hope this will help them keep up with our lives. JW is growing up so fast, and I want the family to be able to see him grow!! I will do my best to post pictures on here regularly!!