Firsts...

I've had good intentions for the past 3 weeks to update the blog with pictures of Christmas, etc. but just haven't gotten to them. So I'm going to preempt those and post a few firsts...


Joshua's FIRST lost tooth - yes, finally at 7 years, 2 months (exactly) Joshua lost his first tooth. The adult tooth is coming in behind it...went to the dentist to have it pullled and the nice dentist freaked him out by telling Brian that it looked like things might be cramped so it might be best to pull all FOUR lower front teeth and then grind down the eye tooth a bit. Needless to say, he didn't get it pulled and he and Daddy worked on it for a few days and the evening of Dec. 30th out it came!

Nathaniel's firsts was his first official day as a Sunbeam in Primary at church. I have a hard time believing that he's old enough for it...so does he, he misses the Nursery way more than Joshua ever did, but he's enjoying singing with the big kids and having a class. He's the only one moving up this year...and they way they've divided the classes here, he's with kids that are turning 5 & 6 this year...big difference!

Grace's first has no picture...she started eating some rice cereal this week and is seeming to enjoy it. We're hoping it helps her to sleep better because our sweet little princess that was sleeping all night long for so long has suddenly, in the past week, decided that waking Mommy up every TWO hours or so to eat is fun. No, it's not, I can assure you. And here's a picture of her anyway because she's too darn cute to not put a new picture of her up!

Maybe in the next day or so, I'll get Christmas pictures up.

Our First Decade...

From just the two of us...

Then there were three...

Then four...

And now we're five...

Happy 10th Anniversary!

Random pictures of the kids in early December

JOSHUA!!!!

Night in Bethlehem

Great Grandma & Grace

Sleepy head

Cute brothers with new haircuts!!

Look at those blue eyes!

Mommy & Grace

Cheesy grin!

Just swinging around :)

This picture is for Aunt Carol :)

All ready for Church

Grandma, Grace & Nathaniel

Our smiley girl!!

The epitome of laziness

A happy face!! This was on the backside of an English Muffin...shoulda' put it on eBay!

Helping Mommy make peanut brittle

First Snow of the Season...

We had our first snow of the season yesterday...once I put Grace down for a nap, Nathaniel and I went out for a few minutes...

FANTASTIC!!

Fantastic is Nathaniel's word today...he's been saying it all afternoon...and it describes him quite well...he's FANTASTIC!!

He wasn't mad - and he wasn't caught where he shouldn't be...he was just trying out the baby seat...and was upset with me because I used the old camera, not the new camera!

On 10-23 it was Mole Day for Daddy's chemistry class and they had a potluck. We got to go (except Joshua, he had to go to school)...we got to see where Daddy has his classes and visit Grandpa in his office...afterwards, Nathaniel "read" a Curious George book to Grace.

Our football player...Joshua

I haven't had a chance to put up pictures of Joshua from flag football...or his Rockin' with Respect awards. He brings home a copy and a copy gets put up on the bulletin board in the hall at the school. His first one was for helping a teacher's aide learn how to navigate the accelerated reading program on the computer. His second one was for being considerate to a classmate that had gotten hurt on the playground.

November - Grace

Here are some pictures of Grace from the past month...

Grace's First Thanksgiving...and the only pictures I took on Thanksgiving this year!

She was smiling at Daddy today, but quit when I took the camera out...she screamed and then got this cute look on her face when I went to take one more picture. Slightly blurred because the phone rang and I jumped a bit!

Trying out the swing...before it died (did it just wear out, or did the big brothers help it?)

She's just starting to smile...I got this one my cell phone Wednesday to send to Daddy at class