Twins??

(Jennifer - left) (Josie - right)

People always ask me and wonder who Josie looks like. I always tell people she is a spitting image of me at birth and no one believes me. Why I don't know. But she is. They always think she must look like Brent, due to the dark hair. Well, look at these photos. Now, do you believe me?! We look like we could be twins or something. I guess the saying is true, "like mother like daughter."

Josie Wore Out Her Party Shoes

By the end of the night, Josie was so tired. The reception ended at 12 midnight, but we did not stop then we had an after party. We ended up going to be around 3 AM. Boy, was she tired.

Wedding

This weekend we ventured on a mini-family vacation just Brent, Josie, and I. We went to an old friends wedding. It was amazing! Very classy and first class let me tell you. Josie was a hit! Everyone wanted to hold her and love on her and she sure let them.

Getting to our final destination however was a challenge. We took the directions given to us in the invitation, however as we found out they were not very good. Or at least not good enough for us. We ended up getting LOST for 2 hours. The whole trip from start to finish was only suppose to take 3 hours. Brent did not want to turn around, so we just drove until we thought we may be going in the correct direction. We finally made it there however, after stopping twice and asking for directions, talking to a groomsman for directions, calling Grandma Debbie to find out where we were on the computer, Josie crying because she was hungry and we forgot the bottles. What did we learn from this? Bring bottles, a map, and print out our own directions.

We made it to our destination with 15 minutes to get ready. Completely get ready! Some how some way we did it. Amazing!

The wedding for...speechless! A nice Catholic wedding with a Stretch-Hummer Limo! That ride had to have been nice. Cocktail hour with open bar, waiters serving you appetizers, jumbo shrimp cocktail (when I say jumbo I mean I have never seen shrimp this large), champagne toast for all, sit down really nice dinner with wine to drink, band, you name it they had it.

Here are some photos from our night.

Happy Turkey Day!

I hope everyone had a joyful Thanksgiving. Yes, it is Monday and I am way late on posting Turkey Day photos, but this Mama was still not feeling well on Thursday and deadly sick again on Friday. I hate being sick. Then, we went out of town for the weekend.

Most everyone I am sure ate so much that the button on their pants more than likely was dying to pop free. I know Brent's felt that way. I wish mine would have. Holidays give you an excuse to eat and eat and eat. But since I did not feel well, I did not get to pig out as usual. Oh, well Christmas is right around the corner and I will have to make up for lost time then.

We would like to thank Kathy for having us over and all of the yummy food. It was great! Thanks!

Here are a few photos of our holiday.

Does anyone see anything wrong with these photos? I do. There is none with Josie and her Mommy and Daddy. I have none! This is not right. There should always be one with us with her. For now on, we will have to make sure that we get one.

Sorry, Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Terry there is not one with you with her either. What were we thinking?!

Breaking It In...

As of today, (well early this morning) I am boycotting Culver's restaurant. Why you ask? Well, last night Brent, Josie, and I donated an entire pickup load of stuff to Goodwill, did a few returns to Wal-mart, and then ate diner at Culver's. Not only did we eat diner, but we topped it off with frozen custard. Lets just say bad idea.

I will not go into much detail, because it is gross, but at 1 AM I became sick. Really sick. I could hardly make it to the bathroom sick. Brent woke up early before the alarm went off sick himself. So, lets just say he broke in the downstairs porcelain bowl and me the upstairs. He was not as sick as me. He was able to take some meds and off to work he went. Not me. At 3:30, I was still ill, really thirsty, and with a horrendous headache. I could barely make it to the kitchen. We did not have any Sprite or 7-Up, so I opted for plain old water. Bad idea again. Within 5 minutes up came the water. I could keep nothing down. I was sick from 1-9 AM. Not very fun I would have to say. I have not been that ill in a long time.

The conclusion Brent and I drew was food poisoning. Yuck!

Josie was not helping things today. She was really crabby and me really sick, with Brent at work. I could do nothing to get her to be quiet today. Nothing. I am running on about 2 hours of interrupted sleep. Not good. I was certain she would rest with me in bed today, but she had plans of her own I guess.

To top it off, Josie and I were suppose to eat lunch with a friend home for Thanksgiving, but unfortunately I had to call a rain check. Sorry, Kris that we had to miss lunch today. I could hardly hold my head up.

Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day. It has to be for my sanity.

Sparkle

Today, was a very warm day outside for being in mid-November, however we still had a fire in our fireplace. Josie loves to lay on the floor infront of the fire and stare at the flames. She will lay there and stare for a long time. Probably because it is so warm in front of it. So if Little Miss Josie wants a fire, that is what Little Miss Josie gets. As you can tell from the photo above she was in a good mood in front of the fireplace.

Girls Weekend Here I Come

Here are a few pictures of Josie preparing herself for our Girls Weekend.

Josie is sporting her bathrob and slippers.

Aren't these house slippers so cute?! They are just so tiny.

Grandma Debbie Finally Got to Babysit

As from my last posting, I stated that on Saturday night we were going to see Jason's band play, so of course Josie could not attend, so Grandma Debbie got here first babysitting experience. Brent came home early from hunting and was able to attend this wonderful event with me. Debbie came over about 8:30 PM to watch Josie. It made here sad however, because Josie was already in bed for the night. So no playing with Grandma this time. We got all dolled up for our first official outing without our little princess, which made me sad. We went to listen to "The 42's." That is the bands name, how they got it I am not sure. Jason (my brother-in-law) plays the drums in this band and it was their first paying gig. Way to go! They were really good. The bar where they played was not in the best of neighborhoods, but surprisingly the bar itself was rather clean for a bar and the crowd was pretty good. The bar is said to be a biker bar, but to tell you the truth I did not see much bikers in there. The good majority of the crowd was "groupies." You know people with the band. Friends. Family. There were a lot of us. I do not have any photos of the band to post, sorry. I forgot my camera in the car and lets just say I was not going to go out in the dark to get it in this neighborhood. We were not 100% sure exactly were the bar was located so we drove past it once not knowing where to park. I said well I guess we will have to go around the block and Brent yelled "NO!" He made me go down several blocks to a Hardee's and turn around in their lighted parking lot, so you know my hesitation to go back out to the car to get my camera. It made me made however that I forgot my camera, because Jason does not like to play in front of people he gets kind of shy so I was really hoping to take photos. But to much of my surprise he was not nervous at all. We made it there and home with no problems.

To top off the evening, there was this 80 year old man in the bar who could hardly get around taking pictures of all of us. He was a photographer for a magazine called Nightlife. If you know anything about this magazine check it out next time to see if you see my picture it in. He did one large photo with all of us with the band, so perhaps you will see me. Brent chickened out and was not in the photo.

We were only gone for like 3 1/2 hours, but to me it felt like a lifetime. Is that bad? I kept opening up my phone to check and make sure that Debbie did not call and I not hear it and when I opened up my phone there as my backdrop was a picture of Josie. It made me want to cry several times because I was not home with her. Brent kept telling me that she was sleeping so it really didn't matter. When we got home, we caught Debbie red handed rocking Josie in the glider. She knew she was busted when she was told before we left not to wake her or is she awakes not to go pick her up and let her cry herself to sleep. Debbie said she just could not take it anymore. She was screaming bloody murder. After Debbie left I fed Josie. She seemed hungry which is not like her to get up at 12 AM to eat. Usually she doesn't get up until 5 once she goes to bed. Oh, well.

If any of you are interested in going to hear "The 42's" play next time let me know. I believe they will be playing in December again. They are really good, believe me. I am an honest person and tell it how it is so if they weren't I would tell you. Everyone knows I don't hold anything back. The more people there to support them the better.

While Daddy Is Away...We Will play

This weekend as most of you know was Shotgun weekend for deer. So Daddy left to go out of town on Thursday evening to leave just Josie and me home by ourselves for the weekend. I could not believe that he survived to be away from his little girl for this long. However, he called often just to see how she was, not to check on me or anything but her. We all now who is at the top of his list now. Josie #1 Mommy #2. That's ok, because that is how my list goes for him (Josie #1, Daddy #2). He just could not say away all weekend long however. He ended up cutting his weekend short and came home Saturday night. As for his success for hunting, he ended up shooting 2 over his time gone, but found neither one.

So her is the scoop on our busy weekend and the reason there has been no posts. Even though Brent was gone it was a busy weekend without him. Thursday, Josie and I had lunch with an old friend and made an honest living cleaning Grandma Debbie's house. Friday, well we went shopping. What is a girls weekend without a little shopping. Right? We mastered Christmas shopping without all the busy crowds yet. I can not believe Christmas is about a month away. Where has this year gone? Saturday was just stressful in itself. We had so much to do. Holiday Lane Craft Show up at the school with Aunt Jamie at 10, Mary Kay open house at 12 at our friend Sherry's house (which was nice), Cousin Reese's first birthday party at 2, and to top the evening to go see Jason's band play at 9. Sunday, bake Christmas cookies at Aunt Jamie's house.

Let's just say that I was happy this weekend is finally over. I can sit down and breath a little.

Out For Lunch

Today, Josie and I met my friend Devon for a lunch date. I have not seen Devon in a while, well it has only been about two weeks. She is expecting in March, which is exciting. She is having a boy, so I guess it could possibly be Josie's future husband. Wait, no! I forgot Brent is making her join the convent! I love meeting friends for lunch. In fact, next weeks some other old friends from Chicago will be in town and we will be doing lunch then also. Josie was good for the most part. She got a little crabby when she got hungry and tired, but don't we all.

Where has this week gone?

This week has been just one of those lazy weeks. With the weather getting cold, Josie and I relaxed under warm blankets.

Little Miss Josie is growing like a weed. The has started to blow spit bubbles. It is the cutest thing. Yesterday, she blew one about the size of a quarter. It was so funny! I could not believe that she could make one that large.

Everyday we read a book together. So far it seems that each time we read "Rainbow Fish" is is quite through the whole thing. I think it is the shiny fish in the book that catches her eye every time.

Brent is going away hunting for the weekend, so we I guess have been resting for our first girls weekend without Daddy.

Say tooned to see how our weekend goes!

A Fun Saturday With My Aunts And Cousin

On Saturday, Josie and I were visited by Aunt Kasey, Aunt Jamie, and Cousin Jake. We had a fun afternoon making Josie smile and watching Jake pull the nightlights out of the wall sockets. It had been a while since all of us had gotten together, so we were way past due. But lets just say we got caught up on our overdo meeting. Josie can not wait until the next Aunt Day!

My Mommy Loves It When I Smile! Do You?

You know she is getting bigger when I talk to her and she smiles from ear to ear for me. It is the cutest thing I have ever seen. She is making little cooing sounds now. Not many but some. She gets all excited at things and she will move her arms and legs really fast. Sometimes she has the biggest grin on her face and you think she is going to laugh, but nothing comes out of her mouth. I can not wait until she lets out her first belly laugh. It will make me sad for she is getting older but happy because when babies laugh it is precious.

I hope these smiles brought a smile to your face on this nice Sunday afternoon. It did to mine!

Growing Up...

Josie has officially out-grown her first article of clothing. I think I am going to cry. Last night, Brent went to go put on her pj's and after he snapped all the snaps Josie's legs were bent. She could not straighten them. The pair of pj's were to short to fit her long body. So, we had to pack away this pair of pj's for our next little bundle of joy. Don't worry it will be in the box for sometime before Josie is joined by any siblings. The pj's were newborns, so that kind of makes me feel better since she is already 2 months old.

A Lazy Sunday

Lets see what did Josie and I did today?

We went to church and took Grandma out to lunch for her 81st birthday. Yes, I said 81st birthday and she is healthier than ever. And that was it. Really that is. Josie took a 2 hour nap, yeah for her! I just about joined her in this activity, but I thought about it and decided it I took a nap perhaps I could not sleep tonight. I have been having a little trouble falling asleep the last few nights. So instead of taking a nap or going to the gym today to get this body back to its pre-prego self (I know it will never be the same, but I need some kind of motivation) I decided to pick up the house. It was and still is need of it. But until the magic fairies appear to do it for me I have to do it myself.

Party It Up!

Happy 3rd Birthday Katie!

(Katie, Roger, and Jacob)

How did all of you spend your Saturday night? My family enjoyed an evening celebrating Katie's 3rd birthday. She is growing so fast. The theme was Thomas the Train. The party was equipped with Thomas the Train plates, napkins, blow horns, and even a 3-D train cake. Uncle Mike was such the excellent baker this year and made it himself. Good job! It was yummy.

(Katie opening her gifts)

(It's a bird, it's a plane,...no it's Jacob with butterfly wings! How cute!)

Our Little Cupcake is 2 Months Old Already

Our little cupcake is already 2 months old. Can you believe that? I can't. Man, has time flew by. On her 2 month birthday, we went to the doctors for our 2 month check-up and the dreaded shots. Not the best way to spend the day, but it had to be done. She is growing like a weed. Here is how she is growing:

weight: 9 1/2 pounds and is in the 18%-tile
height: 22 3/4 inches and is in the 67%-tile
head: 36.5 cm and is in the 4%-tile

So overall she is tall and skinny.

She got her 2 month shots. Yuck! She got a total of 3 in her thigh. Lets just say the nurse way not very gentle, at least not for this mommy who does not like shots. I did very well in my opinion. I only got teary eyed when Josie began crying. This was much better than I thought I would do. Josie did very well, better than I expected. So, the rest the day she felt a little under the weather and wanted to be held, so of course that is what I did all day.

What a big girl!

(It is so rough being her!)

I met Charlie Brown!

What kind of Aunt would I be if I did not post my cute little newphews photo. He is dear old Charlie Brown. Isn't that cute?!

Grandpa Dave and the little Trick-or-Treaters

Baby's First Halloween!

Here are a few more of our little ones first Halloween!

What Is Halloween Without A Pumpkin?

Yesterday, to top off our Halloween festivities we enjoyed painted a pumpkin since Josie is to small to carve one. I was going to carve it and make her pick out all the goo, but then I thought perhaps she would not open her hand to pick out the seeds. She did not like painting very much. It was nap time and she was tired! Maybe next year will be better.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! So what was everyone for Halloween this year? Can you guess what Josie was? If you guessed, Little Red Riding Hood you are correct. Isn't she so adorable?! I tried to get Brent to dress up as the wolf, but he was not going to have that. My grandmother made her costume, since she was to small to fit into any other costume. She is still wearing newborn clothes. We enjoyed a night out trick-or-treating. We went to the parade in town and even entered into the Halloween costume contest where little Miss Josie mopped up 3rd PLACE! YEAH FOR JOSIE!

If I was the wolf, I could just eat her alive she is so cute!