Happy Birthday Katie!

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Sweet Pea (the flower not the veggie)
Happy Birthday to you!

Happy 11th Birthday Katie we love you!

Thank to all of you who have prayed and inquired about my brother. He is doing better just still in some pain. The doctor said the surgery went great they even found and repaired an additional problem they didn't know about beforehand. Thanks for your prayers!

Pray for Uncle J

Please be in prayer for my brother Jared. He will be having surgery tomorrow morning at 9 due to sleep apnea. Some of the things they will be doing is removing his tonsils and adenoids, repairing his deviated septum, and removing part of his tongue, palate and his uvula (the hangy ball in the back of your throat). it's said to be a painful thing so please keep him and his wife Patty in your prayer. Thanks and have a great Easter!

Conquering Stairs

I love our baby gate (Thanks GayLynn!), that goes from the dinning spot down to the man room. It has been a life saver because Jacob, being the curious boy that he is, has always been fascinated with the stairs. After he learned to crawl up the stairs Brancent and I showed him a couple of times how to turn around and go down them. Now he's on his own (within mom or dad's reach :) !

After I took this video I realized we were missing a sock....

April Fools

Yesterday being April fools I almost expected to go through the day without a prank. However, when I got back to the office after work my wireless keyboard didn't work. I flipped it over and hit the connect button before finally checking the battery. One of the batteries was missing and I detected fowl play (and not the winged type, yuck) I replaced the battery and went about checking email. I happened to glance down and noticed the keys were in a weird order.


Since Josh was the only one in the office I went to ask him about it. Lucky for me he is a terrible liar. I consider myself lucky knowing it could have been much worse and involved dead animals/rodents. Props to Josh for creativity and playing nice (lol) So part of my day today will be spent rearranging my keyboard....

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...in March

I heard a weather man once say about Amarillo that you can experience all four seasons in 20 minutes. So true. Thursday was beautiful and sunny temperatures up into the 70's. Friday this is what we saw.....

It's not uncommon to have snow during March. I can remember several times having snow for Spring Break. Katie was here during Spring Break one year and was able to see snow for the first time. Crazy Panhandle weather with tomorrow's high...65.

On to better news...we finally got a video of Jacob walking thanks to Wayne and his fun new camera.

He will take several steps at a time but when he really wants to get somewhere or get something he is not suppose to have he'd much rather crawl. Walking like in the video depends on his mood and who he can show off for. Wonder where he gets that from???? :)

Busy Busy Boy

Here are some pictures from the past few weeks. The tooth count is almost 4 on top and 2 on bottom. I say almost because one is still peeking through. A look into Jacob's "busy life".

Things to do in a day

1. Help with laundry

2. Do computer work-he has more computer knowledge than Mommy

3. Play Xbox

4. Look Handsome with daddy

His cute pediped shoes in the picture above are compliments of Jaxs (and Apryl). Thanks guys we love them! I mention them to relay yet another "my brain has slipped out my ear episode". I always see one random shoe by the side of the road and think "what kind of idiot loses one shoe?" Turns out I am that kind of idiot. I needed to make a trip to Sam's to get a new shredder for the church (it's a crosscut....it makes me happy). I decided to take Jacob along with me to Sam's before I dropped him of at my moms. We got to Sams I got Jacob in the cart and we headed inside. When we got inside I saw it, one shoe was missing. I looked out in the parking lot, no shoe. Must be in the car, nope. Upon leaving Sam's I drove like a stalker through the parking lot with no success. I decided it must have fallen off at home, but it wasn't there either. I decided to call that night and see if someone had found a shoe in the Sams parking lot and turned it in while muttering "what kind of idiot loses their kids shoe?" Sure enough some one had turned in a small camo pediped shoe. Yay! Turns out Jacob had figured out how to get the Velcro undone enough to wiggle it off on several occasion. Little stinker.

Can I get a witness

Have you ever had one of those moments you wonder if you are really starting to lose it? I have to admit every since Jacob was born I have them way to often. Last night after Jacob was in bed I decided to start some laundry. I put the soap and fabric softener in the washer and started it so it could fill up before I put the clothes in. I then proceeded to fold some towels that were in the man room. From there back into the living room to pick up a little and send some emails via my phone. It was getting closer to my 10:00 p.m bedtime, but I wanted to wait until the clothes finished to put them in the dryer. Finally I hear the washer turn off and in my zombie state (because it was now past 10:01 p.m) stumble to the washer.
I open the washer...there were no clothes in the washer. I look down, yep, there they were still on the laundry room floor. Turns out to get them clean you actually have to put them IN the washer. Needless to say no loads were done last night, I just headed to bed in disgust.