pictures and video

She's posing! Uh-oh...we have a diva on our hands!

She loves pink :-)

Joshua's saying "cheese" with a mouth full of peanut butter and crackers.
Makes for fun house keeping ;-)

Poor Joshua burned his hand (not shown) on the wood-burning stove before Nick got the kid gate installed. It really wasn't as bad as I had feared. I took him to he ER just to be sure! He was so pooped that we managed to change his clothes and diaper without waking him.

Poor buddy :-(

In order to hear this correctly, you'll need to pause the music player at the very bottom of the browser, so scroll down!

The Mom Song

The Mom Song

Get ready to laugh you butt off!! One of my bloggy friends had this on her page and I just had to share.

check-out this link!!

I plan on posting something nice and long once I've added some pictures and am not so tired, but in the meantime, I wanted to bring your attention to an amazing post by my sweet friend, Crissy. It's a must read!! Click on her name to read it. God has been so good to me by bringing such incredible people into my life. I'm so thankful!!

eye candy

Ms. Grinny Rosey Cheeks

Sleeping Beauty

Jenna and cousin

Joshua's latest scrapes. The one across the nose is from running into lumber and the one next to his eye is from twirling around with a blanket over his head and catching the corner of the futon. Poor kid!

Where's the baby?

paying-off debt

Ahhh!! For me, nothing's sweeter than getting out from under debt. I lose so much sleep at night knowing we owe people money. This morning, I called and payed all of our outstanding hospital and er co-pays (minus one which there is some confusion on). In addition to getting caught-up on medical debt, we were able to bring Nick's student loans current and lower our monthly payment. Yay! Praise the Lord for tax returns and kind phone operators!!

With the money we have leftover, we are working on the future family room and the kitchen. Oh, and we did invest in a Wii. Yeah, seems kinda silly, but even Joshua enjoys getting-in on the action :-) You should see him hoot and holler, jump up and down, and run with excitement. We're hoping to invest in the Wii Fit soon. We played Wii Fit at a friend's house Friday night and I'm still sore! The hula-hoop is super fun :-)