Fun Times

2008-10-16T10:05:00.000-07:00

I guess I could et use to this growing up that joey is doing lately. he just really wants to help at everything. I just love our new vaccuum because the handle lowers and is just the right size for joey. it definitely makes things easier when i can say 'joey, go vaccuum your room' i didn't think that I would be able to say that for at least another 5 years.

just because he can vaccuum doesn't mean that he has taken a new interest in staying clean. oh...not at all. in fact i think that since he learned to vaccuum he has become messier in the hopes that he will be able to vaccuum.

These are joey's favorite pjs.
Look at these three little devils. These are joey's new friends, Sebastian,5 and Chris, 3. Joe's old friend from the Marines, Danielle has two boys and we have been spending plenty of time together. The boys get along great well as great as three boys can.

2008-10-09T17:03:00.000-07:00

WE FINALLY GOT HITCHED

It was so perfect. I couldn't have dreamed of it being any better than it was. The weather was great and my family was there, well most of them. We did have a little problem with the mail. I think that New Orleans needs to go back to real post masters and not contracted ones because ALOT of invitations got lost. The wedding was August 9, 2008 in New Olreans, LA. I was so suprised at how many friends drove in from out of town and how many relatives traveled for the big day. It really made us feel loved. Joey was so adorable. You will see that if you click on the links at the bottom. I was trying to put more pics on here but it kept messing up. I just don't have the time. Love ya all

FOR MORE PICTURES OF THE WEDDING CLICK THIS LINK.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2263325&l=70c7b&id=27424456

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2270898&l=e4bb4&id=27424456

2008-10-09T16:51:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOEY! A PIRATE'S BDAY FOR JOEY. LOOK AT OUR TATTOOS
PIN THE 'X' ON THE TREASURE MAPJUST RELAXING WITH MY PAW PAW I GOT A POTATO HEAD

2007-11-02T08:02:00.000-07:00

Joey's New School

Well for those that don't know...Joey finally got into the school I put him on the waitinglist for before he was born. We both love it. He has been there since October 1st. The playground is amazing. These are just a few pictures although you can't really get a good look at all the things they have to play on. He has two teachers one who has her degree in Child Developement and the other working on it but has been working with kids for a long time. Joey loves them and his "new friends" Every morning when we pull up he yells..."Yeah...new friends!" So we are blessed.

2007-10-31T07:52:00.000-07:00

TRICK oR TREAT

Well I would have to say that Halloween this year was a success. Joey was a big hit...I am just glad that we went to an Alabama Fan neighborhood. :) Joey kept getting extra candy for saying Roll Tide so that soon replaced the Trick or Treat I practiced with him for the last 2 weeks. I guess he figured let's get to it and get more candy from the get go. Well he had a blast and I have to say I had a pretty good time too.

2007-10-30T07:46:00.000-07:00

PIZZA NIGHT

This is my little chef's own creation. He is getting so good at not piling all the pepperoni in the same place...just the majority is on his side. :)

2007-10-08T14:49:00.000-07:00

The Weekend with P Paw

Joey just loved the weekends with the grandparents. They get to do so many things. Here is Joey at Tate Farms in Huntsville. I think this is Joey checking to see if this pig is still alive. I guess I would play dead too if I had hundreds of kids poking at me all day. Poor little guy. He looks pooped.

Now here is my poor little guy looking pooped. He always sleep so well when I get him back.

2007-06-29T22:27:00.000-07:00

Wow, I knew it have been a long time since I have posted but I really didn't think that it had been over 5 months. Well much has happened since then. I am still in school and so far doing well...the end is near though so that makes me happy.

Oh more school related news. Joe got accepted into Berekely's Journalism Department for his Masters. I would like to brag that he was one of 55 people a year accepted. Go Joe!!! I am very proud.

Joey is growing more and more everyday. He says things that just surprise me all the time. He now can say, "I don't like that" and "Tyler hit me." (which was his first sentence) Isn't that a great one to remember? "Oh, Joey your first sentence was about a boy in your class physically abusing you. NICE!!

OOOOHHHHHH!!! The greatest thing ever!!! Joe planned for all of our friends to gather at this little Italian place that has 1/2 price pizza and wine for my birthday. Kind of fancy. Well I was so excited. My last couple have kind of sucked. So I was really hoping that it would break the cycle and boy did it!!!! After dinner Joe tells me to close my eyes and then he covers them for me to make sure I wasn't peaking. I knew it had to be a cake. So his hands come from infront my eyes and the massive number of candles blinded me. After everyone sang Happy Birthday a massive silence filled the table and even the surrounding tables. Then I realized why. Poking out of the center of the cake was a sparly diamond ring. Joe took it out and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I was just so shocked that I gave him the wrong hand, and once we got the ring off of that finger and put it on the correct one I was still in shock so what do I say, "Yes...yeah sure... well i guess...YES." We have not planned anything just yet. It will probably be a little while though.

I forgot to mention we are working on potty training. That is just so much fun. Biker magazines already. GREAT!

Joe and I's road trip to Baltimore. This is us on the way home on the BlueRidge Pkwy. It was just so beautiful. The whole trip was great. It was nice to be able to act like a couple and spent time only focusing on each other without joey taking so much of our time.

One other thing. Joey's has officially turned 2 as of the 21st of June. He had a blast and got so many great presents. He really racked up this year. dump trucks, a HUGE tent, a new table just fo him (he loves it), the kid even got a tv. How many 2 year olds do you know with their own tv? I just have one word SPOILED, but very loved.

2007-01-30T12:33:00.000-08:00

FUN AT GRANDMOMMY AND GRANDPA'S

2006-12-22T21:51:00.000-08:00

Well he finally did it. Joe is now an officail gradutate of the University of Alabama. Congrats! Well on Saturday, December 16th, 2006 Joe received his Bachelors in Journalism. We are all very proud of him. Now it is my turn. I hope it comes soon. His mom and family came over after the ceremony for a good Southern BBQ. And the best graduation present ever... three day break from our little Joe. It was nice to just do nothing. :) Don't get us wrong we love our baby boy more than anything in the world...but anyone with kids totally understands

I was just so proud of my cupcakes I had to show them off a little bit.

2006-11-04T21:14:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to remind everyone how much Joey has grown since last Halloween. He is the one in the crawfish costume and that cute little doggy is Regan.

Halloween 2006

Now here is my baby boy getting ready to go to his school Halloween party.

I'm not quite sure he knew what was going on.

His right hand looks like he ready to draw his gun. John Wayne watch out!

He didn't really know what was going on, just that when the doors opened he got candy. I tried to teach him Trick or Treat but all he said was "cookie?"

It looks like that bucket is getting pretty heavy.

He had to check out his loot after each house.

Here's Joe and Joey in the car. Joey was getting tired at this point. (And no we are not pulling a Britney Spears. We are parked. What kind of mom do you think I am?)

2006-10-15T07:33:00.000-07:00

Joey had a great time at Maw Maw and Paw Paw's this weekend.

2006-10-06T10:35:00.000-07:00

Joey's First Hair Cut!!!

Here's Joey when he still had his mullet!
At this point I don't think he really knew what was happening. He was a good boy throughout the whole thing though. The only time he cried was right at the end when he saw the cookies in my purse.
My cute, sad little baby boy.

2006-10-06T10:27:00.000-07:00

Maw Maw and Paw Paw visit.
Now this was about a month ago but that is how behind I am.

(ps Mom don't kill me for putting this picture on here, even though you look pretty silly)

2006-09-13T09:09:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we went to Huntsville so that I could get some studying done. Joey seemed to have a great time though. You should have seen the house by the time we left. Pots everywhere, cleared off tables, toys scattered and two tired but happy grandparents.

2006-09-06T13:46:00.000-07:00

Weekend at Grandmommie and Grandpa's house.

My cute little dare devil.

I am so behind on this. These are from the third weekend in August when I had to work a convention in Birmginham. Joey went on his longest trip away from Mommie. He seems to have had fun. Grandmommie and Grandpa Serge had a great time too. We have 307 pictures to show for it from just that weekend. The last one was what can happen in 67 seconds out of sight. GP Serge showed this picture to a co-worker and he asked "Well, did you spank him?" He said "No, I ran to get the camera!" You gotta love grandparents. :)

2006-08-14T14:17:00.000-07:00

Joey had surgery on Friday. As you can see he was not very worried. Well not like me. He did great.
Here he is about 10 minutes after they brought him into the room.

Here he is about 20 minutes after. Children are so resilient

2006-08-09T13:40:00.000-07:00

Joey loves helping Mommie do laundry. He loves to help me take all the clothes out of the basket. I wish I could teach him to put them back in. :)

2006-08-09T13:32:00.000-07:00

Do you see that dark mark on the concrete?? That is where the column was suppose to be. Scarey huh?

This is the front of my house. Check out the lean. Ghetto huh??

2006-08-04T08:54:00.000-07:00

Redneck Picture of the Week

(Just for everyone's peace of mind. Joey didn't drink the beer.)

2006-08-03T13:41:00.000-07:00

Pricely Artifacts

My parents are in the process of renovating their house and in the process of redoing the floors in our living room a true masterpiece was discovered. Pricing hieroglyphics from the Ancient 1980's.

2006-08-03T13:39:00.000-07:00

Girl's night out!!

2006-08-03T13:27:00.000-07:00

Joey and I took a trip to Louisiana in the middle of July to visit some family. Here is the new clan.

Here is the old clan. Five of us and five of them. AWWWW!!!

Joey and his cousin Gemma. She was like "hurry up and take the picture this kid is heavy!"

Here is a picture of utter chaos and some good New Orleans food. Yum Yum!!

2006-08-03T13:19:00.000-07:00

Best date Ever!!!

Well Joe worked last night and me being the lazy person I am, I didn't feel like cooking so Joey said "Mommy lets go on a date." Well he didn't actually say that but I knew what he meant. We didn't even go home after daycare. We headed straight for O'Charlie's and let me tell you. He was an angel. He didn't cry or throw his plate on the floor. I have to say hands down that this was the best date I have ever been on. This is Joey on the statue outside the Best Western behind the restaurant. He was a little skeptical but at least he stayed on long enough for me to get a pic.

Good Alabama pic. Roll Tide!

2006-06-27T20:14:00.000-07:00

This chocolate cupcake went over well at Joey's daycare birthday party.

I'm glad I wasn't the one who had to clean this up.

2006-06-27T19:50:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Joey!!!

Joey snagged himself a nice big piece of cake.

Joey just loves his Mr. Potato Head.

2006-06-27T19:36:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I've posted. As you can guess my life has been pretty busy. Here are some pictures from the last month. Joey got this towel for Christmas. This is at the University pool.
My baby boy is walking so well now. He loves to take strolls around the quad.

Everybody watch out!! Joey's loose on the road. He had some fun tearing through the living room. Great gift Mi Mi Lissa.

2006-05-19T10:12:00.000-07:00

At daycare yesterday they had a little party for a kid in his class who turned one. The mom brought chocolate cupcakes. Yum yum. I think joey liked them. He had never really had chocolate before but he seems to be enjoying himself.

2006-05-18T09:17:00.000-07:00

This past weekend Joe and I took our first vacation away from Joey. I have to say that I am proud of how well I handled being away from my baby boy. Joe and I woke up early Saturday morning and headed to Chattanooga to Ruby Falls and Rock City. I just have to say I was rather shocked and confused when we got on the elevator to see the falls and it went down. Who knew there would be falls under the ground?! Well it was all beautiful. Here are some pictures from out trip.

Us underground. When we got to the falls they told us that we were directly under the peak of the mountain. Kind of freaks you out to think about all the weight of the mountain on top of you and only one narrow way out. Not something I suggest to someone who has a problem with tight spaces that's for sure.

At Rock City we could see seven different states. Alabama is to the right of us.

The Chattanooga Aquarium was amazing.

Isn't this thing huge!! I kept replaying the part in Jaws when he broke through the glass. I just didn't get too close. I did pet a shark earlier in the day but he was much, much smaller. I also got to pet a sting ray. Surprisingly he was not slimey at all, more velvety.

2006-05-10T12:55:00.000-07:00

I gave Joey a chicken leg in hopes of occupying him while I finished my dinner. Well it worked. I feel sorry for that chicken leg though. He chewed the heck out of it. For Joe's birthday Joey and I did an art project. We made Daddy an apron to go with is new BBQ grill that he got for his birthday. It was extremely messy and the apron wasn't the only thing with Joey's handprints on it. He got mommy pretty good too.

I think Joey enjoyed the grill better than Joe, well at least he enjoyed the box.

2006-04-26T13:58:00.000-07:00

My messy face little boy. He sure did enjoy this spaghetti. It was everywhere including on mommy. He went directly into the tub after this. I had to scrub the tub to get the tomato sauce ring from around it, but it was worth it. Look at that face.

2006-04-16T19:09:00.000-07:00

Joey's First Easter!!

Joey's first Easter basket. No candy this year but lots of toys.

It seems as though he enjoyed his baskets although I don't think he really gets the Easter thing yet but he still seems to be happy. He really enjoyed going through each basket and tasting each of his new toys.

All of those new toys and he is playing with my camera case. Go figure.

It was just the two of us this Easter so we spent some time enjoying the beautiful day on the quad. This is Joey's Easter present from Mommie and Daddy. He liked to pull it more than anything. He is growing up so fast. :(

2006-04-15T19:33:00.000-07:00

My baby is standing up now and today he took his first steps. Right to Mommy.

Doesn't he look adorable? My little munchkin. He got his Easter box from his Aunt Mauggie.

2006-04-14T19:25:00.000-07:00

My beautiful naked baby. He's got this standing thing down. It won't be long before he is running around the house.

Little Bush and Little Reagan had some fun together on Thursday when they got to play. Joey is sort of a bully and kept trying to pull Reagan's passy out of his mouth. The funny thing about that is Joey doesn't take a passy and refuses them if I give him one. Then, here is my little boy showing his patriotism. I would say maybe he will grow up to be the President but his last name kinda ruins those chances.

It has been so beautiful and we love to go hang out on the quad. It is more fun now that Joey knows not to eat the grass.

2006-04-14T19:18:00.000-07:00

Joey had to go in for his nine month check up even though he is almost ten months. They pricked his toe to check his iron, which by the way is low. As soon as the bandaid was on his foot he started to investigate. First he stared intently at it and then of course he tasted it. It must have tasted really good because I had to fight him tooth and nail to keep it out of his mouth.

2006-04-14T18:54:00.000-07:00

Look at the two best looking men in the world. Well as you can see we got to see Joe earlier than expected although I wish it would have been for another reason. His father passed away and he had to fly in from Australia. I was pretty impressed that he made it here as fast as he did. It was really good to see him. He came in for a week and we tried to spend as much time with him as we could. It took Joey a little while but he warmed up to him. Just about that time he had to go back...but...he will be back in three weeks. YEAH!!!!! I had to get some pictures of us dressed up. The other pictures are from the airport before he left. I can't wait until he comes home for good..well..until he is off again doing whatever it is journalist do.

2006-03-25T18:05:00.000-08:00

Some time at home.
Well Joey and I are both fighting infection right now. I have a sore throat and he has been sick on and off for about two weeks. Dang daycare! He is on his third antibiotic and it seems to be working this time. He looks like he is feeling much better. Unfortunately I feel awful and it was hard work keeping up with his new game of inspecting all of our tuberware.

Caught in the act.

When he saw me coming he threw the top. It wasn't him he said.

2006-03-19T18:11:00.000-08:00

Junk Food

I made some cupcakes the other day and Joey loved them. I know some people tell me that I shouldn't give him junk food because it will develop poor eating habits but he is a baby boy and he was so happy. Could you refuse a cupcake to that adorable little face?

St. Patrick's Day

We hung out on the quad a little for St. Patrick's Day. I thought I would let the little one play in some clovers. It was a wee bit too cold though to hang out too long.

2006-03-15T06:20:00.000-08:00

He sure loves to play

Joey scared me yesterday morning. He woke up with bumps all over his body. I thought he had the chicken pox. He was fine, just an allergic reaction. This is him playing with his clothes off so I could keep an eye on him. He loves being naked.

All that playing sure wore him out

2006-03-11T19:12:00.000-08:00

joey has a cold but we still made it out of the house today. the weather was nice. in the 80's. we went out and had a nice walk and play on the quad.

2006-03-10T14:23:00.000-08:00

On the quad

This is Joey's first time on grass. I don't think that he really knew what to do. He tried to put it in his mouth and then he pulled it out and let the wind blow it away. It was a good day.

2006-03-07T20:59:00.000-08:00

since joe is in australia joey and i took a trip down to louisiana to see some family. my parents really enjoyed him and he really enjoyed them. here's some pics from our trip.