jay's 2!!

today, jay turns 2. you never believe when people say the years will go by fast until you have a little one of your own. these last 2 years have gone by so quickly. it feels like yesterday that we were helping him walk and crawl and now he just does so much on his own. here is a glimpse of his party from saturday. there would have been more pictures, but they wouldn't upload, but hopefully you will get the idea of the good time we all had. we could not have asked for a better day with such good weather. i think it got cooler outside just for us.

the theme of jay's party was toy story. jay had his own cake in hopes of maybe eating it unlike last year, but that didn't happen. he just put his finger in it and took buzz off the top. at least he didn't scream and cry this year with the cake. he's making progress.

here is kayla hurd and noah belote playing in the water.

jay's cake quickly turned into a cake for the rest of the kids.

the summer continues...

we've been enjoying our summer and of course all of this hot weather. to bad it's not going away any time soon, but today we beat the heat and went with lori beth epley over to her parents house for a swim. since i'm now out of summer school and have a few weeks until butler starts back, i have a few days i can spend with jay. it was a nice start to the day and jay loved every minute of it. it took him a little bit to warm up to lori beth and the water, but after he did, he was everywhere. it made me a little nervous around the deep end when he was walking around, but most of the time he stayed near the shallow end and on the stairs. by the end of the morning, he was running and jumping into the pool and was definitely not scared of getting water in his face.

this past tuesday night, garrett was out of town, megan was working, and jeremy had a game and noah was left in limbo. knowing that jay and noah play well together i suggested that he come over the house and play. i didn't know about the weather and the pop up showers that keep coming around, so we didn't venture out to the fields, but stayed home instead. they played, ate dinner, played some more, took a bath together, and played a little more. they had a great time, but really gets me thinking how did my parents do it with twins? they can be a handful and really act like boys when they are around one another.

over the weekend, garrett changed jay's crib into a toddler bed (or shall we say his own "big boy bed"). so far so good and not too many bumps and bruises. he some how got out of the bed on saturday night (i think he slept walked) and fell out of it on sunday night. other than that, jay stays in the bed and doesn't even get out when he wakes up in the morning. he just lays there waiting for me or garrett to get him out of bed. lets see how long this lasts.

another thing jay loves to do is color. normally we give him crayons, but i gave him markers one day. not a good idea because they can get everywhere. and when it says washable, it doesn't mean off of skin right away. it needs to wear off or you need to be put in the pool for a while for it to come off. he really has gotten really good at coloring. i've been really impressed, but of course it's not in the lines. if you look closely you can see his dirty, little hands.

we hope your summer is going as good as ours!!!

summer so far...

we've really had an uneventful summer so far. yesterday, july 4th, after church, we went to jason's dad's farm and just hung out and went back to their house for a movie. garrett decided he would fish a little and just look at what he caught. jay didn't want to touch the fish, but was interested in looking at it. we didn't sit and watch any fireworks, but did catch some on the way home as pine lake was shooting them off. we made our way down lebanon road through the crowd of cars so jay could see some fireworks go off, but i think being so tired, he was not too impressed.

where'd the fish go???

jay was sitting for this picture, but got away before i could snap the shot

in june the middle of june, we went to the beach with my family. we had a pretty good time and jay and noah seemed to have fun together.

such a good picture of jay

he has too much energy

the little pool hardly held both of them, but they managed too have loads of fun

sunscreen time!!! look at those little muscles!!!

and when it's hot....

we go outside!!!! tuesday night, garrett's softball team had their first practice followed by their first game on thursday. at practice jay made it a point to point out when garrett failed to hit a ball by saying "missed it" to garrett. that was the highlight of the night at practice

on saturday, we continued to stay outside and play in the sprinkler and drink juice. capri suns are better for jay. he always squeezes juice boxes all over the place. normally we would give him milk, but with how hot it's been, you can't drink milk outside.

sunday afternoon, we made our way to matt and bethany trent's house. we were going to play in their pool, but after traveling all the way down to the pool we were interrupted with thunder and made it back to the house, where for some reason we let them play in the sprinkler out back their house. jay had more fun in the sprinkler, he hated the pool. hope he grows to like it before we go the beach. here's two photos of jake, noah, and jay playing in the sprinkler. they had loads of fun.

what a weekend and more

everything is still going great here and i just wanted to share a few photos with you. jay's doing great and really talking. monday morning he woke up and his first words were "outside" and "noah". go figure, we didn't see noah and we weren't able to go outside because of the rain. therefore, garrett brought the slide inside and jay had a little fun with that.

here's jay with garrett's iphone. in this picture, it looks a little more like the phone is jay's. he loves his music; especially toy story music.

livvie and jay taking a bath together. they had picture day the next day and we wanted them clean.

these next few pictures are from sunday. megan and jeremy had a few of us over at their house in celebration of memorial day. glad we did it on sunday and not monday because the rain came pouring in.

jay and livvie splashing in the water.

livvie not certain of what to do next.

hailey johnson (next door neighbor), sara king and peyton king.

having fun with the water.

sage walters going down the slip'n slide.

hanging out.

jay finally decided he would go down the slide instead of being the cheerleader the whole time.

of course these two had to get into some trouble pouring apple juice everywhere.

a whirlwind...

wow i know it's been a while and even from the last post things have changed drastically. we no longer are expecting as jay's shirt read at easter. 5 weeks ago, april 23rd, there was a huge change of events when i went to the doctor having complications. the ultrasound showed that the baby was growing, but in the wrong place and had to be removed. after waiting all day at the hospital, i finally had surgery that night where they removed the baby and my right fallopian tube. all is well now though. and for those wondering about jay and his fall out from the same week, his eeg came back normal. we guess it was just a fainting incident.

it's been crazy the past few weeks with all of this and school coming close to an end. we are all getting ready for exams next week and trying to survive what prank the seniors will pull next at the school. yesterday it was baby oil, beads, silly string, and anything else the students could muster up to put all over the halls. at least i wasn't in the middle of it, but boy, will i be glad when it's over.

providence day is just around the corner and hopefully they will have enough students to house a class of algebra ii. last year i had a whole whooping 4 students. years past it has been about 10 or 12, but i guess the economy really hit hard last year. i'm hoping for a larger group this time.

i was going to post some of jay's new pictures from school, but the computer isn't allowing me. oh well!! hopefully i'll take some pictures from this weekend and get them up some time.

easter weekend

easter weekend was pretty eventful with traveling to garrett's grandmothers' at the beach and back within two days then to travel to nana's house at the lake on sunday afternoon. there was a lot of riding in cars and we found out jay can't really sleep in cars even if it is his nap time or time to go to bed. here's a glimpse of our weekend:

jay and noah...always looking as if they are going to get in trouble

playing around with the football

can you read it??!!! jay's going to be a big brother this coming november!

this is how we told our parents. we put jay in a t-shirt that read

"i'm going to be a big brother.....

...in november"

(on the back)

it was a pretty big surprise for both sides of the family. now if we could just have some more cousins come around.

jay and daddy...what a cute picture