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

long time

it's been a while since we've written anything. since thanksgiving, we've had a fun christmas, enjoyed a few friends' (jay's friends) birthdays, and just been plain busy. jay's still eating the same old baby food, but is doing it himself with a spoon. he loves to talk, but if we could just figure out what he is saying would be good. it's frustrating on our end and i know on his as well. just recently jay moved to a new classroom with new friends a daycare. here's a glimpse of his classroom having snack. poor kayla is the only girl in the class, but she keeps all the guys in line.

here's my valentine's gift from garrett. we seriously needed a new computer. we've never bought one since we've been married.

valentine's day snow

jay hates the snow. he doesn't mind walking in it, but he doesn't want it on his gloves or to lay down in it.

megan, noah, jay and morgan

garrett's creation in the snow.

spittin image of dad

another month has gone by and another holiday. we celebrated thanksgiving this past thursday and decided to take a few photos in hopes in finding one for our christmas card. here are a few photos that we took. as you can see, jay is looking more and more like his dad. don't you agree?

trick or treat

halloween has come and gone and our little dragon came home with lots of candy. (enough for him that is) what a fun evening taking him from house to house. we kept getting "isn't he so cute" and "where did you get the costume". "yep he's cute" and "we got it at toys r us". jay didn't like taking candy from people, but sure did like it when people left a bucket on their front porch. that just means he can keep going back for more and he did.

this thing would be better off my head

elmo's going with me

jay and our next door neighbor hailey

can i get some more m&m's? skittles?