First Day of Fall!!

According to google, the first day of fall for the USA is Today!!

I love Fall, it is my favorite season of all (hence, the reason I got married in early Nov)!! It makes me feel happy, I don't know how to explain but I feel more cozy and warm. I love all the deep warm colors that come along with Fall. I start to think about the holiday seasons that are ahead, and I get so excited. I love decorating for Fall, and Christmas. I start to think about Traditions that are going to be continued into this holiday season, and new Traditions that will be made. This year will be Jonah's 2nd Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm so excited about it b/c he will be more into this year than last. I've already started looking at the hallmark ornament catalog to try to pick out his ornament for this year. This is one of the several traditions that will continue... Every year we will pick out Jonah a special ornament, we will put it on our tree, then we he gets married and him and his wife have their own tree, I will give Jonah all of his ornaments. We will be adding the elf on the shelf to our Traditions this year!!

What are some Traditions that you do??

I have started keeping a baby boy at my house during the week. His name is Quaid and he is 8 weeks today, he is so sweet and so cute. Jonah is not Quaid's biggest fan at all, he crawled up to him yesterday and started telling him "bye bye" as if trying to say "you can leave now". Atleast having Quaid around will get Jonah use to having a baby so that when Chris and I do decide to have another child, Jonah won't be jealous of his baby brother/sister!! Next month I will start keeping a baby girl named Emma.


Our little family have been doing great! I am so in love with both of the guys in my life.

Have a great day!! Post about your Traditions on my comments, I would love to hear them!!

Going to start doing better!!

I haven't updated this blog since December '09! So much has changed since then, Jonah has turned 1 year old, we are in our home, I don't work for Central School anymore, Lendie has moved back home... the list just goes on and on!! I have decided to try to start this up again after ordering a disc from the babysite that I updated weekly on my pregnancy with Jonah. I love looking back and seeing how everything in life has just progressed.

So this is the fresh start...

Jonah is so big and is learning something new everyday. He still hasn't started walking on his own yet, but if you hold his hand he will cruise everywhere. I honestly think that he is not worried about walking b/c he gets everywhere he wants to go just fine. He is almost 13 months old which is just crazy!! He had a wonderful 1st Birthday party!! He talks all of the time, I can't even sit here and list off everything that he can say b/c he learns a new word almost everyday. He is starting to repeat what we see, which makes me have to think twice before I say certain things. I don't curse but little things like telling the dogs to "shut up" when they won't stop barking is going to be hard to stop. Jonah now has a play room, and he finally will call in the room by himself and play. He loves to play with any toys he can push around or walk with. He especially loves his 4 wheeler, It is so cute and funny to watch him get on it and push the button to go! He is completely off of baby food and bottles. I have packed up all of his bottles, so our kitchen is now bottle free, formula free, and baby food free. His favorite things to eat are Mac and Cheese, Green Beans, Sloppy Joes, Sandwhiches. He eats everything that I cook for us for supper. He absolutely loves his Milk, which makes me so happy!! I do not like milk at all, but he doesn't need to know that!

Chris and I are doing amazing. we love our house and love living in Watson, there is no other place I would rather live! Lendie and the kids have moved into their new house which is next door to us, Jason wil be joining as soon as he is out of the Army. I will start keeping kids at my house starting next Wednesday. Quaid is the first baby boy I will be getting, he will be 7 weeks old. I'm hoping he will fill my want for another baby b/c I will have him 5 days a week. In October I will be getting a baby girl named Emma. Both of the babies moms are teachers so I will have off a week for Christmas and Thanksgiving, plus all holidays, plus the summer and to top it all off i'm making more money now than I did when I was leaving Jonah 5 days a week!!!

Life is going great, and we have so many exciting things to look forward too: The arrival of Zachary Keith Gehling and Avrey David Estess, The marriage of Ashlie Gremillion and Jacob Bourgeois, and The coming home of Jason McAlister! Looks like the rest of 2010 is going to bring a lot of Joy! Have a wonderful rest of the week!!