8/24/10

So much we've done...so little time to tell about it all

Welcome myself back to the life of blogging....geez.... it's been since Jan. That's pretty sad. I'm going to try to sum it up a bit. We moved back to our cute little 2 story house in Calhoun County back in March. Oh, the joys of living in the middle of no where. I found out I was pregnant about a month before we moved. The boys were excited to move back because Grandma would live down the road from us. As to where we had to drive 3 hours to see anyone. We enjoyed living down toward Jackson,MS but it just wasn't for us. We are small town people, although I love the life of a big city... well to us Jackson was big. Haha! I was completely sick during the move. No one was available to help. We had to throw things in boxes...well Zeke did. At the same time he had to watch the boys and work night shift. Poor him i know that was hard on him but he survived. After the move back...i continued to be sick until 23 weeks. I found out around 21 weeks that we are having a GIRL! Oh Boy, a girl that was my thought. I was scared to death of hearing the words "It's a girl" What? ME? Having a girl? It has still been such an odd idea to accept. Ethan went back to K4 at Bruce when we moved back. He really needed to be in school and around other children. He did so well for the 2 months that he was there. He is SUPER excited to have a sister. He came home from school and told us "her" name is Katie. We didn't think much of it....we let him call her whatever. So then when it was time to start thinking of names. He insisted that her name is Katie. So....Katie it is! Her middle name will be Ann. After Zeke's Mamaw Ann. We didn't do a whole lot of nothing during the summer. It was a hard summer for us. Zeke lived in Yazoo City with a guy that he worked with. He came home almost every week for only 2 days. I wanted to scream more days than others. Actually I probably did scream. We then decided enough was enough. Everyone was getting sad with the situation so he decided to quit. Yes, i know your probably thinking he quit a federal job to come back to Bruce. Yep he did! He has now been home for 3 weeks and we are loving it. Although it seems as if he interrupted our schedule the 1st week or so but now we are all use to it and all on the same schedule. He is working with his uncle building houses. Not the best thing but it's work for now. We are waiting on a couple of different jobs to open up with the Oxford PD and other PD's around the area. I never wanted to marry a police officer but now look at us. It's crazy the things you say you'll never do and end up doing. He is also trying to decide if he wants to attend law school or go back to get his master's in some sort of education.

Ethan started kindergarten Aug 5th. He hated it the first 3 days and would scream, cry and hold on to the door jam so that he would not have to go in. Now he gets out of the car and walks in by himself. We are so proud of him! He is writing his name much better, he is already learning so much. He is picking up on the other kids words and attitude, yay for me. I know that's a challenge of a child attending public schools while trying to raise them in a good LDS home. Ethan is so big....when i say that he really is. It seems as if he begin to get BIGger after Feb or so. He is in the 95% for his weight and 53% of height. Poor kid....He played T-ball after we moved back but that still didn't help much. He says he wants to play football and everyone is telling us that he is built to play football. Hopefully the next week or so the temps here in MS will cool down. It's been horrible! HOT HOT HOT!!! This Thurs it's suppose to be 89. We are all excited about that. I am so ready for more play time outside. My boys hate the heat and I am miserable pregnant.
Eli is getting much taller for his age. He is so dang cute. He keeps us all entertained. He really enjoys being home with me. Poor him his world is about to change (in 5 weeks). When Ethan gets out of school they both fight with each other. I'm sure they miss each other during the day...maybe. I am going to try and post a few more times before I have baby Katie. I have 5 weeks left but the Dr told me yesterday that he might take me in 2 weeks b/c I am having contractions everyday. Since my body can't actually push a baby out or wont contract then there is no point to keep this up. We'll see what happens Sept 9th. I'm going to post a few pictures from the boys birthday party and whatever else i can find on Kim's computer. Enjoy!
Kim (grandma) made the baseball cupcakes for the T-ball game. It was the day of Ethan's 5th birthday. She also made the tractor cake for their party. The pic of Ethan, Brooklyn(their cousin) and Tatum(a friend)was taken during a T-ball game. The other picture of Ethan is at school during their snack time. We made blue cupcakes for that day.




1/16/10

Jason Aldean

My boys are obsessed with him, he sings Big Green Tractor
They can sing just about the whole song. When I try to record them they get shy and will not sing. We bought them his CD as a New Year's gift.
http://www.myspace.com/jasonaldean

Playin around in 2010





These are some goofy boys. They both are so funny more than most of the time. Eli is 2 1/2 and he is really becoming such a character.
He realized yesterday that he had to pee pee so hopefully after the rain today and tomorrow, we might can begin potty training.
Ethan is askin me through out the day no matter what I do good or bad " Mom you didn't make a good choice" you know where he gets that from? ME! I ask him often "Was that a good choice, Ethan?" Esp when he hits or pushes Eli, says a bad word that he gets off of the movies,gets juice w/o asking.
He is becoming more like me these days. So watch out!

1/3/10

Our Christmas

Not to much to say. We had a lovely warm Christmas. We were busy going to each of our families home which of coarse we had to drive there. Ugh! We love being with them but next yr it will be nice to stay home. Here are a few of the pic.........
This is my brother (the one not married) Eli is try'in to pick Caroline up. Below is Ethan on bottom, Lucas and Eli on top of him. Caroline just wants to open presents. The boys love to wrestle with each other.
The boys also got fuzzy PJ's from Nana and awesome toys from their Uncle Mark and Matt and Aunt Jennifer. Yay for aunt's and uncles!!








Santa brought the boys a batman and joker track.
Eli got this Little people farm which he loves. Thanks to his Grandma.


All Ethan ask for Christmas was a batman car from Santa, well he got one but from Grandma.
He also asked for a Bumblebee transformer. When he saw that Santa brought him that he didnt even move, it's like he was in shock. I am thankful that's all he asked for b/c Santa was broke this year. I sure wished I had a pic of it, I used the video camera to record them that mourning.




12/9/09

christmas pic

Thanks to Uncle Enoch and Aunt Erica for letting us use thier back drops. CUTENESS as Jordan would say.














Happy FALLing

This is our trip to Grandma's at Thanksgiving. Zeke raked the leaves so they could jump in them off the picnic table, those crazy kids.














random times with the family

Eva
Ethan and Brooklyn


The day of the move.


A visit back to Grandma's. We looove Uncle Jared's 4-wheeler



Eva,Jared,Eli,Brooklyn,Ethan and Rivers

11/19/09

Swingin' around with the cousins

Ethan, Rivers, Eli and Brooklyn they are playin around at Grandma's. They always have so much fun together.














11/17/09

Super Halloween







Here is Superman and the optimus prime.
We went to the trunk a treat at our new ward, fun fun!!
The night of Halloween we went to 3 different homes and they would not even walk to the door. Silly but shy little boys.

The move and our new life in Canton,Ms/Jackson area

Where do I begin.......We moved Sept 11th with the help or our wonderful mothers and a few of the brothers. And Tim Crawford! We moved a truck and trailer the 1st night and then that Sat. our families helped us move everything else.
We are still not settled into the apartment. It's small, no storage and i am counting down until we can get a house. We live at the Links which is in b/w Canton and Madison,MS. I enjoy the area down here. there is so much to do. So many parks, stores, different places to dine. It's lots of fun! Although I don't have that wonderful "girlfriend" connection to call someone and go hang out.
There was a lesson in RS a while back about how friends ARE really important and that you need "girlfriends" no matter how strong you think you are or if you think you don't need them. Guess what ladies, we do need friends! On that topic, I would like to thank you all for your friendships. I miss so many of you.

We have done a good bit of things since we have moved here and my camera is horrible. I can charge the batteries and take a few pic and it dies. Zeke KNOWS I want an SLR camera for Christmas. We'll see.....

The boys are well. Eli is not having the spells with his brain as often, maybe every few months. Although i stay on my toes if we are at the park or outside of the house
He is doing the typical 2 year old things. We potty trained for five and a half days and no luck so I am going to wait until he is 3. He still takes great long naps and he loves to be babied which he is. I know..... we have got to stop doing that esp before we have another baby. He loves following his brother. He doesn't play with "little boy toys" anymore. :( He wants to play with whatever Ethan has. They both want every boy toy that comes on TV and Ethan has taught Eli to say" I want that for Christmas" Ethan says that during each commercial and so does Eli.
Ethan is doing well. He needs to be in preschool. He did so well in Bruce K4. Now that he is home everyday. We have a battle everyday. He loves to be challenged and If and when I lose focus on him all heck breaks loose. He wants "boy-friends" down here so bad and poor Ethan all there is at play group is GIRLS! He's the only boy in his sunbeam class. His little Rosy red cheeks beam when he is around all those girls. It's so cute! I can't wait until we can get him in preschool or K5! Here's pic from the past 2 months which are the Science Museum, painting pumpkins, pizza party at the new place,Eli's long but wild hair, and Ethan can write his name. He loves to get carried away with the E. It's like one long E or 10 lines replace the 3 lines that an E is suppose to have, Yay!!






10/12/09

The move

We are now in the Madison/Jackson area. The move was fine and we made it here great! The boys and I enjoy the new area. All the things we love to do are so close to us. As to where we use to drive 30 min to an hour just to do anything fun. Even walmart but now Walmart, Target etc is 10 min away. The boys have adjusted well. We are in an apartment right now and that is different but its big enough for now. I am counting down my days to buy a house.
Zeke loves his job! He seems more happy and I'm sure that one of the many reasons is that he is out of school. We have been very blessed with the job and the area that we live in. The ward is going ok. We have been a few times and I'm sure we will grow to love lots of the ppl here. Maybe in 2 weeks I can post pictures for now I am having to use a business computer.

7/14/09

Independence Day

Zeke left for WA June 25. I went nut's around June 30. We went to my moms that weekend. We decided to stay there for a few days and hang out with Matt,Jennifer, Caroline and Lucas. We grilled out, played outside in 97 degree temp. UGH it was HOT! We also went to sleep early so we didn't watch the fireworks in Tupelo. Being overwhelmed makes me tired. That same night I found out about Zeke. It's hard being away from your spouse for a month but I knew we could do it or at least try. He was sent home 12 days early because once again he had health problems out in WA and could not finish his training. He is now home and doing well (returned home July 11th). He will be discharged from the Army National Guard. His health is to big of a risk. At least he finished school. We are now trying to decide what he should do. We are blessed to have a couple of choices.
It was so hot, just look at Ethan's face.
Westcott kiddos and the Griffin kiddos

Sweet Caroline!