Happy 2nd Birthday Jacob!!!

My how time flies. Jacob turned 2 today at 11:52 am. Unreal. We had his birthday party last night with family and his Godmommy Susie and her boys. Lots of fun was had by all and Jacob got some cool new toys. Both kids slept like crap last night of course. No idea why Jacob kept waking up and Lydia has a slight cold so she couldn't breathe. Long night for Rick and I and Mr. Birthday Boy woke up cranky. He opened some more gifts from us and proceeded to be a typical 2 year old!
Here are some pics. I have no clue why I can't get them in the order I want them, but whatever.


Jacob and Lydia looking at his Curious George balloon.

Jacob in his glasses. He wanted to put on Mr. Potato Head's glasses and was throwing a fit since they wouldn't fit on his head. So I scrambled and found these. Wore them all morning!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year! My resolution is to try and post more, but I have a feeling that may not happen. Hope this year is drama free for all of us.
Here are some pics from Christmas. We had a really nice Christmas this year. Crazy, but wonderful. Jacob didn't quite understand the whole concept, but did (and still is) enjoying all those gifts. It took us almost 3 hours to open gifts on Christmas morning. No, that wasn't because he had so much stuff.......he was THAT slow! But we didn't mind. We savored every minute of it.
Here are picture of the kids in the morning and at the end of the night. That is what Jacob looks like when he doesn't get a nap!
Tomorrow is Jacob's 2 year and Lydia's 6 mo check ups. Should be great fun as they both get shots. Thank goodness Rick is going with me!
Saturday is Jacob's birthday party and Sunday he is 2! I cannot believe it. I will have a 2 year old.

More pictures - Christmas decor!

For the first time since my Mom died, I am "into" this Christmas season. Here's a picture of our tree and stockings.

How cute are these kids???

My bathroom in the basement. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ta Da!!!!

OK, I am still not used to this Blog thing. I want these pictures in a different order and it won't let me add any more pictures. UGH! Anyway....here are pictures of the basement! I wanted the "before" first and then the "after", but whatever - you get the idea! We LOVE it so much! Been a fairly calm week. Jacob is starting to talk a lot and we love that. He's repeating EVERYTHING we say. Still can't understand a lot of what he says, but it's getting better. Lydia starting rolling and I think we'll try cereal soon. I keep putting it off as I just don't feel like messing with it! The room in the second pic would not have existed if it weren't for Rick. It was a huge stoarge room (see the last pic below) and Rick convinced me to knock it down. I am so happy he did!

So proud of himself........

Tonight after his bath Jacob went pee pee in his potty!!! Just the slightest trickle, but still. Now I know we could still be months and months from him being potty trained, but it was so exciting. The best thing was how darn proud he was of himself. I wish that I had my camera to take a picture of him stitting on his froggy potty in his Thomas the Tank robe (Rick and I call him Hugh Hefner when he wears this robe - it is so cute). These are the moments that I love the most.
Last week was a crazy but very good week. Our basement is 95% done (pictures will be coming soon) and we LOVE it. We had Thanksgiving with most of the Wilson Clan (Cristi - we missed you guys) and that was lots of fun. Yummy food and game and card playing well into the wee hours of the morning. Saturday we had JT's 1st birthday party here. Carrie did such an awesome job with all the decor for the Duckie themed party. It was awesome. Saturday night Rick bought a new Christmas tree and put it up. We just need to decorate it and get all the other stuff out. Jacob LOVES the tree and seems surprised all over again each time he sees it. He is going to love Christmas. I can't wait.
Lydia is 5 mo old today. I can't believe it. She's doing great. So darn cute.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RICK tomorrow!!!!! 35 - Yikes!

Jakers!!

Appearantly Jacob like the Beastie Boys! Every time this song comes on he gets his groove on. Too cute. Here are 2 short clips of him. Sorry the second one is sideways. I have no clue how to fix that!

Loud Lydia!

Here's my first attempt at putting a video from my camera on here. Hope it works! This is Lydia last night "talking" to Rick and I. We (esp. Rick!) sound like idiots, but she sounds adorable. She IS adorable, isn't she?

Basment is almost done. We get the carpet on Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so stinkin' excited I can't stand it. I will post before and after pictures once I get it organized the way I want it. :-) We also found out that thanks to the wind storm in September we are getting a new roof. They start on the roof tomorrow!! So the noise from the basement is gone (all they are doing now is painting) and now I get the noise from the roof. I keep telling myself that by Tuesday it will all be done. Next week should be a fun and crazy one with the finishing of the basement, then we are having the Wilson's over for Thanksgiving (NO I am NOT cooking a turkey - Rick's Mom is), and then Saturday is JT's first bday party here at the house. Madness, but so much fun!