For Uncle Brad

Jason always gets us (muah and the kids) a little somein-somein from the countries he visits. Anywhere from a pair of cool sandals from Africa (still my favorite of all the things), to cool red things (red's my fav color) like pottery or candles or such.

His last trip was to Ecuador where it is COLD, well to me it would be...it's pretty much Cali weather year round. Sooo he bought me a nice gray scarf.

He has brought Julia back some really sweet Mexican dresses, shirts or purses/bags. This time he brought back these really neat pencils. I know that sounds weird, but she LOVED them. They are huge and some are in the shape of a parrot. Anyways, she loved them.

But the ABSOLUTE CUTEST THING EVER was what he brought back for Mr Johnathan! He got Johnathan a little soccer outfit. Since Uncle Brad's a soccer coach (at Mary Hardin Baylor), we thought he'd enjoy these pics and video.

Soooooo cute! Maybe one day Uncle Brad will be Johnathan's soccer coach. We're proud of all you do with your team, Brad, and we can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks.

The Cousin Comparisons

I thought I'd post a pic of Morgan (Brad and Shannon's baby) when she was 7 months old and compare it to Johnathan's 7 month picture. They are so cute....any resemblance?

Latest in the Decorating Area

Some of you are wondering how my mistreatments turned out. The kitchen mistreatments were tabbed curtains I had in my kitchen in Van Alstyne. I just got up on my counter (Julia thought that was pretty cool!), folded the tabs under and pinned them with upholstery tacks for both my kitchen window and the window right next to it....voila! done...no expense except the upholstery tacks (which are $1.99 for 24!).

Remember when I posted about my cool inexpensive wall art a while back? Well, here they are with my other new mistreatments hung (I know, I still need to add fringe to the bottom, but haven't found yet). My wonderful sister-in-law, Shannon, made these curtains for our living room in Van Alstyne...sooooooo I re-used them here. Again, folded the tabs and pinned. The middle one is just a smaller piece of the curtain (originally from WallyWorld), folded and pinned as well. It gives the living room a softer look.














This window is from our old NEXT office. Warren sold me a slew of them for real cheap. I used the biggest one to display black and whites of our family. And then the rest of the photos are just different things you all wanted to see throughout our house. Thanks for enduring the tour!

MOMs Group at the Library!

MOMs Group went to the Library last Friday. We went to "Story Time". Here's a little taste of what we experienced. I LOVED it....I mean, Julia LOVED it! We now sing Where is Thumbkin as one of our night time songs before bed.
















We went into the kids section of the library afterwards and Jen Bishop (the one on the left) spotted an open section with "big people" seating. YES! We were all excited about the section and made ourselves at home. We even had the "Family" section bookshelf at our fingertips....only the "Family" section bookshelf was not so "Family" oriented (a little more PC than we liked!).














It was like a Seinfeld episode...seemed every book we would pull off the shelf was awful for our age kids. One book said their cat was DEAD (not something you can or even want to explain to two year olds), one book was about fighting, one book had pictures of a bra in it (an animated kids' book with this kind of stuff in it!), and the others were ones the kids were pulling off the shelf, not knowing what they were about. Here are a couple of them:

I thought this book plus my two pregnant friends (Jen Bishop on left, Angie Schroeder on right) was fitting!














Then we had lunch outside and took some cute pictures of the kids. We had several moms and kids missing this day but here are pretty much the "every weekers": Starting from left: Addison Smith, Bailey Bishop, Georgia Schroeder, William Bishop, Jackson Schroeder, and Julia.














Aren't they all so presh!? That's MOMs group for ya!

Seven Month Comparisons

Here are the pictures from when Julia was 7 months old in 2006 and Johnathan at 7 months now:






























Holy Smacks! Where does the time go??? I remember when Julia was 7 months old, I wanted her to stay that way forever. It was the most fun age. ((Of course when she'd turn one more month older, I'd think the same thing))

September 4th Johnathan turned 7 months old!

He is sitting up all by himself with hardly any falls now. He tries to do crunches when he's laying down because he prefers to sit up, that's for sure! He isn't crawling quite yet (Julia was crawling just a few days after her 7 month birthday), but we haven't really encouraged it either. We do "tummy time"....well, he does his own tummy time turning over, turning around, moving to all four corners of the room, and he even does that bending his knees thing. But he isn't crawling....THANK GOD! I'm not ready for him to grow up that much yet.

I'm still feeding him the homemade stuff. Going on a month now, which isn't as bad as I thought it would be. We do still buy some of the fancy stuff, but I do the veggies and the fruit. It gives me that Proverbs 31 woman feel. It may not be considering buying a field for my family....but I consider buying foods I can puree and save money with! Speaking of pureeing....Jason isn't a fan of my deceptively delicious dishes. I was secretly trying to get some veggies in him too and it didn't go over too well. I am not giving up just yet, but maybe I shouldn't puree EVERYTHING (especially chicken!).













Back to the little whipper snapper: He still takes a great morning and afternoon nap and lets you know when he needs one. He's got some lungs on him, but once you put a bottle in his hands, he's good to go.

He is holding his own bottle, which Julia never did. It's still amazing to me (I know some of you moms are thinking, "what?!"), but to me it's our first time and oh so great. He probably got to the point and was thinking, "if I don't do it, I may never eat!"

He's still got his purdy blue eyes and I still consider myself a "boy's mama"! (see my post when I talk about this), and he's just as sweet as ever!













Julia is really good with him, although she thinks she's his momma sometimes! Just the other day Jason said that Johnathan kept "walking" over to her (in his walker) touching her and she kept saying, "No no no Bubba! I'm sick of it! I'm sick of it!" Um, I wonder where she's heard that!? Whoops! Anyway, she is very loving to him and loves to play with him.

So, Johnathan is just growing and growing! We are blessed to have him in our lives. We can't imagine life without him, that's for sure. Happy 7 month birthday, my cute mans!

Yearbook Pictures!

Jason and I just have too much time on our hands! I have never laughed so hard!! Oh the internet....what fun things you can do!!

Starting from 1960 all the way to the year 2000....here are some "yearbook" pictures. Ha!

We dare YOU to yearbook yourself!