Jocelyn is ONE!!

One year old!



More photos to come :)

Anyone interested?

We had this carseat/base/stroller for Noah and Jocelyn - and so it's "well loved" - but definitely is usable. It's never been in an accident - so any takers? I think it retailed for around $100 (was on sale) - we'll take anything - $20? $15?
Check this beauty out!

Halloween pics...

Halloween...it was debated at one point if we would have our kids celebrate Halloween or if we'd opt for the "Harvest Party" route. Here's what we decided - although I know the history of Halloween probably isn't good - honestly I don't know much about it. I think kids today enjoy dressing up and getting free candy and that's as far as it goes. So - we're fine with it. You will never see our kids (or us for that matter) dressing as anything scary, dead, bleeding or the like. It'll simply be a fun time to dress is a costume and get free candy. So - this year Noah was Tinkerbell (severely discounted costume I found) and Jocelyn was a chicken (leftover from when Noah was 1) which was extremely appropriate since we refer to her as Nugget more often than her real name.
So Tinkerbell and Chicken Nugget had a photo shoot with me on Halloween - enjoy :)
The kids dressed up to go to Cardinal on Friday - Jocelyn wore the zebra just cuz it's so dang cute.

Yeah I dressed up for Halloween. I'm a fun mom.

Sweet girls :)

Took some photos of the girls on the hammock a few weeks ago...things have been busy so I haven't gotten around to editing them. While I was glancing through I noticed these...I had to post.

Noah is THREE!

Our sweet and crazy lady is three! We had her birthday party on her actual birthday this year since it fell on a Saturday and it worked for everyone. It was a blast. Noah had been excited for weeks about her party-letting everyone know that it was coming and that we would have cake and party hats (yes, I thought I bought those and realized the day of that I hadn't - but Noah didn't notice at all).
We woke up to Noah coming back to our room letting us know that the front of the house was decorated for her birthday - and she was SO excited :) Then we gave her her favorite - OJ and let her open her presents - the most exciting was a fish tank - soon to be filled with a fish of her choice. We had breakfast and then got ready to head out to pick out her fish (and pick up the cake and last minute food for the party). The cake was from Heavenly Sweets (YUM) and after I picked it up and made a call about what certainly was a cake meant to go to a nursing home *BORING* and not for a 3 year old - they redid the cake and we left with an adorable cake. Daddy had to take Jocelyn home for her nap so Noah and I headed to Uncle Bill's and she picked out a blue betta fish (pics on my other camera, will come later) and we went home to get it all set up. His name is (drumroll please) Leonidas - Leo for short. Noah couldn't come up with a name (she said she "wasn't naming him ANYTHING!") so we picked the name Adam was saving for our first son (my vote: ain't happening) - :)
Alright - one last thing - We love Noah so much - she's hilarious and fun, so busy and so beautiful. She is joyful and sweet and creative and such a girl. She's a great big sister, a great helper, and our precious Noey :) Some of my favorite memories this past year - when she came out to the family room with her arm soaked up to the elbow and said "I'm wet" - and my mind worked in slow motion to draw the conclusion that the only way she could soak her arm up to the elbow would be the toilet. Yum. Memory #2- Noah has a love of toothpaste...once she mistook facewash for toothpaste and brushed her teeth. She came to tell me that she was "all clean" - with soap bubbles foaming around her mouth. There's plenty more but on to the pics :)
(issues with slideshow - pics to return as soon as....eh - later.)