A Date...what is that again?

Well, we decided to go on a date for the 4th time since Corbin was born! We dropped Corbin off at some friends and on a date we went! We had to run some errands. Then, we ate at Pizza Hut. They have the best hot wings (next to Joel's of course!)!!! We always wonder why we order a pizza because we always end up taking it home anyway!
And it seems we didn't even take a picture together! I guess we are starting all over at this dating thing...just in time too, with another on the way!

More Mac'n'cheese, Please!

His forehead is covered in cheese because he decided to lick out the cheese at the bottom of the bowl!

Happy New Year!

This year was our 2nd Annual New Year's Eve party! Joel and 2 others from the community put it together! It was a lot of work, but it was worth it!
We started the night with a Chili Cookoff! My mom and brothers and two girls from our church were on a team with me. I'm sure ours was the best, but we didn't win any awards...something to do with adding too much root beer and pepper...thanks Simon!!!
We had some air-up games come. This is the bowling. It was a lot like the Wii.
We also had a huge basketball tug-o-war game. The first person to get their 5 balls into the hoop wins. It was a huge hit!!! This picture is of Joel winning against a college kid.
Gotta love the glasses!

Happy 2008!

Christmas at Home

On Friday, Emily's family came up to celebrate Christmas with us.Our tree with a bunch of presents...all opened within minutes of this photo!
Corbin got a very cute little red rocking chair! He loves to rock!
Opening the gifts!
Nice hat!
Corbin rocked while playing on his cell phone!

It was a really good Christmas!

Christmas Day

After we ate our big meal for dinner, we all headed out to the sledding hill!

Here we are! Corbin loved sledding down the hill, he was full of smiles all the way down and while he was getting pulled up!

It took two sleds, but all the brothers got to go for a ride, pushed by their dad!

And here are the cousins!

The best part was not climbing back up the hill, but to go down, you must go up!

Then it was time to read the Christmas story.
....and peek at the presents!
And finally, open them!
All the daughter-in-laws got a wonderful gift! Don't we look great?
And finally, the family picture! It includes everyone...

Dad, Mom, 5 brothers, 5 sister-in-laws, and 9 grandkids!!!!

All Together Again!

We started our celebration on Sunday evening with a birthday party for Jesus at Joel's parents. All 9 grandkids sat around the table and colored placemats.Then we got to celebrate with some head gear! Corbin only wore it for this picture, then it was off!
The 3 youngest boys got a ride in the box! They were giggling like crazy!
And they also enjoyed some treats!
Sitting in grandma's lap, eating cheerios mix!

The Best Gift

We have been waiting anxiously to share the news...and we got confirmation of a heart beat and an ok from the doctor...so here's the news....ready!!!







Christmas came a bit early for us!











Our second little squirt is due to arrive July 4, 2008!



Keep us in your prayers!



Details...it has been a wonderful pregnancy so far! A little sickness, but not much. I am just extremely tired and so is Emily. We are so excited and can't wait to continue to share all the news! And yes, we are finding out the gender as soon as possible! (We are the kind of people that open presents way before we are suppose to.)

No More Pink Socks!

We have had some really sweet, red shag carpet in one of the bedrooms of our house! We liked it, until we realized that it turns socks pink! So, yesterday, the carpet guy installed nice, clean, non-pink-sock-turning, new carpet!
You can see the sample of the carpet in the video! Corbin got to see the inside of a closet for probably the first time in his life and he loves it! It's his fort! Too bad we have stuff that needs to go back in there! This room is now Corbin's play room, so maybe we will let it be a fort for now and fill a different closet to the max!!!

Snowy Scenes

Frost on the trees!

Christmas Baking

Tuesday night, we decided to do some baking!
We made spritz cookies!
And Corbin was a big help rolling out the dough for the sugar cookies!
A big help!!!
Cooking with a one-year-old is quite the adventure!

Bath in the New Bath!!!

After months of no upstairs bathroom, IT IS FINISHED! I am so glad that it works, too!
I love these pictures of him playing!
Discovering is more the word for it!
This is the face he makes after dunking his face in the water!
Sorry for the butt cheeks, but it's too cute!!!

Sledding

On Mondays, I watch a 5 year old girl, Sadie, and that is who is pulling Corbin! She hopped in the back and we ran some errands around town! (It's a small town!)