8 months old

Here are some 8 month old pictures of Dock Levi!! Pictures are getting harder to take of him sitting in the same spot.

You can't hold me down

Here I come mom

and I am up and smiling

That is enough

The best I could do

Happy 8 months Dock Levi!! You can crawl, pull up, irritate your brother with the best of them. You are such a blessing in our lives.

Diaper: size 4

Clothes: 12 to 18 months

Food: LOVES everyting

Teeth: working on two on the bottom

Christmas in Texas

From Huber Heights, Ohio to Waco, Texas is 1089 miles which takes 17hrs 53mins if you were to drive straight through without any stops. What a long drive but we made it!! We broke the trip up into two days. Now every time we get in the car Dock Levi starts crying so he is probably thinking we are going on a long road trip. (Poor little guy) The trip was totally worth it. We got to celebrate Christmas with my family, and we hung out with great friends. We even went to see a movie without kids!! (Score)

Dec 23 day one Ohio to Memphis 9hrs

So of course we wanted to eat Bar B Que while in Memphis. We had dinner at Neely's which was really good. I did not put two and two together until we got there that it was Pat and Gina from the Food Network restaurants. For some reason I thought they were from Atlanta.

Yummy Bar B Que


Our hotel had an indoor pool. This is actually Levi's first time swimming.

Dec 24 day two Memphis to Waco 9hrs

The boys took a great 3hr nap which was great. But once we were outside of West, Texas we hit traffic, and Levi started screaming. Thankfully we were not in the traffic too long.

Joseph icing cookies for Santa

Good job Joseph!! Santa is going to love his cookies

I guess the boys have been good!!

Dock Levi's first Christmas and he was the first awake at 4:30 in the morning!!

A couple of hours later Joseph wakes to see what Santa brought him

We had a great time in Texas!! And I can't wait to go back this summer.

Christmas tradition

One of our favorite Christmas tradition is getting Hallmark ornaments each year. We always get ornaments that represent us for the year. Now that Joseph is getting bigger he gets to pick out one ornament also. Here are some ornaments over the years. Some are not Hallmark but most are.

Our first ornament 2003, Our love story with our engagement picture in it.

Bride and Groom 2004

New House 2005

Parents to be 2006

When Joe was a coach 2007

Last year Joseph was really into Sponge Bob

And Little Ducks

Dock Levi's Baby's 1st ornament

Our family ornament 2010

The next two are my favorite!! Joseph made them both at preschool.

So this year Joseph is into Scooby Doo and

anything SuperHero!! So here is Spider man and Green Goblin.

Joseph's Christmas program

Here are a few videos from Joseph's program this morning. It is hard to see him because of the bright lights on the stage. He is on the bottom row second from the left.

A little message from Joseph

I just love this little guy!!

Gingerbread house

Today Joseph and I decorated our first gingerbread house. It is harder than I thought it was going to be, but we had a great time. It might not be the best looking house, but we love it. And Joseph says it taste pretty good. Here are pictures from the beginning to the Joseph eating some of the candy roof.

Not too bad for our first time!!

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

This is what Dock Levi likes to do now. It had become his obsession.

I can remember Joseph doing the exact thing to John and Michelle's movies. The only thing different is I do not have Haley and Bradley here to pick them up.

Clay ornaments

Last week Joseph and I made our first batch of clay ornaments. We had a great time rolling out the dough, cutting the shapes, baking, and painting the ornaments. I bought the boys their own tree with color lights. Joseph just keeps telling me that his tree is beautiful.

Working hard

He loved using the cookie cutters



J for Joseph and L for Levi

Trying not to make that big of a mess

Most of our ornaments are green

Consentrating really hard

Our beautiful ornaments

Finished product

Breakfast with Santa

On Saturday we took the boys to have breakfast with Santa on base. Even though it was really cold and snowing we braved the weather to make a family memory together. The boys were really good which was great since we had to wait in line for almost an hour to see Santa.

Here is our house that morning

Come on boys look at daddy

Levi loves the camera

This is what he does when he see the camera!!

We are getting closer

I am still awake and in a good mood

Waiting in line makes me so tired!!

Finally Santa