More Birthday!!

Jess and me The birthday barnyard setup!!

Grant liked his smushy truck!!
Having fun with Mommy opening presents!
Kaleb and Grant
Grant's new froggy pool!!
Grant hated his cake!! He didn't want any part of the icing touching him!! It was so funny!!!

Grant's 1st Birthday!

Grant's first birthday party was great! We had a lot of people show up. Lots of family and friends...thank you so much for coming. It meant so much to us! Grant was so overwhelmed with all the people here in our house! Not to mention all the toys!...oh my goodness, where will we will put them all!! I need a whole 'nother bedroom just for toys! He loves and plays with every one of them! The cakes turned out great..thankfully! I was so worried. The grocery store here was going to make them and then called me four days before the party and said that they couldn't do it because I wanted the picture done in icing. Why they couldn't tell me this the day I went there and ordered it, I will never know. So luckily I had heard of a place in Laurel called Sugarbakers. I had heard that they were good. I didn't have time to go to Laurel and show them a picture of what I wanted (I'm really picky...) So I just told them over the phone and told them I trusted them. As you can tell by the pictures, they did a MORE THAN WONDERFUL JOB!
Today at church, Grant just wasn't having it with me leaving him in the nursery. He just isn't used to the church nursery yet, so I stayed with him. I am glad I did because he took his first two steops today!! I teared up!! I was so excited! I can't believe he is growing up so fast right before our eyes. He is saying so many words, mama, dada, baba, nana, troopa, bugga(Mydad's dog is Buger) juice, and dog. He loves to listen to music and dance! It is so funny. He likes to watch the Wiggles and Higgleytown Heros. I think that its more for the music than anything. He still isn't walking yet, but is close. He is a super fast crawler though!! He weighs 22 pounds. We go to the doctor in a couple of weeks for our checkup so I will have to update you more on that.
He is a happy baby. Though, he is going through some kind of sleep phase. He was sleeping through the night. THen all of sudden, he started waking up in the middle of the night for no reason and to save us sleep because we both work and get up at 5 we jsut put him in the bed with us...I know I know bad idea. Well, I have to fix it. Anyone have any ideas????

Well, for those of you who don't know, we are selling our house. So please be prayer that it will sell. We feel like that is what God wants us to do right now.

Welcome to the Land of Suv's

Well, I got a new car or should I say SUV! I got a used Sequoia! I am so excited. It is so roomy. And we really needed the SPACE. We got an excellent deal on it too. When we went to the dealer, he let me drive a four-runner which I wasn't crazy about. It was blue and had been smoked in..YUCK! But it was ok. I had seen the Sequoia on the lot but knew that I probably couldn't afford but out of curiosity I asked how much it was as I was test driving the other. He whipped out his papers and surprisingly said it was the same price as the four-runner! I flew back to the dealership and nearly fell out trying to get to the SUV before anyone else got their hands on it!! HA HA! Are you drawing a mental picture of this?! It is beautiful and everything we need and I love!

It has been a chaotic week. It is the student's last week, thank goodness!! So trying to keep them busy and clean up and do paper work, etc.... Then Trying to keep this house clean....need I say more....it definitely isn't like it used to be! But that is okay. I wouldn't have it any other way. Grant's party is Saturday so we are trying to get everything stored away and cleaned up. We landscaped tonight and will finish tomorrow. WHEW!!! Lots to do!

Grant will be one on Thursday and I can't believe it is here already. It goes by so fast! He is such a great baby. He will be walking soon. He really wants to and is close. My dad said that he took a step tonight when we weren't there but I told him it didn't count since we weren't there!

Well, goodnight for now!

Daycare Finale

We had our daycare program at the church tonight. There was a slide show for the parents before it started. Then, they have this big red buggy you push that carries 8 babies and they pushed in around the sanctuary. It was so cute!! Grant started to cry right before they came out all because the buggy stopped!! He wanted it to move!! Or so we thought. He made it around the church until he got to us and started whining. They they gave all the babies to their parents and we got to watch the older kids perform their program. It was cute. Grant didn't make the last 10 minutes. He started getting fussy because he had a red poopy diaper!! Antibiotic..need I say more!! It was great. Wonderful first experience and can't wait to have more!!