What made Jason get dressed up??

I will say, it was a difficult time getting Jason to dress nice for this.

I ended up having to buy 2 pairs of pants in different sizes, so he would have his "options" last Sunday morning, and I could return the other ones. I also went around town and bought about 5 different ties and brought them home to see which matched his shirt best. And I have now returned all of those. :)

I even made him take some pictures before we left the house because I knew he wouldn't take any once we got to church.

What made Jason get dressed up?

This past Sunday he was ordained as a deacon in our church. Him and another very good family friend, Mitchel Beasley, were both ordained at the same time. Our church voted back in the early summer I believe on bringing these two before the church.

What his certificate read:

having been chosen one "of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom," and capable of using the office well, was set apart publicly to the office and work of Deacon


It was a great day.

Bro. Bob signing the paper.

Bro. Bob doing the charge for Jason.

My daddy praying over both of them.

Bro. Chad praying.

I'm sure both were happy it was over!! They both gave their testomonies in front of the church. I should have helped him prepare a little bit, but he did great. He made me laugh, and I cried. :)

Daddy presenting the certificate and Bible.

Kissing Kylee after it was over

Reception

And back to this picture. Seriously, could you smile a little bit?? It looks more like you are ready to FIGHT someone than going to be ordained!!

He really did have a black eye from working the other day; I don't know if you can tell or not in the picture.

And look at his fist........Seriously, what am I going to do with him!!

Hopefully our Christmas pictures turn out better!!

Excited is an Understatement

Wonder how Kylee would react if we took her to Six Flags???

I think she is definitely MY child!!

3 Months + One Day

Jaxon turned 3 months old yesterday!! Can you believe it!! Time flies when you're having fun!!

What is he up to??

Loves laying under this toy, and to really make him happy, put him underneath the ceiling fan. He loves it!!

He has the official BALD spot on the back of his head from laying down. Hence, he doesn't really like tummy time.

He eats about every 4 hours. Usually wakes up one time a night to eat. We still swaddle him when he sleeps. (why do we start this)....... I know why, because our kids are SPASTIC!! For some reason, they can't relax there arms as infants; it's kind of like they do the startle reflex all the time. Anyone else like this??

He loves to chew on his hands; if he can get both in his mouth, well all is better. Need to get a picture of this.

Wore his first pair of shoes the other day!!


Spits up all the time still. He basically has to wear a bib wherever we go. Even if it's been like 2 hours after he ate; he could just randomly spit up.

Has no clue how these 2 are so ready for him to get BIGGER, so they can play and be "rough"!! :)

Just in the past 2 weeks has noticed Kylee. He loves for her to talk to him. He just smiles real big!! Which of course makes her feel pretty good about herself!!

And just an interesting fact. When I took Kylee to the Dr. on Friday, she weighed 22 lbs..... She is 25 months old....... Jaxon at 2 months weighed 11 lbs....... He is already 1/2 of her!!

Just Been One of Those Weeks

So, to get you back on track, here's what's been going on with my sweet, little, Kylee bird.

Last Thursday, she woke up in the night, and threw up 4 times, and then started having diarrhea. After her nap that day, she was acting normal. Thinking she was over it.

Acts normal all day Friday....

On Saturday, she woke up in the night and threw up 1 time. We got a TRY to take Christmas pictures will all 5 cousins, and she throws up again while we are there. Pretty much ruins the Christmas pictures, and we don't get anything accomplished that we needed to. :( Again, after her nap, feels and acts pretty normal.

Acts normal all day Sunday.... (Which is Halloween)

Throws up again in the early hours of Monday morning!! I started crying because I just don't know what is going on. Call the Dr. offices they give us the pretty restricted diet to follow for 2 days, and by Wednesday Kylee was acting normal again.....

so we thought.

She threw up again this morning (Friday). I call the Dr. promptly at 8, and we get an appt for 9:15. I wasn't going to take her in even, but it eases my mind so much to hear what the Dr. has to say.

I love our dr. so much because he did exactly that. He makes it seem so simple and understandable. He said she has gastrointestinitis, which is an inflammation of the stomach and intestines. So certain foods are causing it to not settle well making her throw it up.

So for 2 WEEKS we have to kind of watch what we eat. Only clear liquids, NO DAIRY, and mostly bland foods.

Praise the Lord we know what it is, and hopefully, we can control it now!!

Oh, and to add to the bad week already. I shut the car door on Kylee's hand the other day, and it hurt her pretty good. I wanted to cry too. And then she was trying to open the playroom door, and I came up behind her and opened it for her, and she was leaning against, and feel into the door jam. She has big bruise on her cheek. :(

Hope you have a great weekend; we will enjoy our time together!!

Abilene Zoo 2010

For the past 3 years (I didn't go the first year), we have taken a trip to the Abilene Zoo with the kiddos and then did a little shopping.

We can barely fit in the car with strollers and all the kids!! No one can have anymore kids, Brianne!! :)

We also barely made it there. With Kylee sticking her hands in the other two faces, Addi not sharing her baby doll, and Karter biting Kylees' finger because well, she had it in his face. You get the point...

They have really done alot of improvements to the zoo even since last year. It was a beautiful day.

TWINS??? Lexi and Jaxon got called twins that day. In fact, when Brianne and I are anywhere together they think they are twins!! How cute!!

Then we go on to say, "No, one is 3 months and one is 2 months." And that just confuses them more.

We saw multiples of everything. Lions, monkeys, giraffes, bears, one leopard, zebras, buffaloes, snakes, one rhino, beaver, bobcat, turkeys, wolf, birds.

We saw things with big tongues!!!

And BIG eyes!! :)

Trick-or-Treating EVERYWHERE

Halloween is always so BUSY!! It felt like we went trick-or-treating EVERYWHERE, or atleast to everyone within 30 miles that was kin to us!!

We went to the Wall Brethren Trunk-or-Treat, to Mamaw's apartment, to Uncle Mark and Aunt Net, to the Veribest Carnival, to Jason's parents, to my parents, to GG's, to David and Wanda, to the Plagen's house, and to the Weishuhn's house!!!

Exhausted just typing all those places!!

All that combined added up to aLOT of candy that we don't need, but also a whole lot of fun memories!!

The cookies the kiddos handed out at church..... Can you guess what they were for Halloween???

Yep, they were cookies. I got the idea from the girls at this blog.

At the Wall Brethren Church

Decorating a cupcake

Getting candy from Bryan

Playing the "candy walk" at Mamaw's apartment. Even though we didn't win, we had a good time walking the circle.

We went to the Veribest Carnival, and they had a pie contest. Jason told me to enter the apple pie I make...... I really can't believe it, but I won

Grand Champion of all the pies!!!

Y'all I am the girl who never made a pie crust until about 2 years ago, and then when I started trying to make pie crust, I couldn't get it to roll out, much less roll out into the form of a circle.

And just so you know, rolling out pie crust on FOIL instead of wax paper does not work!!

Nonetheless, it was a fun contest!!

Riding the train with Piper

Kylee with her cowgirl friend

Daddy and Jaxon. Even he was a little cookie.

I guess all I really needed to be was a gallon of milk :)

Talking with Cooper

Happy Family 2010

Meeting Freddie the Falcon. She kept calling it "Wally Wall Hawk"!!

Our lost stop was GG's!!

Throw in all those stops PLUS church, Kylee throwing up every other day for 6 days, and Christmas Pictures, and you have one busy WEEK!!!

It was fun though!!