The Project That Never Ends

Today I went to my mom's to help her clean out her freezers. (Not a fun task to begin with). It was an interesting job with Josh in the pack 'n play throwing toys onto the driveway and mom and I getting water EVERYWHERE while trying to defrost the freezers. We got the upright, flat and fridge freezers cleaned and found that some of the frozen raspberries were drying out. We went inside and started making raspberry freezer jam. 8 batches later we finished up for the night (with at least enough to do 4 more batches). Unfortunately, while preparing the raspberries we found that we had a lot of juice left over. Any idea what this means..........raspberry jelly awaits us! Poor Josh was SO tired by the time we left. This seriously is the project that never ends. I will have to take a pictures of the "fruits" of our labors. Way too tired to do that tonight!

Our first blog!

Today is the day I decided to start a blog. This is a big step for me!


Josh has been so fun to be around lately. He is such a happy boy and he just loves to say "Hi!" to EVERYBODY! He has been starting to jabber a lot more and copies a lot of the words that we say to him. It is fun to watch him wander throughout the house playing with toys and entertaining himself rather than waiting to be entertained. He is also doing better at feeding himself. This is his latest attempt with spaghetti -- I know, we chose kind of a hard food for him to self-feed with but he did pretty good considering.

I have found a new hobby in card making. It still takes me quite a while to make one card but I have a lot to live up to with Felicia's (my sister) and Erin's (my sister-in-law) cards. Here are a couple of the cards I have made lately.

Last week Josh and I went to California with my mom and Felicia and her two kids. We had such a fun time. We went to the San Diego Zoo, Sea World, and Disneyland. I was amazed at how much fun the kids had - Olivia is 3, Josh is 15 months, and Lincoln just turned 1. The entire week Josh had a smile pasted on his face and he hated to take a nap for fear that he might miss something exciting. Thank goodness we did get in a nap or two during the week.

Every night when we got back to the hotel room Josh ran around grateful to be free of the stroller and being held. This picture gives a little taste of his happiness found in freedom!

Josh just cannot contain his excitement. I don't remember what ride this was on but he was loving every minute of it!

We were in Disneyland for my birthday. I wore a pin that said Happy Birthday. A lot of people wished me a happy birthday - I never had a chance to forget that it was more than another day of the week!

Josh and Lincoln were stroller buddies during the duration of the trip. Those strollers came in really handy - the kids ate in them, slept in them, and rode in them! Hooray for big strollers that also held all of our junk quite nicely.

We had a very fun time. I always wondered at the people bringing young kids to Disneyland but I would definitely do it again. It was worth the fun that we all had!