Christmas Day!

The Boy's Big 2nd Birthday!!!

So, I am surprised that it took us so long to get these pictures up; after all, the party was a week ago! Usually, Debra is spot on with putting pictures up here. Well, anyway, here they are. The boy had quite the time now that he is a year old and had a bit of time to mature and all.

Debra put together a pretty good little party with a Tonka truck theme, although, once the presents began being opened, you'd swear that it was a Thomas the Tank Engine party. Debra and her mom made little cupcakes with construction vehicle cutouts stuck in the tops and we scattered all of Nehemiah's little Tonka type things all over the place for decor. We even used a big Tonka dumptruck as a chip bowl!

Lots of people showed up, which made it all the more fun. Most of the Lopez family showed up; that would be Chris and Christine and their kids, and Sam and Norma and their kids. My mom and Chuck came down from Las Vegas, and Grammie (Karen's Mom) came all the way from Buffalo, NY (not nessecarily for the party, but we'll ignore that). The whole Dutcher family was there, to include the Thiebauds, and Frank and Connie, who is sort of lumped in with the Dutcher family. Debra's best friend, Jessica and her daughters Cassidy and (insert blank thought here). I think that I am forgetting someone that I will greatly feel bad about later, too. It was a packed house, but as Karen assured us, she can comfortably feed thirty in her house, so there was no worry.

There were games and beefy sandwiches and cupcakes and blindfolded games and present openings and by the time that Nehemiah was done, well, look at the last photo. It was a good time had by all. Check back in soon, as Debra will soon be putting some of the videos on here, too.

Some pics from the party at Aunt Sara's house

Field Trip

Sleeping in the big boy bed...

An Unplanned Family Picture

Mean Daddy...

The New Arrangement...

Nana gave us the idea to try the toddler bed, but i was a little concerned about the fall, so i put my old twin feather bed on the floor. Not only did he sleep in his own room for the 1st time in months (he did wake up twice, but a little pat on the back was all he needed) but he didn't fall out of the bed! Nap time was great today too! So we will see if the trend continues...

Happy Halloween

Ok, so our little rooster, had a meltdown in the begining because he wanted to go out walking and daddy wasn't ready yet. But apparently he had a blast, impressed lots of people, won a cake (cupcake) walk at our community center, he got lots of candy, a veggietales book and i don't know what else. Daddy did pretty good with him and he made it through the event with out giving him a single piece of candy. I on the other hand had to work, and for some reason all of my old people friends, just wanted to go to bed, and could care less about all the cute kids dressed up.

Playgroup

Some of the North County Moms got together to celebrate Colton's 1st birthday, which is on october 31st! Colton, is wearing the orange shirt and he is also one of Nehemiah's favorite friends along with Kensington who is the blond little girl with the black and white striped shirt on. We sat all of the kids on the blanket and started sing the wheels on the bus and they all STAYED!!!

2 year old and Halloween

So we got Nehemiah's costume in the mail today...He going to be a rooster. When we get in the house he says "hold it?" So i give it to him. He then says "mommy rooster, farm!" Yes Nehemiah roosters do live on farms. He walks up stairs with his costume, and i follow him 2 minutes later. I get to his door way and he says "Look Mommy Rooster farm" I look and he has shoved the costume inside the fisher-price farm toy.

One more story...
We went to the SLO farmers market tonight to trick or treat at the downtown stores. We were very unsuccessful to say the least. Yes it was very crowded but the problem was... Nehemiah doesn't understand the concept of trick or treating yet. He would get a piece of candy and would have to hold it till we got to the next store, when that store offered him a new piece only then would he put the one he had in his hand in the bag. I think we got a total of 4 pieces of candy before we gave up. I have a feeling he's not going to bring much candy home for me this year.

I've been tagged...

Jessi tagged me, so i have to tell you 7 interesting things about me. Although i have feeling that after you read these you will find that I'm not very interesting at all.



1. Nehemiah sleeps next to me every night. OK OK after a month of waking up 3-4-5 times a night and being up each time for 30min to 1.5 hours we got desperate. we didn't want to share our bed with him but neither of us wanted to sleep in the rocking chair or on the floor in his room. You will be glad to know we are all sleeping through the night.

2. I am the sheep and goat leader for Santa Margarita 4-H. We have 8 kids in the group, 7 of them being home school kids. At our next meeting we are going to be talking about nutrition and comparing different feed labels.

3. Tonight I'm making meatloaf for dinner. Since Casey has been home i have been making dinner around 3 nights a week. That is a huge jump from the old Zero nights a week.

4. If you do a search for "Debra Kendall Cal Poly" this is what comes up: http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2004/2004_news_releases/may_04/poster.html






5. I am a member of SLOCountyMommies.com which i think is one of the greatest things about living in SLO county. I have met some really great friends






6. My son wears cloth diapers. No running out of diapers in this house.









7. I love having a kid to take trick or treating because i get the candy!!!!