Loving his baby brother...

And by the way, we finally came up with a name we both love.

Timothy Wyatt Adams

It's not uncommon for boys in my family to go by their middle name, so he will be known as Wyatt.

Timothy is the name of one of Tyler's dearest friends he was in Iraq with, and the man Tyler looks up to the most in the Military.

Christmas with three "because I'm three!"

Kelly didn't know what to say about all these photos and asked that I put my descriptions with the pictures. Here it goes:

It's Christmas Eve and Josh has left a wonderful plate of cookies and milk for Santa. He even wanted to leave a letter for him for being so nice to come to our house.

Those cookies look small, but Santa said they were just too many to eat all by himself.

And here's Christmas morning! The stockings are full and the cookies are mostly gone. Now all we need is a Joshua to come and check it out.

Santa's pretty cool, but too full to eat them all.

I really should have had the camera when I went in to wake him up. He was so tired, but when I said it's Christmas, he perked up a little. Then I told him that Santa came, and he popped his head off the pillow and in a high, excited voice yelled, "He did?!" He's made Christmas pretty fun. Way better than a good old Iraq Christmas or two.

His first present he could see hanging out of his stocking kept him too occupied to read Santa's note.

This has become a common position to find Josh in lately. Playing on his leapster with Spongebob and Wall-E. What better friends could a 3 year old have?

And here's the bowling club. These two characters are better than me, so it's better when they can pit against each other.

Me and Josh have to fight it out sometimes. When he beats me too much on the Wii, I have to just pick him up and fight for real. He can't get too cocky that way.

And here's the Army guys! These have been fun. He broke one of them today and came over to have me fix it. It was nothing that a lighter couldn't fix, so he was back to playing. It was nice to hear though, when he said, "Dad, thanks for taking care of the Army guys."

Merry Christmas!

From our family to yours!!

Bathtub Tornado's and Tomatoes.

Something stupid is going on with Josh's bathtub faucet... it only gives out cold water for some reason...

So, while helping him get the water warmer, we ended up draining the tub completely and refilling it.

Thus, letting Josh have the opportunity to notice the bathtub tornado, instead of being swooped up in a warm towel and dressed in jammie's.

Josh thought it was pretty awesome- he asked what it was... (is there really a name for it? I have no idea, so I made one up.) I replied, "oh! that's the bathtub tornado!"

With this, he looks up at me with wide eyes and says, "That's the coolest tomato I've ever seen!!!"

...I didn't have the heart to correct him. :)

My beautiful Family. By Josh.

I hope most of you don't gamble..

Because from my baby gender poll, you'd lose a lot of money!!!

That's right, looks like we're having a BOY!!!!

Because most people don't have a clue what they're looking at:

The left foot is over on the left of the picture, then you see his leg, then up to the back of his knee, then it bends and you see his thigh and his little bum.. and from that, you can probably see where his proof is. Right above the ultrasound cursor.

We get the "official" gender ultrasound on the 16th... but who wants to wait that long to yell it from the rooftops?? We are very excited! Josh is happy, but I think he would have been happy either way. Now we just need to figure out what to name the little guy!

New Moon Fun!

We had a great time at New Moon! Here we are, in our AWESOME hoodies we had made! The front has the Cullen crest, the back has the New Moon movie logo and the left Arm has our names.. Yeah, we got quite a few comments on them, what a fun thing!

From left to right, Hannah, Lisa, Karina, Me, Karlee, Becky and Kalli.

Thanks girls for coming! It was a blast! I can't wait to come up with something wonderful for Eclipse!

waiting at the theater...

..and waiting..

..and waiting..

..almost to the theater!!

got awesome seats!

..sick of waiting, half of us fell asleep before it started! But don't worry, we were all up and alert for the movie when it FINALLY came on!

Fun snow gear and the vein of my existence.

"I AM smiling!"

Really?? Camera shy?? weirdo.

Stupid woodpecker. He's really pretty, but not so much when he's pecking the metal vent outlet from my master bathroom... it kinda makes me want to go crazy.

YAY SNOW!

Looks like it's time to get some warm snow clothes for Josh! I could barely talk him in to coming back inside for a tub!

PSA Reminder: Don't eat the yellow snow.

The Art of Bread Making:

Rule of Life #127: When you screw up your first time making bread, don't get mad and walk away to cool off... or you'll come back to something like this:

stupid yeast.

Instead, try again.

And this time, don't add 5 1/2 cups of water... when it only calls for 3 1/2 cups of water.

Then, enjoy your own success.

And remind your husband to Oooo and Ahhh all over it.

By Popular Demand:

The 15 week bump.

Joshy's new obsession.

The following post will be in the **Thoughts** of Josh.

Oooo... Mom's new computer. It's silver and shiny... Let's click THIS button.

Oh, I see myself!

I could totally get in trouble for this...
WHO CARES!!!! THIS IS A BLAST!!!!
I better practice "playing dead" now... before Mom catches me...

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ok, so I was playing around on my mac today and noticed some new pictures in my photo booth.... Who were they of? Joshy!!! Did he have permission to have said photo shoot? NO!!!

From what he's wearing, I know he did this on Sunday..

...that turkey... he knows he needs permission to get on this computer!!

Even so, I thought the pictures were hysterical and added a little narration for your reading pleasure.

silly kid.

HALLOWEEN!!!

So, for MONTHS every time I asked Josh what he wanted to be for Halloween, I get the reply, "MOM! I don't want to be ANYBODY! I just want to be JOSHY!!"
OOOOOOKAY...
At first I was totally bummed, but then I figured, if he didn't want to dress up for Halloween, I wasn't going to make him. BUT- I continued to ask, just in case he changed his mind.
Tyler and I even asked the night before Halloween, and got the same response.
Fast forward to Halloween morning:
We wake up and announce to Josh that it's Halloween day, and we get to pass out candy that night to the kids that go trick-or-treating.
He got VERY excited and replied, "Oh GREAT!!! I want to be a DINOSAUR!!!!"
what?
Well, after about a million and a half calls to everywhere I could think of, there were no dinosaur costumes left in Colorado Springs in his size. shocker.
We did however, find one costume in his size, at pottery barn kids. (of course, the most expensive place to buy a costume.) A Gorilla!!! Tyler and I made sure to make a big deal about it, talking about how awesome Gorilla's are... he took the bait, and LOVED the costume.
Some pictures:





Instead of trick-or-treating around our neighborhood, we invited our neighbor and her little girl to head over to the trunk-or-treat at the church. Our ward, and another ward had the annual chili cook-off and decorated all the class rooms for the kids. It was a hit, a lot of fun.
(Yes, that's a banana-bag he's holding... cute.)
It ended up being a real fun night- After the trunk-or-treat, we came back to the house and Meghan (neighbor) and her daughter Summer stayed over and watched a movie and had some candy and pop corn.
Here's a picture of Summer and Josh after they were done gathering as much candy as they could.

Feeling Pretty Cool

So, I thought I would try and make a post. Kelly usually does this, and does a very nice job. I guess I will make my mark today. I had fluid taken out of 2 disks in my lower back yesterday. I have to say that is a pretty interesting feeling. I don't remember much of the procedure, thanks to some cool medicine, but I remember trying to get up out of the wheelchair. My left leg worked great, but hasn't had any issues to begin with. My right leg, however, was pretty useless. I couldn't move my foot and couldn't bend my leg. Honestly, I wasn't too sure about it. It felt almost the same as when I originally hurt my back last year. I got out of the hospital around 0930 and laid down for the rest of the day. When I got up to go upstairs, my leg felt the same and I was still gimping around. This morning is a much better time. I don't have any numbness at all today. It's pretty cool. I still can't bend down or pick up anything heavier than a pillow, but I have a free excuse to go play in the pool. I have to do some hydrotherapy for a couple of weeks and then I can move on to weighted physical therapy. Things are looking pretty good to get this over with, so thanks to everybody for the thoughts, prayers, and notes.

HERE kitty-kitty-kitty!!!

Ok, so it ALL started yesterday... Tyler mentioned that he thought he heard a kitty meow from out front- I immediately went outside to investigate, but heard and saw nothing.
Fast forward to this morning- I heard it! but it was LOUD! and SAD! these sad meow's startled me so badly, I ran outside in my jammies and uggs to find the poor thing! It was 17 degrees outside!
It was hiding under a big bush we have in our front yard, I tried to grab it but it just screamed and ran away. I followed it to my neighbor's yard... and Yes- I'm sure my neighbors think I'm NUTS for digging around in someone else's bushes...
Finally I just figured, instead of scaring it off for good- I'd just set up something to lure it back...
doesn't this look appetizing??
Yes, that's an old rug, a raw egg, and Reagan's baby food I had in the pantry. Split pea and carrot soup with chicken. Mmmm...
Well, it didn't work. I checked back a couple hours later and the egg and baby food was frozen and no kitty to be seen. I left the rug out there, just incase... but figured the food idea was a no-go.
Finally, about an hour after that, I heard it again! That sad kitty howl! I ran outside again and saw it was in the same spot, under the bush. I talked to the kitty for a while, and told it I wasn't going to hurt it, but needed to pick it up so I could bring it inside. I reached down, and picked it up!! He didn't even bite or scratch me! He was still howling quite a bit though...
As soon as I came inside, Josh starts dancing around saying, "Oh KITTY! I just KNEW you belonged with us!!! YAY YAY YAY!" ...oh my. crap.
I got a plastic bin, and a baby blanket and put a little dish of water inside. (he still hasn't touched it.)
I cut up some steak I had in the fridge and warmed it. He ate SO fast! And MEOWED the whole time he ate!!! Poor kitty!
After he ate, my sister Lisa had the fantastic idea of warming up a rice pack in the microwave and putting it under the blanket because he was still so cold. Here he is, full belly and warmth. He was purring!!!
He's sound asleep now... Tyler doesn't get off work until tomorrow morning... I'm not really sure what we're going to do!!

What a day!

Pumpkin Patch, Oct 09