Happy Anniversary Mom-Mom and Poppa!!

WOW, 36 years!!! That is AWESOME!!!! We love you!!!!
Love, Joseph and Hannah

Airplanes and Smiles!

What little boy does not LOVE airplanes??? This one does!!! Brandon picked up a wooden, rubber band propelled plane at our last visit to Cracker Barrel.













It did not work perfectly since it was windy, but that did not dampen our little boy's experience!









Let 'er rip Daddy!!!





















SO COOL!!!













Hey Y'all! Check out how long my tongue is!!










Poppa wanted to know if I ever smiled since I tend to turn it off as soon as the camera comes out. Well today, I allowed my smile to be caught! After I stuck my tongue out at the camera of course!












Daddy, you are so funny!










We are enjoying the fall and are excited for the upcoming Holiday's!!! I love this time of year! The kids are growing so fast; I can't believe that Joseph will be 2 this month! Where does the time go??? We will be heading off for Mom and Dad's for Thanksgiving...Wooo Hooo!!! Can't wait to see all of our friends up there!!

Happy Halloween!!

We had a great time dressing the kids up and taking them trick-or-treating!

















We spent our night at Tim and Lisette's where the kids had a blast!










Joseph LOVED the pops!!! As you can see he had one in his mouth for every picture! He didn't quite get the concept of t-or-t. He invited himself into the first house, and was ready to call it a night after house #4...





The day before I gave him a cookie with a witch painted on the front. He liked the icing!!!












We went to a pumpkin patch earlier in the week. J thought the rooster was cool!













Hannah took it all in...














Our little indian!

2 Beautiful Babies!!

Joseph and Hannah are growing so fast. Hannah will be 4 months old in 9 days and Joseph is quickly closing in on his 2nd birthday...Where does the time go?!














We are so blessed to have two beautiful babies and they genuinely love each other. Joseph has been great with Hannah. We have a feeling that he will be a loving, and yet very protective, older brother.




















Joseph and Hannah will be attending A. Lydia's wedding in a couple of weeks. This is the dress that Hannah will be wearing...BEAUTIFUL LITTLE ANGEL!!





















A rare photo...Mom is usually the one taking the pictures.















Joseph has been practicing to be the next great Olympian of 2020!!!

















Hannah has a new lovey called 'The Zaky'. I HIGHLY recommend it!!! It is basically shaped and weighted to simulate my arm resting on her. Helps with sleep and car rides!!

















Another rare photo op...Joseph actually slowed down long enough to snuggle with Daddy for about 60 seconds.














We continue to be very busy, but enjoying every moment of our precious children.

Some pics from our week!

Nothing new to report here. We are just hanging out and enjoying the cooler weather!!!

(don't mind us and our pj's, it is about 6 AM)

















Ahh...a sweet girl cozy in her towel after a nice bath.











Hannah look at the camera!! :-)














"Umm, I am trying to think...where did I leave Thomas??"

I saw this on Robyn's blog and thought it was cute. And, since I am stuck on the couch feeding Hannah I thought I would fill it out.

1. Were you married at the time? Yes.
2. What were your reactions when you found out you were pregnant?
Joseph - Brandon and I were elated...it took a long time!
Hannah - Shocked because we wanted another one but didn't expect to get pregnant so fast!
3. How old were you?
Joseph - 28
Hannah - 30
4. How did you find out you were pregnant?
Joseph - I had that gut feeling and took a pregnancy test
Hannah - I had a metallic taste in my mouth and took a test to confirm
5. Who did you tell first?
Brandon
6. Did you want to find out the sex?
Joseph - absolutely, it is the one thing we got to do together b4 Brandon deployed to Iraq
Hannah, yes! I knew it was a girl!!!
7. Due due:
Joseph - \December 4, 2006
Hannah - June 28, 2008
8. Did you deliver early or late?
Both were early J 10 days, H 9 days.
9. Did you have morning sickness?
Oh yeah!!!
10. What did you crave?
Joseph - yogurt with fresh fruit and Kashi crunch
Hannah- ice cream!!!
11. Who irritated you the most?
I think the questions should be who did I irritate!!
12. What was your first child’s sex? Male
13. How many pounds did you gain throughout the pregnancy?
Joseph - 28
Hannah- 27
14. Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? Luckily No.
15. Where did you give birth?
Joseph - Madigan Army Hospital
Hannah - Martin Army Medical Hospital - NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!
16. How many hours were you in labor?
Joseph - 26 hours
Hannah - 7.5 hours
17. Who drove you to the hospital?
Brandon both times
18. Who watched?
J- Brandon and my Doala
H - Brandon and the entire OBGYN medical staff at MAMC.
19. Did you take medicine to ease the pain?
J - epidural
H- wanted an epidural but the lazy medical staff took too long and so I missed my chance!
20. How much did your child weigh?
Joseph - 6.5
Hannah - 7.5
21. What did you name him/her?
Joseph Thomas
Hannah Katherine
22. How old is your first born today?
Jseph is 22 mo. going on 5!!!

Just hanging around...

Not much to say, just thought I would share some pics from this week.




















Found her fingers, Mmm!
































trying out his new Elmo and Thomas underpants.



















First time in the Bumbo.














Mom, I am trying to sleep!!!











My little multi-tasker!!!

Back to School?

I took advantage of the Back-to-School sale, for infants and toddlers (nice that they are included), at Osh Kosh and Carter's yesterday. Joseph had to put on his new duds as soon as I showed them to him!! He later decided that 90 degrees was still a bit warm for long-sleeves and pants.
















Notice the blue marker on his upper lip...I bought him washable markers today (maybe not a good idea!).























Hannah successfully rolled over this week (with a little assistance). I propped her on my pillow while getting dressed, next thing I new she was on her stomach. She is still working on doing it without a slight incline.








She is just as determined to roll front to back!













She loves to read!















And, has found a new friend!

New Ears!!!

Joseph had 'surgery' to put tubes in his ears today.




















We are so proud!! He was a perfect patient!











He was really upset when we met him in recovery. Mostly groggy from the anestesthia, but he was also a little scared I think. However, an hour later he was back to himself, happy and playing with his toys.





Little miss Hannah is doing well too! They are both napping right now, YEA!! :-)

Babies, Babies Everywhere!

We just got home from an awesome weekend with all of the new cousins!!! We traveled to Nashville over Labor Day where we all got to play with all of the 'Laws' babies!!!

From Left to Right: Hannah, Mom-Mom, Campbell, Joseph, Poppa, and Ava.











Joseph had a BLAST! He thoroughly enjoyed meeting all of him new cousins and checking out all of their toys, like Ava's ear muffs!












Hanging with Mom-Mom! All weekend long he would yell, "Yea Mom-Mom!" whenever he did something.














And he wore himself out running around the hotel!!!













Mom-Mom and Campbell (Carl and Ellen's son)











Hannah and Campbell











All of the babies were passed out when we arrived at our hotel, Gaylord Opryland Resort.














Again, Joseph LOVES his Mom-Mom!









Hannah and her duck! She is becoming increasingly more aware of objects and people around her. And, the girl LOVES to talk!!! She is going to be quite the chatter box!







Everyone was worn out after the long weekend vaca! Joseph slept until 7:45AM and then took a 4 hour nap the day after we got home. Too bad that didn't last. He was up bright and early at 6:30AM this morning. YUCK!

Joseph is having surgery on Monday to put tubes in his ears. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. We have been told that the procedure is short and that he should be up and playing by the evening. He does have to be put under general anethesia though, so we are praying that there are no complications with that. Hopefully, once all is said and done, the tubes will prevent anymore of these horrible ear infections that cause Joseph to have 104-105 degree temperatures that linger around for 2-3 days!

I will put up some more pics from our trip to Nashville when I get them from everyone else that was there. I thought I had taken more of Ava, Kim's daughter, but I guess I must have picked up someone else's camera to shoot those (all of the families have the same camera). :-)

Tata for now!