It's been a long, long time...

...since I blogged, and I won't go into much detail, but it has been crazy around here. As of 5 pm today, Bryan will be unemployed until further notice (hopefully not that long, but up to 6 months). We're still unsure about a lot of things but know that whatever happens, God will take care of us and we'll be better for it. Keep us in your prayers!

In kid news, Andrew is four months old and doing great. He is getting really heavy in his carrier, so I'm hoping he sits up soon so I can quit carrying it into stores and such! He is trying to roll over and loves grabbing his toes and chewing on just about everything. Maybe he'll get some teeth soon! Amelia is loving the summer and playing outside with her friend next door. She also just got to spend the night at a friend's house and she and I had a playdate at another friend's. Her calendar is quite busy! :-) She continues to crack us up with the things she says. One of her latest funnies happened the other morning when I went to wake her up for school. I patted her and said, "Amelia, it's time to get up..." and she sat up straight and said, "I overslept!" I don't know why she got that idea but it was pretty cute. Here are some recent cute pictures of the kids.

Amelia is actually asleep in this picture!

Three months, and an important milestone!

Today Andrew is three months old! Time really does fly by. I also can't believe that 2008 is almost halfway over...it seems like it just started! Anyway, Andrew also reached an important milestone this week: he is now sleeping through the night! Thank you, son! I've been putting him down between 11:30 and 12:30 and he's been sleeping until 6 am or so, which is pretty great as far as I'm concerned. Until now he's been sleeping in the bassinet in our room, but he's getting so big (and grabby!) that I figured he needed the space of his crib, so it works out well that he's sleeping well now at night. Here are a couple of his monthly pictures...in his crib! They were both so cute I couldn't choose just one. :-)

Happy Mother's Day

For your Mother's Day enjoyment, please read the following, which Amelia brought home for me from school.

"All About My Mom" (her answers are in bold and italics. Interesting how many of "mom's" favorite things are the same as Amelia's favorite things...)

Written by: Amelia Jobe

My mom's name is : Mommy
My mom is 7 years old
My mom loves: me and my baby Andrew
My mom's favorite job is: Dad
My mom's favorite book is: Thomas
My mom's favorite tv show is: Wonder Pets
My mom's favorite color is: gray
My mom's favorite food is: bread
My mom's favorite thing to do is: paint
My mom's best friend is: Gabriell
My mom's favorite present is: happy face toy
My mom loves me because: I play

Happy Mother's Day to all my mom friends and family!

My cute kids

I just couldn't resist posting this picture of my cute kids!

Outside

We have really enjoyed spending a lot of time outside in the last few weeks. Amelia helped me plant some flowers in the pots on our deck. She is a really good helper and loves using her own little shovel, rake and gloves!

My Aunt Andrea sent Amelia some egg-shaped sidewalk chalk at Easter, and Amelia has really been loving it. She decided to decorate the deck the other day:

The picture above is, as Amelia described it, "a smiling fish." I thought it was pretty good! We've also had some nice spring showers lately, and Amelia has relished them (although I think mostly she just likes being able to use her Thomas umbrella):

Andrew has joined us outside on most of our ventures, lounging in his carseat with the little umbrella part over him. He is such an easygoing baby! Here's the kids before one of our backyard ventures.

We are so thankful to be able to be playing outside! Thank you, God, for springtime!!

Spring...finally...I think

We've finally gotten some fantastic weather in the last couple weeks, and this week it's supposed to be in the 70's every day! Woo hoo! I've boycotted winter for the last couple weeks and have been wearing flip flops. No more socks for me until September! :-) Here are a few cute pictures: 1. Guess who did this?? 2. If you didn't guess, here's the answer. :-) 3. My sweet kids 4. Enjoying the spring weather 5. Two months old...hard to believe!!

Craziness

The last couple weeks around here have been crazy! Our good friends Matt and Jessica got married on the 29th of March, and Bryan, Amelia, and I were all in the wedding, so the week before that was very busy and full of activity. The wedding was beautiful and we all had a lot of fun! Here's a picture of all of us at the wedding, and one of Amelia in her flower girl dress with her new boyfriend Liam (one of the ring bearers and Jessica's nephew):

It took us several days to recover from the wedding busy-ness and being tired from it all. Then last Thursday night, Andrew and I flew to Oklahoma City for my sister's graduate recital (she is graduating with her master's degree in musical theater next month--go Abby!). We had a great time visiting Abby in OKC and got to see lots of family from both sides that I hadn't seen in a very long time. I also got to see some college friends and even a friend from high school (both were at her recital). It was one huge reunion! Here are some pictures from this weekend:

We got home on Sunday night and then woke up Monday morning to Andrew coughing and wheezing a lot. I took him to the doctor and just as a precaution, she sent us to the hospital for a chest x-ray and an RSV test. The x-ray came back normal but we're still waiting on the RSV test result. Andrew started doing better yesterday (not so sleepy and wheezy) and is better still today, but we still haven't found out for sure whether he just has a cold or RSV. Keep him in your prayers! Here is a picture of him in some cute overalls, and a piece of artwork from Amelia which I found very impressive. I'm hoping our craziness is winding down for a while!