Preparing for the Holidays!

It is Sunday afternoon and Jonathan and Jackson are sleeping. I slept for a little while but could only think of the billions of things that needed to get done before we leave. Of course, updating the blog was first on my list!!

We are now decorated for Christmas and the reason we have it done so early is because we are going to be gone the entire Thanksgiving break and will only be home for a couple of weeks before we leave again for Christmas break. We wanted to enjoy the decorations.

Just last night we got to drink some tea from the middle east. Our adopted student from church is from Pakistan and he got some green tea shipped and wanted us to try it. We actually really loved it!!

Halloween Fun!!

Jackson went trick-0r-treating for the first time! We went with the Inman family and with the Stokes family. It was so much fun watching Jackson! He wanted to eat the candy immediately! He was very surprised every time someone gave him candy! He was a lion and Jonathan was John Locke (from LOST). It is crazy how time flies looking back at how tiny Jackson was just this time last year!

Happy Half Day Wednesday!

Happy Half Day Wednesday! Jonathan is at home and we are going to rearrange the living room so that more students can fit into the living room for our Office parties. Also we received a package from Mimi today. Jackson got an Elmo stocking that sings. Right now as I type I hear Jackson crying because he wants Elmo to sing once again!! I am sure I will have to hide it before to long! =)


Jackson got his first ant bits this past Monday. He also got his first "Big Boy Boo Boo". In order to make him feel better he ate a muffin! He LOVES muffins!! He is growing up so fast!








"Dress like Daddy Day" CUTE!!

LIFE...

Since September 19th...

Currently, it is Friday, October 3rd around 8:00pm and Erin and I (Jonathan) are hanging out at Crescent City Coffee House in Ruston. We have been playing with our Webkinz, Willie, and updating our blog. Jackson is at the church nursery for First Friday. We miss him, although it is good to have some husband and wife time.

Since our last post, Jackson has REALLY become comfortable with walking. He is really good at it too. He can almost run. He also likes to climb. He can climb all the way to the top of the attic ladder by himself (rest assured...we ALWAYS supervise). He has also discovered the great outdoors. He LOVES to go outside and play with sticks and in the dirt. He is definately all boy. We can hardly sit down without him bringing us one of his favorite books for us to read to him. He just crawls up in our lap with anticipation of us reading to him. Since he has some teeth, we got him some baby-toothpaste. He does really well with it, even brushing them himself.

We are gearing up for the events that happen in the Fall. College Football on Saturday's. Halloween costumes. Visitors from family. Holidays. Tons of students over to the house. Jackson visiting Daddy at work (those students LOVE him). It is a very exciting time.

New video!! We finally video taped Jackson walking. He is getting better at it each day! We are so proud of him!! He also has a great arm!! hahah

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKSON!!

Jackson turned 1 this past Wednesday. We had a family day out where we ate Jr. banana splits from Sonic at the park. Jackson totally loved the ice cream and being able to play! We also went to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things and Jackson got two new Elmo videos. On Thursday we had a birthday drop-in. It was loads of fun and about 45 people came. We ate milk and cookies! Thanks to everyone who came! These are just a few of the pictures.