Hello!

A few pictures to suit your fancy...(did I really just say that?)

Colt's new rocking horse from Grandpa Delimpo and Miss Carol :)

Goofball!

Fresh babe out of the tub!

setting up his train set....

Levi can't let go of the Santa thing....

I've got a bunch of pictures from Anthony's police basketball tournament and from Alumni weekend...coming soon!

Tuesday update....

Yesterday Anthony and Levi went outside to play in the snow. They built a snowman. After they were done, Levi demanded they put a hat on his head. So Anthony found an old ballcap. After he put it on the snowman's head, Anthony said he looked at Levi and saw that he was really sad and a little confused. He asked him what the matter was. Levi explained to him, that "Frosty" was supposed to come to life when he put the hat on his head!

2 nights ago, Anthony got us some burgers from Wendy's for dinner. As we were taking turns praying before we ate, Levi's prayer went something like this, "Dear Jesus, thank you for today, and GUESS WHAT JESUS? Daddy got us cheeseburgers to eat tonight!"

Colt is recovering from either a viral or bacterial infection. On Saturday at Cedarville, he started running a fever and yesterday it got up to 104. Today he is broken out in a little rash, but other than that, he's a little cranky, but doing okay.

I'm getting really excited for my Scentsy Launch Party this Sunday! Reminder to anyone who wants to come...it's from 2-4! Stop on in! I'll have snacks and a Scentsy bag worth over $30 to draw a name for, for anyone who places an order or books a party with me!

I gotta go...Colt wants me to pick him up :) I have lots of pictures to add and I will try and do that soon!

Colt 9 months old!

Today Colt is 9 months old....we took him this morning for his check-up. He is in the 15-20% in weight and the 90% in height. Guess that means he is taking after how Anthony was growing up...tall and skinny! I don't have much more time right now...but I will try and update soon.

If you've seen my facebook, you know we've had an eventful weekend...Anthony's trip to the ER, our trip to Cedarville and seeing freinds and much much more!

New Years Eve bowling and some new ones...

Okay....so I better get these up....here you go....

Some of the little cousins at the bowling alley! Not everyone could make it...but we still managed to take up 6 lanes or so!

This was Levi's first time going...he had an absolute blast!

Waiting for his ball....

...and taking a break!

Outfits that my parents got the boys....Levi's says BIG BROTHER, Colt's say's LITTLE BROTHER.

We didn't have the boys open their "big" gifts from my parents until we got home...so they were excited to get them out! As always....everything goes to Colt's mouth!

Levi was just as excited, if not more, for Colt's gift!

And he even got his big birthday gift about 4 months early....so he could start getting use out of it!

Levi and Colt's newest adventure!

They both absolutely love it....I obviously have to keep a close eye on them!

They love each other! :)

This is one of the gifts that Anthony gave me for Christmas this year....it is SO fitting of my life!

Next Post- Why I am selling Scentsy....should be some good stuff :)

Christmas in Ohio!

So it's only taken me a few weeks to get these pictures posted....but here you go...our Christmas with my family (celebrated New Years weekend!)

Levi and his cousins Drew and Reese...I think my parents need to invest in a hot tub next!

HO-HO-HO

Crazy boys!

T.R.O.U.B.L.E.

Drew with Uncle Anthony!

On the first night we got their, we let the kids open gifts from each other....(Colt was sleeping as usual!)

I love my precious niece Claire!

My Dad is strange...now I know where Levi gets it from....it couldn't be me!

The next morning (New Years Eve) we celebrated our "Christmas morning!)

Later that day, we watched UK beat up on Louisville!

Like I said...trouble! Here they are sneaking some sweets from the kitchen!

For New Years Eve night, we went bowling with all of my mom's side of the family....I'll post a few of those pictures later. When we got home, Anthony and I were so tired that we went to bed before the ball even dropped! What a way to celebrate!

The next day, it was time to pack up and head home.

Colt punching Uncle Tom!

Grandma and Grandpa with all of the grandkids!

We had a great time seeing my parents and my brothers family. It was a short trip, but a fun one (depsite Anthony and I only getting like 4 hours of sleep at night because Colt was snoring so loud in our room! I actually ended up crawling in bed with Levi the first night around 3 a.m. cuz I hadn't fallen asleep yet. Levi is a wild sleeper..he kept kicking me!) We were glad to get back home and put Colt back in his own room by himself!

I have some more pictures from our trip...ones from my moms camera, however I'm deciding not to include them on here because they didn't save correctly and are too small. It did get up to about 60 degrees when we were in Ohio...so we were able to get outside and walk to the creek for the kids to throw rocks, and play a little football. It's always fun to get outside when you have that many little kids in the house!

Colt has now learned to pull himself up, so today we had to lower his crib all the way down! Yet another milestone and I wonder where the time is going! Last week he gave me a bloody nose! This is gross, but he actually somehow got his finger up my nose and scratched it....it hurt like you know what! He thought it was rather funny to watch me yell!

Tonight Anthony and Levi are in Frankfort for Anthony's police basketball tournament. He will play again tomorrow morning so we are all planning on going...we'll see how that goes!

I better go for now....it's very nice having the peace and quiet for a little while :)

Random pics...

Running short on time tonight, so here are a few snapshots from December.

Colt on fridge...

I don't knwo what Anthony's obsession with sticking our children on our appliances is...but we had the same ones with Levi.

And the ever famous naked on the fridge pose....Levi liked this a lot better than Colt did. (not Levi now, but Levi when he was Colt's age! haha!)

Playing an intense game of Candyland...I'm afraid that Levi is inheriting our competetiveness....uh-oh!

Just hanging around with dad!

One of Colt's top teeth is starting to pop through! The past few days he has been crawling everywhere and saying da-da-da-da over and over. He also has started this lion roar...it's pretty funny! He will be 9 months old here in a few weeks....where is the time going? Levi's doing good...he's been getting into some trouble lately, but thank goodness today we could get out and play in the snow....getting outside helps him burn up some of that built up energy!

Next blog: Our New Years in Ohio

Stalking Santa!

We absolutely love all of our neighbors...we are blessed to have such a wonderful corner in our neighborhood :) With that said...this past summer we had some new neighbors move in next door- Forest and Carol! We weren't really sure what to think about them at first (LOL....totally kidding....I know they will read this, that's why I wrote that!) I have to be careful of my sarcasm on-line....it gets me in trouble sometimes!

Anyway....no, so we love them too, and this past Christmas, Carol asked us to participate in a little something to get at Forest. Without telling the whole entire embarrassing story, lol.....this is what happened. They moved here from West Virginia and when they lived there, Forest had a little incident with a Santa statue. I guess one morning he thought someone was outside of their house walking around at 5 a.m. He told Carol to be very quiet and very still so "he" wouldn't see them. He made her turn off the lights so "he" couldn't see in as well! Come to find out, it was just the neighbors statue of Santa! So....since then, Forest has had a few run ins with the old man. This year would be no different!

Here's the Santa at their West Virginia house!

One day, they even found him on the interstate!

This year, he made it to our front yard!

And every day, the week before Christmas, Santa slowly would inch his way toward their house...

He jumped across the driveway and is now facing their house! Carol was hoping that Forest would notice and ask her about it...he refused to say anything to her despite knowing she was probably in on it!

Here's some pictures from my camera....

Stalking Santa is even keeping an eye out on Levi!

He got closer and closer until the day before they got home, Anthony moved him to their back porch!

So when Forest and Carol got home that night, Santa would be starring at them from the back door!

Uh-oh Forest....Santa's gonna put you on the naughty list!

So then when we got home from Ohio after New Years...this is what we came home to! lol!

Forest....we know you don't want to admit it, but Carol got you good!!!! It was ALL her idea, I promise!!!!

Next Post will be of our trip to Ohio....and I better get on it because we are going back in a few weeks for alumni weekend at Cedarville :)

Today I signed up to be a Scentsy Independent Consultant...I'm so excited to see how God is going to use this business to help us further His kingdom here on earth! Are you wondering why I would say that? Well then stay tuned....I will write more on that later as well.

Also...this past weekend Anthony attended Deputy Hopper's funeral up in Ohio. For those of you not from that area...she was shot and killed only miles away from our college campus. It also was from the area of Ohio where I am from, making this incident even more dear to our hearts. Anthony was honored, along with his best freind and 4 other Lexington Police, to represent the department. We will be visiting her gravesite when we go back to Ohio in a few weeks. It will be emotional I'm sure as the past few days have been that way for us. I will post more on that later as well.

Also- a prayer request for all you prayer warriors who read this. Our pastor, Rick Long (40 years old) will be finding out tomorrow if he needs open heart surgery. Please pray for him, his wife Paula and their 7 year old daughter Linley. I will keep you posted on this as well...

Thanks for reading this really really long post!