1 Year Old

Our boy is ONE. We celebrated Lincoln's birthday on Sat. Jan. 24th, which is his birthday. We celebrated with family and a few friends. It was a great day. Lincoln had been sick the week prior to his birthday. He had had a high fever, cough, runny nose, etc. (the worst he had ever been). So we were very happy when he started feeling better a couple days before his birthday. He still has a bit of a runny nose and a little bit of the cough.

We had the party at 4:00pm. Lincoln noticed all his gifts and move right over to them right away. So once everyone was there Lincoln started opening his presents. He did a wonderful job ripping into the paper. He received many ice things--new toys, clothes, books, etc. After about the third or fourth gift (maybe) he was ready to actually open the toys and play with them. So once he was done opening everyone pitched in and helped to open every toy he received. So we played for a little bit before getting the cake out. When it came time to get the cake out, we sang Happy Birthday and blew out the candles.

Lincoln's cake was a frog cake, and he LOVED it!! It was great!!! The rest of the time we played and visited with everyone. What a BLAST!!! Love you Lincoln!!

Christmas cont. & more

Good afternoon!! There have been so many exciting days these past couple of weeks. Lincoln will be ONE next week, wow. He has been blowing kisses, saying hi, waving bye bye, walking behind his John Deere tractor, crawling through his tunnel, building with his blocks (if that is what you want to call it), and doing so much these days.


On our last blog I spoke about the days before Christmas and Christmas Day. I didn't get to talk about Christmas with Grandad, Uncle Kyle, Uncle Brett, Aunt Mooch, and the girls. The day after Christmas we got up and went shopping in Columbus (Brock,Lincoln, and I). We found some pretty good deals. Then we headed home, to take a bath (Lincoln that is), pack up, and head to Grandad's.



We spent the evening with Grandad, Uncle Kyle, Uncle Brett, and Aunt Mooch. We ate some breadsticks from Amo, and played. The next day we got up and it was Christmas morning all over again, but in a different place with more people.


Lincoln received so many wonderful gifts. My favorite was his hat that he has that matches his Daddy's--Uncle Kyle made them. He plays all the time with his kitchen/living room set (it is the coolest thing). So I guess I really don't have a favorite. We spent time this Christmas reading the Christmas story to Lincoln, which IS the most important gift.

We had a big dinner on Saturday night, and stayed at Grandad's until Sunday. We headed home Sunday late afternoon----what a weekend to remember. Praise God for all our Blessings, and for being such an awesome God!!!!!

Christmas and The New Year

Good day to all of you. I realize a few of you are a little disappointed that this blog hasn't been updated for a little while, and for that I am sorry. We have been busy travelling, playing, and every once in a great while- relaxing.

Lincoln is 11 months old, Brock and I just can't believe how fast the past year has gone. Lincoln does new things to amaze us every day. We are simply in awe of him. Our God is so good!!!

We just couldn't wait for Christmas to get here, and to see Lincoln's reaction to all the excitement. We pray that as he matures and grows that he will continue in the excitement of Christmas for the real reason we celebrate--and that is because of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ (and that there is no greater gift).

We spent Christmas with Grams and Grandpa the weekend before Christmas--Lincoln made out well. He had a great time opening presents, eating the paper, playing in his brand new wagon, and just being Lincoln.

Enjoying his wagon and his voice!

On Christmas Eve things were a little different this year. We are so use to going to one family's Christmas and then leaving there to go to another. We didn't have either of those on Christmas Eve this year--we were a little lost. So we took the day and headed up to visit with Grams and Grandpa for the morning and Grandad & Kyle in the evening. We had a great time!!!

I got super excited because we got to stay home on Christmas this year, not that I don't love being with extended family on this day, but let me tell you we had so much fun!!!

We all got up when Lincoln woke up. He had his bottle, and then we headed to the living room to check out what Santa had in store for us. Lincoln crawled right over to the tree and the gifts--but wait a minute--he wasn't interested in the wrapped gifts when he had a big giraffe and big dump truck with blocks to play with. He loved it. We played and opened gifts all day.

He was interested in the first couple of gifts, but after that forget about it, there were other things to play with (and besides any gift he opened he was more interested in the paper and the box, just like everyone said he would be). He was and is so much fun!!!

Grams and Grandpa came to visit in the afternoon, and we had a big Turkey dinner in the evening. Lincoln ate potatoes, turkey, corn, and all sorts of big people food. What a blessing he is to us.

And to think he will be a year old in a couple of weeks. Wow, that is all I have to say about that.

"All this is for Me?"