up and goin'

Joelle has started crawling this last week. And her two front teeth on the bottom have come through. She has also started saying "la la la" ..."blah blah blah"..."ruh ruh ruh". Dane will say, "Mom! Joelle is talking!" She does this funny thing where she poses and holds one leg up with her hand on her knee. She'll stay like that forever. It's really cute.

Popcorn night

At least once a week we have family night or popcorn night. A couple of years ago Tyler's parents gave us a Stir Crazy popcorn popper. The kids call it "Pop Pop!" and they love to watch the popcorn pop and then we watch a movie we rented or one we already have. Good times! Hope you're all having fun getting ready for Christmas.

Our sick baby

Joelle had some kind of respiratory virus and so I was having to give her breathing treatments every four hours. She seems to be better now...thank goodness! I was getting tired of not sleeping through the night. When I took her to the doctor they started talking about admitting her into the hospital but then after three breathing treatments and a chest x-ray they decided she could go home. Thank you again to the Webb family for coming to our rescue! The boys were terrible at the doctors office and we had all had it after two hours, so I dropped the boys of at the Webbs house and they feed them and played with them, so I could go back to the doctors office and get a chest x-ray and more tests done and then to the pharmacy without all the screaming and crying (me), and breaking things, gnashing of teeth, hitting, pushing, and running around like a couple of deranged chickens (them)! Thank you Webb family! What would we do with out you?!!!

Joelle's 6 month portraits

Our Happy Thanksgiving

Cody started Thanksgiving out right by eating Cool Whip right out of the carton!

Here is a picture of our whole family. We had dinner with the Webb family over at their house. They were so kind to invite us along with two other families. All we had to bring was a banana cream pie, some chips and dip, and our three crazy kids. Tyler and I actually got to eat and enjoy ourselves because there were plenty of older kids to keep an eye on our little maniacs. Thank you Bruce, Renee, Camille, Spencer, and Melanie. We sure love you guys and you have become more like family to us than just friends!

Here are some more pictures from thanksgiving. (If you click on the collage it will blow the pictures up so you can see them better.)

Joelle and her moose

Here are a few pictures of Joelle loving on the moose that her daddy won her at Ci Ci's pizza. Joelle will be 7 months old on December 9th. She has started doing a little scoot-crawl this week and she can sit up for a minute or two by herself. What a big girl!

Bathtime fun

For some reason I just can't get enough pictures of my kids in the tub. It's nice to have them clean...even if it only lasts for a few minutes! :>