Santa visited!

I love this one!

Joseph loves Santa Poppy's beard!

 A Wheel!

We celebrated Christmas with Santa on Saturday morning with Joey's family. Santa Poppy came and took a few pictures with the little one. It was a nice morning and by the end of the morning Joseph was scootering around the kitchen! Joseph has grown so much since LAST YEAR with Santa !

Lucille and Lillian

Who needs a haircut?

Broke nose

I feel like I'm falling apart these days. On Monday before bathtime with Joseph I was trying to teach him how to pull his pants down. He cannot dress himself or take any of his clothes off himself and i think it's time we teach him. So I was showing him how to grab his pants and pull them down. He was pulling up his shirt and grabbing everything except pulling his pants down. So he finally put his hands on his pants and he squatted down like a frog. I bent down to help him take his pants off and as I bent down he shot up as fast as possible and hit me either with his tooth or his head ( I thought tooth since I'm cut on my nose). It happened so fast that I don't even know what hit me. When he hit me, I saw black and my eyes immediately started watering, I grabbed a tissue and I couldn't move because of the pain. Then of course my nose started bleeding. If your wondering, Joseph cried for about 5 seconds then walked away to play in my closet.
The next day my face and nose hurt SO bad, I'm bruised and a little swollen and at work my nose started bleeding again. I went and talked to the nurse at work who then told me it was probably broke and i needed to go see an ENT!! So I called 4 ENT's and none could fit me in until January and one office did not take my insurance. So I just said forget it I'm not going to a doctor. The pain isn't constant anymore, but anytime I move my face or touch my nose it is very painful. And it hasn't bled since yesterday. I personally don't think it's broke, I don't think my 2 yr old could have broke my nose, but I think it is just badly bruised. So now I get to walk around and talk to patients all day with a yucky nose. And not to mention my co-worker told me my nose looked crooked yesterday, gee thanks, that made me feel better.... I just told her is was already crooked ha! SO if you see me with a messed up nose just know that Joey didn't punch me in the face, my baby did.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Chocolate Satin Pie

The gifts!

The gift Daddy has been waiting for.

Joseph helping open

Joey said he had a good birthday. Once he got home from work he opened 3 gifts and then we met his parents for dinner. Joey has been talking about a Food Saver for a couple of months now. He really became a little obsessed about it I think :) So I decided to go ahead and get him one for his birthday, he can't wait to use it and had already bought an attachment even though he didn't have the machine yet. She he hooked it up and is ready to try it out. We also got him new jeans and he got 2 shirts and 2 lottery tickets from my parents. We didn't win anything, but it's fun to scratch them. I can't believe my husband is 32, yikes!

My boys

What's Joseph up to?

Sorting beans (Yes beans were ALL over the kitchen floor) Next time this will be an outside activity.

Sleeping in his big boy bed! Ever since putting a full size mattress in his floor, he has been sleeping through the night. It has been wonderful! He loves it!

Walking Gina to go look at Christmas lights in our neighborhood

Can't forget the cars...

He's finally into painting! We painted the leftover pumpkins from our fall decor.

Of course the grasshopper has to watch.

 He really doesn't care much about our Christmas trees. He enjoyed the ornaments more last year. This was the only ornament he tried to hang, only because I told him to so I could get a picture.

Ans he's just up to being cool :)

A Sweaty Day at the Xmas tree farm

The guys gave Joseph the saw, this made me and Ghee very nervous, of course he only held it for a few seconds while Poppy snapped a picture.

 Waiting for the trailer ride

 Santa, Mrs Clause and a reindeer

 Our Tree!

Joseph's cute piggy

Wow, have I been busy. I will be so glad when I get back to my normal work hours on Jan 7th! I'll get off at noon again, yay! We took a trip to the Christmas tree farm again this year. I believe it was in the 80's when we went and we were all sweaty by the time we left. Joseph was even more excited about the truck and trailer ride. I think his favorite part was the ride and the little piggy. He has started saying, "Look at all those_____ " So at the Christmas Tree farm he kept saying, "Look at all those trees" as were were riding on the trailer. He wasn't much excited about cutting down the actual tree, but I think he enjoyed the experience, as we all did.  They had a large lamb and little baby piglet there. As soon as Joseph heard the pig make his noise, he laughed hysterically, it was adorable. The first time Joseph heard it he looked back at me like "Oh my gosh mom, the pig REALLY makes that noise!!!" If you've ever heard joseph make his pig noise, he makes it in the back of his throat, he doesn't just say oink. So the sound the pig was making sounded just like the sound Joseph could make in his throat. He loved it!

Heart Walk

Our family

Joey and John M.

I was the team captain for the Heart Walk in our department this year. I have also helped in years past.
It was a fun 5K walk that the 4 of us  (Gina included) did back in November. We had a fun warm up session of dancing and stretching, then had our walk and afterward had some healthy snacks. I will admit on the way to the healthy heart walk we stopped at McDonald's and Joseph had his FIRST ever breakfast sandwich. We hardly ever get fast food breakfast but this morning was an exception. Needless to say..he loved it. He had a mcgriddle. I believe he has now had fast food 3 times in his life :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Beautiful Fall Decor

Yummy Thanksgiving Dinner!

Marilyn and myself

The boys with full tummys

We celebrated Thanksgiving Day at Joey's parents house . That morning Joseph woke up very cranky and not feeling well. We had scheduled family photos with a friend that morning, needless to say Joseph acted HORRIBLE, but we did get some good ones. We got to the Boeller's around noon and put Joseph to sleep and we woke him up at 4pm!!! That is why he is not posted in any pictures, he slpet the whole day. He was in a great mood when he woke and he played and played. We had a nice relaxing day watching football, eating a wonderful dinner with a glass (or two) of wine, and then we played Rummikub. I won! It was a nice Thanksgiving spent with great in-laws.

Gobble GObble

IT'S NOT THANKSGIVING UNLESS...

You make a turkey with your hand,

You get to ride on a pony

(yes real live pony rides are at the Tlustos Thanksgiving),

And you get to drive Tee-Toe's Polaris.

The beautiful young girls,

Kay, Missie, Lacey, and Me!

Some of the Men,

Dad, Uncle Bobby, Sonny, and Doug

We had a nice Thanksgiving the Saturday before the real holiday at my parents house. It is so nice that my mom hosts the holiday before the real day because then no traveling during busy holiday traffic, and I worked the Friday after Thanksgiving, so it all works out.

My sister brought their pet Pony, Cowboy, over to my parents so the kiddos could take turns riding. Of course Joseph wasn't too excited about him, he would rather be riding on Tee-Toe's Polaris. He'll pick wheels over anything these days. Joseph ran and played most all day and he even took a good nap. It was great seeing my 2 cousins on my dad's side and their children. We only see then about once a year these days so  I think we all enjoyed it. A sunny but cool day followed by a warm fire at home makes for a perfect turkey day!

More Halloween...

First real trick or treating !

Minnie Mouse!

These are friend's from Mrs. Claudia's

Brycen, Dominic, Bella, Nathan, Lily, and Joseph

What's this mom?

Mickey Mouse!

Wesley as Charlie Brown

Super Hero's

Brycen and Logan had a Super Hero birthday party last month and the decor was SUPER cute!

The kids got to wear their super hero attire and they even stayed still for a few pictures. Joseph was Iron Man and Joey was Batman. I was super mom, so I didn't have to dress up.

And that is Uncle Jimmy as the mascot super hero at the party.

A Stinky Halloween

We had a fun Halloween this year with our little skunk! The weekend before Halloween we took Joseph to
our friends church for "Trunk or Treating". There he dressed up as a skeleton, but on Halloween night he was a skunk. At the trunk or treat one trunk was giving out mini cupcakes, you know I never give Joseph sweets, but he cried because he wanted one, so we gave him one. He help on to that cupcake for a good hour, even bouncing in the jumpy house holding onto it. Everyone was watching him and complementing on how he could tumble, jump, and fall down, but he never let go of that cupcake or even got icing anywhere in the bouncy house. He finally tasted that icing and he ended up eating it. They also had a hay ride that he LOVED. He is obsessed with trucks and trailers right now. We had to wait in line for our turn and everytime the truck would come through and pick up other riders with out us, he would have a hissy fit. We had to explain that it would be our turn soon. We had some problems getting him off the hay ride once we got on too. But we managed!

On Halloween we took him and GIna trick or treating just up the rode. We only stopped at houses where the people were outside. It was a lot of fun, but Joseph was called a girl several times!! I just cringed when someone would refer to him as a "she" and he even got called a little princess once! yikes! I think it was the skunk's bowtie maybe that made people think he was a girl. NExt year maybe we will be something a little more manly.