New Adventures

So we have been starting some new adventures here at the Stevens house. The first would be moving our little boy into a big boy bed!!!!!We weren't planning on moving him until next month. However, when we were over at my sister and he was in the porta crib, the side clasped and he was able to crawl out, which gave him the brilliant idea of "why can't I do this in my crib" Needless to say it only took us one more day to figure out the crib was not going to work anymore whatsoever.
It started out really rough, taking about 2 hours to put him to bed because he thought he needed to crawl out of this too. However, after 2 weeks of working with him, and wanting to bang our head against the wall, I am proud to say that we are down to 15 minutes putting him to bed. And he loves his bed!!!!!! My little boy all grown up!!!!Second bit of news. Kimberly has started a new job. My sister and brother-in-laws company, Exel Driving, is expanding and in need of new employees. So, I have opted to work for them 2 nights a week and be a driving instructor. Yes, a little scary in the car with 14 and 15 year olds however, it is great hours, pay and obviously a great company to work for. It's fun to get out of the house for a little bit each week and be a professional.
Well that is all the news for now. More posts to come soon.

Merry Christmas

This year we got to go up to Vancouver and spend Christmas with Matt's family. It was great fun because everyone in his family was able to make it. We were able to do lots of fun things while we were there and Talmadge had a great time getting to know his cousins. We took family pictures there which turned out great I think.How cute is this little boy!!!!

We had lots of time to hang out and play with cousins and Aunts and Uncles.Talmadge and Uncle Adam and Uncle Nick being awesome enough to push around Talmadge in the car. Talmadge and Trey. Only one week apart in age.All of us girls making some dinner.We to all make our own ginger bread houses. Each family had their own. Lots of fun. We even got to celebrate Talmadge and my birthdays with some shopping, brownies and ice cream!!!

Christmas eve was really nuts, we all stayed up till about 3am wrapping presents. We were having a lot of fun and when the kids all woke up about 7am it was early but so awesome. Opening up presents was really crazy with 5 grandkids under the age of 4 however, we got it done in a couple of hours and watching the kids play with their toys was so much fun. The new PJ's Talmadge got on Christmas eve from Santa's Reindeer.And we must not forget to pay to tribute to the many many hours of Beatles rock band that was played all week long and lots on Christmas day!!.!!

Thanks Stevens for a fabulous Christmas and letting us stay at your house Talmadge and us loved all of it. We miss you guys already!!!!!

Happy Birthday Talmadge and Kimberly

Happy 2nd Birthday for Talmadge and the big 30 for Kimberly!!!!
I can't believe the time has passed so fast and Talmadge is already 2 he is just turning into my little man!!! And time passing so fast to make me 30 already!!!!! I couldn't ask for a more fabulous little boy. Well behaved (for the most part), sweet, cute as can be and the center of my universe!!!!

So, for our birthday this year we decided to go with the family and go bowling. I have to say it was one of the funnest birthday's I have had in quite some time and I really think everyone else had a blast too. Here are some of the highlights!!!Every time Talmadge bowled he always had to give Makenzie a hug after words. They were attached at the hip it was so cute!!!Mason was good enough to just chill and watch all the action!Oh how my family loves there nephew and cousin. I couldn't ask for more love then they get!!!

After bowling we went to the house and had pizza. We took a short break in the night to run down to our neighbors house who had Santa there visiting and the kids all got to sit on his lap.Then we came back home opened presents and had lots of cake.Talmadge even got a Mickey Mouse bowling set for his birthday and the kids had so much fun with it!!!Our awesome cakes, always an ice cream one for me and such a cute one for Talmadge made by Aunt Crystal!!Talmadge even blew out his own birthday candles with no help!!!!

What a great birthday and man do I love sharing it with my son. Hopefully it takes him a long time figure out it is uncool to share with his mom. Happy Birthday my sweetie!!!!

2nd time around!!!!

So the other week I went in to the Dr. office to have Talmadges cough checked out because he has had it for about 3 weeks now. However, we came out with more news then his cough. We found out that both of his ear tubes were out. One totally out and the other floating around in luquid in his ears. And neadless to say both were infected!!!!
My little boy and his ears. So this morning we had to go back into surgery to have new tubes put in. The Dr. also discovered that his adenoids were swollen, so during the surgery the Dr. had to remove some of that to help his ears. Which we also found out has been causing his constant cough we couldn't seem to kick. The surgery took him about 30 minutes and we were in and out of the hospital within 3 hours, so not to bad.My cute little boy was such a trooper didn't even cry when they took him back. He came out of the anesthesia better this time then last, but it still took him about 30 minutes to get coherent. He has been doing really well today just really grogy and just wanting to watch Christmas movies on mommies lap. (he is not a big one for sitting on laps and watching movies, so I ate up every moment of it). We pray that this will be his last ear surgery ever!!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving was quite a big one around here. My two brothers and their families came into town, my little nephew Mason had his blessing, trying to pack up my mom's house for moving and enjoying Thanksgiving. It was so great to have my brothers families here. Talmadge could not get enough of his cousins. It was like having a built in babysitter with 11 other kids to play with, and he literally enjoyed every moment of it!!! They all got along so well. Here are some highlights from the week! (There are a lot but it was really hard to choose)Mason's blessing was great. Crystal and Drew did a great job. Like father like son, the little boy has become obsessed with drawing all the time!!Oh how Grandma is so loved!!!!The kids love to stand up on my mom's fire place with the mike and pretend that they are singing. It is quite the show!!My 2 boys enjoying the pizza joint we went to. Nothing like walking into a place and telling them we have 24 people in your party. It was a blast!!The kids all up playing in the TV room. They just all loved being around each other!!!Brayden was just a little hungry, and really this is what he ate!Talmadge was a little worried about the olive fingers!!My awsome family!!!!! I could not have asked for more during this holiday, it was one for the books!!!

Happy Halloween

We had so much fun this year for Halloween. We got together the week before Halloween and carved pumpkins with the Arnells and Bannings the kids had a great time. We cut out a Mickey Mouse for Talmadge and Matt did a Seattle Seahawks.This was our pimpkins a couple of days after we cut them out, I promise they looked better before they started to shrivel up. Talmadge was so fascinated with the candle inside!!!!

We went trick or treating with the Banning and Arnells again, always the best to go with family, I think it is the funnest!!! Talmadge was not so sure about his hat on his costume but he looked so cute!!!! Andra was such a great sport to go with the little kids and show them the ropes.I think the girls look so pretty in the princesses outfits!!!!Talmadge was pretty fast about getting the hang of going up to the doors. Of course he didn't say anything when he got up there but he was proud to hold up his basket and get some candy!!!Talmadge loved walking up to the doors, however walking from house to house was not his thing he would sit down on the driveway and as you see below towards the end he even layed down on the driveway. As most of you know my little boy is not a light man. So needless to say my back was killing me by the end of the night carrying him all around, the little stinker.Please someone carry me!!!!!!!!!We had a great time walking around!!!And the kids loved their candy. This is Talmadges first sucker that he has had and man did he love it!!!!!!