Austin's baby blessing was on December 26th, 2011.

We had most of our family here.

Austin's older cousin Laura (of 12 days) was also blessed on the same day.

(I can't believe I didn't take a picture of them together) :(

Lock of Love

I cut off my hair and donated it to locks of love.

It's only hair right?

It will grow back if i don't like it.

Maybe I will keep it short.....who knows?

13 inches!

December 2010

December was full of fun as usual. Especially with one new little one in the mix.

This is the CRAZIEST kid ever! But we love him to Death!

I wanted to put this on here because this is one of the only pictures that I have of him looking. He can't hold still long enough for most pictures. He's so adorable right? Don't you just want to take him home???? You can.....really ....anytime you want to.

Our friends had a Christmas party. Here is the gang. Thanks Janae and Heath!

We had a fun time!

Waiting for the light parade to start.

BIG Brother!

Mr and Mrs. St. Nick.

This year for Josh's work party he decided to dress like Santa the morning of

so he told me to find something to go with it.

We had a great time.

This year we won an i pad. It was just pure luck.

We only put one or two tickets in the bag for the i pad and we put most of our tickets in other things that didn't have as many tickets in them.

We couldn't decide if we were going to keep it but we are really glad we did.

The kids love it of course.

Thank you Deckers!

Have you been a good girl this year?

Can you believe this was early December. The weather was beautiful!

Short sleeves????

We had an early December surprise.....Brad told us he was coming home on the 14th of December but then he showed up on the 3rd. It was a great surprise. He enjoyed his time at Basic Training and AIT Training

Jo came to see Brad and baby Austin.

Maybe some of us had a little too much fun.....???

Baby Austin

Josh and his boys on game day.

A big thanks to all who came to visit and helped with the big kids while we were in the hospital. We have such great family!

I am a mom of 4?!!!!! WOW!

Proud dad!

Josh had to take off his MSU shirt for a little while to put on scrubs for the operating room. Thanks for the sacrifice!

The boys trip to Michigan

Josh and Jacob took a special trip with Josh's dad. They flew back to Michigan to a Michigan State football game. (there seems to be a pattern forming here) Anyway.......they had a great trip together. This trip they even got to go to midnight madness for MSU, which is the big first practice for their basketball team. They also got to go to the homecoming parade. Jacob's favorite list goes like this......1. MSU football game 2. midnight madness 3. sand dunes 4. Lake Michigan 5. Great Grandmas cooking

This picture is of the football team walking to the stadium on game day.

Lake Michigan.......soooooo BLUE!

Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes

Jacob got to watch the band practice before the game.

On the bridge over the Red Cedar.

Midnight Madness

Jacob also loved his first time flying. I guess I'll just prepare myself for Josh to take a trip to Michigan each fall for a football game. I really wish that MSU played a game or two in the western part of the United States. Oh well, we are hoping for a Rose Bowl appearance!

Trip to see Brad's graduation

Josh, Jackson, Me, my Dad and his wife Bobbie flew to South Carolina to see Brad's graduation from his basic training in the Army National Guard. He has been stationed at Fort Jackson in Columbia, SC. We took him off base for a day and went to the beach in Charleston, SC. We loved it. The waves were huge because there was a hurricane coming in the next day. The waves were loud and as you can see, Jackson didn't like it. I did! It was soooo beautiful. I could have stayed there for 3 more days. It was really good to spend time with Brad. He enjoyed his training and seemed to be doing good. He is now doing his specialized training in auto mechanics at the same base. He will graduate in a month or so. We can't wait to have him home!

This was at his graduation. He is the one marching in the back left. The graduation was really neat to see.

He was showing us where he stood for formation. He was a squad leader.

This is the room where he slept.

Jackson laying down on his bunk......luckily he got the bottom bunk. I don't think he ever got the bottom bunk growing up. He was always the smallest guy who had to climb up on the top bunk.

Brad is showing us his Class A uniform. He wasn't able to wear it yet.

The entertainment while waiting to see Brad.

The airport was fun! Jackson loved flying. He still talks about going up in the sky with the clouds on a plane.

We had a great trip! We can't wait to see Brad again.