"Snow Day"...

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - Temperatures dropped in Houston...dramatically like by 20 degrees...maybe more...but in middle of the night we lost power -- then we realized our furnace had gone out too.  When we woke up that morning it was in the low 50's inside the house...by that evening it was down to 43 degrees!  Thank goodness Lone Star came to our rescue and fixed it that night!

Joslyn eating her dinner in the freezing house...she looks stuffed in that high chair!


Thursday, February 3, 2011 - Joslyn's daycare called me at work to tell me they were having early dismissal due to the freezing temperatures and possible snow/ice.  They were closing at 3:00, I picked her up at 1:30 she was in middle of her nap, but once she realized Mommy picked her up to go home I think she was ok w/it.  Once we got home, she continued her nap until 4:00!



Friday, February 4, 2011 - We had a "Snow Day" but really just turned into an "Icy Day in Houston". 
Joslyn found a couple of icicle outside our master bathroom window.

Puny, I know but hey it's something




Our back porch with some ice on it


I thought this was cute, she was doing her belly dance, I think...

New Hiding Spot

Joslyn was being quiet yesterday evening, I found her!

**It's Transition Time**

Joslyn transitioning from baby to big girl, gets me a little nervous and anxious at the same time, I have to admit.  She takes it on as no big problem and has accepted it as a big girl!

January 10, 2011 was her 1 year check-up appointment:
Weight:  20 lbs - 35 percentile
Height:  30 in - 75 percentile
Head:  40 percentile

Transitions for this week so far: 

• From her infant car seat to the convertible face forward car seat -- she loves facing forward and we love to look back and see her smile! 
• Since this weekend is a 3 day weekend, we decided to transition from bottle to sippy cup; this morning was the first attempt and she chugged it!!  I was so proud of her, it was time for her second feeding and she chugged that from a sippy cup!  She eats a little bit of table food here and there but we still have her on formula.  I hope to transition her from formula to milk within a couple of weeks (after she gets over her cold!). 

This was taken after the replacement of bottle w/sippy cup!

This is how our Jos is growning into a big girl and she has accepted it with flying colors and has surpassed our expectations for sure!! Can you tell we're happy it has gone so well?!

~HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU~

Dear Joslyn,
This past year has been filled with so much joy, love, excitement, happiness and some tears happy and I have to admit, tiredsome ones, but not many.  You will never know how much your Daddy and I love you.  You are truly an angel sent to us.  I know the whole family feels the same.  We are so happy to be your parents and feel blessed that the good Lord chose you to be our child.  Thank you so much for being you!  I can't wait to learn more and more about you in the days to come!  We hope you have had a wonderful 1st birthday and of course it will overflow into this weekend of events!  We love you so much!

Love, Mommy & Daddy

Playing Catch up

Goodness, so it has been some time since I've last posted something, in a nutshell here are some updates!

September - Joslyn started crawling and she caught onto it pretty fast!  We were exited and nervous at the same time at having a mobile baby in the house.  We knew it was time to baby proof the house!!



Tyler graduated with his Bachelors degree from University of Phoenix!!  I am so proud of him, what an accomplishment with juggling work, baby at home and life itself.  Congrats babe, we love you and are so proud of you!

October - This month she became even more mobile!!  We have a WALKER!!  Where did our baby go?
She is developing such a fun personality, we learn more about her everyday!



She had a Halloween party at daycare:






Actual Halloween:












Happy Halloween!

1st Family Pictures

I am a little behind on this post, we took our first family pictures in August, with Kristi O'connell, here's her website:  http://www.kocphotography.com/ She's very talented and I LOVE the way our pictures turned out.  Thank you Kristi for capturing our family's first picture! 

Happy Grandparent's Day!

Sweet Joslyn is blessed to have (6) Grandparents! 
She wanted to wish you all a very Happy Grandparents Day!
She loves you all very much!


MiMi and Jossy


Papa and Jossy


GiGi and Jossy


MaMa Lis and Jossy


Papa and Jossy

"Grandmas and Grandpas are everything nice.
Like presents and candy and raspberry ice.

And chocolate fudge sundaes, with cherries on top.
And popcorn and peanuts and grape soda pop.

In winter or summer, in rain or in sun,
Grandmas and Grandpas are wonderful fun!!!"

I grew into my shoes!

~randoms~

Here are a couple of random pics I thought were cute:

My friend, Andria and her son, Bodhi; came over and played:
(I think it's funny because Andria and I are both dark complected and dark hair, our babies are the opposite!)


Just hanging out:


We played dress up one night, she's like my baby doll =)

Celebrating Papa T's Birthday!

We celebrated Steve's birthday a weekend before, since were were going to be out of town the weekend of his actual birthday.  His actual birthday was Aug. 6, they watched Joslyn that weekend for us as well!





Happy birthday!  We love you!

July was Parker's 2nd bday!

We went to Parker's 2nd Bday (July 25th) it was a luau! 



Happy Birthday P!

July 4th!

For the Fourth of July weekend, we headed out to Galveston and had a nice mini vacation. 
Happy Birthday America!







"Hi!"


"I cut in tooth #2 this weekend!"  (just about to be 6 months old)

Summer Time

This summer we took our family vacation to Concan, TX / Garner State Park / Frio River ~ call it what you will, it's a nice getaway!  This was Joslyn's first year to go and she was a great traveler!


This was Joslyn when we were loading up the car, you can see the excitement in her face lol!


Frio River



At Rock Beach inside Garner State Park




Nana and Papa came too


Happy Father's Day!






Sisters!