Giggles from Jovey

Aunt Natty Visits

Aunt Natty came for a visit to help out before Jackson deployed again. The boys loved it!






And I'm sure Jovey did too.















The kids finally got to experience color dots too. I'm always afraid to use them since the bottle warns that it can stain porous surfaces.


They had a lot of playtime with Natty while I did some unpacking and searching for a few random things Jackson didn't have time to look for himself.

We miss you Natty!

She's So Cute!!!

oh that Jovey... Jovis... Arizona... whatever you call her, she's so cute!

Winter Break

we took our winter break visiting family... Jovey with Grandma Messinger












and Grandpa Messinger












Coryn with Great Grandpa Carpenter












all three with Grandie Irish











and a silly pic of Carter because I felt he needed equal face time :)

Carter B-Day 3

Everytime we asked him what he wanted for his birthday he said "Mickey Mouse clubhouse cake!" so I made Toodles and found some cardboard cutouts of the crew.








Yeah, he loved it... though he kept asking me if he could help make the cake. he loves to 'mix'






Have to concentrate to make sure the right number of fingers are up...









got a big western set and they've been shooting it up ever since. that and making the horses fly with their tails.







Don't know what they're all looking at on the computer, but zoooooooooooone.

CoC

First pic of the whole family... and yes, Jovey is not happy. Coryn on the other hand is just showing his 'serious army face', he's thrilled that its a snow day and he gets to go to Dad's work!

Jackson took command last month, which of course is code for more responsibility, late hours, and no pay raise.





I got flowers, which the boys loved. Yellow for incoming, red for outgoing.













Ceremony (normally held outdoors but Jackson requested to be inside so we would be able to attend and its a good thing he did anyway because the night before had gotten down to -26 and was up to a balmy 10 at the time of the ceremony) involving marching and passing a flag in a circle... Jackson will have to get on and tell more about it himself.

Jackson (incoming), Col Helwig (BNC), Cpt Hacker (outgoing CC)










And speeches of course!

SNOW

yeah... haven't updated the blog for a bit because I've been too busy moving, caring for children, and constantly digging us out! Snow snow and more snow... if anyone sings me the "Let it Snow" song I might have to punch you!
The kids are really enjoying the odd amounts of time they do get outside, loooooove sledding.

They also really like playing with the flags in our backyard housing had to put up to notate areas that can't be dug.






Jovey doesn't get to enjoy it yet, but I'm sure she will next year. She is cooing up a storm when she's awake these days, with the odd smile (usually preceding massive bowel action).







She also really enjoys sleeping in seemingly uncomfortable positions...














and playing with Coryn (who adores her).