Update!

My Grandpa is out of surgery and it sounds like things went well. He ended up having four done instead of three. They will watch him close now for any excessive bleeding. Thank you for your prayers. Please continue to pray for a safe & speedy recovery. Love, Erika

Prayer Needed!

My Grandpa Virgil is having open heart surgery (triple bypass) tomorrow morning at 7am. For those prayer warriors out there I ask that you would please keep my Grandpa in your prayers. Also for my Grandma Mary, my Mom and my Uncles as they wait for him to get out of surgery. I think they said it could take anywhere from 4 to 6 hours. So it will be a long wait for them.

I will update when we know more.

This was taken this past June at my cousin Lindsay's

Wedding. My Mom and her brother's and of course G & G.

Noah and Great Grandpa Virgil. This was taken in April of 2007.

This was Summer of 2007.

Noah sending a message to Grandpa!

We love you Grandpa Virgil. We will see you soon.

No, I Love You!

Cory and Noah started doing this just a couple of nights ago and I thought it was cute!

Vroom..Vroom...

It has been a week since we said bye, bye nuk-e. It has not been easy. We went from lay me down to sleep and he sleeps. To lay me down and scream to sleep and he sleeps, somewhat, but not long enough. Early in the week he some how catapulted out of the crib, twice! He had never tried to attempt that before. So now we have upgraded to the toddler bed. Our good friends Jim and Cari said we could borrow there toddler bed and it happened to be this very cool car! So we talked it up and got Noah excited about his new bed. But he thinks it is much cooler when he is not put to sleep in it! So the dilemma is what do you do to keep a 2 year old in his bed? Give him his Nuk-e back for awhile? The crib is no longer an option due to the high percentage of being hurt. Shut the door and not let him come out of his room is not an option either because he can open his door. So the challenge is still in front of us...what to do, what to do?!

Bye, Bye Nuk-e...

Yes, last night was the night. We took away Noah's nuk-e. He has only gotten it at nap and bedtime for quite sometime but it still is not going to be easy. I am not sure who it was harder on Noah, or Mommy? I think that this means my "Baby", is not a baby anymore. Makes me a little sad but it is time and the longer we wait the harder it will be. It just breaks my heart when he says to me, "Mommy nuk-e". I just have ignored his pleads, although Cory took the other approach and said he threw them in the garbage. Which I find out by Noah telling me "nuk-e in the Garbage, Mommy."

"Working"

Here are Noah and Daddy "working" together on Miley's new kennel floor. When Noah wakes up in the morning's he always asks "Where did Daddy go"? So I tell him "Daddy is working". So these past few days Noah has been grabbing his tools and he tells me "Noah working, bye bye, see you later." It is too cute! Noah loves it when Cory lets him help out with his "real tools". Noah has been talking up a storm. It is so fun to hear the words come out of his mouth. Another new thing this week is, "It's too messy". Great Grandma Mary asked him if he would like to sit on her swing outside yesterday and he told her, " no,too messy". Notice the pink sweat band? Nevaeh left this at our house and Noah knew right where to put it!