Tuesday, February 1, 2011

December = birthdays

December kicked off with Josiah's 3rd birthday. This year we did a fire station tour with just a few friends and family (any more and our little house would have maxed out). Josiah loves anything to do with fire officials, police officers, etc. Here he is holding a helmet - those things are heavy.
With some of his friends next to the fire truck...
AND - bonus - got to check out an ambulance too.
My mom and I spent WAY too much time making this fire truck cake. Just a tip, if you're thinking of trying to make red icing from scratch - DON'T. Just buy it.
He had fun at his party! Thank you to everyone who was there to help us celebrate!

December of course represents the birth of Jesus (hence 'birthdays' in the post title). The next weekend was our 1st Christmas of the season. Here's Josiah with his cousins on my side:
And here he is before the church Christmas service. There are little dogs on his clip-on tie. Can I get an AWWWWW?
The next weekend (the 18th), we had some family pictures made. More on that in the next post.

Then Christmas weekend we went to see our family in SW MO. Jason had an interview in that area, so we went down a day earlier than originally planned. A little background - he wasn't even looking for a job. Last year he had applied with Bass Pro Shops in Springfield (his dream company), but they kept telling him the position was on hold. Then he got a phone call the week before Christmas saying that the position was still on hold, but another position had opened up. They wanted to do a phone interview on Monday the 20th, and then they scheduled an in-person interview a couple days later. Driving down I told him that I do not want to move to Springfield. He told me "it's just an interview". I told him "yes, but they are going to love you and beg you to stay". More on this later.

Back to Christmas...here's Grandma Mary with most of her great-grandkids:
Here's Josiah opening his stocking gifts on Christmas morning:
We had a great Christmas and loved seeing all of our family throughout the month. We are so very blessed! We ushered in the New Year with lots of sleeping and movies because we had a sick 3 year old. Poor guy. Ear infections are no fun. Here's to a healthy 2011!

p.s. If you sent us a Christmas card and did not get one in return, that is because we completely failed to send any Christmas cards this year. Sorry. Please don't take us off your list - we will be sending them in future years!

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