I have a blog?

I think I forgot...
Well I have lots of wonderful things to say, but since my little boy won't leave my lap today and I uploaded these pictures days ago and they're totally mocking me in draft form, we'll just pretend it's Wordless Wednesday, instead of Yucky Monday!

P.S. Yes he IS wearing undies in a few of these pictures, no he is NOT potty trained.

The end.

Stay Home Mom!!!!

I have gone from being a stay at home mom, to a stay home mom. What I mean is, since we live out in the sticks (said lovingly of course-because after all it is free!) we have spent a shocking amount of money on gas. Thus I now get to stay home. As much as I can stand without going absolutely bonkers. We have been in denial about our gas usage until last week, when we finally decided to face the facts-and our bank statement. If you are thinking this will mean an increase in awesome blog posts from me, you are probably wrong. The lack of blogging comes from one main area. DJ has decided the camera is awesome, and as soon as I get it out he runs up to me to see the picture. Generally before I have even taken it. No pictures=no blog. Of course this is an exciting time of year, so I could be wrong. While I adore fall and all that comes with it, this a fun time too. In just five short days, David and I will be celebrating our fifth year anniversary!! I use the term "celebrating" lightly. It falls on a Sunday this year, and the weekend of the klondike scout camp out thing-I don't know what that is. What I do know is that it means the one Saturday in January my husband has off work will be spend with teenage boys. Am I jealous of said boys? Why yes I am!!! Oh well, a few weeks after our anniversary comes Valentine's Day! And who doesn't love that day, right! Then one short week later comes MY BIRTHDAY!!! I am especially excited for it this year, because we get to have the sonogram to find out the gender of our new baby! What a fun birthday treat! In March comes David's birthday, then in April our little boy turns 2! So like I said we have a lot to look forward to!

Here are the few pictures I have managed lately.

DJ still loves ravioli, and I mean really, who doesn't?

Cuddling with Great-Grandma Garhart. We sure love being close to this lady!

DJ LOVES hats. Anytime he finds any hat, or really anything at all he puts it on his head and says "Hat!"

DJ and aunt Ashley. It is so precious to hear him say her name. They sure love each other!

I can't help taking pictures when he sleeps like this. It just warms my heart!

David has really become our dishes doer. And DJ loves to push a chair up and "help!" David is a good sport about it!

A few other things I want to remember about our boy: when he wants something and we don't understand, he takes our hand and leads us to it. There aren't too many things more precious than holding hands with my little boy.
He is picking up on words all the time, and when he is in the mood, he will mimic nearly anything you have to say. He especially loves to repeat anything Jozie has to say.

He is still such a daddy's boy. Randomly throughout the day he will just walk around the house saying "Daddy?" He always looks so sad when I tell him he's at work. We watch for David out the window and as soon as he comes up the driveway DJ gets so excited to see him!

We sure feel blessed to have the opportunity to know this sweet little man!

Remembering 2011 and Looking Forward to 2012!

January started off with us looking at this adorably chubby baby in Glendale Arizona!

February and we were hanging out

outside in just t-shirts!

With March came the passing on an amazing woman. My Great-Grandma and DJ's Great-Great Grandma. We know we are so blessed that we had her in our lives for so long, and that DJ had the opportunity to meet and have pictures taken with such an extraordinary woman.

While in Kansas we got to visit some of our favorite people.

Grandma Jeannie

Aunt Ashley

Aunt Jozie

Great-Grandpa Kubie (This is definitely not a complete list of the people we adore, just a lucky few with pictures!)

In April we had a very special birthday, Mr. DJ turned 1!

May took us to one of the coolest places on the planet, Los Angeles! Where we visited one of the coolest girls on Earth, Janalee!

As if the state of Arizona didn't have enough sunshine for us, we had a little more straight from Kansas. My sis Jozie came to stay with us for six super special weeks this Summer!

Jozie, DJ, and I were world travelers, (well almost) and we bravely, with no air conditioning and no David took a trip to Utah.

We stayed in hotels (well just one!)

We visited the Grand Canyon!

We saw the Salt Lake Temple!

And the St. George Temple!

While August brought us saying goodbye to Jozie, September brought another visitor, my best friend (and DJ's first crush) Janalee!

September also came a monumental event in all of our lives, David's graduation from Universal Technical Institute! We are still so proud of David.

October came with us backing up our apartment for our move back to Arizona, and me lamenting that I didn't take more pictures of all the people me met and became friends with in Glendale. We still miss you all and think of you every day!

Once back in Kansas DJ was thrilled to be reunited with his favorite auntie Jozie, and they dressed up for Halloween as a cowboy and cowgirl.

Of course November brought a thankful Thanksgiving, though one with no pictures, and December brought an extremely blessed Christmas (I still might steal pictures of some of Christmas from my Grandma!) 2011 gave us so many opportunities to grow, and learn, and love. We have been blessed beyond what I can say, and we are trying to remember those blessings, and serve the Lord to show our gratitude.

Now as far as 2012 goes, I have a feeling this is going to be an incredible year and we know at least one little blessing is coming our way....

Oh yes! Big Brother in Training! A new little Kubie will be joining our clan around July 6, 2012! We are so excited!

(I know this post appears to have some random links, and funky centering for the text. I seriously think blogger was trying to kill me tonight! Most difficult post EVER!!)

December

It has been a busy and fun month, and I have a few pictures to share, a few things I don't want to forget, and one cute video!

DJ is still surprising us with the new words he adds to his vocabulary. My favorite is "Thank you!" Melts my heart every time! He is also trying to say names a lot. He usually tries, and sometimes he comes pretty close. Jozie and Jesus sound pretty much the same when he says it though!

He has become very good during prayer time, he will fold his arms, kneel down, and will stay very still (unless it's a long prayer). Every time we put him in his chair to eat he immediately folds his arms and also anytime David stands with his arms folded, DJ will fold his arms and close his eyes too! Funny boy!

DJ has one chore that he has taken upon himself and I am perfectly happy to let him do it. One of the things stolen from our moving pod was our diaper genie. So since we haven't replaced it yet I have been wrapping the diapers up in plastic grocery bags and setting them out on the porch to throw in our trash can later. Well one day DJ was trying desperately to crawl up on his changing table. He kept saying "Ball! Ball!" Well there was no ball up there, but there was a wet diaper wrapped up like a ball, so I reluctantly handed it to him, he then took it straight to the kitchen where we keep the bags, dropped the diaper in, then walked over to the front door and tried to open in. I opened the door and he threw the bag out! He is now officially in charge of getting rid of all his stinky diapers!

We are all enjoying being back so close to family, though we haven't taken too much advantage of free babysitting yet, DJ has developed some extreme separation anxiety, but we are looking forward to those days once he gets more used to all his family!

Now pictures!

Trying to catch a quick nap on the couch without me noticing!

He loves to cuddle up with soft blankets lately!

My attempt at a mohawk. Look at that face! It's like he knew he was supposed to look like a little punk!

There's my smile!

Helping us put together the Christmas tree Grandma and Grandpa Roberts let us borrow. He was very serious about his work!

So cute!

The only picture I could get of him in front of the tree. We'll keep trying!

My boys all tuckered out after church!

This video is only 15 seconds long. I could not get a good picture of our tree, so I decided to video it, but what made me put it on here is our silly boy at the 12 second mark! Makes me chuckle every time!