sick boys

i guess it is just that time of the year, but it seems my boys have been sick so much lately...took linc to the doctor yesterday and he has an ear infection again. then last night nic woke up in the middle of the night with a high fever, he has seemed better today, but had a lower fever when he woke up from his nap. i'm sure alot of it has to do with being exposed to the depot germs...they had never really been around that many germy kids before i got a job. hopefully they build up an immunity and fast, because i am sick of sick kids! anyways just felt like complaining a bit, other than that everything is good : ) here are a few new pics for your viewing pleasure:

well, thats all i have for now. everyone have a safe and happy new year! blog to ya all next year!!!

*************************UPDATE***************************

i just got home from taking nic to urgent care and he too has an ear infection....aye aye aye! my poor lil boys need to get feeling better asap! just thought i would fill everyone in...

we wish you a merry x-mas and a happy new year!

hopefully everyone out there had a great christmas, i know we did! the boys got totally spoiled, and we still have 2 more christmases to go.....i have no idea where we will put everything, but we do appreciate all of the great gifts that we have received and those yet to come! we are very blessed to have so many who think of us at this time of the year! merry chistmas and a big thank you to you all! santa was very good to nicolas as well (and lincoln too, but he didn't really care) he got lots of new thomas stuff that has been keeping him very busy the past couple of days : ) and he got a very cool caterpillar train set too!

here is nic getting a good look at his new caterpillar train set....good job santa, very cool!

lincoln was more interested in eating the packages : )

i couldn't resist dressing them in lil santa outfits...they are probably gonna resent me for this when they grow up...but it is sooooo cute!

santa nic

santa linc

christmas has been great so far, and a real blast to watch the boys enjoying it! especially nic, this is the first year that he has really started to grasp the concept, which makes it even more enjoyable! haha(a lil side note)-it was also fun to use blackmail on him-you know-if you aren't a good boy santa wont bring you any presents. it worked for the most part too : )

A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL & A HAPPY NEW YEAR AS WELL!

a return to blog land...

hello to all of my friends out there in blog land : ) i realize that it has been an incredibly long time since my last blog post, and i apologize...i know that you have all been missing me terribly : ) but between working, spending time with the fam, and my computer having issues, i just haven't had time to get on here lately....and when i do, it seems my computer doesn't want to cooperate. (*** if anyone knows anything about javascript, please let me know, lol***) anyways, i thought i would get on here today and post some pics of the boys...no big news or anything else to report. just trying to get ready for x-mas and working a lot (when the boys aren't sick that is) we have had a stomach bug and both boys have had pink eye so far....i'm sure that is just the beginning too...that darn depot! germs, germs, everywhere...lol ok, better get some pics posted and get moving...hope everyone has a great day!nic thinks it is really cool when lincoln lays in bed with him...after they both get in bed nic asks us to take a picture of them (he hasn't been exposed to the camera too much, has he?)here is nic all bundled up, i love his hat! it has been soooo cold out lately, and snowy too....i hate the cold weather, brrrrrrrrrrrrrthe other night the power was out for a few hours, so nic ate his supper on the living room floor!

here is lil man linc playing on the floor, wont be much longer and he will be crawling and into everything!

10 things that make me happy

been tagged by 2, so i guess i really have to do it now! but i'm not scared : ) i could come up with a million things that make me happy, i'm just a happy go lucky type of person...the hard part will be cutting the list to only 10!

1) my beautiful baby boys
2) spending time with my hubby
3) having a great best friend
4) my family
5) helping with EDGE
6) watching the red sox win (and the yankees lose, lol)
7) watching my boys learn to do new things
8) crisp fall days
9) talking with jesus
10) road trips

oh christmas tree, oh christmas tree

we put up our x-mas tree over the weekend, and it was a lot of fun! nic really got into it this year, for the first time. he tried to help put it together, but he had a hard time fitting the pieces in the holes. then we tried to get him to fluff the branches, but he didn't really get the whole "fluffing" concept : ) mostly he just randomly placed branches within the ones that we had already placed on the tree...

nic trying to fit a piece on the tree...good try buddy!

here he is trying to pick up the top of the tree, but it was a lil too heavy

we didn't have time to decorate the tree the same day we put it up, so we finished it the next day. nic was equally excited about this. he is a very good little tree decorator : ) after we got it all done, he kept on saying, "oh, its boootiful!"

getting ready to put an ornament on the tree

helping daddy find the perfect place for an ornament


he was so proud of the finished product

hey boys, the camera is over here! me and the boys in front of our tree...

lil colts fans

just wanted to show off some cute pix of the boys in their colts shirts...they play a late game tonite, hopefully they win! go colts!something was pretty funny
my little colts fans

betsy got a job

yep, thats right the lazy housewife got a job...i started working part time this week at fowler state bank as a teller. i didn't really want to get a job, but we could use the $$$, and it was an easy in, so why not, right? let me tell you, i did not anticipate it to be a difficult job, but there is soooooooo much that you have to remember. i am finally starting to get the hang of it after 3 days, but still i am not that comfortable with it. today was my first day running my own drawer and it went pretty smoothly, that is until the end of the day when we balance our drawers. somehow i was off by $21.53, that is i had too much $$$ in my drawer, lol.....i guess that is better than having too little : ) but still i felt like a dumb dumb....but shit happens, right? hopefully monday will be a better day, and i am sure it will be...

in all honesty the hardest part of having a job is being away from my boys...granted, they are right across the street from me, and i do get to see them on my lunch break, and they are with 2 of the most amazing women i have ever known, but it still sucks to be away from them.......when i am away from them so much, it just makes me realize what i am missing out on, and appreciate even more, all of the time that i do get to spend with them. being a mom is such a blessing...a gift from god, and i am thankful everyday that i have 2 amazing little boys! i don't know what i would do without them.

honestly, maybe i have had a couple of drinks tonite, and that is what got the blogging going, but i needed a couple drinks after a long 3 days of working. i mean, come on now, i haven't had a job in a long friggin' time....what do you all expect??? lol a wise man once told me a drunk mans tongue speaks a sober mans mind...well that might have been my baby brother who said that, but still... (not that i would necessarily call myself drunk but, maybe a lil buzzed : ) ) anyway hopefully this all sounds good when i read it in the morning, lol hopefully i didn't make too much of an ass of myself...not that it matters much, because i seem to do that quite often anyways. well, thats all i have for tonite/this a.m. i better get to bed, because i am sure nic will be getting up at the crack of dawn just to punish me for drinking a few beers, lol........thats just how it goes when you are a mommy

until we meet again...b

big boy bed and 4 month check up

NIC's NEW BED

last night joe converted nic's crib into a toddler bed...i know, i know, its a long time coming. yes he is 2 1/2 and was still sleeping in a crib, lol but i'm not ready for my baby to be all grown up yet, darn it! anyway, he did really good. didn't even get out of it one time in the middle of the night, and when he woke up this morning, he waited for us to come and get him. i'm sure this wont last long, and he will probably be in our room multiple times throughout the night any day now : ) when we get the upstairs finished and he gets his new room, we are gonna get him a race car bed! and he is very excited about this, just ask him : )

checking out his new bed

nice and cozy!

LINCOLN'S 4 MONTH CHECK-UP

yesterday was the day of lincoln's 4 month check up too. this was the first time linc met his new doctor, dr. miller. she is very good, but we still miss dr. mann : ( anyways, he is growing like a weed. he is up to 19lbs and is 26 1/4 inches long. i like to compare his measurements to nic's at the same age. surprisingly linc is only 5 oz lighter than nic was and is 1/4 in. longer. i know that linc is a big boy, but it seems like nic was so much bigger than linc is. linc's first time in the jumperoo. nic loved this thing, but linc isn't too crazy about it yet.

happy birthday daddy

on thursday it was joe's birthday, he turned the big 29. uh oh, only one more year until he is really old : ) nic and i made him a cake. i didn't look the greatest (maybe i should take some lessons from my mom, the cake baking professional), but it tastes pretty good!

look at all those candles!

nic helped blow them out...got them all on the first try!

happy birthday daddy!

last of the warm days

recently we spent some time outside enjoying the nice and mild weather that we had been having...emphasis on had, as i have a feeling that the cold is here to stay...brrrrrrrr!!! i love the fall and it was nice to have some extra warm days to enjoy before the cold winter months settle in. ugh, how i hate being cold!my cute little man enjoying the nice day...

hey don't hit me, hit the ball!nic and joe playing on the slide brothers!all of my boys : )

linc's first taste of real food...

well, i guess i wouldn't consider it real food...not like he ate a cheeseburger or anything like that. but he did get his first taste of something other than breast milk or formula. last friday, on the day he turned 4 months, i gave him his first taste of rice cereal. he did pretty good with it, and he is starting to get the hang of the whole eating experience : )the first bite

mmmmm...this stuff isn't too bad!

election day

get out there and vote people!!! let your voices be heard! god bless the USA!!!!

GO McCAIN!!!

Halloween!!!

i can't believe it has come and gone already. next thing ya know its gonna be christmas, my goodness! we had a great halloween this year. nic is starting to understand the concept, so he really got into it this year for the first time. lincoln could have really cared less, but there is not many things that are cuter than a baby in a costume!

nic is obsessed with thomas the train right now. he wasn't too sure about actually putting the costume on though, so we had to bribe him with a lolly pop : ) after that though, it was game on!! let me tell you a secret, candy goes a long way with a 2 year old! all aboard : )lincoln was dressed as a little lion, its actually the same costume nic wore as a baby. he looked so cute! rawr!my boys all dressed up!

halloween family shot : )

hope everyone had a safe and happy halloween!

lincoln on the roll

yesterday was a big day for my little lincoln. he rolled over for the first time! this was very exciting for me because nic did not accomplish this task until at least 7 months. something tells me that linc is gonna figure things out a lot sooner than nic did. which in turn means he is gonna be into everything a lot sooner than nic was, which means i am gonna be a lot busier a lot sooner than i had hoped : ) anyways i have tried a couple of times to get lincoln rolling over on video to post on here, but he isn't being cooperative (must be hanging around his big brother too much!) seems that as soon as i turn the video off he is rolling over! oh well, i'll just post a couple of pics of him instead:

isn't he just so sweet???

here he is wearing the pumpkin bib that aunt wanie got for him

oh, and here is a bonus story for you all. has nothing to do with linc rolling over, but it is about linc. when i started to type this post up, i was holding lincoln, and he projectile spit up all over my keyboard. yep, it was quite pleasant, lol. i think i got it cleaned out pretty good, but hopefully it doesn't start to smell like spoiled milk! so my tip of the day: don't blog and baby hold : ) it could be hazardous to your keyboards health!

a day at the beach

while we were in NC we took nic to the beach for the 1st time. it was cool to see his reactions to the new environment. he was a little leery at first, as he is with most new things : ) but after a little coaxing and him seeing his cousins having fun, he loosened up. the weather wasn't very cooperative, it was windy and a little bit rainy, but still a good time. we really only had intentions of getting our feet wet, but it turned into a lot more than that : )

there really wasn't a good beach day the whole time we were there. we went over there 2 times. the day we got to NC, joe and i took the boys over by ourselves. we weren't there long but got a couple good pics of the family(thank you to the nice couple who took the family pic, whoever you are):

the second day we went to the beach we went with the rest of the family. this is the day that nic played in the waves. it was so much fun to watch! wish we could have had a nicer day, and actually put on our suits. but it was still a good time:

trevor and ashton's wedding

last wednesday we set out on a long road trip across the eastern half of the country to wilmington, NC, to celebrate trevor and ashton's wedding. it was a pretty long road trip with two kiddos in tow, but we survived. thank god for portable DVD players!!! we stopped in WV on wed. night...i think the name of the town was scareyville : ) we stayed in the no tell motel, well actually it was a days inn. we got the last room in this hotel, after trying to get rooms in 3 or 4 others. i guess west virginians like to stay in motels : ) the room was a suite too. had a jacuzzi and all, we liked to refer to it as the west virginian honeymoon suite, lol anyways, it was a dump, pretty dirty, and just gave me the heebie jeebies. i must admit though, ever since i saw that movie wrong turn, i have had a very bad perception of the state of WV, lol but we survived, and left early the next morning to continue on our voyage to NC. we arrived in wilmington around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. we stayed at an awesome beach house with much better accommodations than the no tell motel :) let me tell you, there is nothing like waking up to the smell of the salt water air, i just love it!

here is a picture of nic sitting on our awesome jacuzzi in the WV honeymoon suite, a pic of our beach house in NC, and nic and his DVD player.

on friday, we had the rehearsal in the morning, and the rehearsal dinner that night at our beach house. it was a little bit of a rainy day, but it all went pretty good. here are some pics of the wedding rehearsal:

the rain held off for the rehearsal, but unfortunately it did not hold off for the wedding. the wedding was supposed to be held out doors on the steps to the mansion, but it poured the day of the wedding. on friday night we had the rehearsal dinner. it was alot of fun, just ask my mom. she probably had the most fun of all, but she probably doesn't remember much of it, hahaha never in my 28 years have i ever seen my momma so intoxicated, and let me tell you it was quite humorous! lets just put it this way, she took a dip fully clothed, and i have the pictures to prove it:

yep, she had a great time, and provided great entertainment! the rest of us had a great time as well:

the happy couple

the first one is of the andrews clan, second one is my aunt (got a lil captain in ya?), and the third is joe and jami

first one is joe and ryan, second one is of some cool pirate carved pumpkins, and the last is of me, my momma, and my pops

saturday was the day of the wedding. it was a rainy day, so the wedding was on the porch of the mansion instead of on the steps. it was a little unorganized, and i was sure that nic would not fulfill his obligations as the ring bearer. i was actually convinced of this before we even left for NC, since nic has been such a stubborn little terd latley : ) well i was totally wrong, he did great. he took that ring box right to brett (the best man) just like we told him to. i was so proud of him!

here is nic running the ring box down the aisle, you can see faith the flower girl in the back. she didn't quite make it : )

he was looking so darn cute in his little tux and faux hawk!

here is nic and faith together...they looked so cute. as you can see faith has a bit of a sassy attitude : ) apparently she didn't want her picture taken!

like i said the wedding was a little bit unorganized due to the rain, but in the end it turned out just fine. oh yeah someone passed out at the reception and was taken away by an ambulance, so that was kind of crazy. we left not too long after that, because the boys were getting cranky. it was actually pretty exhausting chasing after nic and trying to keep linc happy too. i wish we could have stayed a little longer and enjoyed ourselves a little more, but thats part of being a mommy and daddy : )

here is a pic of the bride and groom...i wish them nothing but the best!

the wedding party

the groom and groomsmen and nic

on sunday morning we were back on the road again. we had intentions of driving straight through, but wisely changed our minds : ) we stopped in lexington, KY for the night. and it was much nicer than our stay in WV! i did get nailed with a speeding ticket on the way home though, so that really sucked! if anyone would like to contribute to my "betsy got caught speeding in KY and now has to pay $175 fund" just let me know : ) and oh yeah, to the state trooper who pulled me over and ruined my trip to NC, you can suck it buddy!!!