Josiah's First Christmas

It was a very Merry CHRISTmas! The Lord has blessed Dani and I so much during this last year that we are filled with great joy! It has also been a new season of experiencing the love that God poured into this world by sending His Son Jesus! It is through the birth, life, death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ that we can have Hope here on earth and for eternity! We are so thankful that God has used us in many ways this year to minister to the teenagers in our church and the people in our apartment complex through Apartment Life. God has blessed us this year with a beautiful son which we name Josiah based upon the OT story of King Josiah. God has blessed us this year by providing for our financial needs through family and friends. We have posted some pictures that represent some of these joys! If you have never surrendered your heart to the Savior of this world then don't wait another minute and stop right now to give your life to Him! Confess your need for salvation, ask for forgiveness for your sins and turn your life over to Him. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Well, its been a few weeks since we have updated but there have been some pretty significant events that have taken place the last several weeks. It was Josiah's first snow in Houston and it was enough to make snowballs. Check out the photos! It was also Josiah's first rice cereal feeding! He is doing such a good job with sucking the slop it is amazing! Although, after tonight's feeding he decided to share some with mommy! Our little man is getting so big-so fast! We took him to the doctor where he got two shots and I wasn't sure who was crying more mommy or Josiah! He is now weighing in at just over 16lbs and he is still in the 95 percentile for his height. He is going to be bigger than my brother Todd! Hope you enjoy the pics!

its been too long

We have found out that Tim and I are not the best bloggers. We have the best of intentions but some how it seems to be pushed off. Josiah is going to be 4 months this Monday and can I say WOW the time flies. I look at pictures from when he was first born and think to myself was he really that small? Well any ways we have been busy but whats new. It seems like November came and went with in a week. We got to go visit Tim's famly for thanksgiving and see his best friend finally get married. (LOL about the finally) We left Nov. 20 to drive to Oklahoma for Cordell's wedding then flew out of Oklahoma that morning to Denver Colorado. We got to go to a Denver Broncos games with Josiah (first mistake). The weather wasn't too cold until you got to the very top of the stadium where we sat and had the wind blowing on us then it was very cold. Josiah needless to say didn't like the wind and then when he would get to sleep the crowd would start yelling and stomping and wake him up. Josiah and I didn't last past the first quarter then Tim met us at half time and we left. When looking back we wanted Josiah to be apart of this milestone but should have left him with his aunts Sara and Megan but what can we say you live and learn. We stayed at Sara and Justin's apartment on sunday night then drove to Casper Wy. Josiah was such a trooper through all the traveling we have such a great baby. All of the family loved meeting Josiah and spending time with us. We feel the time went too fast but it was great to get away and be with family. On the way home we realized that Josiah along with us were in 4 states in one day. I know that has to be some type of record. We have now un packed everything and are now re-packing for the state youth convention this weekend in Austin. It should be a good weekend but we will be ready to be done with the traveling. Its crazy the way things will change when you have a baby to think about. Well I think that I have said everything I have to say so I will say goodby for now and hopefully will return with more soon.

2 months old

Josiah is now two months old and I can't even believe it. I was looking at pictures from when he was first born and he looks so big now. He is still in the 90 percentile for his weight and length. We are hoping for a tall boy and the odds are in his favor. I know that you might think this is hard because I'm (Dani) only 5ft 2in. Good thing for Josiah that boys in my family and Tim's run tall. Every day with Josiah is a new and exciting day. He is "talking" so much now and his facial expressions are priceless. I have tried to video him but he seems to know when its coming because he just looks at you with that face of "did you want me to do something?" I did however get some good video of him playing in his bathtub. He likes it when we start to splash him because he knows that it will be okay to make a mess. He smiles all the time now and he's trying to sit up on his own. People are impressed with the way he will go to anyone and he doesn't really cry. He's a very good baby and we are so happy to be his parents.

Galveston

Tim and I went to Galveston on Thursday September 4th just a week before Hurricane Ike came and took away the beach. The beach was so nice and day was beautiful, it was was such a blessing for us to go and visit it with our son. Galveston is a special place to us because this is the place where Tim proposed to me and then were we spent our wedding night. We wanted to share this with our son and were very happy that we got to. Here are a few pictures of our day out.

Hurricane Ike

Well as all of you may know our family went through our first hurricane. I can say that we were very happy to have family so close who took the news casters serious. We lost power Saturday morning around 3 a.m. and the power was returned to us on Tuesday night. We were very blessed that God gave us such great weather after the hurricane. I can say that Sunday night I got cold with just having the windows open. We were also blessed to know we had water that we could cook with and friendly neighbors who shared their generators with those who didn't have one. Tim and I drove around Tomball Saturday afternoon to see how everything looked and check on some people in our church who lived out here. There was more damage then I expected to see. It's crazy to see trees uprooted that had been growing for many years. On Sunday we didn't have church because there was no power. Later that day our family (including Josiah) made our way back to our apartment. If you're thinking it wasn't a good idea for us to take Josiah with us we thought about that but with me breast feeding him we knew if we got stuck we would still be able to feed him. We made it out of Tomball fine and as we were leaving we were looking at some cars stuck on the other side of the street. Then thinking about it we realized that the main street to get back into Tomball was flooded. At that point there was no turning around and we would have to find another way back. We made it to our apartment and found out that we didn't have power but we did have water. We got some more clothes, took a shower and were off again. We took pictures of the neighborhood next to our apartment where most of the fences were down. We went to the church so Tim could get some work and check out what the damage looked like. Mostly outside with a few leeks on the inside. One of our portables had a tree fall on it, our garden shack which held the riding lawn mower roof blew off, the daycare's playground had trees and branches everywhere over the equipment and last we had lots of trees in the back of the church that looks like a war zone. After taking pictures we started to make our way back to Tomball. It was crazy to see all the cars out including us. Most street lights were out so if you got stuck going the way of most traffic it would be a slow process. We drove by a Wal-mart that had about 100 people sitting outside waiting in line to go get food and then we saw a Kroger that had about 40 people in line. The sign by the door said only 30 people in at one time and we don't have Ice, bread or batteries. We made one more stop before going home and that was to check on a family who also lived in Tomball. We had not been able to get a hold of them by phone. When we got to the house we didn't see anyone and found out later that they went to there families house. We finally made it home and the crazy thing was a roundtrip that should have only taken a hour to 1 1/2 hours ended up taking 4 hours. Today we are getting back to somewhat normal. Tim and I got to sleep in a bed last night compared to the air mattress we have been sleeping on since Friday. Josiah has been doing good for everything that has been going on but his schedule is off. That's due to the change that we went through and more people for him to be held by. He's starting to make more noise and smile. You will see pictures from Hurricane Ike and then some of Josiah. I will also put some pictures of Josiah at bath time too. He loves taking baths with Tim and its fun to watch them bond. Its time for me to say goodbye and hopefully we will write again soon.