Picking Strawberries in October:)

It's true! We are still picking strawberries from our garden and it is October. I even picked some after the first light frost we had Sunday night. Tomorrow I'll go out and see if more are ready. They are soooooo sweet right now.

Randomness catch up -Parade-Fair-Soccer

I thought I'd blog a few events at the same time. Jovie at the SE parade and fair. Then a quick trip to see some grand kids soccer games.
April, Jovie and I went to the SE parade. It was fun to see the expressions of Jovie while she experienced it all.

Jovie caught on pretty quick about the candy. You had to run out faster than the big kids to get it.

Ha ha got it.

Yippie more candy!!!

Jovie wanted to join the parade all morning.

Off to the the fair. Papa showed Jovie how to ride the bucking bronco.

Matt and Jovie got to ride on some of the fair rides. What fun!

Even without David around Larry's iphone helps to keep him from getting bored. I think he was playing golf.

Off to see the soccer games. It was 41 degrees and really really cold. But we endured. Blankets helped a lot.

Aria played well. She got a goal too! I think she was the warmest of all of us:)

Nathan watched Ruby for me. That was actually really helpful since I was taking care of Mae today.

Nathan played goalie and was kicking the ball away from the goal. He did great!

Gabe was so cute playing. Earlier before we left for his game he said "Grandma you are so excited to see me play, huh". For sure I was!

During the afternoon games April was getting her hair cut by Rachel and so I was watching both Mae and Jovie:) The games were all over and Misty had a great idea. She plopped Mae in the stroller right behind Jovie. Mae was liking it. Jovie was tolerating it lol. It was sure handy for me though.

I thought this was cute. Gabe, Jovie and Clara all playing the piano at the same time. One of all the grandkids favorite things to do with me while I'm at Misty's house is to play dancing music on her piano and we boogie. It's so fun!

Ethan is here!

Ethan is here! Joshua and Shannon's son arrived. We have all been patiently but also anxiously awaiting for his arrival. It's not my birth story to tell details so I won't but I'll just say that Shannon, Joshua and Ethan did a great job. He's here safe and well. He is such a good baby, his momma says he hardly ever cries. Here he is resting peacefully later on the day he was born.

Jessica is one happy sister to have her brother here. She'll big a big help to Shannon with Ethan I'm sure.

Ethan is telling Jess "Hi sis! Good to meet you".

Contentment and love.

Ethan has the most expressive eye brows that I've seen on a new born. He looks like he's concentrating on something serious. Who knows he probably is.

As with a lot of newborns Ethan got jaundice so under the lights he went. He rested well under the lights. Like I said he's a good boy.

Jovie wanted to get in with Ethan. her mamma of course held her tight.

Jovie thought maybe if Uncle Joshua held me I can get in.

I love this picture of Joshua and Ethan looking at each other.

I noticed Joshua's bigness along side Ethan's tiny body. He may have big hands but they are gentle for his son.

With Ethan under the lights and stuff I didn't get to hold him for awhile so I was sooo excited when I got my chance. Joshua is looking on though as if I've never held a baby in my arms before. Protective daddy I say. I do have to say though that I've held a few babies in my lifetime:). Ethan went to the nursery for a little bit and so I couldn't hold him but I did get to go see him for a few minutes before I went home at 4:00am. Joshua took me in the nursery and Ethan was crying. I started talking to him telling him how much we loved him and he stopped his crying and started looking around to find the voice. I then started to leave and he started crying again so I started talking to him again and he stopped crying to listen to me. I felt very honored to have had that moment with him.

Got milk???

Ethan I love you and I'm looking forward to getting to know you. Welcome to our family! We ALL love you.

As an after thought I'm including a few pictures of Joshua when he was born so you can see the resemblance Ethan has to his daddy. You can tell he's his daddy's son. Handsome guys!

Joshua is older in this picture. He's about 3 weeks.

Rachel holding her little brother for the first time. He's hungry as usual:) In these next two pictures Joshua is 2 days old.

Misty holding Joshua for the first time. Don't worry I'm right next to her. I would not let her drop him.