Stephens Family Blog

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Friday, November 26, 2010

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving in Ft. Wayne

Joshua & Ben hanging out & playing with Grandma Linda

I forgot Goodnight moon, but luckily Aunt Jackie brought Ben's copy.

Grandma & Joshua reading before bed.

Walking with Grandma

Grandma Dana has taught Joshua he can touch anything with 1 finger. Apparently Joshua thinks this applies to Baby Ben as well. Too funny!

The boys!

Our Thanksgiving Feast ~ Thanks Linda!

Grandma & her boys

Dave, Gary & Katie with their pheasants.

So, I got a new camera and I've been playing with it. This 16 picture shot was taken in the same amount of time as a normal picture. There such slight differences between the pictures. Kind of interesting. Not really sure what you'd use it for on a regular basis, but fun to play with.

Jim, Duke & I are home from Ft. Wayne. Joshua is still there visiting and playing with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Jackie & Uncle Dave. Grandpa & Uncle Dave will leave Saturday morning to go to PA to hunt. Jim & I will go back up Saturday evening. I'm sure we'll have more pictures after that!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

What's new...

So, a picture is worth a thousand words, right? I know its been awhile since I've gotten anything up on the blog, so I think I will show you what we've been up to.

Jim brought this box home from work for Joshua to play with...

...and all my boys ended up playing with it!!

So this might be exciting or new to anyone else, but this is big news in my world. There are purple gerberas now!!! This is very exciting to me so I wanted to share it with the 5 people that read this, ha!

The column 3 from the right is the new variety.

The column 3 from the right is the new lavender variety.

This is my Grandpa Wilbur. We helped fall some trees and clean up their creek a few weeks back.

I got to use a chain saw for the first time. This picture was of my first try. I found it much easier to do it left handed. I found that I really really like to chainsaw.

This is my Grandma Evelyn. She really enjoyed pushing Joshua around on the walker they have.

He hung on like he was in a shopping cart. So cute & made Grandma's day!

This picture is a little old, but this was the first time I found him standing in his crib.

Joshua practicing standing and pulling up. He loves the cooler because he can see himself in the doors!

Joshua has a huge gated area in the shop. The picture below is under my design table. He was peeking out at Taia! He climbed up on this book all by himself. I just love this picture!

Happy Boy! Boiler up!

My friend Nate had this ball pit for his nephews when they came to visit. He gave it to Joshua to play with & he absolutely loves it.

With the Christmas decorating some of the bears have been relocated. Joshua is very fond of these two bears!

Love waking up to this! Good morning blue eyes!

We (it feels like a team effort) have been teething again...with no luck so far. This is one time that he was particularly rough to get him down for a nap. I went to check on him and nearly cried I was laughing so hard. He had screamed most of the morning, so I was so glad he was asleep, but as you can see in the picture, it was hard for him to go to sleep. I really love how one sock is above his head and the other is on his neck. Poor little guy!

Hanging out at the shop with mama! What else do you need besides a highlighter & a sharpie?

Joshua & Duke "playing"!

The dressers in Joshua's room & this table were in my room growing up. They started out in my sister's nursery. Dad had gotten them from a professor in Terre Haute. Mom refinished all of it and it's working out great for Joshua!