Kids...

here as some of her faces that she makes when I start taking pictures...

Ella wating for her picture to be taken!

she does silly stuff when she thinks I am going to take her picture...is this because I am a picture happy mom????

Christmas....

When Ella first walked in she came in didn't notice the tree...she turns on the TV and doesn't have a clue finally we get her to turn off the TV and we have to shower her the gifts...and this picture is what she did...she said OH presents and grabs this one and says I'll open this one!

This handsome guy didn't know what was going on but liked the morning just fine...and loved to see all the presents and rip all the paper!

This is what it looked like after Santa left! Ella got the Trike and the skate board she likes to sit on it and scoot herself around...not to mention she got a baby bed and blankets because she keep using my dish towels to put her babies to bed. Brandon got some little people sets and some of the amazing animals sets he like them a lot and the go with the train he got for his birthday!

Hannah, Hannah, Hannah & Hannah?

So this is what my family would look like if we were all Hannah Montana....

Hannah Ella Montana

Hannah mommy Montana
Hannah Brandon Montana


Hannah Dwayne dog Montana

so this is a gift Jen gave Ella for Christmas...Ella is a big fan of Hannah Montana Jen got her a shirt a wig and a tooth brush that are all Hannah Montana...Ella thought we all should try it on...EEEK

starting over

ok just so every one knows I have two blogs that I keep different...I just had to totally restart my blog so take a look and tell me what you think so far!

http://www.debnjosh.info/

lets get cooking

So as many of you know ( that is maybe 5 people)....Mom and I have started a cooking blog. I hope you all feel free to leave comments and try the recipes. The point of the blog is to get tried and loved recipe's out there...we would like you all to know that we would love for you to leave comments if you try the recipes but also to give us recipe's that you love and want to share. please please please help us build an awesome place to find recipes and a place we can find recipes that we know people have tried.

The blog address is...

http://www.letsgetcooking.wordpress.com/

please come and join us in making a good recipe blog and to save cherished family recipes!

Brandons finger Update

So We finally got our test results back on Brandon's finger. Of the three test that were done the one that was positive was the one that was for herpes simplex 1. So it is for sure that Brandon has a cold sore under his finger nail. the Anti virus meds worked well and it is is all in the scab form now here are the pics...

as you can see the finger is much smaller Less red and it is just a bit scabby like a cold sore would be!!

Why Brandon needs a Brother!

The ugly truth!

So here is the story... about 9 days ago I notice that the tip of Brandon's finger looked a little inflamed. I wanted to see if it hurt so I pinched his finger lightly to see if it was bugging him and the flinch of pain that come from him made me feel horrible. I took him to Josh and showed him the finger and even though it wasn't to bad I figure I would make an appointment for a day later. The next day we were all in my room and Brandon took a header into my bed frame and gashed his ear open. I called the advise nurse to see what I should do because it was bleeding but not to bad. They had me come in to check his head. I had them make an appointment for Ella and him...Ella said her throat hurt and I had just gotten over strep throat and I didn't want to play with that.

So we went to the Dr office and Josh met us there because the kids were due for some shots. The doc checked his ear and in his ear and there was no damage but the huge goose Egg behind his ear and the cut on his ear. Then I told her about his finger and she said oh it looks I tiny bit infected and prescribed some Antibiotics to clear it up....( Ella's throat culture was neg she was just copying mommy...when Ella would offer me Hard food I would tell her my throat hurt...she just copied me)...any way after 4 days his finger was looking NASTY. I mean it had gotten bigger and and puss infected and there was no sign of it getting better. My Dr. wasn't in so we had to see a new dr. They lanced it and let me tell you how fun that is to do to a 1yr old baby! (They did a bacterial culture from the (CLEAR PUSS) and it came back negative for Bacteria...(hummm)

Ok so this Dr. gave him a antibiotic that was for infections that were resistant to antibiotics...

Into the 4th day of this 2nd treatment this is how the finger was looking....

they are a little blurry but you can see that his Finger is twice its size
when ever they lanced it the cut would split and get fatter...

We went back into the Dr office after the 4th day cuz by now something should have been happening...and there should have been some sort of improvement even at the tiniest level. Now this time we went back to the same Doc as the first. When she saw the finger she was shocked. she pulled other doc's into see...and the were all a little shocked at the look of it after two doses of antibiotics.

there was another Lancing and squeezing...poor guy. they did three more tests one more Bacterial and 2 viral...yes Viral...as in like a cold soar...herpes. They think that he has herpes on his finger tip. The doc brought in a book to show me what it looks like and sure enough the tissue under your fingers can get a "cold sore". ( when I first got to looking at the picture I saw this awful swollen thing that looked like guy genitalia...And I was thinking Oh man poor little guy this is gunna get way worse....then the doc points at a picture on the other page and i realize that I was looking at guys part...Oops I had to laugh to myself about how big of a dork I was)!

So they put him on some Anti-viral meds and for the first time in over a week he slept HARD it freaked me out!

It hasn't even been a day and the finger is less red and swollen....hope full it is all down here from now!

The big ONE!

Brandon had his birthday on Friday...can you believe he is one already? we spent time together and then went to Jens for cake and presents...he like all the attention and the cake!

Wow I get to eat all of this???

I like this birthday cake thing!

Here is him playing with a toy that Maddie, Makell and Melissa bought him....HE loves it...you can tell by his happy screams!


We actually bought him a tiny scate board that he loves I will try and find a picture of it...he thinks it is a riding toy...we baought him balls and silly stuff like that he loved it all!

recipe Blog

So mom and I are starting a blog with recipes that we have tasted and one that we have had for a long time and love! I hope you guys will check it and try them out...the ones we have on there now ARE YUMMY so give them a chance!

http://letsgetcooking.wordpress.com/

4 Already???

Today marks 4 yrs with my wonderful husband. Time flies! Last night as we laid in bed talking we talked about how it seems like such a short time. we have had our ups and downs due to my health and all but we feel that we are lucky! we have had such an easy going fun and exciting 4 yrs! I am so lucky to have found my best friend and some one that makes me feel safe and loved! And we are excited about our growing beautiful Family!

Heres to working on FOREVER!!!

Brandon and Nemo!

Brandon is super into the TV at times but nothing compares to when he watches finding nemo. This is a clip of him watching Nemo

Birthday fun!!!

Ella is 3 now!

It seemed like her birthday lasted a week. that week starting about 5 days before her birthday the gifts started coming. she got a pair of brown fuzzy boots. then a couple of day s later she got a island princess Barbie from Auntie Jennie...which she loves! then the next day she got a a box of dress up clothes. that is the picture of her in on of the three dresses! it is way to CUTE!!!

Bubba made a little patch bear!

instead of a huge birthday party we went to build a bear. they were so excited.

Jessie made an Elephant


Tiffy made a turtle!




Ella made a hippo!
she named it Tasha after the backyardigans hippo Tasha!

This is Ella's birthday out fit.

other gifts she got were a purse, island barbie princess the movie, a snap on doll, tinker bell dishes, and Adrick ( little boy that we know) gave her a tinker bell figure and necklace and coloring book. I think she cashed in!
We had a tinker bell theme for her birthday. She got a Tinkerbell cake and table cloth. she is still a little young to do to much...but she was so excited for her birthday. we had a lot of fun!
Say tuned because Thanksgiving and then Brandon's birthday are in the next two weeks....

kids at play....

So these are some picture I have taken over the last week. I thought I would share with you all. so I was every morning I get the clothes my kids are going to wear out at the same time. On this particular morning I grabbed Brandon camo to wear I thought it went well with the dinosaur on his shirt.

So I dressed Ella and Dressed Brandon and thought boy he looks cute in this camo why don't I dress them both in camo together some day it would be really cute....
then I look up at Ella who I thought looked darling that day and realize....I ALREADY DID...I swear I am loosing it some days.....

So this is how they looked. Ella's pirate make wouldn't all come off in the bath so she has eyeliner eyes.

so Brandon has a new pass time. I am sure he is thinking this is far more fun than just playing with the toys...or getting to what he wants...
He started climbing into the toy bin to get to all the toys


he is all over the place these day and has discovered that the cupboards and closets hold hidden treasures. This of course to my dismay...Ella never did this. He has already broken a bowl!

after climbing out of his toy bin he came into the living room where i have a shoe bucket...yes I have a shoe bucket...(it got to the point where every one would come in and just take there shoes off and leave them in a corner so I made this bucket to make me feel like there was some sort of order to the chaos)... well Brandon though he had found a place of interest and crawled right in...

He was doing something in there until I called his name...

this is a picture shot he got up all the way so i could snap this shot...He is a critter!

this is him realizing he doesn't know how to get out of this bucket....

Ella' hair is starting to get long. this is a cute hot of her showing off a new pulled back to the back look...i love this picture!

Jess came to play today and the girls took a cruise in the tub o clean...

this is their posed after shot after they got their hair done and into the their fashionable wear!

they hate their pictures being taken can you tell....POSERS!!!

halloween review....

So here is the halloween line up for this yr...

justin is this crazy monkey this YR...

Jonathan was a charactor from kingdon hearts the game...

michael and ella were both Pirates this YR.

I granted him all his manly hair....


Tiffany was goth this is her mean face by the way....



Jessie was a pink witch! "pink" was the key!

Brandon Was a parrot on Holloween.....

Cuz every good pirate needs a good parrot

arrrggggg....ARRRG polly say ARRGGG

kaylee was an indian this YR!

And the Funny guy ryan was a Pimp daddy old man!

the long awaited Posting...Sorry!

OK the story starts about here...This is the card my dad made for his company contest...he won 1st place and 200 dollars! Yes that is what i call a contest...we have been scrambling to find all the stuff to reproduce this card 500 times. So over the last two weeks we have been working on getting the stuff and cutting it all out. It has been crazy with lots of thanks to Ronda and Dee helping us with info and ordering the stuff we needed from Stampin*p.
This same weekend that we were crazy cutting out and and doing the piece work for the cards was Josh and Ella's first daddy daughter camp out...they had so much Fun. They carved pumpkins and Eat food and played. that had a lot of fun(even though they had BIG BIG uninvited SPIDERS hanging out with them!)

So this last Saturday we had Trunk or treat at our church building. The kids were a pirate ARRRRRGGg and a army "guy". they had fun getting the candy...Brandon wanted to run around and play but it was to crazy for that so he drove...

this is his close up...Looking more and more like grandpa every day!!!

other that that we have been working on tying and and stitching quilts trying to get them finished so we can bind them and use them this winter. Kaylee and Makell made a sudoku quilt...way cute i will try and take a pic of them all finished!

other than that Our whole family went through the stomach flue a few weeks ago all taking our turns feeling like crap...that really took its toll! and as soon as i got over it my parents were here and we were off and running with the cards and i haven't really sat still since...

Brandons Hair!

I thought I would add a few shots of his hair so that you could take the poll better!

this is how long the sides are

The back is shorter and more curly than the top...I am not sure how his hair is going to be...but it is just like my dads right now!