Christmas Moments

Brother and Sister on Christmas day! What a joy it is to have family close by! Christmas morning we were blessed with the preaching of the Word of God and fellowship of His people at church. Later that morning we shared in opening our gifts for each other with our immediate family at home. After a nice meal, prepared by my Mom, we all headed over to my brother, Daniel, and sister, Cassie's home and opened our gifts with their family.


Three generations! It's been so nice having my grandmother here to visit!


Brent on Christmas afternoon! After a long, long nap! I believe he enjoyed all the attention from all his cousin's, aunts, uncles, grandparents and great-grandmother.

Our little Santa Clause! Uncle Steven bought Brent a Santa outfit for next year (2T) however, it seem to fit pretty well THIS year...so we had a little photo shoot with the little guy! He is such a trooper and made us all laugh!

Looks like little Aedan was pretty alert at his birth...He seems to know who his mother is!
And here is the Proud father with his beautiful son!
I think this picture is so sweet! Sister and brother at last! :D

Aedan James Morris

Aedan James Morris was born on Friday, December 2nd at 4:41PM. He is a healthy baby boy weighing in at 6 lbs. 10 oz. and stretching from head to toe at 21 inches long. Mom and baby are doing very well. They are now at home resting (and healing for Jenn, since she ended up having a Cesarean Section) and enjoying having a new member in the Morris family.
Marybeth is a very happy and proud older sister! What a blessing to see two of her prayers answered...she now has a Dad and a baby brother!

Brent and Beau

Can this kid be any cuter...I certianly don't think so!

Brent loves little dogs...It's the little dogs that don't necessarily like little Brent

I think Beau was getting a little jealous of Brent and all the attention he was getting Because all of the sudden he decided he wanted to play fetch (which he NEVER does.) He would try and snatch the little teddy bear out of our hands and then he would get jumpy and crazy with it. Brent wasn't sure what to do at that point. He didn't know whether to laugh or be afraid so he just climbed in my lap for a little more security. It was too cute and very funny!

Brent Playing with his Dad

Daddy's so silly

Laughing at Dad

I love this boy!

Brent was very spacey when he came to visit...He just got his tetanus shot and wasn't feeling very good. Made it nice for snuggles though! Poor guy!

Grandma feeding Brent some yummy eggs

More eggs please Grandma!

Such a big boy and oh so proud of himself!

The Little Dogs

Here's a picture of Molly and CJ and Uncle Beau (and two puppies from liter numero 3) in their young days...back when they actually ran around and played rather than sleeping and eating all day! ;)

Stained

The Handrail

We've got STAIRS

I realized the other day, as I stepped out on the new landing to help my dad with something, that I have a natural hesitation to take the first step out our door. I laughed moments later when I realized what I did (it was a quick hesitation, only something I noticed but, funny nonetheless) Feelings of "Oh, I hope this holds me!"
Raced quickly through my mind!


My dad spent Thursday and Friday finishing the stairs up. Hoping to have it done before the sun leaves and the rain comes.

The next project is the handrail

BRENT'S FIRST BIRTHDAY

Chatting on the phone. Whenever someone says "Hi" Or "Hello" Brent puts his hand up to his ear like he is talking on the phone. Observant little boy

YUMMY!

He enjoyed digging into is own special cake...His first taste of sugar

WHAT A MESS

All cleaned up and time to open gifts. Brent is walking all over the place now.

Present time!

The beginning of our wood stairs

Another blessing...The guys in the picture are from my Dad's work and they spent all day Saturday helping my dad build the stairs!

Yeah, for the bigger landing..No more stepping down a few steps just to open the door


They started with dry weather and continued on through the thunder storm! That's dedication and good friends!

The rock wall is completed this side of the driveway! It is massive/impressive

HELLO!!!

You can all just assume that when I write something it is going to be in the form of some kind of apology! ;) Or so it seems anyway. Sorry, for not posting any new pictures lately. I've been taking pictures with my "old school" camera..ya know the ones where you have to go and develop your film...And scanning has not been an option for me so Lord-willing I will snatch my dad's digital camera from him again and update everyone on our front yard and Brent (who by the way is doing very well at learning to walk!! And his Birthday is coming soon, September 17th, can you believe he will be a year old!!!)

Also, for those of you who may not know Kevin and Jenny are expecting their new miracle in December (IT'S A BOY!) Can't wait to meet him! :D

Three Generations (one missing)

I wish we had a picture of the four generations together! What a blessing to see one generation to the next.

Great Grandpa and Brent Alexander

Kikka and Sonic

After playing rough together...Kikka is a Husky, Lab mix and Sonic is pure Siberian Husky.

Been Away

I'm home again..This past week was the Hillcrest/Trinity Family camp and my parents and I were gone for the week enjoying some wonderful fellowship with God's people.

The pictures below are just updates on Brent and our front yard...Hope you enjoy and there will be more to come.

Brent's First Hair Cut

There's the little boy.

It's coming along

Pete is nearing completion...One rock at a time.

Landscaping Continued

A dump truck of boulders for our rock wall along the driveway

Here we go...

Almost there!

And it's down! HE IS AMAZING. This is Pete and he has picked up, carried and placed EVERY rock on our wall! And he LOVES it!

Our old front porch

Our new front porch! ;) Or, so I thought it was. This is the pit I fell into and by the grace of God came out with minor cuts and bruises