News about all of us!

We've gotten all kinds of news this week! Some bad, some good....Earlier this week Joey went to see the Orthopedic Dr. to check on the progress of the healing of his back, well..the results are that it isn't healing properly. Therefore, they think the next step needs to be surgery. We are confident in the Dr's recommendation and are going to go through with it. Joey will have a microdiscectomy on February 18th. Pray for him that the surgery will heal his back and take away all of the pain he has had for the last few months. Its been hard on him, we just want him to recover fully before our new little guy arrives!

On a brighter note, I passed my gluclose test this week! Praise the Lord! We wont have to worry about the health of Kinston throughout the end of this pregnancy! God really answers prayers when we call out to Him!

Kaylee is super excited about the snow that we're supposed to get this weekend! 8-12 inches! Wow, she will have a blast! =) She woke up this morning sad that there wasn't snow on the ground...but we explained to her that it wasn't supposed to start until tonight, so she'll see it when she wakes up in the morning! My little Kaylee bug was quite the encouragement to me this week, learning her verse for cubbies "Trust in the Lord" =) She has done an awesome job learning all of her verses and recieved another patch this week in awards! She loves to learn about Jesus and does such an amazing job of retaining the verses.....We've had some pretty warm weather, believe that or not, lately and Kaylee has really enjoyed playing outside. Going back and forth from her 4 wheeler to her corvette =) She loves to just run and be free, she is definetly an outside girl!

Camden is consumed with Handy Manny!! He LOVES his toolbox and carries it ALL over the house at all times. He even falls asleep with it! Its so cute, I've got to catch a picture of that! He is doing lots of new sounds and trying to repeat us on different words. He has fallen in love with books and will sit and read for longer than I'd ever think an "almost" two year old would do! This past Sunday, he sat in church the entire time looking at his book about trucks!

Thankfully, both children have been feeling great! Seems like the tubes for Camden really did the trick and have taken those pesky ear infections away! We are so glad we haven't been to the Dr. in months!

Daddy and Sterling had birthdays this month and we were able to have great celebrations with them both! What a month full of blessings!

Kaylee's first library card

Kaylee has been really wanting to go to the library lately. So, Gee and I took her on Monday. Boy, was she excited! She talked to the librarian all about getting her library card and listened intently about the rules of the library. She signed the back of her card (adorable) and we were on our way to checking out books. She was really funny going up and down the rows of books. She wanted to rent a "barbie book" of course we couldn't find anything like that. So, she finally found a couple that she liked and took them to the librarian to check them out. She loved it, I'm sure we'll be making several trips to the library a week...