Him, mom, HIM!

"Who is Mobey?" Megan once asked. Mobey is our lesser known cat who lives upstairs. She was terrified of Flash when we first moved in and made the upstairs her permanent residence. She's more or less used to Flash now, but rarely makes an appearance on the first floor. I can't say for sure why. Her food, water, and litter box are all upstairs so I guess that's all she needs. .... and Jonah.When Jonah was a wee toddler, I had promised him a pet if he would start going to the potty. Not that my promise motivated him at all but when he finally started using the potty at 3 and a 1/2, I kept my promise and got him Mobey. From the day I brought her home, Jonah has insisted Mobey is a boy. I just played along. Yet even after all this time, I can never remember and always refer to Mobey as her or she. I know Jonah has told me no less than a hundered times, "Him, mom, HIM. Movey is a boy!" Someday I'll get it. Also, Jonah calls Mobey Movey. David's corrected him several times but Jonah always goes back to Movey. So we decided to just call her, uh, I mean him Movey.At any rate Jonah and Movey are as close as a boy and cat could be. Movey sleeps in Jonah's bed every night, right by his side. That might explain Jonah's allergies. Oh well. I would never have the heart to break them up. David tried to persuade me a couple of times to find Movey a new home in Florida, before we moved to KY, but there was absolutely no way. So we brought the poor little guy in his carrier for the entire 14 hour trip on the Uhaul's floor board. He's here to stay.Movey has huge eyes. I have never been able to take his picture without him having red eyes. I know it makes him look evil, but he's a very sweet kitty. I can't do it. She's a very sweet kitty!

Let It Snow!Let It Snow!Let It Snow!

Not really. I'm just as ready for spring to come as everyone else. But when I moved up here from Florida with Jonah, I was so excited for Jonah to experience real snowy weather. Well, guess what. Last year, there was none. Just some ice. I was bummed. This year however we've had some pretty snow falls. Of course this would be the same year we went to Colorado. Oh well. I love, love, love summer but newly fallen snow can be so beautiful.

Here's some photos from the front of our house...

...and from the back.

Jonah still hasn't experienced a real snow day. Of course winter isn't over yet!

Happy Birthday Katherine!

Well, I meant to post this yesterday, but you all know how I am. Yesterday was our niece Katherine's birthday. She turned a monumental 10. I try to think back to my tenth year. It seemed growing up as a kid that I could never grow up fast enough. Childhood seemed to take an eternity! It's amazing to me now what a distant fading memory my childhood now is. I had a heck of time picking out a birthday present for Katherine. I walked into Limited Too, Katherine's favorite store, took a look around, and left quickly bewildered. I felt like such a grown up dork. I did manage to find something just in time for her big birthday party. Oh yes! A bowling party held by Katherine's family and attended by about 15 of her closest friends. It was pretty entertaining to see all those tween girls in action. I kind of felt like a National Geographic explorer studying the natives.
This picture doesn't really show it, but Jonah had an awesome time bowling with his younger cousins, Emily and Anna. Anna refused to be in the photo. I'll get her next time.

Even though the Munzers don't believe me, we had a great afternoon helping to celebrate Katherine's big day. Happy Birthday Katherine!

p.s. David had to work and missed all the fun.

Basketball Season

I know no one really wants to hear about basketball after our beloved Cat's game today, but I have a few pics from Jonah's first season playing basketball that I'd like to share. I was going to get more photos during his last game, but I locked ourselves out of the house and Jonah missed the game. I felt pretty awful about it, but Jonah handled it like a trooper.


Jonah absolutely loved basketball. I was somewhat surprised. He really got into playing defense, so much so that I always kind of felt bad for the other kid.


The YMCA gave all the kids headbands. Jonah thought it was the coolest thing ever.


Have you ever noticed that it's almost impossible to get action shots with a digital camera? Maybe next year...

Sky High

It's hard to believe it's been almost a year since our skydiving adventure. What a busy year at that! David and I were married, and I'm pregnant! Wow! I really had no idea how amazing it was that David even went skydiving until we were in Colorado and he would start whimpering everytime we had get on a ski lift. While we were getting ready to skydive, he didn't act especially freaked out. Unfortunately, we had to take separate planes, so I didn't get to see his fear climax. I did witness him being sick to his stomach for a good hour afterwards. Since we did take separate planes, the pictures I have don't really reflect his true terror that day.

A nice family photo before I got on the plane. I jumped first. When David saw me do it first, he knew he had no choice. Jonah seemed pretty unimpressed by the whole event. There was a nice puppy there that he found more interesting.
Here's one of the little planes we went up on. That was an experience in itself.

David before he got on the plane. I must say, he looks pretty cute in his purple jumpsuit.

David on his way down!
In his defense, he did spin around and around all the way down. Luckily, I didn't have any spinning or I would have been sick to my stomach too. If anyone would like to go skydiving, David did say he would like to go again someday. Just give him a call.