Josh's First Thanksgiving

Josh had his first Thanksgiving.

Mom was determined to get a picture of Josh and the turkey. Well, apparently, turkeys are scary.

Maybe Grandpa Lawrance could help us get a turkey picture. Nope. So far Josh hasn't eaten meat. Maybe he thinks he is a vegetarian.

Saturday night, we had Thanksgiving with the Wannemachers. Josh was thrilled to be with his big boy cousins. When 14 month old Cashtain (second from left) got there, Josh came crawling really fast across the room to get to him. Lucas (third from left) spent a lot of time playing with Josh. You can tell that he has a little brother. He's great with babies. Corey (far left) didn't want to be in the picture. However, when we asked him to "hold" Cashtain like Lucas was holding Josh, he was eager to be in the picture. Can you say "reverse psychology"?

What have you bought for $3.14 lately?

As most people reading this know, I have a great relationship with my sister-in-law, Megan. One of the things that we have in common is that we both LOVE to save money. She introduced me to the art of coupon blogs. These are websites that match up sales to coupons.

Proctor and Gamble has monthly coupons. There are always good sales to go with these coupons. Megan and I will often go get extra newspapers on P&G week because of these deals. One of the "high value" coupons this month was a buy any Secret deodorant and get $5 off any Olay bar soap or body wash. This week at Walgreens, they had Olay bars on sale for $2. Then you can buy a sample size Secret for $0.99. This left $3.01 of the $5 coupons as a "moneymaker". I had 4 of these coupons today. I bought all the pictured deodorant, Olay and the diapers for a whopping $2.42. (Could've saved more if I'd have had a Huggies coupon!)

Then, the register spit out a $1 and a $2 Jingle Buck coupon. I applied those to the cookies and the wipes for a total second order of $0.72.

This was $36.30 worth of regularly priced merchandise for $3.14. Thanks sis for giving me such a fun hobby!

Josh Video (3 of 3)

This was Josh crawling, trying to get to his doggie. Hasn't quite made it yet!

Josh Video (2 of 3)

Josh LOVED it when daddy got out a NERF gun that Grandma Lawrance got (for daddy) a while back. It was REALLY funny!

Josh Videos (Post 1 of 3)

We had quite a few videos stored up on our camera that we just downloaded. Here are a few of the better ones. The first one shows Josh in an extremely good mood after coming home.

Baby Dedication

Our church practices baby dedication instead of infant baptism. You'll find that Mary and Joseph did a similar thing for Jesus in Luke 2:22. Yesterday, was this day at East 91st. Ken and I had the extreme joy of going up in front of our church, the same church that both of us had been baptized in and where we'd gotten married, to commit to raise our first born in a Christian home. We've been really looking forward to this event.

We also got to stand up front with some of our dear friends, the Browns and the Hiscocks. April Brown, Margaret Hiscock and I were all pregnant with Sophia, Emmet, and Josh at the same time. My sister-in-law Megan was the first of the 2010 pregnancy crew. Jenn Chester is expecting our gang's #5 of the 2010-2011 baby boom.

This was the first time that we had all 4 of the babies in the same place. We just had to get pictures of that. Too bad Josh was only interested in taking off his sock!

We were extremely blessed to have 26 of our friends and family back for lunch after the service. Pictures of the party can be found here.

Mommy's Little Pumpkin

We had Josh's pictures taken at JCPenneys a few weeks ago. We were very happy with them. Josh's great pumpkin

Naked babies are so cute!

Go Colts!

Little Man in Khakis