Aidan's Happy Birthday!

Well hello! I know, I know, Aidan's birthday is NOV. 13th but Ben is gone now at school then in the field and comes home the day before Halloween. And our best friends move the 1st of November so we decided to do it yesterday! It was a lot of fun! Aidan got completely spoiled! Here's what he got. Spiderman Motorcycle, chainsaw and helmet, Guitar, HUGE tonka dump truck, tonka trucks, Crash car set (has a race track), dishes and food (for his kitchen), CANDY, Wiggles sticker book, wiggles pop up music book, The Coolest cars shirt that TALKS!, and many more I just can't think right now! Thank you to our friends who joined us and for the wonderful gifts they gave this little fart! It was a complete blast! My sister in law told me how to do these collages and I'm super excited! You will be seeing more of these from me!

Please help my cousins out!

Larsen Family Fundraiser...

Most of you know Daryl and Ashley Larsen. For those of you who don't, they are a young couple here in Perry, who just lost their baby to a rare lung disorder. Their loss is truly a tragedy. They are now experiencing the beginnings of what will be a land slide of medical bills. In an effort to aide them, there will be a one day fundraiser at the Maddox Steak House. On November 5, you can call Maddox at 723-2916 and order the Turkey Steak dinner. You can choose the 2 or 4 family meal at the regular price. All proceeds will then be donated to the Larsen family. You do need to remember to mention the Larsen family name when ordering. You can then pick up your meal at the take out window in the back of Maddox. It will be for lunch and dinner. Please spread the word. Feel free to copy and paste this post on your blog.

Random Pics

Random pics that have been taken that I didn't get to post! Hope you enjoy.

Shout Out to the NANA!

Aidan just wants to give a SHOUT OUT to his NANA! She made him another one of his favorite BLANKIES! I wish you guys could hear how he says it. He doesn't even try to he just makes this noise and that means blanket! This face in the picture is his concentrating(SP?) look. He does this with his tongue when he's watching shows thinking or anytime he's contemplating on doing something! Anyway he's growing up pretty fast. He's already talking about Nana coming when Kennedy comes out of mommy's tummy. He wants her to sleep in his room! Thank you mom for making Aidan all these wonderful blankets! I even love how its quilted to say "Aidan, Nana loves you!" How cool is that? Aidan's pretty lucky to have such a special Nana! We love you too Papa! You just don't make these wonderful quilts and blankies like mom does! I still need to get a picture of Aidan with his flag afgan that his Grandma Holladay made him. He likes to sleep with that one as well! We are doing Aidan's party this Saturday the 25th cause Ben's going to school and will be in the field starting Sunday til the day before Thanksgiving! We'll have pics to post of that.

Just because I LOVE him!

This entry is TOTALLY ramdom! Ben has been such an amazing Daddy and Husband lately I just wanted to let him know how much I love him! He makes the world go round for us! He can make me laugh so hard that I forget that I just had the worst day ever! So thank you Ben for all you do and for making my dreams come true! I LOVE YOU!

Help us out

Hey guys we've had a new name that we both love. Not that you guys will be deciding for us but give us an idea of what you all think. The poll is at the ride side of the blog. The two names are Kennedy Jo Holladay and Emmalynn Jo Holladay. Hope your all doing good!

FIRETRUCK BOY!

Well the fire alarm kept getting set off this week. And when you set it off the WHOLE building has to stand outside until the German fire department decides they wanna show up and save us. Sometimes it takes them more then a half hour. I'm convinced that they think. Eh its just the Americans we can live without them! ahhahahahahah Anyway on Saturday we all had to stand outside and Ben had gotten home from PT as they were letting everyone go back in so we took Aidan out and got him a picture of the firetruck! The firemen even let Aidan go in and look at the truck! Daddy was having a ball teaching him all the lingo for firemen! He sure wants his boy to grow up to be a manly man! Anyway Aidan got a sticker that we put on his door from the firemen! He loves when the firetruck gets to come and visit! He just doesn't like the loud sirens that go off in our homes! Its a scary noise as he would say!

So I never thought I would do this!

Okay ladies and gents! Remember hearing Heidi and Ben say that Aidan could have his binky til he's 30?!?!? Well we had to take it away last night. Let me share our experience!
We went over to the PX to pay for our layaway and Ben needed eye drops! Aidan was running by the baby stuff (with a binky in his mouth OF COURSE! He doesn't go ANYWHERE without it!) Well he just so happened to trip and fall! His nice little teeth got TORE up! Aidan ended up biting the binky off (nipple part) but luckily didn't swollow it! We are REALLY lucky he didn't swollow it cause if he had he would have most likely choked and died. There was blood everywhere and I kept telling myself. I know the mouth bleeds more so I was doing my best to keep calm. Then Ben and I opened his mouth to look and when we did we headed to the ER. Aidan had flaps of skin that were loose from his binky cutting them. You know the extra skin that holds the lip to the gums well Aidan has always had extra and he ripped that all the way up! He was in a lot of pain. Everything was fine we just wanted to make sure his tooth wasn't going to fall out! Poor kid and his teeth. Like a wonderful dentist in our ward says "its a good thing he has trial teeth!" Little Aidan was a trooper! He went to bed without fussing. We just told him the binky hurt him. I know this blog is a little scattered but the main reason we are done is like I said before if Aidan were to have swallowed that nipple part he most likely wouldn't be here with us today! We took that as a sign to be done! I'm not even sure if my little Kennedy will get one! We'll see! Anyway Aidan came in at 5 and asked for his binky and we just told him we don't use it anymore and put him back to bed with some meds for the pain and he did fine. His face is bruised from where the binky hit on his cheek and mouth but he's our tough boy and will make it through. His mouth is already started to scab but he's been really fussy that it hurts. We are just suppose to keep some good meds in him to take the pain away! Anyway so that is our story of how we got rid of it! Glad he's a strong boy!

A much needed update!

Here's a little update! Sorry I have started back at my old job since they needed a little extra help. Its just in the afternoons and I have found an AMAZING babysitter who just comes over to the house while Aidan's still napping and plays with him a couple hours! Ben never has weekends off so it works out great cause I work m-f so when he's home I don't need the babysitter so MORE MONEY IN THE POCKET...or shall I say that we can spend on this new little girl coming into our lives! Keep tuned for those of you who want to be involved in her wish quilt! Anyway we had our appt today! My weight is still awesome he says! I gained .5 kg this month and he said its just the baby weight! But just remember folk I lost 18 pounds in the begginning so I am still feeling ok! Kennedy is growing and everything looks perfectly normal! She's pretty cute moving around in my tummy! Its fun to have Ben here this time to experience it with me! Although I sure would love my cutest sister MANDY here too! I miss that I don't get to share it with her this time! She's excited its a girl and finally broke down and bought some girly clothes for her (she's afraid miss Kennedy is going to come out a Boy!) So here's to hoping that she really is a girl! I'm really excited and have told Ben this is heavenly fathers test to me! I will do my VERY best to dress this princess modestly! Okay enough about the baby! This last month I had the opportunity to go and play Bunko with some ladies from church and I have to tell you. Its been the first time out here in Germany where I loved being here cause I felt involved! I know its silly to think that if you don't have friends out here your going to hate it but it was nice to get out and laugh for once! Anyway Ben has recieved all his letters for his packet! They look amazing! I'm really proud of him! Its taken a year to get everything together and despite what SOME have said Ben worked hard and didn't let the army win him over on HURRY UP AND WAIT~ Thanks for all your prayers! We still would love them for him to NOT DEPLOY but I have told myself that whatever happens will happen! I just need to be strong!
Hopefully Ben's packet gets turned in to go before the Board in November if the Flight Physical doesn't get back in time it won't go until January!
Well thats our little update!
Have a great week!