The best for 2009!

Wishing you the very best for 2009! We have had quite the 2008...our baby girl came,(crawled, walked and talked), we got another vehicle, both land and water, we traveled too many places to mention individually, Braxton started preschool and got pottie trained, Brett worked hard as ever and so did I! I love my family more and more with each day and with each year, so hats off and cheers to them! This of course is a short summary. Wishing you a prosperous new year, I won't even start with the new years resolutions, again too many to mention, ha, ha!

Merry Christmas!

We are really enjoying our time in the sunshine with family this Christmas. We got to ride the Polar Express to the North Pole and it was truly magical, Santa even gave both Brax and Joz a special sleigh bell! We also went ice skating which was great fun, although it has been awhile since I was on skates! The entire Hulet Family is together, and it is so much fun! Brax and his little cousin buddy, are the cutest and Joz also has a cousin the same age! Anyway, I just wanted to drop a quick line to wish everyone the very merriest Christmas!

Just some cuties home from church.

I have not posted since b-friday, sorry! Here are just some random pictures home from church. This holiday season we are busy as usual, but full of holiday joy and true spirit of the reason for the season. We are making goals and plans for both ourselves and for our family for the new year! We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and joyous holiday season filled with love and laughter! oh and I hope Santa brings you everything on your list...and then some!

BLACK FRIDAY!

Our black friday was so much fun! Brett and I camped out at Best Buy and we brought along Brax for some of the time, he had a blast! We had a tent set up and sleeping bags and of course a propane heater and dvd player. Everybody else was sitting in lawn chairs freezing as the snow fell on them! We were nice and toasty. We got everything and more that we wanted and got many of our family members taken care of as well. Then we hit Target and Walmart. It was crazy! Then I hear about 3 people that were killed and several injured, I cannot imagine wanting something that bad to hurt another person. Anywho, it was a great and successful b-friday!

Now for my angel girl

She is walking!!!! I will have to post a video, it is the cutest thing! She can even bend up and down and hold her balance, she is going to be our little ballerina! Anyway she still has the bottom two teeth and is working on the top two. She is very curious and into everything, she especially likes to pull the wipes out of the container and continue to rip them apart, a fun clean up let me tell you! She has an extensive vocabulary including Ma Ma and Mom, and Da da. She identifies and says, "ball" and knows where your nose and mouth are! She also says, "bah, bah," for her bottle! And my favorites, "WOW," and when I say cheese she gives me the biggest cheesiest grin! She is so attentive and just by me saying, "no" she stops, it is amazing! Anyway, she is precious and is getting so big, I cannot believe that she is fast approaching her 1 year birthday! She loves to play with Brax and he can make her laugh in an instant, he is the best big brother! And she is the best little sister!

My date with a handsome little man!

Today I went on a date with my son. Just me and Brax and I was remembering how it was with just one, when I used to think it was hard, is now easy! While I couldn't imagine my life without my sweet girl, it was nice to just have my boy! We went to go see Madagascar 2 as he is recently into that. Which I would highly recommend! It was his first time at a nice big theater, that he can remember and the light in that boys eyes was so rewarding! It was a hoot, he was laughing hysterically throughout the show! I could focus all of my attention on him it was so precious! Then we went to have lunch at the dreaded McDonalds, which we NEVER eat at, but they have Madagascar toys there so of course we had to order like 4 Happy meals so we could get all of the characters! Brax keeps talking about our date and how much fun it was to go with just Mommy!

Fall-in love mom and kids

More like Mommy everyday

So whether being just like Mommy, is a good thing you can decide, I myself think it is so much fun to have a mini me, with blue eyes of course!
She is never without her lip gloss, just like Mommy. She loves to play with the Volleyball, just like Mommy. She loves her juice, just like Mommy. She loves to get a dressed up, just like Mommy!

Mystery meat

This may be one of those you had to there moments, but I will try to explain. So Braxton was having hot dogs and he says, "I love this hot dog, but I hope that dog doesn't get burned, that would be sad,"..then he pauses for a minute and says, "this is dog?" I am like okay how to do I explain this and why are they called, "hot dogs," it is weird if you think about it.
Anyway, Jozalyn tried the little graduates meat stick (pretty much veinna sausages) for the first time and would have eaten the whole jar had I let her. So it was mystery meat lunch today (not the norm at our house) and as you can see while Jozalyn has finished hers, she is now eyeing her brothers, hot dog.

TOY STORY Halloween (Hulet version)

Jesse the Yodeling cowgirl

Buzz Lightyear

Jesse, Bo Peep, Buzz and Woody!

Happy Halloween! It has been a busy week, sick and all. We first went to the ward trunk or treat, where after awarding best costume prizes, then best carved pumpkins, drum roll please they awarded the best overall costume for the grand prize....the Brett and Jen Hulet toy story family. Okay so not that that is super cool, but I do get bragging rights. It helps make all of the effort worth it! Big thanks to my wonderful mother-in-law, who saved the day after I was not able to find a Jesse costume for Joz, I simply sent her a picture and she made her a costume. It was perfect! We then went to the downtown Ypsilanti trick or treating on Thursday night. Then Friday morning Brett had off and so we went to the downtown Ann Arbor trick or treating parade, where we trick or treated to the local merchants! That night we had a party at our friends house, the Dewey's, that was lots of fun, thanks guys for hosting such fabulouslness!

What a fun holiday, Brax was just so excited whenever we would get in our costumes. He would continuously bring us our costumes and we were never know by our real names it was only Bo Peep, Woody and Jesse. Best of all we also went trick or treating at the dental school and whenever any of the gals would ask his name is was never Braxton, it was only Buzz lightyear, to infinity and beyond!

Cold season hits the Hulet house

First it was Jozalyn that had a fever....then she was fine I just chalked it up to teething! Then Brax got sick he had a fever, cough, stuffed up the works. I took them both to the doctor and of course they both had fevers when their temp was taken and the doc still says the infamous viral infection and there is nothing that can be done. I swear if another doctor tells me that I am going to scream, oh well better safe than sorry. Not to mention that my son decided he was sick enough to down a half a bottle of cold medicine, while he was supposed to be napping! Luckily I caught him before he had the whole bottle. Good times, thanks to poison control and a nurse he was fine! Now that Brax is getting better, I have it and Jozalyn now has a cough and runny nose. Their is no time to be sick! Then I am looking so forward to Brett finally coming home last night, and alas I have to pack the sick crew up and go pick him up only to find that he is now sick. For reals. So sorry for being lame and not posting and all of the other things I have had to avoid this week, including pre-school!

FALL WITH GRAMMIE & GRANDPA

Sidelined

Brax and I had the chance to go down on the field until kick off of our last home game. It was pretty sweet. Dave Schoonover used to play for Michigan before he started Dental School and it sure has made our time here more exciting, not to mention the front row ticket action he got us this year. I guess it pays to have friends with connections.

PISTONS!

My parents were in town and luckily I had got Pistons tickets for when they were here! It was great we had great seats a few up from the floor. It was little loud for Joz, but Brax and the rest of us had a ball. There is just something about the atmosphere and eating the mystery meat hotdogs, soft pretzels, nachos, and pizza that is so gratifying!

By the bay...

We went to the beautiful Traverse city and spent our time on the bay of Lake Michigan. Braxton was in heaven as the combo of water and sand is his favorite! I think I speak for all of my family when I say that. We ventured up to Sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore, and did the infamous dune climb. This made me realize just how out of shape I truly am. Brett had Jozalyn on his back, Braxton went full speed, and I was the one needing a break! There was also access to the lake there, so we had Friday, Saturday and Sunday full of sand and water! We also took the scenic route home, and the colors are breathtaking. It is about a 4 1/2 hour drive to Traverse city then another 45 minutes to the dunes, so worth it!

An "incredible," Disney adventure in Detroit

We went to Disney on Ice the Incredibles version and it so sooooooo much fun! It was at the palace where the Pistons play, just so you will understand where we were sitting, it would be where the pistons bench would be except for they added chairs there, so we were right on the ice, AA row 1. Here is the real quick kicker, because I bought those seats, they gave us FREE pistons tickets and it just so happens that my parents will be here for it, so we got six free tickets! Anyway, so the characters would come over and talk to Braxton, he was in heaven I almost had to have a paper bag there for hyperventalation! It was totally geared towards boys was the weird part bascically the premise of the story was the incredibles going to disneyland and sydrome (the bad guy) captured mickey and minnie. So each character came out in there respectve parts of disneyland, Baloo from the junglebook (another of his favorites), and BUZZ LIGHTYEAR came from the ceiling with rockets on his skates, (if you could have seen his face!!!) Of course Mickey and Minnnie and all of their friends and there was Alice in wonderland and Cinderella and Snow white, but they were hardly there. It was sad to see all of the little girls all dressed up and hardly any princesses'. We of course caved in and bought more incredibles stuff than we should have but hey we won't get that opportunity again! So hope you enjoy the pics!