Sunday, January 25, 2009

With ice?




We went to the annual ice festival in plymouth this weekend, after Brett had volunteered at the free dental clinic and after I tackled another primary activity, it was a busy, but fun day! The first exhibit we came to made it all worth it, it was carvings of all of the Kung Fu Panda characters, we were done after that mostly because Brax didn't want to see anything else! It was awesome. The whole park was full of these ice carvers. They are given a block of ice and told what to carve for the competition and they just did it, it is amazing the detail and time it takes. Here are some pics of our cold outing.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

My organized Michigan cheerleader/drummer




Jozalyn loves to play with the Wii Guitar Hero dumsticks, it is really funny, she is a pro. And you will notice her little cheerleader (not encouraging anything in that area) go blue outfit too. So cute! She also (thanks to her brother) has discovered the lazy susan with canned goods in it and loves to help me organize (or rather unorganize) it! She is a joy!

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Frosting first

BEFORE

During, "want some?"

After!The highly anticipated one year old cake devouring was tons of fun, although she was surprisingly very dainty. She only picked the frosting off and them threw the cake part on the floor, once all of the frosting was gone, wherever it went, she was pretty much done. She loved her gifts and definitely was treated like a princess today! Happy b-day to my angel girl!


Saturday, January 10, 2009

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY BIG GIRL!










I cannot believe a year ago today our little angel joined our family! She weighed in at 7.8 and was 20 inches, she was born at 4:26 p.m. and was a charmer from the start! She is so wonderful, we love her so very much and are truly blessed to have her in our life! Hard to imagine that she is so big now, walking, talking and her latest biting her brother (which most of the time he deserves). She is eating all table foods, drinking from her sippy and sitting in a booster and the best part her carseat is turned around, yipee! She loves to sit on the dishwasher door when it is down, I swear every time she hears me unloading, she is there in a matter of seconds. She does the cutest little dance with any music, and loves to play her drums. She is such a happy pleasant babe! Here are some pics from a year ago and more to come after the party!



Friday, January 9, 2009

Daddy's Hand

Okay so I just had to write a little post to give huge props to my husband. I am continually impressed with him in so many aspects of his life, but this one takes the cake. So I was walking in the door from doing a little birthday shopping when I come in bags in hand to find my two kids on the couch playing, with a bag of goldfish completely dumped out all over the couch, and Brett is standing there with the vacuum ready to clean it up and just then...I scream, "Brett...Jozalyn," pointing at her as she was on her way down backwards off of the couch. Brett, with his catlike reflexes jumps, and does a sort of dive roll thing and catches the back of her head with his hand (as an important side note she was on the opposite end of the couch). She is safe, only by the good grace of Daddy's hand. While I am still standing there in shock, and then Brax (who has been obsessively watching Kung Fu Panda) says, "Wow Dad that was some awesome Kung Fu."
We are so lucky to have such a great Daddy! Thanks for saving the day Kung Fu Panda.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Christmas morning, oranges in AZ and Ice skating

The whole Hulet clan (minus the working girl Christina) went ice skating in Arizona (from front Christian, Nicole, Spencer, Jill Avery, Brax, Ben, Stephanie, and Brett and I in the back)! Of course Brett's Mom and Dad are taking the photo, because they were watching Joz and Logan. It was great fun, Joz really liked it, but Brax was another story.

Our two kiddos on Christmas morn were so cute in their matching pj's and after much anticipation the presents were opened and played with, we all enjoyed our gifts and festivities. Jozalyn also discoverd the piano and so we now have a future pianist in our family.
Also, one of the great things about AZ is that there is a park just a bit from Brett's folks house so we always walk there often it seems, but right from the orange tree come the sweetest oranges that we love to pick! You can see both kids enjoy this treat!
Thanks for a great time and it was so fun to see everyone we love and miss you all!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

The Polar Express




We road the Polar Express complete with snow in Arizona! It was magical, we road for about a hour on an authetic 1800's train complete with hot chocolate and cookies served by Santa's elf! As we road the story of the Polar Express was read from a book and over the speaker system while the employees roamed up and down the isles showing the kids the pictures. We arrived at the north pole and on the way back to the train station the one and only Santa made his appearance on each train car. He came to our car and Brax was a little freaked, but then he handed each child a bell from his sleigh! It was so great! We then stayed in Flagstaff and went back to Phoenix the next day! A memory we will not forget.