someone having a competition to determine who will be the best man in his wedding? Only my brother!!! Here is a link to the website my brother, Billy, created for his "Best Man Olympics" in case you're interested:
Billy's Best Man Olympics
My the best man win!
Ok, so Caellum turned one on January 15th, and here is a pic of his actual birthday: 
We met family at Chick-fil-a to have cake and let the kids play! This is a pic of Caellum after we sang to him. He LOVED eating his cake...he's definitely gonna have a sweet tooth like his mommy and daddy! 
This is one of his professional pics that we had taken. The poor little guy had an ear infection (which I found out the day after this photo was taken)!
While we were in Cincinnati, Caellum started walking...about a week before his first birthday. He's getting good now, and mommy is in trouble!!! Pretty soon, he's gonna be running one way, and Ty will be running the other...yikes!!! Here are some pics of our trip back to Cincy: 
Cousins Maddie and Caellum 
Cousins Ellie, Gabby, Ty, and Caellum 
Brotherly Love
So we have been back home for a couple weeks now, and are having lovely weather here! Snow, snow, snow! I bundled the boys up and took them outside for a short while to play. It was Caellum's first time in the snow, and he LOVED it! I have never seen a baby love the snow so much! He couldn't walk very well because he was so bundled up (like the kid in the Christmas Story movie, lol) so he would just crawl through the snow smiling and giggling...it was too cute! 
The boys playing in the snow!
This week has been a bit rough. Both boys are sick, poor Caellum has an ear infection, and Ty has been randomly "puking"...sorry to be so graphic, but that's what he calls it, lol! Hopefully they'll start feeling better soon, and we can get "back to normal." Other than that, we are doing great! We have been able to talk to Josh pretty frequently, and I praise God for that! Josh's Aunt Kathy bought me an amazing book, called Faith Deployed, and it has been a tremendous comfort, and source of strength to me. Thank you, Kathy, for thinking of us, and being so supportive. And thank you for sending me such an awesome book...it will definitely help me get through this year! We love you! I am truly thankful to everyone for their love, support, well wishes, and prayers that have been sent our way. When Josh and I do get to talk, we talk about how blessed we are to have all this support when we need it the most. Thank you all, for everything, from the bottom of our hearts!
Here's a video of Caellum in the snow:
Here's a video of Caellum walking:
I am a day late on this post, but our baby boy turned 1 yesterday! We can't believe he is already one!!! Where did the year go? It went fast with Ty, but my oh my, it flew by with Caellum! We celebrated his birthday back in December before Josh left, but we did have a small get together with our family yesterday as well. When we get home, I will post pics of his big day.
HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, CAELLUM! We love you!
I Do!
My brother, Billy (AKA Bubby, as Ty and I affectionately call him), and sister-to-be Kelly's wedding blog! Check it out...I added it to our blog list!
Update on Josh:
He made it to his new home for the next year. He is finally getting settled in and is doing really well. We have been able to talk a little bit, and he is in the process of getting personal internet set up. Once he gets that set up, we will be able to skype and email much more frequently. All is well with him so far!
As for me and the boys, we are visiting our family up in Cincinnati for a bit. I will post pictures from our visit when we get back home. Thanks for all your prayers, well wishes, and support!
Well, we made it through a week and two days...yay! We are doing pretty good. Ty definitely knows what's going on, and if you ask him he says, "Daddy go bye-bye for awhile." Heartbreaking, but he is doing good despite missing his daddy. Both boys are a bit under the weather with fevers and congestion, which makes things a bit more trying for mommy, but we are doing really well despite it all. Josh has finally made it to his "home" for the next year, and seems to be doing well too. Thank God for modern day technology...we have been able to skype a few times, and he has emailed me quite a bit. I have no idea how people made it through deployments back in WWII when they were gone for multiple years and were lucky if written letters even made it to their destination! Thanks to everyone for your prayers and support...they mean the world to us!
So, let me catch you up on how we spent our Christmas before we had to say goodbye to Josh. We went to Cincinnati to celebrate Christmas early the weekend of the 10th. The boys got spoiled rotten by the family! We also celebrated Caellum's 1st birthday that weekend (a month early, since Josh wasn't going to be here for it). Here are some pics:
Best Buds!
Loving his new Bengals gear!
Caellum loving the doggie's bed?!
The girls posing in the tutus that Aunt Lisa made
Ty tearing into a gift!
Daddy and his boys!
Celebrating Caellum's first birthday:
Superman cake made by mommy
This kid LOVES cake!
Then on Christmas, we spent some good, quality time...just the four of us...at home, since we knew Josh would be leaving just a few days after Christmas. Here are some pics of our Christmas:
Ty and Caellum's favorite present from Santa!
Opening gifts with daddy
The four of us on Christmas Eve
We moved Ty into his very own big boy bed! A Lightening McQueen race car bed! He loves it, and has done so well in it so far!
Big Boy Bed!
