3. Wonderful parents who love and support me always

4. The great family I married into, and all the fun we have.

5. The Church. Need I say more?

6. Soldiers. and their families.

7. The ability to spend everyday with my little guy.

8. Wonderful friends who I can text all day, or meet up with at the park.

9. Food on the table every night, roof over my head, and a hot shower.

10. modern technology so we can be close to friends and family near and far.

grateful day one and two

I am going to jump on the bandwagon, and hopefully post everyday something I am grateful for. Number one and two are much two of the three favorite menfolk in my life, Kristofer and Wesley. They make me happy and smile tons each and every single day.

13 Months

Well Mr. Wesley,

You do something new everyday! It's absolutely amazing. New milestones constantly, he always has us smiling and laughing. It's so fascinating to sit and watch him, how he does things, what makes him smile and laugh, and his reaction to new things.

1. you walk all over the place, more walking than crawling these days

2. you love the fish and go up and talk and kiss him.

3. Mandarin oranges are your favorite fruit now. you eat them every morning with your breakfast.

4. you love to give kisses and blow kisses.

5. you can make the sounds of a dog, cow, chicken, monkey, and a duck.

6. you give me hugs and kisses all day long, you like to sit on my lap and hug my neck and kiss my cheek

7. when you are tired or falling asleep and someone is holding you, you play with their hair.

8. you have become a little more picky with food, and if you don't like it you throw it on the ground.

9. you can say apple, grandma, mama, dada, hot, shoe, teeth, eyes, hi, juice, up, out, keys, and itsy bitsy spider.

10. i made a little rice sensory bucket for you, and you love to play in it.

11. still absolutely love books, you can flip through them forever.

12. you ate m&ms for the first time and loved them.

13. you love to empty out drawers all the time, you like to dig through your dads bottom drawer and find some under armor pants. once you find them you rub them on your face and then roll around on the ground with them.

14. we built you a bear at build a bear and you absolutely love it. you always give it hugs and kisses.

15. love to pull blankets or pillows of the couches and sit or lay on them.

16. down to one nap a day for about 2 and half hours.

17. you enjoy playing with cars or anything with wheels.

we love to watch you learn and grow. we try to teach you new things constantly. we love you so much.

love, mom and dad

Please let me go outside!

Wesley loves to be outside. He constantly WALKS! (he is a walking machine these days) to the door and waves and says hi. This means take me outside now! We go outside quite a few times a day, not as often now that it is getting colder. If he is fussy, outside we go. Crying, take him outside and it instantly stops. If someone goes outside without him, big mistake- a tantrum is sure to follow shortly. He loves to take my parents dog outside when we are there, if you forget him, he will not forgive you. It's great that he loves to be outdoors, don't get me wrong. But sometimes he is a little extreme. So a few times a week we go for walks, or to the park, wherever he can get some of that nice sweet fresh air.

A few weeks ago, it was a whole driggers family affair to the park. Wesley loved it. He went down the slide for the first time, he's still not certain about that. He watched the kids run around and took quite a few steps himself. He especially enjoyed having his dad around at the park, because we usually go while he is at work.

Tate Farms

Tate Farms is the place to go in the fall around here. I had been wanting to go, but was willing to pay for it. ( I am super cheap) My sister got a new job, and her new company was going there for a work party. She so kindly invited Wesley and I to come along and be her dates. Wesley was kind of sick with a cold, so he wasn't super happy. But we still enjoyed our time.

We were able to see the animals, and Wesley could make most of the animal noises. He loved to pet the little rabbits. He would stick his hand out real quick, touch it ever so softly, pull back, and grin real big. The little calf also got super close to the fence when he was peaking over, he wasn't to sure about that.



There were some fun things for Wesley to crawl around on, including a tractor, some tires, and of course we had to go on a hay ride. It was dark, and I wasn't too sure how he would do, but he enjoyed it. I took some little flashlights for him to play with, and it worked. We quickly picked a pumpkin and got back on the trailer. It was a little too cold for us to be out. As soon as the tractor started pulling us back from the patch, wesley was dead asleep. It was very fun, and I definitely think it will be worth the money next year.

Up up and away!

Over a month ago (sad i know) we went to the space and rocket centers with some of our best friends that came up from Tuscaloosa, the Mowry's. They have a little girl that's just a few months younger than Wesley, we served with them in Greensboro, they so graciously let us stay with them everytime we go to to Tuscaloosa, and know just about everything Kris and I want to learn. We always learn something new with them. It's been a blast.

But while they were here we took them to the Space and Rocket Center. Kristofer hadn't really been except for a few weeks before that when his work party was held there. So we wandered around, learned a few things, and Matt and Ashley flew a simulator. Here's a few pictures to document the trip.