Our Loving Family

Today was a day full of hard work, patience, sun burns, family, and the most important thing of all, LOVE. My family always goes above and beyond for us, and we greatly appreciate it!! I was so deeply touched today that my Uncle Mark, and my cousins Matt and Robbie drove all the way out the Shelbyville to help Curtis put up the new swingset that Noah got as an early birthday present from both sets of his Grandparents (his mamaw, papaw, Nana & Pop)! It took up their entire Saturday, but they all were so sweet about it and didn't complain once. I always thank God for my family, but I will send an extra thank you to him tonight! My family has shown me the true meaning of Love and putting someone else before themself. I know that all of them could've been doing something else on a Saturday that would've been a lot more fun & relaxing. Instead they chose to help do something for my son!! That is so amazing to me that it just makes me so happy!! I will never be able to say thank you enough for them doing this for Noah, but I hope that they know we greatly appreciate their generosity:) We love you all!!

After 8 hours of hard work on putting together the swingset, they had the finished product. Let me just say, it was well worth the wait. All the guys did an awesome job!! We had one very Happy little boy getting to swing and slide:) He still has a while before he will learn to climb up the rock wall, but he'll eventually get it. He has already shown us that he is going to be an outside kid, but now we're never going to get him to want to come inside in the evenings or on the weekends! I love it, because I want him to enjoy being outside and active. The swingset looks great and we can't wait until Noah's Nana and Pop come here to visit us so they can see it in person. We have posted pictures so you can see it to hold you over until your next visit. We hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed taking them for you:)




Not only did the guys come out here to visit us, but we also got to see my Aunt Linda, Aunt Pam, my cousin Jenny (Matt's wife) and my soon to be cousin Mallori (Robbie's fiance). They helped me entertain Noah while the men were hard at work. Although I must say that Noah was a busy little bee too. He got his play tool set that they brought for him today and he worked on fixing our gate for daddy while they worked on the swingset as you can see in one of the pictures.

It was a nice visit of just hanging out and having a good time. It was nice spending time with everyone:) I also want to send a special thank you to Robbie and Mallori for Noah's birthday present they gave him today since they won't be able to make it to his birthday party this year. We will miss them greatly, but we were so glad to spend time with them today! Noah loves the gift you got him, and he played with it all night after we made him come inside. They also made him these delicious cookie monster cupcakes that were adorable:) Once again.... Love is the only word I can thank of! Thank you so very much for thinking of my son that way. It means the world to me and Curtis:)

I hope everyone was as Blessed today as my family was. Noah is too young to understand what happened today, but I took lots of pictures so I can show him when he gets older how loved he is. Thank you all so much and we can't wait until we can repay the favor one day! We hope everyone has a great weekend and we will post more pictures soon.

Easter 2011

We hope that everyone had a very Happy Easter this year!! We had a good one, but we missed Curtis being home with us very badly. He was away on Army Duty this year, so it wasn't the same for us this year missing a very important part of our family, but we did the best we could while he was gone. It's just not the same looking at the picture of me and Noah getting ready to leave for Church, because Curtis wasn't in it with us, but we pray that he will be home next year on Easter day with us:)

This year was a big year for Noah, because he was in his first performance at Church! His Sunday School class got to sing (or just shake their shakers that they made for the ones who can't talk yet, like Noah) to a couple of songs at the end of Church Service at Christ Community Church in Shelbyville!! They all did great and looked adorable during their performance:)It's always the best feeling when you see children praising our Lord!





We also went to my Aunt Linda and Uncle Mark's house this year for our Family Easter celebration:) We had a great time, and Noah had a blast like usual going over to their house. My Uncle Mark has an outdoor train track set up in his back yard that is awesome, and of course Noah loves that! To top it all off... he has a Thomas the Tank Engine train that he runs on his track, so Noah loves seeing that:) He was able to see the Thomas Train for a little bit in between Rain showers. Noah also experienced his first family Easter egg hunt this year! It was a bitter sweet moment, because it was exciting being his first one, but sad because his two cousins Saylor and Bella weren't able to be there to hunt the eggs with him this year. Bella was sick so they weren't able to come over, but I hope they know they were all greatly missed. We look forward to having them back with us for our family egg hunt next year:) We had to hold the egg hunt inside this year since it was raining, but Noah still had a blast! He kept calling them "balls" instead of eggs, but that made it even more adorable to me:) A big thank you to my cousin Robbie for helping Noah during the egg hunt:)

I would also like to say thank you to my Aunt Barbara, Uncle Kenny, cousin Amanda and her husband Jason for the Easter gifts they got Noah! That was very sweet of you all to think of him during this time, and we are greatly appreciative of the thought. We also had a great time at our Aunt Linda's house dying the Easter eggs for the egg hunt on Saturday:) It makes me feel so Blessed to have family like I do! I love you all:)

Now for an update on the Moss family... As some of you may know, we have all been sick since Monday. I didn't go into work on Monday because I didn't feel well at all, and then I got a call from Noah's daycare telling me he was throwing up. I went and picked him up, and he was sick to his stomach all day, so it was not pretty here:( I didn't get to go to the Doctor as planned, because as all mommies know, the kiddos always come first:) Curtis came home Monday evening and he went straight to the Dr. becuase he wasn't feeling well either. It turns out he had strep throat! Noah and I both went to the Doctor yesterday. Noah has had the stomach virus, and strep throat also:( He is finally on the road to recovery now, which I'm very relieved about. As a mommy, you never want to see your little one sick like that at all. I have a bad case of sinusitis causing my neck to hurt really bad ( I thought it was a bad stiff neck, but that wasn't the case), bronchitis, and the beginning of strep throat. Needless to say, we are all on anitbiotics here. Have you ever heard the saying, "When it Rains It Pours"?, well that is true for us right now in more than 1 way! Noah will be able to return to daycare tomorrow, and I'm going to attempt to go back to work as well. We hope this is our last round of sicknesses in our household for a while!

We hope everyone is surviving all this rain and the storms! Hopefully they will be coming to an end soon. Here are a few pictures as I put this blog to an end of Christmas with the Moss family! I know they are very old, but we want the Moss family to know we love you all and miss you all very much.

We're Back!!

I know that it's been over 5 months since we were on here, and I sincerely apologize to everyone! The only excuse I have is that we were using all our time to focus on our fun filled toddler who wants all of our attention 24/7:)

We are back now and better than ever! The Moss family is doing great and fully re-charged. Curtis and I re-devoted our life to Jesus Christ by getting re-baptized a couple of weeks ago to become members of our wonderful New Church (Christ Community Church of Shelbyville)! This was just what we needed, and we are very Blessed to have all the friends we do that helped support us in our decision at Church! A very big thank you goes out to the Webb Family at CCC for helping us decide what the next step in our faith was:) God Bless them!!

Now on to what everyone really cares about... Noah Timothy Moss!! He is now 22 month and will be turning 23 months on April 23rd. Can you believe my little baby is going to be 2 years old in May? I know we can't! Here are some things below that have changed with Noah since the last blog we posted. Hope you enjoy:)

1. Noah went completely off his pacifier the weekend after Christmas (19 months old)! He was a true trooper that Mommy and Daddy were very proud of:)

2. He now walks up steps instead of crawing up them and doesn't want anyones help in the process. (Don't worry we walk right behind him in case he falls)

3. He weighed 32 lbs. at his last Doctor's visit and he measures 2' 10".

4. He cries every Doctor visit because of all the shots he has had over the year:(

5. He gets a "Little boy" hair cut now and not a "baby cut"! 6. Usually only takes 1 nap a day now instead of 2. Mommy misses the 2 naps!

7. He still loves his vegetables and eats very good. He also loves Fruit now:) He's not a big meat eater, but we are just happy he likes his fruit and vegetables!!

8. He loves to color

9. His favorite cartoon is "Thomas the Tank Engine"

10. His room has gone from a nursery with the Baby Animals theme to a Big Boy Room with Thomas The Tank Engine!

11. He wears a 2T and 3T in clothes.

12. He has gone up to a size 5 in diapers. I think we are going to try and tackle the whole Potty Training thing this summer some time!! I pray it goes good:)

13. He can say Car, Bye, Daddy, Mommy, Mamaw, Papaw, Pop, Ball, Choo Choo, etc... He still isn't talking, but he says more and more words every week.

14. He can kiss on the lips now instead of leaning in with his forehead like he used to. (it's so cute)

15. He will blow kisses

16. He sleeps all night with no problem in his own bed:)

17. Mommy still rocks him everynight to sleep.

18. He now attends his first Sunday School class!!

19. He loves to play outside

20. He still enjoys bath time:)

Thanksgiving 2010

We hope everyone had a very Happy Thanksgiving this year, because the Moss family sure did! It is our family tradition to go spend Thanksgiving with Curtis' side of the family every year, so like always, we headed to LaCenter, Ky on Thursday morning. After 4 hours on the road, we were very happy to arrive at our destination:) When we arrived we were able to spend some time with Noah's Nana and Pop before the rest of the family arrived. This picture was taken when Noah's Nana was opening her gift from us of a Turkey Platter that says "Nana's Lil' Gobblers" and lists out all her grandkids names on the wings. This was just a little way to let her know that we are always thinking of her!

We had a very good visit with the Moss family, and we always love getting to see everyone. I still didn't get to take as many pictures as I would've liked to, but here are some that I took of our visit. I am very thankful to have joined such a loving family. The one person that we missed a lot this Holiday weekend was our Niece (Noah's cousin), Layken. We normally get to visit with her the Friday after Thanksgiving, but it didn't work out this year. Layken, if you read this blog please know that you were greatly missed and we love you!

Noah got to receive his Christmas gift from his Nana and Pop early this year since we won't be going back to celebrate Christmas with them until the first of January. They got him a Thomas the Train Power Wheels, and he loves it! He loves Thomas and it's the only cartoon he will sit down and watch all the way through every time! It took him a while to get used to riding it, but he loves it now:) His Nana and Pop sure do know how to make him smile!

I would like to say a big thank you to the Moss family for another year of good food and fun family times! We can't wait to see ya'll again in January. Until then we love you and hope you enjoy the pictures.

It's A Girl!!

Today is a very special day for the Moss family, because we got a phone call this evening announcing that my cousin Bobby and his wife Jenni had their baby girl today:) Mommy and baby are both doing great after having their home birth. We are very happy for them, and hope they take in every second of their time together as a new family! Her name is Jordan Patricia Flood, and she is 7lbs and 19". He sent me a picture of her and I want to post it so bad, but I'm not sure if they would want me to post the picture on my blog, so out of respect for them I will just tell you that she is adorable:) She has a head full of black hair and I just want to hold her and give her all kinds of lovin!! The sad part is that they live in California, so I don't know when I will be able to see her in person, so he will have to make sure and send us lots of pictures.

As for us... we are doing good. Curtis passed his PT test this weekend, so we are very proud of him:) I haven't felt all that great this weekend because I have had some sort of chest cold, but I'm getting better each day. The important person is Noah, and he is doing great! He has been very lovable all weekend, so that has made mommy very happy:) He is beginning to try and say words now, today he said dog and train for me. I have been working with him by showing him flash cards that have pictures on them of different items that his Nana and Pop gave him at his Birthday party, and he is trying to say what they are now. He can usually pick them out when I ask him to find them for me, which is very exciting for us. We are very proud of him!!

We hope everyone has a great week and we will post more pictures later this week!

Happy Halloween!

This year is Noah's 2nd Halloween, and he dressed up as a scarecrow. I have to admit that he made the cutest scarecrow that I have ever seen:) We didn't take him trick or treating this year because they had it last night (Saturday night) here in Shelbyville and we didn't realize this until it was too late. Curtis was gone all day because he was working yesterday and he didn't want to miss out on Noah's first trick or treat experience, so we just stayed home and Noah helped me hand out candy to all the other kiddos. We figured it was ok that he didn't go this year since he's still too young to understand what's going on. Next year we will definitely take him trick or treating:)

We started off this Halloween by going to Church! This afternoon we put Noah's costume on him and took him to visit his Great Mamaw and Aunt Pam:) He was very excited to show them his costume, but didn't want to stay in it very long at all. I was able to get a few pictures, but the older Noah gets the harder it gets to snap a shot of him because he's always on the move.

We hope everyone had a Happy Halloween this year. We also hope that Noah's Nana and Pop, Uncle Chris and cousin Layken like the pictures of Noah in his costume. I know ya'll are always checking in to see the pictures, so I made sure that I posted these for you tonight. We love you all!

Looking Cute in my Overalls!

Here is my sweet little boy in his Golf overalls with his name on them:) These were passed down to Noah from a little boy that lives near his Nana and Pop. I figured that Saturday was the perfect day to put them on him since he was playing with his plastic golf clubs and golf balls throughout the morning! I had to post a picture for his Nana to see him in them, because she has been asking me for a while now if he had worn them yet. Here they are Nana looking as cute as can be on him:) Thank you to the family that passed these on from their Noah to our Noah! We promise to take good care of them and maybe be able to pass them on to another Noah one day in another family.

Noah had another very good weekend. He spent the night with his mamaw and papaw on Saturday night, and had a blast spending time with them as usual. He also learned how to drink from a straw! I know this probably seems like a very small task to some people, but as a mommy I am very proud of my little sweetie!!! I just feel like he is learning how to do new things everyday now:) Just tonight while we were grocery shopping at Kroger, I pointed to a puppy on a bag of dog food and he repeated "Puppy" to me as clear as could be. I was so happy that I gave him the biggest hug and was grinning from ear to ear. Even if he won't say anything when anyone else is around, he is starting to say more words around me and that makes me very happy! Me and his daddy are very, very proud of him!

Here is a picture of our little golfer in the making! Will he like golf when he grows up, who knows. We just know that he likes playing with his little plastic clubs and ball for now, so we are just waiting to see. If he is anything like his Daddy, Mommy (I need to get back into the game like I used to when I was younger)Pop, Papaw, Uncle Chris, Cousin Austin and the list goes on and on of family members, then he will mostlikely enjoy the game of golf at some point in time during his life. If he doesn't, then that is ok too!! We will love and support him in any sports or non sports activities that he chooses to participate in. I have to say that he is the cutest darn golfer I have ever seen and his daddy is second in line:) I am very Blessed to have such great boys in my life!

I will leave everyone with this sweet little face to look at:) He was giving mommy a little smile while Papaw was giving him a ride in his Pooh toy that his Nana and Pop got him for his 1st Birthday. He loves this toy!! We hope everyone has a happy week:)