This past week our family was so kindly greeted by the stomach flu. It started with me going into E's room Tuesday morning to find him covered in puke. The strange thing is he didn't cry for me at all during the night when he got sick. After that he was just fine. Then come Wednesday night I was feeling pretty lousy. Sure enough, I got it and threw up about every hour all night long. It is just a miserable feeling, isn't it? The next day I went to the Doc. and got on some anti-nausea meds. I'm feeling much better now, but it sure kicked my booty. I was so weak until just today. This nasty little sucker made it to both of the kids I watch, and their parents. :( I just talked to Tony and he isn't feeling so hot himself. I'm praying for him.

So while recuperating from all of that, today I notice Ezra's two front teeth are slightly chipped. Wonderful. So now I'll be deciding what to do about that. Joy oh joy. How do people raise kids without the Lord. It is NOT a walk in the park. Although I looove my baby boy!!

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Here he is in deep concentration while watching a

Baby Einstein DVD.

He looks bored out of his mind if you ask me.

Now he's showing some interest.

Drumroll... here is the cutie mid- "MOO".

Wishing a happy b-day to Dad2

Happy Birthday to YOU

Happy Birthday to YOU

Happy Birthday dear Dad TWOOO

Happy Birthday to YOU!!!

And many more...

Love ya and can't wait to see you!!

What's been going on ??

Saturday, OCTOBER 18th-

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY!

I love you as my husband ;)
*We went on a birthday date to The Melting Pot for dinner/dessert.

The dessert was by far the best part. I LOVED it and was like a giddy little child.

Sunday, OCTOBER 19th-

*Go to church.

*Celebrate Tony's b-day at my Mom's. We have YUMMY Chinese food and cake.

*Take an awesome trip to the pumpkin patch.

Ayden Ray Jepsen

born: October 16th

weight: 6 lbs 5 ounces

height: 19 inches

One of my very best (and longest) friends, Grace, had her precious

baby boy yesterday. Congrats to the proud parents Darren and Grace!!

In the spirit of Halloween...

Be a good pumpkin...

Not a bad one..

A woman was asked by a co-worker,'What is it like to be a Christian?' The co-worker replied, 'It is like being a pumpkin.' God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, and greed. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see.'

This cute story was in an e-mail I received today. It fits perfectly with the message I heard Joyce Meyer give this morning. She was talking with different people about how we need to let the love of God be evident in our daily life. We don't need to force everyone into saying the sinner's prayer, but instead we need to show them how our life has been changed by the Lord. It's pretty simple, but also very inspiring. Maybe God is trying to teach me something by the illuminated pumpkins this season.

The Factory

This week end we took a trip to TheFactory in downtown Franklin. It was really fun! We ate at a cute restaurant, and Ez was really good!

Ez on the ride up. Guess he got a little bored.

My highlight: Sitting with my boys in this

awesome chair!

RANDOM things and bye bye miss american.. acura

Ez pic

It's crazy how much he's looking like Tony these days. I'm seeing it more and more.. they were sitting by eachother the other night eating.. and eyes were the same.. mouths moved the

same way, same expressions. Just CRAZY. And how cute is Tony..

he thinks him and Ezra and JUST the same.. like everything about how

Ez is or acts, somehow relates to Tony and his childhood.

Example:

Nicole: Ezra LOVES playing in his room.

Tony: Yeah, I really loved playing in my room too when I was little.

In other news..the Acura is no longer with us. It had been having SO many issues, so we finally sold it two days ago. It's no biggy since I'm home 5 days a week watching the kiddos. Plus the Acura rarely started, so it's not like it did us much good. Tony is planning on getting a motorcycle after winter is over. I'm not that FOND of the idea, but God will protect him.

OK people.. whoopsie daisy.. so after the silly numbering job I did on the last post was brought to my attention, I am officially announcing that Alison Christine Ennis is taking over the role of BLOG EDITOR. I'm just not focused enough to pay attention to minor details like keeping with my numbering system. I sit at the comp and try to make my brain and fingers work as fast as possible. Hope you all understand and just laugh at me. NOT because I'm a LITTLE slow.. but because I am a crazy overworked Mother. :)

PS- I hate blogger!!!