Firsts

James is almost 9 months old and reaching many many milestones. It is crazy to see how much he has grown. I feel like he was born yesterday until I try to carry him around a store while I am shopping. Talk about heavy.
I am loving his personality especially the way he jabbers, jabbers, and jabbers. He is always smiling and still very laid back.
Here are a few pictures of some of his first. On just one day he crawled up the stairs, pulled himself up on furniture, and was hiding under his blankets.

He pulled himself up at the bottom stair, so I went over to help him up the rest of the stairs then put him back on the floor with his toys thinking he would forget about it and I went into the kitchen. When I turned around he was half way up the stairs and I took a picture. So cute. We now put the gate up.

James is pulling himself up on everything. Today he even got a little daring and let go of the couch for just a second. He fell on his bottom, and then got right back up again

James loves this toy. If you push the different instruments it makes that particular sound and then is can also play random music. His new thing is to stand up and dance. It is so much fun to watch.

He is now crawling all over the place. I can barely keep up. I difinitely have to keep the house cleaner so his knees and hands don't get black.

This is the first time James rode in the shopping cart. He loved it.

Dinner Calendar

I have decided to do a dinner calendar for my family in an attempt to save money and time. Usually when I am working my wonderful husband makes me something amazing and yummy to take to work. On Sunday we usually either go to my sister in laws home to eat (thank-you, thank-you, thank-you) or I try to cook something healthy for after church. Either way we usually eat at least four good meals a week. But, then there are those days when the last thing I want to do is cook dinner (more often lately than not) or it comes down to dinner time and neither one of knows what we want and then it gets later and we end up eating at Wendy's or something.
So, hopefully a dinner plan will elleviate some of the stress and hassle of figuring out what to do for dinner every night. I have gotten some great ideas for quick, easy, and healthy meals from my friend at work. If anyone else has some good meals to share I would love all the help I can get.

Locking my blog

Because of all the horror stories of weirdo people getting on blogs and stealing information ect. we are going to lock this blog.
Please send me your email address. You can either leave it here on our blog or send it to my email. ckjeternalfamily@yahoo.com
Thanks

James 8 Months

James has officially said his first word....."Mama, Mama"

It is the cutest thing ever. I love it!

James is sitting up on his own. He is also army crawling all over the place. He gets faster every day. He almost has regular crawling down but finds it faster to army crawl. The other day he sat up by himself from the crawling position.
This is his first truck. He pushes it all over the floor.
He loves to sit up with his dad. They play all night long when I am at work. J/K. They only play most of the night.

My LIfe at the Moment

1. Cloyd is a Private Pilot

He has passed all his requierements and Stage Exams and can officially fly an airplane, and anyone else that pays half, by himself. He has now started the "Instrument" portion on his schooling and is really enjoying the simulator. Congratulations, I am so proud of you.

A little R &R with James

2. Broke my Tailbone

This last Saturday I was walking down the stairs with James and slipped right onto my tailbone. Ouch!! Luckily I broke the fall and James was fine, in fact he didn't even cry. Scary. I thought I would be fine to go to work that night. I actually got all the way there and could barely get out of the car. The charge nurse, Mickie, saw me and sent me home. Probably a good idea since I could barely move. The next day I hurt worse. My ribs are killing me as well. I think James must have landed on my ribs. Needless to say I am hurting. I can't sit I can't walk I can't stand. Hopefully it goes away soon

3. Grandma Morgan passed away

Cloyd's last grandma passed away this last week. We have to go to Kanab this week for the funeral. She was an amazing lady. It was fun to listen to her life stories, she did so many awesome things and lived in some neat places. Even the last few years of her life she was working out at the gym and driving up to Alton almost every day. She was a fine lady and I am so blessed to have been able to know her.

4. Read Breaking Dawn

I loved it. I think I like her other 3 books better, but this one was still very good. The day after it came out Cloyd went grocery shopping and surprised me by buying me one. I was going to buy it after I read the others again, but once I got I started reading and was done in 5 days. It was great.

5. James is growing and learing like a weed

He changes every day. He rolls every where now. I can put him down and the next thing I know he is clear across the floor. I love him

Study Study Study

The next couple of weeks are pretty big study weeks for Cloyd. He is finally ready to take his final exams for his Private License. Tomorrow he will meet with Micki (I think she is the head of the flight dpt) to do his "Stage 3 Exam" and then next Wednesday he will meet with an official FAA guy for his "Final Check Ride". Yeah!!
After he gets his private license he can then start flying for his commercial license. He is so excited and I am so happy for him, he has worked so hard.
It means a lot more solo flying and more cross country long distance flying for him. Maybe he will fly down to Kanab one of these times. His flight instructor flies all over the place with his other students. I guess we will see all the fun and exciting places he gets to fly over the coming months.

James is doing well. He is rolling all over the place, and occasionally at night I will find that he has rolled onto his stomach. He is growing like a weed and I swear changes every day. Lately he has been extremely cuddly, I love it.

Pictures

Here are a few pictures of our family and of James

James and Shauna at the family reunion in Alton, he was so tired.

James with Grandma Jones at the park

James at the parade, he wasn't to interested in it yet, although he thought the fire trucks were pretty cool