*** Josiah's Family Weekend ***

This weekend was absolutely amazing! It was so good to see Siah and emotional too. The moment I saw him my eyes filled with tears- as well as everyone elses' too. He looks so good and we are all so proud of him!! We had a great weekend together too with the family! Siah actually got to stay the night with us all- so we got to be with him from 10am on Saturday until 5pm on Sunday. It was so hard to tell him bye- seeing him tell Marlana and Jasmine goodbye was the saddest thing and I fought back so many tears. I can't ever imagine telling Noah and Eli bye like that and never want to imagine it... so terribly sad. Jasmine was so content in his arms when she saw him on Saturday and before he left Sunday too! She would just stare at him and smile so much... it was breath taking to see that- she is such a sweet lil girl and he is a good Daddy for sure. We are soooo proud of you Josiah!!! He graduates from training on Oct 1, 2010 and then he starts Airbone training Oct 4 and goes through that for 3 weeks and then graduates from that! Then he has a 10 or 12 day leave to go home and then will find out where he is stationed. Right now it is Germany and Jasmine and Marlana are going with- but with him being accepted into Airborne school it may change... so we will have to wait and hear! Congrats to Josiah- you are a very strong man and we are so proud of you! You look great and we think of you every single day!

Eli was absolutely adorable with Jasmine this weekend too! I can't even begin to explain how much more excited I am for Zacary to be born after this weekend. I was so excited to begin with and now it is just amazing!!!! He would kiss her and hug her and was soooo gentle around her! He'd get on the floor with her and play and then show her his Elmo DVD's and point to Elmo and say "Elmo Elmo" like he was trying to teach her :] My heart was a big ole mush- it was sooooo adorable! We took them swimming together also, and anytime I had Jasmine Eli would love to help me do things with her. He also sat on my lap and helped me feed her!!! He just loves her so much and was so much fun to watch him! Jasmine also watches Eli soooo much!!! She definitely knows who her lil cousin is! She is such a sweet girl and I love her soooo much... it was so good to see her and the family this weekend for sure! We had a wonderful time :] Eli was so funny too- I was holding Jasmine one last time before they left and she started gettin fussy bc she wasn't feelin good so I handed her to Marlana and Eli ran to me with a fake cry hahaha- he put his head on my shoulder and then just hugged me and fake cried! It was so darn cute and so precious how he wanted to the same attention from me too! He is gunna be a wonderful big brother and no worries lil man- I will give you the same attention allllllways without any doubts!!! We already have also ordered him a bigger basketball hoop he can use for when baby is born to spoil him hehe :] I CAN'T WAIT to watch my sweet boys grow up together- and Eli you are soooo wonderful!!!!! I just love the absolute snot out of you lil man :]

Congrats once again to Josiah!!!!!! I have some pics to post when we first saw him and then Noah's Mom has even more since I was a slacker with my camera haha! I tend to do that when I am around Noah's Mom bc she takes soooo many pics so I just get them from her :] Eli was soooo tired in the pics I have posted... I had to wake him 2 hours earlier then he gets up to leave for the day and so I let him have his binky more than often for the day and he looks like he is about to fall asleep in these pics ha! He was a very good boy- so so good and did wonderful. He even gave Josiah a hug and high five when we told him goodbye- awww. Miss you Siah and hopefully see you Oct 1st at your graduation.... love you bro.