30, still under the hill.....

So Tyler will be 30 years of age on Monday. He has no problem with this whatsoever either. He has embraced it like a man and is actually quite excited about it. I'm not sure why. It just doesn't seem to bother him that his 20's are almost over. I am happy that he is happy about it though. I am giving him a party tomorrow. We have balloons, homemade chocolate chip cookie cake, and some chili ready to celebrate with some friends. This is the first time I have ever had this many people over to our house before and it has been so much fun preparing. I hope it will be a success and that all goes well. If not, I guess there is Griffin to enjoy by everyone if nothing else is very good.
HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY, my dear, sweet husband. Griffin and I love you soooooo much and I am just happy I have another 2 1/2 years of my 20's left. Don't worry, I'll keep you young! ;)

Rock star hair

We think Griffin's hair looks like the lead singer of Googoo Dolls, John Rzenik's hair. Or it's on it's way there. What do you think?

10 months how did you did get here?

Griffin turned 10 months old yesterday. In just two short months he will be 1! I am currently in the process of planning his bday party and am so excited about it. Tyler says that a child's first bday is really just for the mother's enjoyment because the child will not remember it. I will enjoy it and I will mainly because it will be a celebration of God's goodness to us in giving us a year with Griffin. How thankful we are and will be!

- Griffin is almost crawling, getting up on all fours.
- He eats anything and everything, especially if it's something he can feed himself. He loves to feed himself.
- He LOVES Tyler. He is becoming more of a daddy's man. He will call out for Dada all the time and when Tyler gets home he gets super excited and lets Tyler know how happy he is that his dad is home to play.
-He weighs almost 20 lbs.
-He'll raise his arms up in the air real high when we say "Praise Jesus!"
-He can give a high five and a low five.
-He will open his mouth and lean toward us to give us a kiss when we say "KISS!"
-He plays patty cake and loves for me to do the isty bitsy spider with him and eyes, nose, mouth game.
-He loves all his books, but his favorites that he'll sit still and listen to are Fool Moon Rising, Farmer Dillo Paints His Barn, The Very Busy Spider, any animal book, and Most of All Jesus Loves Me.
- He has two teeth on the bottom front. They are so white and pretty! I just love them!
- His hair continues to grow. Tyler says he has rock star hair. I haven't cut it yet still and I'm not planning on it any time soon. (sorry Dad :) )
-He can go from his belly to a sitting position.
- He loves to take two things and knock them together and make noise.

Happy 10 months, Griffin Scott!

Sweet friends

Do you have some friends that just bring so much joy into your life? Ones you know you can depend on no matter what? Ones that can just naturally make you laugh? Ones that are so encouraging and kind that you feel that you don't deserve them as friends at all? Ones that you just can't help but love so much? Well if you don't I hope God blesses you with some soon.
Who are these dear, wonderful, LOST watching friends God has given us? Their names are Amy & Joseph and we are so thankful for them! God has been blessing us (me especially) every week for the last two weeks with their company on Tues. nights. They have been coming over for dinner and to watch LOST with us. I have enjoyed this gathering so much! Tyler and I enjoy their company so so much. They are so funny and some of the kindest people we have ever met. They love Griffin as if he was their own nephew or something too and that is very special to me. Anyways, I just had to blog about them and acknowledge how grateful we are for their friendship. Note: they were also the ones that were with us the night I went into labor with Griffin, so I feel like we have a special bond with them. :) We love y'all, Amy & Joseph! Thank y'all for ministering to us all the time and just being who y'all are. We appreciate y'all more than you know. Can't wait till next Tues!!!! :)

ps. having friends over once a week is such a blessing to me. Being a stay-at-home mom, you can get anti-social to a certain degree, and I just love getting to be so social when I can now. :)

Jesus: The Bridge Between You and Others

Jesus: The Bridge Between You and Others from Tyler Hicks on Vimeo.

This is part 2 of The Bridge Vision series

Isaac

An update on our friend, Isaac, who I mentioned recently in a post, is that he woke up today!!!! Praise God! This has been a prayer for him from so many people for awhile now and God has been so good to make it happen finally in His perfect timing. You can read more about this update on www.isaacgodwin.com . Please continue to pray earnestly for him and his family.

quack! quack!

Mom , why do you always have to give me sugar?

Ducks make me happy!
Gazing at the ducks...
I think I've seen one of those in my books! But this one is moving...good thing Dad's holding me...

Keeping real close to dad...


We took Griffin to the park down the street to see the ducks yesterday since it was warm enough. We're not sure what he thought of them. He just stared at them in wonder. We are always reading him animal books and doing the sounds the animals make and one of them is, of course, the duck. It was neat that he could actually see a real one. So while he was looking at them I was pointing saying "quack! quack!" He just smiled. Some of those ducks are huge and have the fattest necks! I think it's from all that bread they get fed by everyone that goes to visit them. A sweet man and his son gave us some of their bread to throw out to them, so we were able to get one to come up real close. We can't wait to take Griffin to the zoo this summer in Alburqerque (never can spell it right). He will love the giraffes I know. :)