Beach Day!

We went to the beach on Friday. Joey had a ball with his friends, Allie and Garrett. He wasn't very interested in the water touching him once he felt how cold it was. But he loved playing with the other kids' beach toys. Guess its time to buy him his own buckets and shovels now!

This is Allie chasing the birds away.

Garrett showing Joey how its done.

Joey intently watching the seagull that came close to eat the dropped Doritos.

Joey and his beloved juice box!

We are really looking forward to a summer filled with trips to the beach! Joey didn't get sunbured yesterday, but after we got home he did get a little fever and got very clingy. He wanted to be cuddled and held, like he wasn't feeling good, but he didn't want to sleep. Poor little guy. And we were only there a couple hours! Hopefully monday's beach trip will be better! Today, we're off to my graduation! Yay!

Joey around the house

He loves drinking from small straws, like juice box straws.
Just goofing off.

He stopped and posed and smiled for this picture. he knows when the camera is going to flash.

this is his new toy, that helps him walk.

9 months old, and getting more adorable everyday!

napping with daddy.

Our New Portraits!

We had these portraits made April 7th. I'm in the process of getting some mailed out to everyone. If you should get them, and decide you want more, or different poses or sizes, you can actually go online and order them (or tell me and i can order them for you). www.pictureme.com you'll need the pose number. and this information: studio 1298 week 0710 roll 12 customer 019 code 9652

you'll also probably have to register with that site to order from them.

and we only have 9 weeks from the portrait date to reorder through this site. i'm trying to see if i can scan them to walmart.com and print them that way...its cheaper, but not sure about the copyright rules. I'll try it out.

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HOG rally 2007/Outer Banks Bike Week

Okay, I've got so much to post, and so little time! ;-) this post will be about the rally. We went to the Outer Banks (about 4 hours north of Camp Lejeune) for the 2007 NC HOG (harley owners group) Rally. At the same time, the Outer Banks Bike Week was going on, so we actually were there in two separate events. But anyhow, we rushed up on Friday after Earl got off work. He rode the Harley and me and Joey rode in the Durango. We had a lot of fun on saturday. The weather was a bit overcast and sometimes rainy, but not too bad.

Those two shots were out of my rear view mirror, looking at Earl on his bike. He's so cute.

This is out of my front window, following Earl across one of those masive long bridges that takes you to the islands.

Some bikes we saw.

Joey got a tattoo!!! (It's a Geico Gecko with a motorcycle)

Joey and Earl on Sunday, on our ride home. We stopped at McDonalds to let Joey get out of his seat for a little while.

Joey made soooo many friends there. This lady made him giggle giggle giggle. Joey was the only baby we saw there. There were some kids, but no babies. Everyone that saw Joey in his Harley Do-rag and his biker jacket, and Harley "biker baby" t-shirt just LOVED him! He was like a celebrity. Everyone wanted their pictures with him. He had lots of pictures taken of him. We're hoping some will pop up in the biker magazines that Earl gets.

Earl and Joey checking out some bikes.

He had such an eventful day.

Another one of Joey's friends. They tried to get us to buy a $25 leather vest for him... yeah right.

Earl, for some reason, was really excited about having his and Joey's picture taken with this skeleton.

more bikes.

Joey getting lollipops from another one of his friends.

Pink and Purple motocycle we saw there.

Earl, going across one of those bridges again.

this is the back of Earl, sitting on his bike watching other bikes ride by.

these were our neighbors at the cabins we stayed in (at KOA campground). They recognized us when they saw us at the rally later.

Another friend of Joey's.

Happy boy!

Like father like son.


The pin on the right side of Joey's jacket (his right) is a pin the volunteers from the event gave him.

Indian Larry is a motocycle legend. He died a couple years ago. Earl really liked his bikes. (He built bikes).
Joey showing off his tattoo.





It was fun. Glad we went. The next big one is in Sept, in Greenville, SC. We can't wait. Joey will be a walking talking fool by then. ;-)

He's on the move

Joey's first chocolate chip cookie! He obviously loved it.

He likes to grab the camera when I'm filming or taking pictures! I love it.

Such a big boy! This is an outfit Grandma Teri mailed him. The top says "I may be little, but I'm still the boss"

He had a really really bad diaper rash for a few days, so we let him go around naked as much as possible to help it heal. He loves being naked.

Not alot new has been happening here. Joey did wave for the first time last weekend, to Earl, twice. But hasn't done it since. He still says Da-Da and Ba-Ba, and lots of other things I can't make out. He loves to yell "uh-eye" really loud when he's crawling around looking for me. not sure what it means, but he expects me to answer him.

Next weekend we are going to a HOG rally at the Outer Banks. (HOG=Harley Owners Group). So I'm sure we'll have lots of pictures from that. I think we're going to camp in Earl's van again too.

We're eagerly awaiting the warm summer weather to return so that we can go back to the beach! Joey has 3 swim suits, because I couldn't resist. One is too big for him, its CARS trunks. but the other two should be just right. We'll see!

We miss everyone.