Hopefully another blog post in less than a month doesn't break the internet. We'll see.

The last few weeks have flown by. JJ is an amazing little man. We are so grateful that he is healthy and a pleasant boy.

Michelle and I have been staying at her parents since we brought JJ down from McCall. It has been a relief having Cindy around for backup when we get tired. Since I am working at my families business while we are here, Michelle has had some needed bonding time with JJ. He has been super aware when he is awake looking around and making lots of faces. We're pretty sure his smiles are intentional too. Copper is with us here too, much to the chagrin of Mike, Michelle's dad. Copper is doing well with JJ, but has been barking more than usual at the sights and sounds here. There isn't much else to report since he is so new

JJ relaxing with Copper. Copper only put up with this until I took the picture. As soon as the shutter sound went off and I picked up JJ he immediately got up and went downstairs.

Cindy holding grandbaby number 5.

My mother holding grandbaby number 13.

 We have had a decent number of visitors to see JJ. It will likely be one of the only times they will see him for a while.

We welcome a new member to our family

For those of you who think this blog is dead, you were close to being right, but recent events have caused a resurrection. We have kept fairly quiet about some major things going on, and since Facebook is a little larger of an audience than we prefer, I have resorted to describing some of the important things here.
 As you notice from the picture above Michelle is holding a baby. If you are really astute you may not remember hearing anything about Michelle being pregnant. That is because she wasn't. Joey has a cousin who's 17 year old daughter became pregnant earlier this year. Six weeks before she was due, the other families that she had lined up to adopt her baby backed out. She called us on recommendation of Joeys aunt who's father had informed her we would be interested in adopting.
Fast forward a whirlwind 6 weeks later and here we are with a beautiful healthy baby boy we named Joseph Jayden. He weighed 7 lbs 2 oz. and was 20 inches long. We will try to keep updates coming, but our schedules are understandably going to be thrown off.