The Novak boys and Amy!

Spring Break

2011-03-23T21:30:00.001-07:00

Jacob was lucky had a whole week for spring break!!! Went went to Chucke Cheeses, was able to play outside, of course had to go with Uncle Dick and we went to the st, Patricks day parade in Mount Ayr!

more haircut!

2011-03-23T21:28:00.000-07:00

Joey 1st. Haircut!

2011-03-23T21:23:00.000-07:00

So Joey was not to happy about his first haircut!!! His hair was getting out of control!! Of course we had to take him to "Dick the Barber"! No fancy toys or anything but he always gives them quarters when they are done!

My Boys!

2011-03-23T20:30:00.000-07:00

So as you can see I haven't updated the blog in a LONG while!!! Justin is now 5 months old and almost 16 pounds and Joey is now 15 months old. Life is very crazy at our house. Jacob loves school and is getting excited for his tumbling recital!

Justin 3 months Joey 13 months!

2011-01-21T11:57:00.000-08:00

So here are some pictures of the babies. Justin will be 3 months on the 22nd and Joey was 13months on the 14th.

Justin has became way more alert. I am not going to say he is the happiest baby, but he has his moments!!! He did sleep his own crib last night so maybe we will only have 2 kids in our room now! He has also found his thumb!

Joey has learned to flush the toliet. He also takes 4 or 5 steps until he realizes he is doing it. He is also likes to talk ALOT!! he says "did it", bubba, then he just sits by Justin and says bu bububu really LOUD!!!

12 weeks

2011-01-15T10:30:00.000-08:00

Justin is 12 weeks old already!! He weighs almost 13 pounds and seems to eat all of the time!!! He is started to laugh and coo and loves watching his brothers play. Dad says now if he could just figure out to sleep all night we would be good!!!

fun days!

2011-01-14T07:14:00.000-08:00

We always have a something new exciting going on at our house! Joey is growing so fast he is just about ready to walk take a few steps every once in awhile. Joey loves to tell us off and pretty much has mom and dad wrapped around his finger.

Justin still sleeps quite a bit but is finally smiling and laughing. He loves for Jacob to carry him around the house!!

Jacob has fun going to school and playing with his friends. He is always sounding out words and telling us beginning and ending sounds. He usually has to go help Uncle Dick once a week. Jacob especially likes to play his new WII Santa brought him and he loves to scoop snow!

Jeremy and I have decided that we are pretty much stuck home til these boys all get older!! I am so glad to be able to stay home and take care of the boys and not have to deal with the stresses of daycare! Life is so much easier when you don't have people trying to tell you how to raise your kids, or making your kids not respect you. I am very thankful for my friend Angie who helps with the boys. I will have to admit being a stay at home mom is more work than anyone can imagine, but we have a routine and it works very well!

Sledding

2011-01-14T07:11:00.001-08:00

So we finally got some snow. Jacob loves for Jeremy to pull him behind the 4-wheeler around the yard. Jacob has even pulled Jeremy a couple of times!

Christmas outfits

2011-01-14T07:04:00.000-08:00

So we got to buy Justin and Joey cute Christmas outfits! It was kind of crazy having 2 babies at Christmas time! They were cutest babies around!!!!

Joey's 1st. Birthday

2011-01-14T06:55:00.000-08:00

Joey turned 1 on December 14.. He is our little charmer. Mommy just can't get enough of him!! We didn't have a big party for Joey like we did Jacob. there was way to much sickness going around and some people just are not very good about not coming if they are sick. We wanted to try to be home for Christmas this year and not in the hospital! Jacob loved helping Joey open his presents!!

Slow!

2011-01-14T06:44:00.000-08:00

So apparently I haven't blogged in awhile! We survived Christmas! I will have to say Jeremy and I think Christmas has gotten way out of control. We are thinking next year to just get away and not deal with all the family gatherings! This was the first year that we open presents at our house and was able to let Jacob just play with his things. He are some pictures of our Christmas.

1 month

2010-11-24T09:25:00.000-08:00

Justin was 1 month on Nov. 22. He weighs around 8.5 pounds and is becoming much more alert! We are all adjusting well to all of the changes!

Halloween

2010-11-14T09:44:00.001-08:00

Here are some pictures of the boys for Halloween. It was both Joey and Justin's first one!

Justin Donald Novak

2010-11-14T09:15:00.000-08:00

We welcomed Justin to our family on October 22. He was born at 7:10 pm and weighed 7lbs 8 oz and 20 inches. Justin is our first baby to be born at full term. Dr. Munro didn't make it to the delivery on time so the nurse and daddy had to help! It was pretty crazy!! It was nice to have people be able to come visit and actually see the baby! We are so thankful to have Justin in our family.

more pictures

2010-10-20T15:58:00.000-07:00

Adam's Wedding

2010-10-20T15:48:00.000-07:00

My brother was married on October 16. Here are some of the pictures.

Jacob's 6th Birthday!

2010-10-04T08:26:00.000-07:00

Jacob was 6 on Sept. 29! He had a great birthday and got tons of presents. I think Joey had more fun helping him open presents though!!!

Joey 9 months!

2010-09-20T08:55:00.000-07:00

So since I have only Joey's picture taken 3 times by a photographer you will just have to keep looking at my snapshots!!! Joey was 9 months old on Sept. 14 (same day as Aunt Amanda's birthday). He is trying to crawl, and has 2 teeth and weighs 17.5 pounds!!! He is still a really good baby!! He loves to eat especially "real food." We are so happy that he is 9 months old so at least now him and the baby will be 9 months apart!!!!

almost 32 weeks

2010-09-13T18:40:00.001-07:00

Labor Day Weekend

2010-09-07T17:28:00.000-07:00

We had tons of fun over Labor Day!! We went to the Rodney Atkin's concert at Bethany. Then of course we went to all the Diagonal events! Jacob was so happy to get to see some of his old preschool friends! Jacob was in the bike races and in the pedal pull! He had to be in a pull off in the pedal with at least 10 other kids!! Joey also had fun eating Cotton Candy!

8 months old

2010-08-27T20:12:00.000-07:00

Joey was 8 months old on August 14. He is such a happy little guy! He is sitting up on his own and loves his food!!! The best part is he sleeps all night and when he wakes up just waits until we get him out of bed! Mommy is loving getting to stay at home with him and SPOIL him!!!

15 years!

2010-08-27T20:06:00.000-07:00

Today was Jeremy's last day at Schlapia Inc. He has worked for them for 15 years. They sold out to the Afton Coop. Jeremy is now going to work for RK Fuels in Diagonal.

Kindergarten!

2010-08-27T20:00:00.000-07:00

Jacob started Kindergarten this week at Mt. Ayr Community Elementary. He loves riding the bus! The best part is his driver got a brand new bus!! He says she drives really fast!!

Summer!

2010-07-30T14:36:00.000-07:00

Wow Summer has flew by!!! We have been busy working on Jeremy's new shed, getting ready for baby #3 and just spending time playing with the boys! Hard to believe in about 3 weeks Jacob will be in Kindergarten! I am sure he is going to give his teacher a run for her money!!! Joey is changing everyday, he is trying to sit up and weighs over 15 pounds. He is such a happy baby. We are not sure what we will do with him when the new baby comes as his mommy just doesn't like to leave him!!! He may just have to come hang out with us at the hospital!!!

2+1=3 Boys!

2010-06-29T20:56:00.000-07:00

So the 3d ultrasound said another boy!!!!!! Jacob is so glad because he didn't want a dang girl!!!! Here is picture of the 2 boys today!

the boy's

2010-06-27T19:34:00.000-07:00

So it has been awhile since I posted anything. Joey is growing like crazy he weigh's over 13 pounds and Jacob is enjoying summer break. He loves helping the builders on the new shed.

The Novak Boy's

2010-05-07T16:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some new pictures of the boys! Joey is growing so much he will be 5 months old and weighs over 12 pounds. He is such a good baby and sleeps all night!!! Jacob has been busy with Preschool. He will have preschool graduation next week! Hard to believe he will be in Kindergarten. I feel bad for his Kindergarten teacher she will be wore out by NOON!!!

Baby #3!!!!

2010-04-11T18:51:00.000-07:00

Yes it is true!!!! We are having baby number 3!!! All Amy has to say is never say never!!!!! Jeremy says maybe we shouldn't have bought the hot tub because since we bought it we have been expecting babies!

New Pictures

2010-03-28T12:13:00.000-07:00

Jacob had tons of fun playing with his cousin Drew this week. The loved the MUD!!!!!

3 Months Old!

2010-03-14T18:21:00.000-07:00

Joey is 3 months old today!!! He has changed so much! HE is a very happy baby! Jacob loves having a little brother around!

Joey's 2 months!

2010-02-15T17:44:00.000-08:00

Joey was 2 months old on Valentines Day! He now weighs 5lbs 3 oz and growing everyday! He keeps mom busy by wetting his pants at least 5 times a day. He has almost to big for all of his premie clothes! He also made his first trip to Grandma Kathryn's house!

Joey's home!!!

2010-02-06T10:55:00.000-08:00

We are so glad to have Joey Home!!! Jacob was so excited to get to actually hold Joey. He has been a great help (you can only imagine)! Here are some pictures of the boys. Joey made it to 5 pounds so he could come home in his own carseat!

more joey

2010-01-22T19:22:00.000-08:00

joey

2010-01-22T18:49:00.000-08:00

Joey's is 1 month old

2010-01-17T06:26:00.000-08:00

Joey was 1 month old on the 14th. He was moved into a crib on Wed. the 13th. He is doing well. They are hoping to start bottle feeding him before long. Hopefully he will be home soon so we can get everything back to normal and then Joey and mom can spend lots of time together! He are some picture and there is one of Jacob sitting in a window in the hospital. It is pretty boring for him there. We feel very bad for Jacob he has been shuffled around everywhere and of course not getting his normal spoiling from mom and dad.

Good Bye 09 Hello 2010!

2010-01-03T19:29:00.000-08:00

Well as 2009 comes to end Jeremy and I are hoping maybe 2010 will be a bit calmer. Well after Joey gets home til then we know the way to Mercy Hospital very well! In 2009 we lost Jeremy's dad Joe. Things just haven't been the same since.

We are very fortunate to have our little Joey. The Nurses and Dr.'s have told us that he was very sick when he was born. They told us his body was shutting down because he couldn't fight the infection and that he is very lucky to still be here. He has made great progress. He is eating milk and LOVES IT!!! We say he has Grandpa Roebrt's belly!!! HE was able to get off of his IV's and get his pic line removed ( it went from his foot to his belly button). So now all he has on him is vapotherm, to help him breathe. He has started having a few apnea spells, but we expected that because Jacob had tons of them. He finally got to wear clothes last night!! So of course mom had to go shopping!!

Jacob and I have to go back to school tomorrow, so we will start driving up to Des Moines in the evenings. There will be some late nights but it will be worth it!!! Here are some new picturs of Joey!

life has been kind of crazy!

2009-12-23T19:38:00.000-08:00

Well things are kind of crazy around. We are trying to get in the grove of going to Des Moines, finding time for Jacob and just doing our normal things! We have trying to go to see Joey at least every other night so we can still spend time with Jacob. Jacob can't go into see him so if we take him one of us has to stay in the waiting room and play with him. Joey has improved much since last week. He is off the ventilator, his hurt murmur closed, the infection is gone, and he is now getting fed milk and weighs 2 pounds 11 ounces. I was finally able to hold him last Sunday! He is such a doll!!!!

Joey

2009-12-18T18:02:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of our newest member of the family! Jacob and I took off for Des Moines one Friday to go to the Dr. The ob Dr. went great and everything was fine. Then we went to go get blood pressure refills and my bp was 151/127. So they sent Jacob and I to Mercy hospital. Well when we arrived they admitted me and said oh you will only be here a little bit. Well they then decided I needed to stay over night. So the next morning they sent a specialist in and he said I had preclampsia until proven otherwise. So they informed I was had to be on Hospital bedrest until delivery. The due date was suppose to be Feb. 25th! Well I started having a few contractions that day. They did an ultrasound and the baby was getting stressed. So they wanted to get my BP down even farther. Well they were able to get it down for awhile but then it started going back up. So the specialist said that we had to have the baby. They started inducing me on Sunday am. They took me off foods and liquids as of Friday when I got there and said no more til baby came. Well finally on Monday morning they started me on a stronger med. By 12:20 I was having strong contractions. So at 1:@0 the Dr. came and they were trying to decide whether to do a C-section or let me have it naturally. Thankfully my Dr. figured it would go very fast as soon as he broke the water. So off we went to the operating room. We arrived in there at 1:30 and then they broke my water and Joey arrive at 1:41pm. He weighed 2 pounds 7 ounces and was 15 inches long. He was crying and breathing good when he arrived.

Joey did very well for the first few days. On Day 3 he had some set backs and was put on a ventilator. He is on the high output ventilator but seems to be doing much better. We have been driving back and forth to see him. We can't wait until we can actually hold our new little man! Jacob is looking forward to getting to meet him but that won't be until he comes home or we can hold him up to the window for him to see him.

Old Memories

2009-12-05T17:38:00.000-08:00

As Christmas gets closer we have been looking through all of Jacob's old baby albums! It was so fun to see how tiny he was. How much he has changed since then! It was fun to remember how on his first Christmas we had to have our own celebration because we couldn't go anywhere. It will be even more fun next year when we have another little one running around. We have made it past when Jacob was born so we are hoping make it to 2010!!! Happy Holidays!

Santa

2009-11-19T19:50:00.000-08:00

Why we were at the Dr. the other day we decided to take Jacob to see Santa! Just in case we don't get back!! He told Santa he wants a race car that he can drive fro Christmas. We already think he has enough riding toys!!! So Jacob and I went to the toy store and tried to talk him into other toys instead!! HE also rode on Santa's train. We decorated our tree tonight and I have never seen Jacob so excited. He was singing Christmas songs the whole time. Of course he still has tons of energy and Jeremy and I finally gave up and sat down and just watched him finish decorating the tree!!! Jeremy and I then were talking about how next year we will have to hide presents and put stuff up high again so the new baby can't get it!

Many different things

2009-11-15T09:15:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of many things: Jacob and Kyle and Kayla, Jacob and his pumpkins and here is one of me and my big belly!

8 Years already!

2009-11-11T16:52:00.001-08:00

Jeremy and I celebrated our 8 year Anniversary on Tuesday Nov. 10th, Jeremy and Jacob sent me 8 beautiful pink roses. We spent the evening by eating at Dairy Queen in Leon and taking Grandma our blazer for her to drive. Jeremy says we will go celebrate with no Jacob later on. I guess when you have kids you just get use to them going with you everywhere!! Jeremy is already trying plan something special for our 10 year. I told him he had better start now!

My little Devil!

2009-11-01T15:00:00.000-08:00

Jacob was a Devil for Halloween this year. He costume was made by Aunt Kayrn. He loved going to get candy and his buddy Brutus gave him a whole sack of snickers. He is already asking when Christmas is coming.

22 weeks!

2009-10-23T19:24:00.000-07:00

So we have made it to 22 weeks!!! Even though I thought having to get a shot once a week would be terrible it hasn't!! We are getting very excited. Now it is just time to start getting the room all ready!

baby 2010

2009-10-10T14:39:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of the baby from the ultrasound that we had Monday. Jeremy and I know what it is but hoping to keep it a secret until it arrives around Feb. 25th(hopefully)!!!!. We didn't tell Jacob!!!!

Handsome little man!!

2009-09-27T10:34:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of my handsome little man that will be 5 on Tues. He wore this outfit to papa Joe's funreal in Iowa. Papa Joe would have gotten the biggest kick out of him!!!

Jacob's big green tractor!!!!

2009-09-27T10:14:00.000-07:00

On Saturday morning we found out that Jeremy's grandpa's tractor that he had been looking for was selling in a farm sale at 1pm. So we headed to a farm sale and brought home the tractor. Jacob told us it was the best birthday present ever!!!! We made it home in time to get everything ready for his birthday party!!! He had a blast!!!

Papa Joe

2009-09-21T21:11:00.000-07:00

Jeremy's dad passed away on Sunday September 20. It was a very big shock to all of us. Jacob loved papa Joe more than anything. He loved helping him on the 20, going to Dari Sweet to get cheeseballs or just playing hide n seek with him. Papa Joe did so many things for us that we didn't realize he did. He gave us a beautiful sign at the end of our driveway, always was bringing Jacob something. Joe spent Labor Day with us this year. He watched Jacob in the parade, the bike race and pulling the lawn mower. Joe visited with many of his old friends. There was not a person in Diagonal that didn't like Joe. He was always asking about the new baby and when we could find out what it was. Everytime he called Jeremy he always asked how Jacob and I were. Jeremy is going to miss his dad more than anything. Jeremy just wishes he could have done something to help him. It is going to be a hard adjustment for all!

wild weekend

2009-08-31T19:35:00.000-07:00

Well I have only been back to work with kids for a week. I have already managed to get Brochitis. They thought it was worse than that so they did Chest x-rays and blood work on Friday. Then they decided that I couldn't have any medicine. So it is almost Tuesday and I still feel like crap. Not to mention Jacob has a runny nose and Jeremy is complaining he has a sore throat!

Jeremy has been working on getting his new tires on his tractor. It has been a project. He had to pain the rims, and weights, and many other things. So we had a tractor with no tires park on jacks on our cement by the garage for a week. Totally unsafe and very redneck looking!! Thankfully he got the tires put on today and the tractor out of the driveway.

On Saturday night Jeremy and I went to an Aaron Tippin concert at the Casino. Thanks to Aunt Shirley for the free tickets! It ended up costing us $80. A state trooper pulled us over and gave us a ticket because our windows were to dark in our car. This is the first ticket I have ever had. We were just very thankful that Jacob was not with us because who knows what kind of story he would have told about it.

First day back to school

2009-08-24T19:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of Jacob on his first day back to preschool. He is one of the "big" kids this year!

More State Fair

2009-08-23T14:50:00.001-07:00

More State Fair

2009-08-23T14:45:00.001-07:00

State fair

2009-08-23T14:36:00.001-07:00

Here are some pictures of the State Fair. We attended the Brooks & Dunn concert it was very fun. Jacob was about to fall asleep but the pop and cotton candy must have kicked in!!! We also celebrated my mom's birthday and Kyle and Kayla's Hard to believe they will be 3!!

Jacob singing

2009-08-23T14:26:00.000-07:00

Jeremy's Pet Bull

2009-08-23T14:19:00.000-07:00

This was our pet bull Baron. He was 11 years old. We decided it was time to sell him. It was very sad day. We could walk out in the pasture and pet Baron and he always turned his head when we said his name. He was very tame since I showed him when I was younger. The only thing you had to be careful about was he loved his feed! So when you went to feed him you better dump it fast otherwise taking the bucket from you!!!

New addition

2009-08-11T19:48:00.000-07:00

We are expecting a new baby around Feb. 25th. We had a Dr.'s appt. yesterday and were able to hear the heartbeat. We have survived the first 3 months!!!

Adventureland

2009-07-28T08:17:00.001-07:00

Here ia picture of the boys in the Log Ride at Adventureland. Jacob really did love the ride!

Jacob playing!

2009-07-19T08:22:00.001-07:00

HEre are some pictures of Jacob and ehtan Playing in the Hot tub and then Jacob with his second place award from the peddle pull. The flying his kite

Summer Fun

2009-06-29T09:42:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of Jacob playing T-Ball, playing with Adam's puppy and playing at the park

Jacob and Abbi O

2009-06-10T20:10:00.000-07:00

Jacob and I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies one morning. He loved being to help pour stuff in and putting the cookies on the sheet. Then Abbi O came and played with him for awhile. She came with her mom's bra on because she wanted to wear one. They are so cute together. They are both very stubborn. They actually played very well together! Abbi loved the cookies. She ate one then snuck another one!

No more injuries!!!

2009-06-10T20:03:00.001-07:00

We have had a few injuries in the last couple of weeks. Jeremy was kicked by a bull calf and was sore for a few days. At least it kicked his arm first then his side. Otherwise he would have probably had broken ribs. The worst parts it wasn't our animal!!

Then Jacob fell off the barstool backwards and cut his head open. We took him to my cousin Kelly and she siad he could probaly get 1 stich but it wouldn't be worth the trama so Dr. Jeremy wrapped him up!

Little Trip

2009-06-04T19:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of our little getaway. We went up towards my sisters. We spent the night at the Casino and then went shopping in Willamsburg. The we came home to enjoy the weekend.

Preschool

2009-05-16T13:44:00.000-07:00

Here are some Pictures of Jacob's Preschool Graduation Program