The Courtney Family

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!

Last Friday night was our church's Christmas banquet. Here is a couple of pictures. This one is of Zackary and Blake passed out. They fell asleep during the talent show. This is me and my best friend Joanna. Dont know what Im going to do without her when we go to California. This is me and my pastor's wife (sis C). Shes an awesome lady!!

My best friends daughter, Samantha and Julianna!
Julianna got this my little pony stuffed animal from her aunt Jojo. She loves and usually carries it around the house like this hugging it from the neck. She is a stuffed animal lover!!

Sorry I havent posted any new pictures in the past few days. We have been pretty busy. It seems as if right now I am either in the doctors office or in the emergency room with one of the kiddos. Let's see, I think this last month I have had three with strep throat, two with ear infections, two with pink eye, and 2 with pneumonia. It has not been fun! We went to my parents for the week and spent Thanksgiving day at my aunts. We had a good time until I ended up in the ER with Julianna. She was running 104.1 and turns out she has pneumonia. Carter had it last weekend. I cant quite get ahead of it this year. I will try to get some pictures posted soon. Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving!

I had Carter and Julianna's birthday party yesterday afternoon. Overall it went very well. I think they both had a great time, but were overwhelmed a bit. Poor Julianna flipped out of chair and got whacked in the head while she was opening her presents but other than that I think they both ended up with a lot of great things! Carter's favorite was probably the dyson vaccuum my mom got him. He has kept that thing glued to his side today. He will have it going in one hand and playing with his trains in his other. Julianna has really enjoyed pushing her stuffed animals in her doll baby stroller. Here is a slide show with some pictures on it..I had way to many to put them all. But there's about 40 or so here...lol! :)

It is not to often that you can catch Carter being sweet to Julianna, but yesterday I was putting up clothes and I heard Julianna just cracking up so I came running to see what was so funny. I found Carter pushing Julianna on the lightning mcqueen car. She thought it was the greatest thing. She pitched a huge fit when he quit.

Julianna is very much a blanket baby. It doesnt matter what it looks like or how big, she has to have it. Today I was trying to make the beds in the boys room and Julianna thought she would help. She decided to pull down all the sheets and lay underneath me. :)

Here is a couple of pictures of Julianna and Elijah in their matching pajamas. I babysit Elijah and his brother Isaiah overnight three nights a week. Julianna is about a month older than Elijah. They play pretty good together...well, at least when Julianna isnt taking the toys away from him...lol!! :)

Wow where has time gone? Robbie and I have been married 8 years as of yesterday November 11, 2008. We have so much to be thankful for in the time we have been married. We have three handsome boys and one beautiful baby girl. Not only is our anniversary on the 11th...but we now share it with Julianna who turned one yesterday. I will be having her birthday party at the end of the month. This year has flown by so quickly and it seems like she grew up into such a big girl. Im sure its because of her big brothers teaching her everything.

Mommy and her princess....I have to enjoy it while I can cause I know once Robbie returns back from Iraq next month she will no longer be such a mommy's little girl. It will probably take him a little longer to win her over since we have the boys too. They will all demand his attention. Zackary decided this morning that he need to take a picture of Julianna and me so I decided to take advantage of the moment and take a few pictures of the kids before church.

I guess there will always be one in this bunch who wont be looking at the camara when the picture is taken. Out of all of the pictures I took there isnt one where all four of them are looking at the camara. Julianna was determined to squirm her way out of Blakes lap and to get her bow our of hair. She does not like having bows in her hair.

For those of you who do not know yet, we will be moving to California in the Spring. Robbie came down with orders for Fort Irwin and has to report in May. It wasn't our choice to go there but not much you can do about it when the ARMY says your going..lol!

Soccer is officially over! Im so relieved although I did miss this morning not being able to go to a game. Zackary and Blake both really enjoyed being able to play soccer this fall. It was only about a 9 week thing, but they had a blast. Robbie got to see a couple of their practices and their first game when he was here in September. Both boys were star players on their teams. Zackary takes a sport and tries to learn everything he can about it and master it. I think he would score at least 5-8 points every game. Same for Blake he was great at scoring too. It was alot of fun to watch Blakes team play. You had a four 3 and 4 years from each time running around on the field. Blake was on the older side so he was more into the game than most. I think I only got accused once of Zackary being older than he was and us cheating because they thought he was 7 instead of 6. But they had a great first experience at sports and wont quit bugging about what the next one is going to be. These are pictures from some of their practices. I havent gotten their game pictures uploaded yet.


This is Blake's team minus a few players after their last game with their trophies.

We decided to go ahead and have Julianna dedicated while Robbie was home on leave. She was dedicated at our church Life United Pentecostal by our pastor Bro. Crutchfield. Of course we had to doll her up the best we could for the occasion. It was kinda a last minute thing so we didn't have any of our family here to share the occasion with us.

Bro. Crutchfield and Bro. Wilson praying over our family.

I am going to attempt doing a blog again. We will see how long it last. I stay so busy that I just never had the time or the patience to deal with the other one. Hopefully this one will be easier to keep up with! :)