HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKSON!

I can not believe Jackson is 5 years old today! Time sure does fly and before we all know it, he will be driving and dating and going off to college. I feel blessed to have him in our lives and honored that he calls me "Mommy" :)

Have a great day everyone!!!

A few pictures to share...

Jackson sleeping with his Nana bear :)

Jackson being silly with his Daddy...

I promise (hopefully) that I will start to update this more.

Happy Halloween :)

Jackson the "Friendly" spider...

I love my Little Man :)

Weekend

I will have pictures to post from this coming weekend at Cedar Point with the family. We are getting Brock on Friday and will be at Cedar Point Saturday and Sunday. I will post Monday night for everyone to see how big the boys are getting.

The following weekend will be an adult weekend for just Joe and I. Not sure where we are going to stay Saturday (the 28th) night but it will be nice just to get away and be adults. Also having a nice dinner with Michael and Anna Bruhl Sunday afternoon :) Can't wait!

Banana pudding video!

Jackson was telling Grandpa that he had all of the banana's in his dessert and that Grandpa didn't have any! It was the cutest thing...

Jackson's laugh always makes me melt! I could listen to this all day.

Wow, I love my little man!!!!!

Birthday!

I had a wonderful birthday...so far! My Mom and Dad took the family out to eat on Monday, we went to Garfield's and Brock ordered the biggest burger I've seen and ate the whole thing...must be he didn't eat all day to make room in his skinny body for such a large sandwich plus the cheesy waffle fries! Here's a picture of him and his first attempt at taking a bite :)

The boys also gave me cards last night, one from each of them. They were the cutest card and meant a lot to me. I cried 3 times with each card...one from Jackson, one from Brock and the last one from Joe. I truly have 3 great Poling boys/men in my life!

Joe also tells me that we are going shopping soon in Fremont, IN.... My favorite outlet is in Indiana!!!! (Right Angie?)

Sad day tomorrow :(

My brother-in-law and sister-in-law and niece and nephew are leaving tomorrow for Washington. Tennessee was far enough for us, but now Washington... We may have to make a trip this summer!

Love you all and please drive careful and give Aunt Pat and everyone hugs and kisses from the Polings :)

Hello

Any one out there still read me????

If you do, please let me know and I will make sure that this starts to get updated more often.

Busy life

My hope has been that could have an extra 3 or 4 hours to get on line and post pictures for everyone to look at and to help keep up with the Poling Family. Unfortunately, our everyday lives are not allowing such activities.

I am finally back to work mid June after being off over 6 months, I'm happy to be working, but the hours are horrible. I get in the office before 7am Monday through Thursday (only working 4 days) and haven't been leaving until between 6:30 and 7:00 at night. I told them yesterday that I need start leaving no later than 6pm so I can spend some much needed time with Joe and Jackson and work on "us". Joe, however, is also working major hours. Right now he is pulling 12 hour days, 7 days a week... so to say the least our lives are very busy and complicated right now. Joe's hours may slow down some next week, but it will still be the 7 day work week.

Jackson is spending some much needed time with all the Grandma's / Nana's / Nene's and Grandpa's / Papa's houses, but I can tell he is struggling like Joe and I with how busy we are. Trying to work on a routine in our house is definitely NOT working.

I'm hoping that one day I will wake up in the morning and not have so many worries and stresses to deal with. We'll see what happens in the next couple of weeks. I hope things take a turn for the better.

Love you all. Jennifer

Mom Poling

We are very happy to hear that Mom Poling is doing well after her visit this morning. You deserve a well rested few days...well you need a couple of weeks, right!

We love you Mom.

I know, I know

As you can see, not having the Internet at home has definitely been tough on us and also me with not getting to our blog very often...so I apologize!

There are going to be pictures posted but it has gotten too late tonight (after 11 pm already). We are in Kentucky until Thursday so I will have plenty of new pictures and also old pictures to post in the next couple of days.

Brock will also be home on Friday so we will be even more busy and I'm not even back to work yet...hopefully August now. Have to love Automotive.

Jackson's new glasses...

Well, it's official, Jackson is blind...well, not really, but he needed glasses after visiting with the eye doctor last week. Here is a picture with his new glasses...by the way, he seems to like them and is leaving them on his face.

Visiting with Aunt Michelle...

We were able to visit with Michelle and Keith for a couple of hours before they headed back to PA from the Easter holiday.

Lets see, what do we do with the chip container once it's empty...well, of course, we should put it on our head. Thanks Aunt Michelle!!!

We all love you and were so happy to be able to see you for the afternoon. You look amazing!!! Keep up the good work, I'm very proud of you and how well you are doing!

Can't wait to see you again, this time lets make it just a little longer though. Love you sis.

Easter with Jackson

Easter at Nana and Papa's house!

Jackson playing with his "launch cars" from Nana...

Trying to find a hidden egg, "lucky" egg was actually in the sandwich bag box...

This is why it was the lucky egg, it had money in it...a tradition at the Poling house...

Looking for hidden eggs...

Easter basket from Mommy and Daddy...

We were soooooooo tired, had to take a nap...thanks Daddy for taking our picture!

At Crossroads Church trying to stay warm and collecting eggs.

It was so cold, must have only been about 40 degrees...

More Florida...

More pictures from Florida...

Here is Jackson, our little photographer, taking a picture of Mommy and Daddy. He actually does very well for 3!!!

These first few were taken on the day we were flying home.

Jackson with Grandpa and Grandma...
Jackson with Great Grandma...

Holding up a Palm tree...

The three of us...have to love the water behind us, sun shining...I really miss the warm weather!

Jackson and Grandpa touching stingrays...he touched about 4!

Jackson and Mommy feeding the dolphins, yep, we feed them and were able to touch them.

Still feeding the dolphins...I was more concerned with Jackson getting his hand too close to their mouths...He is just NOT scared of ANYTHING! All boy!!!!

FLORIDA, FLORIDA, FLORIDA!!!

Are trip to Florida was wonderful, here are some pictures...more coming soon...

Drawing of Jackson riding Shamu...

The pearl (7mm) that my Dad bought me, I had it mounted in a setting and a neckless being made for my pearl...thanks Dad! I love it!!!

Picture of Shamu that Joe took, he and Grandpa sat in the "Chicken Area" and Jackson and I sat in...of course, the front row!!! Nope...we didn't get soaked, not even wet enough for Joe to take a picture of us.

Poling family (minus one) in front of some waterfalls...

Grandpa and Jackson in front of more waterfalls at Sea World

Jackson riding his Harley with his Cowboy hat...

Playing in Venice, hunting for sharks teeth...yep, we found LOTS!!!

New posts coming...I promise!

I know it's been awhile since our last post...we have cancelled Internet at home (to save some money) and haven't been able to do much on the computer lately. I promise that I will have plenty of posts by Friday. We are going to Ohio to watch Brock play tennis the end of the week and will be staying in a hotel, so I will have lots of time to add some pictures for everyone. Brock does not know we are coming, I hope he will be surprised.

Posts to come will include...Florida, Easter, pictures of my sister (finally was able to see her yesterday for lunch...she looks amazing!!!) and a few others.

Baking cookies!

We decided to make cookies Monday when Daddy came home earlier from work. What a good time that was had by all...a little messy, but we had so much fun!!!!

Jackson has learned how to use our camera and knows how to pick it up and turn it on and just start snapping pictures...whether you're ready or not, thankfully I was ready, Daddy was not!!!