Top 5

Happy New Year's Eve! 

The top 5 from the last week of 2010 at the Handy House ...

1. Four month check-up and shots (I didn't say they were all good things!)

William weighed 16lb 3.5oz and he is 25 3/4" long.

Ouch!

2. Cereal!  Will got to have cereal for the first time now that he is 4 months old ...

Cereal Day #1: Before ...

Cereal Day #1: After!

Cereal Day #2: Much better!

and prune juice to keep things moving!

YUK!

3. Exersaucer ... it looks like fun to me but not to Will!

Being four months old is rough!

4. Will went on his first date with Mama and Daddy.  We went to Young's Dairy for dinner and to Clifton Mill to see the lights. 

All bundled up!

Beautiful lights!

5. The highlight of our week was meeting Uncle Terry, dad's twin brother.  It was bitter sweet for Uncle Terry and I both but also a very special day.

I think he likes him!

William and Uncle Terry

William and Tressie

My Grandpa Frank passed away a few short months after I was born. He met me only once and when he held me he held my tiny hands and said I had Taylor hands.  I had to smile when Uncle Terry held my little boy's hands and commented on how big they are.

Taylor hands

As 2010 comes to a close I am ready to bid it farewell.  What a tough year it has been.  I pray 2011 will bring many blessing to our family, and to yours.  Thank you to all who have prayed us through this passing year.  Truly we are blessed and thankful for the love and support of family and friends.

Happy New Year!

William's First Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy 2011!  William's first Christmas was very blessed.  We had a wonderful time opening gifts from Santa and Mama and Daddy.  Grandma spent the night with us and helped with the unwrapping Christmas morning.  Will even pulled a few bows off himself.  Mama swore she'd only buy him just a couple things ...

How do you think I did?  :) 

We had our Christmas at home and then went down the hill to Grammy and Pa Handy's for Christmas breakfast with Grammy, Pa and Aunt Myra.  After that we went across the street to Grandma Taylor's for Christmas lunch with Grandma, Uncle Jamie, Nat, Allison, and Adam.  How blessed are we to both have our parents just around the corner?  VERY! After Uncle Jamie and his crew left Mama, Daddy, Grandma and Will took a nap!  I don't think they were gone 5 minutes before we crashed.  When we all woke up we came back up the hill and began the big unload and unpacking event.  William was exhausted after his very long day.  So were we!  Here are a few pictures from our day.

Early Christmas with John's family ....

Will's first John Deere!

Cousins: Adam, Casey, William, Nat



The men: Beau, Jamie, Adam, William, Nat, John, Steve



Proud Grandma

Christmas Eve before church ...



Daddy and Will napping


Christmas morning at our house ...

Grace guarding the loot!

Presents from Santa!

Help from Grandma

So excited!!

A book from Daddy

He loves his crawl ball!

Christmas morning at Grammy and Pa's ...

Playing with his new tool bench.



Napping with Grammy and Lucky dog.


Christmas at Grandma's ...

Peter Rabbit from Uncle Jamie, Nat and Adam

Legos!

Playing with Daddy.

The morning after ...

Happy New Year!

Our family wishes you a blessed year to come!
Steve, Alisa & William

Handsome Boy!

We had Christmas with John and his family yesterday before they head south for the holiday.  William looked so handsome!   I'll post pictures of him on his first John Deere soon!!

He Gave Me My Voice Back

Things are going well at the Handy House.  William is growing leaps and bounds and more fun by the day! 

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  The highlight was Adam meeting William for the first time. And mom having all of her grandchildren together for the first time.

Dad's marker was set right before Thanksgiving. It has beautiful red bouquets now.  I will have to post another picture when I get one.  It's just perfect.  I picked out his Christmas tree last week and of course, it too is red.  He would love it.

I wanted to post things I was thankful for at Thanksgiving but time got away from me.  Here are just a few from the last few weeks.

1. Will's second, and final, cystic fibrosis test came back negative!
2. Will's allergy testing did not indicate any food allergies.
3. Will's new medicine is helping the reflux so much. He is SUCH a happy baby now. 
4. My follow-up diabetes test came back negative.

And finally,

5. I have my voice back ...

I could live without a lot of things in my life but I can't imagine my life without music.  Church, in particular, is one facet of my life where music is so meaningful to me.  The music at church, singing, is a very spiritual and very emotional thing for me. After dad passed away I stopped singing in church; no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't sing.  I believe mostly it was being afraid to feel the emotion that came with it.  I've missed singing in church and missed the joy that comes with it.  Last week in church I sang for the first time in many, many months, I sang to my son.  Will has given me my voice back.  What a blessing he is every day, and what a blessing it is to sing again. 

If I don't post again before Christmas, may you all have a blessed and peaceful holiday.  And may 2011 bring you many blessings.

With love from the Handy's ...

Merry Christmas!

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