2010 review

Part of my New Years resolution is to start sharing with my family and friends what is going on with the Hicks boys. It is hard to keep everyone updated with everything that goes on around here.

Some of you might not know how Justin got the nick name H-Block and the insporation for the name of the blog. Jonathan had a friend that he worked with nick named him H-Bomb so Justin because H-Block because he was only a block of C4.

In this first post I will try and get everyone updated on what happened on 2010 before I start on 2011. In January we found out that we were expecting our second child James Robert and Justin was 17 months old. In April we were able to go and visit Jonathans mom and step dad in Charleston SC. During that trip we were able to spend some much needed time together with family. Jonathan had not been able to take a vacation since November 2007. His dad was also able to come up and spend 10 of the 18 days that we were in SC.

During the summer Justin was busy being a boy that loved to get dirty and getting into everything. While Jonathan was out in the field ( where he goes to work for 5 days at a time ) Justin and I spent most days over at my parents house. He had neighbor kids to play with and I was able to get a break as my belly got bigger. In August Justin turned 2 and had a Thomas the Train theme. My dad got him a bounce house for the day and we had it up all day. It was a nice quite party with family and one of Justin friends. After Justins birthday it was time to get ready for James to get here in the end of September but he had other plans. Ten days after Justins party James decided that he was ready to come out. My water broke at 7 in the morning and he was born at 5:57 that night. Since he was 5 weeks early he spent a week in the NICU. With all of this going on Jonathan was able to take time off to help me out.

In November Jonathans parents were able to come up for a week. They got to meet James for the first time and got to spend time with Justin. It was great to see them again and see them with the grandbabies. When Thanksgiving rolled around it was time to do our yearly get together with all the single Airman. We smoked and deep fried turkeys for everyone and when the deep fried turkey was gone within a few minutes when it came into the house.
As December came to Montana it also came with cold weather and sick children. James was 4 months old on Christmas and was growing slowly but for premee he was doing great. Justin got spoiled by everyone this year for Christmas. As the year ended we looked back and realized how lucky we are to have a great family and friends around us.