March 2013

So smiley!  Happy 3 months old, Rachel Joy!

She's starting to communicate a little bit - here's a video of her making noises.

Happy!  Here's some footage of this photo session - interacting a bit.

Silly sticker boys – you’re supposed to put stickers on your face, right?

My sunshiny boy enjoying the swings like a big boy!

Green Day at Sparks!

Our bubbly little girl – doing more talking & gurgling!

St. Patrick's Day church clothes.

Showing off the St. Patrick's Day shirt my Aunt Kathy got her - "I'm Cute, My Mom is Cute, and My Dad is Lucky!"

Jersey Day at Sparks!

I found some super cute PINK tennis shoes in a box of forgotten hand-me-down clothes.  Yea for playing dress-up!

A favorite picture of the boys holding hands on the walk to school.  :)

Hello there!  Why, yes, I DO enjoy my saucer!

Pretty in HOT pink!

Jonathan is 2-1/2 years old!

Snuggling with Aunt Joanna at the park.

Luke saying "Hi" during pillow tummy time.  :)

Jonathan checking out the yellow & orange flowers in the backyard.

We planted our garden with tomatoes, bell peppers & carrots!

November 2012

Luke riding his bike during a family trip to the park.

Jonathan getting help climbing on the playground equipment - getting braver!

Swinging buddies!

Celebrating Aunt Tara's birthday.

8 months pregnant.

My sweet boys!

Playing knight & prince in the backyard.  Luke got more into it than Jonathan did.  :P

They got along pretty well these days.  :)

37 weeks pregnant - getting closer!

On Thanksgiving Day, Nathan had the fun idea to have a Turkey Hunt with the boys.  We started by making several turkeys out of hand prints on construction paper.  We filled each one with a few candy corns so when they were successfully "hunted" the boys could eat them.  :)

Ready to go!

We had hid some of them in the house...

and some of them in the backyard.

The boys had to find them with minimal help, then shoot them with their dart guns.  Once they got a hit, they could retrieve it and divvy up the candy corns inside.

It's a Thanksgiving tradition for me to forget to take pictures during our family festivities.  :P  But, here are several of the cousins eating dessert together - the first picture taken with my new-to-me iphone!

Enjoying baby James.

We got pictures of both boys with Great Grandma.

Jonathan lining up his cars around the coffee table.  I remember when Luke used to do this a lot.

Airplane time with the cousins!

Taking a "pregnant pause" with my buddy instead of tackling that pile of laundry in the background!  :P

38 weeks pregnant!  This is how far I got with Jonathan's pregnancy.  I was so thankful to make it at least this far again.  :)

Joanna had come over to take my pregnancy picture for me and insisted on getting a friend shot together.  Little did I know, but she was newly pregnant herself!  She wasn't sharing her news yet, but later I found out that we were both pregnant in this picture!

May 2012

Luke finished his second year of Cubbies!

Playing blocks together.  :)

Jonathan got a little messy with his cookie.  I got him on video, too.

Luke wanted me to get a picture of him with spiky hair.  :)

Reading in the big chair.

Stick 'em up!

Nice day to play outside.  Check out this video of the boys petting Cinnamon outside - she couldn't wait to get back inside!

I went to a nice Mother's Day presentation at Luke's preschool.  Here's some video from it, as well as some of Luke swinging on the tire swing with his two favorite school buddies.

Enjoying BJ's birthday party.

Celebrating with Lisa at her baby shower - we're both pregnant here!

Mother's Day with my 2-1/2 kids!

Celebrating Mother's Day with Grandma Hughes.

If it weren't for accidentally cutting off half his face, this would be the perfect picture of Jonathan.  Oops!

Splash!  Got out the wading pool for the first time this season.

Sweet buddy!  And a video of Jonathan hitting the T-ball pretty accurately.

Helping wash the car.  And video of Jonathan drinking from a cup.

Luke pushing Jonathan around the house in a box, along with some video footage!

It was hard to get a nice picture of Jonathan's 20 month milestone.  These are the best I could do.  :)

Working with Daddy to make a cardboard car for the movie drive-in at preschool.