Baby Bunny

One of my bestfriends, Brooke, and her husband Peter, had their little girl yesterday afternoon! Sweet Emma Jordyn was born after lots of hard work by her mommy. Good job, Brooke! We all already love Emma and can't wait to get to know her in the months and years to come. I love you so much and know that you're going to be an incredibly mom!!


Isn't this the cutest, most hilarious picture ever? Peter and Brooke are two of the sweetest, most amazing people I know. Such great parents!

Swim Lessons

Judah has been doing swim lessons the last couple of weeks. We did them (with Jenna & Elliana) when he was 8 months, but haven't done them the past 2 years. He loves them and is doing so good! Today he went under several times, dove to get a ring, and wore goggles! These pictures are from yesterday. I decided to just watch and enjoy tonight.


Doing the back float with his teacher, Nick

Kickers

Sweet Silas

I absolutely LOVE this picture! I can already see his little personality coming out.

The other day I let Silas play naked on my bed. He was so happy just kicking his little legs and smiling (he's smiling a lot lately). And, I was trying to get the perfect picture. I kept saying, "Siiiilas, Siiilas" to get him to look over at me. Finally, he looked over and that's is when I took the picture. He's giving me a look like, "Ok, just take the picture so I can get back to having fun." I love my baby!

Here is your mission...

....should you choose to take it!

I want to buy a new dress. My sister in law, Kim, is getting married August 16th and I need something to wear. We have another wedding to go to August 8th. (I love weddings!) I can't fit into my old clothes and it's fun buying new ones, anyway. Here are the qualifications:

1. Must be super cute! (But, that's obvious, right?)
2. Breastfeeding accessible. Strapless is probably the most obvious solution, but not necessarily my favorite. Be creative!
3. Reasonably priced, but doesn't have to be cheap. I'm willing to pay for the cuteness factor.
4. Color is good, I'm partial to teal and yellow right now.

Basically, I'm open to just about anything as long as #1 is in place. Help!

Highly Recommended

I know I'm way behind the times here...

But, I just started using Google Feed Reader. It is SO MUCH easier to read my blogs! Before I'd click through them all and miss a lot of new posts. Now my feed reader tells me when there are new ones. If you don't already use it go to google.com/reader to sign up. All you do it put in all the urls to the blogs you read (this is a bit tedious, but worth it) and easily read blogs from now on.

So.Exhausted

But, in a good way! We had an amazingly fun 4th of July weekend! Before this weekend I had all but decided that 4th of July isn't fun after having kids. All the fun stuff happens outside and outside isn't good for babies in the middle of the summer heat. Let alone with all the smokey, yuckiness. But, lo and behold (that's for you, Pastor!) we had so, so, so much fun!!!



Friday Eric had been telling me for weeks that he was going to be working, but Thursday night told me that he, actually, could take it off. So, we met Jody and Jaiden (who just turned 3), my mom, and my grandparents at the park for the annual pancake breakfast. We made it just in time to be served sausages by our local congressman (Wally Herger, my dad's favorite!) and get our picture taken by the newspaper man. Judah, Samuel, and Jaiden then got matching temporary tatoos and went "fishing" for cheap toys. Jaiden decided he didn't want his and Samuel tried to put his back, but we made them keep them. Ha! After that they all played at the park (Caper Acres) until Eric all the sudden decided he wanted to leave and got up and started walking out. Crazy guy! He said it was hot and he was done. Ok.



We went home and Samuel, Silas, and I took naps. Then, we headed to our Pastors for a bbq. The boys swam in the pool, Judah even went in the spa, I chatted with the girls, we ate yummy food, and didn't leave until 11pm. The boys were so happy the whole time (as were we), so we just stayed until they put on the Matrix. We missed the fireworks (we had planned to be home way before they started), but the company was a lot more fun, anyway.

Saturday we all slept until super late, got ready, and went and had lunch with my dad and sister. Came home and we all took naps (I think....I was sleeping). Then, we got up and got ready to set up for Peter and Brooke's baby shower. It was my first ever co-ed shower, but I think it turned out really well. I think the guys were actually liking the games.

Today was craziness! I woke up, got ready for church, went to church, had my most favorite lunch ever (eggs benedict from Grilla Bites, I meant to take a picture, but completely forgot. Next time!), dropped Eric, Judah, & Samuel at home, went and taught my class at 3, left at 4:25 to get to my class, went to my class, picked up the boys, went to another bbq, and finally got home around 9. Gave the boys a bath, got them ready for bed, and now they are all finally in bed, Eric is getting stuff ready for work tomorrow, and I am exhausted and ready to "hit the sack" myself! Now you know why I'm so tired. But, it was WELL worth it! So.much.fun!

Sweet

Mr. Personality


Who colored himself. And, so did his brother.


He commented today, "My tongue is red! It turned red! It's not blue anymore."
Umm, no it's not. Thank goodness.


I'm learning to let the little things go. Who cares if they color on themselves? At least they're entertained. (Although, I did throw all of the markers away). I'm learning to focus on what really matters. How much love we have in this house. How incredibly blessed we are to have three adorable, funny, sweet, loving, intelligent, amazing boys. I spend all day with them. And, I still miss them when they're sleeping. I'll have tomorrow with them again, so I guess I need to rest up. I need energy to keep up with my precious gentlemen.
Goodnight.