Sarah - Maternity

I took some maternity pictures of Sarah a LONG time ago. I decided to share some, but I had to majorly compress them, which is altering the color and details (very frustrating). If anyone knows how to get images to look better on blogger let me know.


Isn't she beautiful? She had that "pregnancy glow" goin on.

Mr. and Mrs. Zack Jameson

Two weekends ago my sister got married in lovely Sante Fe. It was a small intimate wedding and was very beautiful.

The ceremony was in the Loretta Chapel, which is known for it's miraculous staircase. The chapel was gorgeous.



Beautiful bride










The reception/dinner was held at the Compound, the food was delicious and everyone there was so nice. The cool thing was that we were upstairs in a private room and our room opened into another private room in which they were holding a cast party for the movie "Paul". Jason Bateman (think arrrested development and Juno),Sigourney Weaver, Bill Hader (SNL), Kristin Wiig (SNL), and the guy from School of Rock that plays the brother, Ned, were all there. It was really neat. Seth Rogen is in the movie, but I never saw him so I am not sure that he was there.

Video guys are so silly.


Congrats Zack and Kate!

To Catch A Butterfly

First, locate a pretty butterfly.



Preferably, the butterfly should be among some brightly colored flowers.

Continue to move closer, keeping your fingers crossed that it will not fly away.

Voila

Favorite Moments

It is so easy to get busy each day and forget to enjoy the simple things my kids do that I love. Some of my favorite moments of the day are when I first get my kids out of bed in the morning and get them up after their naps. Madison is always standing up now, just waiting for Mommy. Gavin is always yelling "I want up", "I want Mommy" and always jumps up when I walk in and has big smiles for me. I love how excited they are so see me! Before too long Gavin will be in a big boy bed and coming and waking me up!


"I want up, I want up, I want up, I want up!"
He repeats things over and over for me.

Isn't his bed head cute?

The Fourth and random thoughts

Before I get to our fourth of July, let me just tell you a few things I have learned about two year olds:
1. Two year olds begin at least 90% of their sentences with "I want".
2. The other 10% consist of "NO" or in Gavin's case "No WAY!"
3. Two year olds discover bodily functions are funny. This might only be the case with boys, I guess I will find out soon enough!
4. Two year olds do not share ANYTHING that belongs to them with their siblings.
5. Two year olds think EVERYTHING belongs to them. This can include, but is not limited to, toys, food, people, furniture, and even entire rooms.
6. They like to eat on the go. I have to keep a close eye on Gavin when it comes to snack and meal time. Today I layed Madison down for her nap while he was eating lunch and came back to Gavin and an emtpy plate. Later I found his burrito on the bathroom counter. Gross.
7. They have great imaginations. Gavin was moving all the dining room chairs around and I almost stopped him, but he seemed to have a plan, and he did! He made a train out of our dining room chairs and the buffet. He lined them up one after another behind the buffet, put his stuffed animals in the back chairs and he held on to the buffet at the front and choo chooed. Isn't he smart?
8. Two year olds think they are smarter than you. Gavin gets stickers for going potty. Somtimes he will just sit down on his potty for maybe 2 seconds, then stand up, close the lid really fast, clap and say "yay" and expects a prize.
9. They can make you feel incredible joy. I never realized just how sweet the words "Nite, Nite Mommy, Love you" would be.


Our fourth of July was really fun. We went to the parade and Gavin really loved it. He figured out you were supposed to clap and wave at all the floats and Madison had just learned to clap, so she clapped to. Gav's favorite thing was watching the road sweepers that would follow the horses. After the parade we were planning on hanging out with our friends Shan and Daniel for the weekend, but sickness got in the way. Such a bummer. Instead, we took a family trip to Ruidoso and it was great. Hopefully I will post about it in the next week (or knowing me - month). Hope everyone else had a great holiday!

Watch Brandon's engagement on the news tonight!

On Sunday after he did the triathlon Brandon proposed to his girlfriend Michelle! It was a great surprise and Jordan filmed it all for him. Tonight they are talking about the triathlon on the news and are going to show the proposal so everyone should tune in!!

TWO!!

Can you believe Gavin is TWO??? We celebrated his birthday last week and since his party has been enjoying all his fun gifts. He mows the lawn probably 5 hours a day and gives us many concerts on his guitar. Since the party he has learned to say "cake" and chants it every day. This morning all I heard on the monitor was "cake, cake, cake, cake, CAAAAAKE (in a high pitch scream which he has also learned and will hopefully unlearn soon)......cake, cake, cake....". He had learned to say Aunt Kate a couple of weeks ago, but since then she has become Aunt Cake. I think the child likes cake.

The cake- Didn't Aunt Nories do great??

Birthday Boy
Thanks to Jon for bringing the construction hat

Gavin's cousin Olivia, such a cutie and she had just had her birthday so she helped Gavin figure out how to open presents
Jude and his granddad

Maddys BFF Annerson
We are off to family vacation tomorrow so I wanted to get a quick post in so I would not have tons of catching up to do when we come home.

On another note, Madison now has 2 teeth and learned how to say Dada. I think Camren taught her that at their playdate.

SUMMER!!

Gotta protect the eyes!!

She just melts my heart

Gavin LOVES the water

Already picking on his little sister

I love watching him have so much fun and doesn't this just capture how he runs?? He has his arm swing goin on.

I am so glad we have been having such pretty, warm days. Hope everyone else is enjoying it!

Jude Wootten

Yesterday I took some pictures of Laney and Jon's sweet baby Jude. I haven't had time to upload them all, but I wanted to post a couple for them to see. Isn't he precious??


Had to post a smile.

Just Madison

I love this girl!!!