Relay for Life

We joined my cousin (Dr. Christ Mule) and his family for the Relay for Life in Salinas in June. We had a lot of fun. Christopher loves hanging out with his cousins.

The booth. The theme was fighting lung cancer.

Christopher was asking for these candies ALL morning.

The boys going for a walk. Getting Christopher out of the tent to work off some energy.

Some of the awesome shirts that they made for the event to sell.

Momma, please??? Just one?

Most popular shirt of the day

He was very committed to his cause

We stayed till bedtime. Walked the track a lot (maybe too much for being pregnant). Had a great time. The booth won best theme. It was great, every year. David went back in the middle of the night to keep the walking going and help out at one of the cancer booths making coffee for volunteers. We do what we can with a 2 1/2 year old.

El Dorado Visit

We went up to El Dorado the beginning of June to visit my brother and his family. We had a great time and as usual, the kids played really well together.

The kids played a lot on this mat they have, set up as a slide. They loved it. Up and down, up and down, over and over and over again!

The smiles are the best

And then some reading time with Grandma

On Sunday night, we did a little birthday party for Emmy and Cole's 2nd birthday. Mmmm cupcakes.

Gone!

Yummy!

And we can't forget Tucker and his sock!

Overall, it was a great weekend. I love getting the kids together and of course getting together with the entire family. It will be fun to see the 3 older cousins with the baby. 

Oh, and Saturday, Grandma, Grandpa, David and I, took all three kids to the library for reading time. I have pics on my phone, but just need to upload them. To be added later :)

Baby #2

I know, I'm behind, way behind. It might be because we have so much on our plate with a new baby on the way. And I haven't posted anything about it.

Here's (obviously) how it all started back in the beginning of March

Yep, pregnant (and I think I took more after this!)

8 Week Ultrasound Pictures

Perfect little baby...

17 Week Bump

Another 17 Week-ish Bump shot

20 Week Ultrasound - It's a boy!

I think this was 20 weeks

23 weeks

24 weeks

We have another ultrasound at 28 weeks so hopefully more pictures and maybe a video to post then.

Due date is 11/11/2011, right after Christopher's 3rd birthday.

Swimming Lessons

I'm super late with these so just the photos...

Practicing blowing bubbles

Practicing kicking

Our 3 boys

Sometimes it feels as though we have 3 children. We sort of do. Christopher wanted to take photos with the dogs, but I wasn't sure how it would work out. Spartan is fairly easy, Cody is fairly easily distracted.

Spartan started very into the birds

Cody was more into the lights coming off my camera. It has a green light that goes off right before it takes a photo and Cody can see it and he'll chase it. It makes for photo-taking time to be somewhat interesting.

We started with just Cody

Then got Spartan in on it

Every few shots, Cody would get up, excited to see the light. I'd get him to lay down where ever he was, Christopher would move over to him, then I'd drag Spartan (who wouldn't move a muscle) to Christopher. We did this 3 or 4 times as you can see them move as the picture progress.

Christopher is VERY excited, dogs are semi-distracted.

Better...

Ooops, we've shifted.

I've lost the dogs attention

I've lost them all.

Christopher decided to go in for the hug

And got a kiss as a result

And the winning shot

Love these boys! I love how much Christopher loves the dogs. He really does. He's comfortable around them, they are, obviously, great with him.