Monday, March 29, 2010

The long awaited Grandparent blog update

I don’t have much to share, but this should buy me at least a week before hearing the question “when are you going to update your blog”.  Riiiiight??  :)

Eli is quite obsessed with his new cowboy boots that Gramamma bought for him.  I had stripped him down last night before bed and hadn’t gotten his jammies on yet.  Before I had a chance to, he found his boots and put them on (on the wrong feet, which made it even cuter in my opinion).  It was kind of warm in the house, so J.C. just put him to bed in his diaper and boots (daddies…. :)). 

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Strikin’ his modeling pose.

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Here’s a video of my sweet Tessa-girl.  She’s not doing anything spectacular, but I can’t get enough of her giggles.


And here’s one more pic for good measure.

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

I hate to brag, but….

I just can’t help myself.

Monday, February 22, 2010

This and That

So I’ve pretty much come to terms with the fact that this blog is going to strictly be a “please-come-oooh-and-aaah-over-my-kids” kind of space and not so much of a “come-read-my-hilarious-and-thought-provoking-commentary” kind of space (although we all know that was a stretch to begin with).  Really, the only reason I still post anything on here is that it’s as close to any form of scrapbooking or journaling that I’m ever gonna do and I need something that I can look back on one day to have some memories, ya know?  So, if you’re interested in following along, you’re more than welcome.  If not, I won’t hold it against you, because believe me, unless you’re a pretty close friend, I wouldn’t follow your blog if it were as boring and self-centered narrowly focused as this one.

Maybe one day when I have at least three whole seconds to rub together on a regular basis, then I’ll revisit the idea of actually blogging instead of just dumping pictures and videos.  Don’t hold your breath, though.

Enough self deprecation.  Moving on to the main subjects.

Tessa hangin’ out with mr. cutie pie, Grey.   Can we go ahead and arrange the marriage?  (kidding….. sort of.) IMG_0772 IMG_0778

Bath time fun.  Of course Tessa’s bath seat looks like the most awesome thing in the world to Eli (kind of like the exersaucer). IMG_0803

I just think Tessa looks really pretty in this picture.  Please don’t tell me if you disagree.

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We went to visit my friend Brooke the other day and Eli found an awesome mud puddle face-plant play in.IMG_0867

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Our biggest news lately is that Tessa has started crawling (what???).  Slow down, Mr. Time…

And here are a couple more videos for good measure.

Is it sick that I find that video funny?  Most parents would probably rescue their baby from the overly determined toddler, but not us.  No, we video and laugh. 

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Portraits

Eli – 20 months old
Tessa – 6 months old
J.C. and Lindsay – just old…..

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We coordinated our session with Chris and Rachel so that we could get some cousin shots. These actually didn’t turn out too bad considering that we were trying to pose three kids three and under. A feat that completely exhausted me….

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And here are the family shots.0108011501190124

Friday, January 22, 2010

Photo dump

As is usually the case, I don’t have much interesting commentary to share with you all today.  So, after much nagging gentle requesting from various members of my family, I’ll dump some of the pictures I’ve taken over the last few weeks.  Enjoy.   

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In case your thinking how great the quality of these pictures look (even though Tessa was not very thrilled about the picture taking experience…), I took them while playing around with my friend’s Nikon D90.  It’s pretty much my dream camera.  And in my dreams it shall remain.

Moving on.

Our human children usually hog all this here blog space, so I think our firstborn needs a little attention.  Isn’t she the sweetest?IMG_0467IMG_0472

Tessa’s first big girl bath!
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Eli loves lining up all his animals.  And for the record, the striped one in the middle is called a “Beebah”.  It’s his absolute fave.  I need to take him to the zoo soon so he can point out the real life beebah.
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Eli “helping” to take the Christmas tree down.IMG_0473

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“Hangin” with Ali at her gymnastics b’day party.IMG_0493
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I’m not sure why, but I think this is so sweet.  This is one of those images I’ll want burned in my memory in about 20 years.   IMG_0546

Tessa and Gram
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Such a smiley boy
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Daddy has some big shoes to fill, but Eli’s trying!IMG_0598

Day at the park
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One of my favorite pictures of all time.  Priceless.IMG_0726_1

Come back tomorrow (or maybe next week…) to see Eli and Tessa’s new portraits!