Friday, July 8, 2011

Max's 3 year pics with 117 Photography!

We went and had Max's 3 yr pics done last Thursday in Arlington Town Square by Mrs. Julie with 117 Photography!!! I must say she did such an AWESOME job!! There are so many cute ones to pick from! I have no idea how I am going to decide!!!

You must go check her out http://blog.117photography.com/

Max did so great too! He was so well behaved and just smiled and modeled like he had been doing it forever!! We didn't even attempt to have professional pics done last year so I am so thrilled to see all the great pics I have to choose from this year!
And if you want to visit the online gallery to see ALL of Max's pics email me and I will give you the passcode! Thanks SO MUCH Julie!!! You truly have a gift and we are so glad you used it on one of our little blessings! God is so good!!!



Thursday, July 7, 2011

Zoo Trip with Friends!

We joined some of our dear friends Tracy (her kids Andrew and Caroline) and Amy (her kids Charlie and Emily) today!

I was getting us all ready and realized that Craig had both strollers and baby bjorn in the back of my car which was with him at work! UGH! So my next option and really only one was the wagon! It ended up working out great for the most part...
I know Emery had a great time but Max was a little overwhelmed for some reason :( He didn't really get out of the wagon to play or look at the animals!

Except for the BIRDS!! He was all about it!! He wanted to catch a blue one of course and with a little help from me...We DID it!!! Yeah! Thanks to Tracy for snapping a cute pic of Max and me!! Always nice to have friends to take a few pics so one day Max can see that I was actually there....LOL!

Andrew got a bird too!! Such a lil cutie!!

And Emily did too!! Sweet lil girl!

Emery didn't get her usual naps today so she tuckered out on the way home!! Even snacking and drinking!! I love how her hand is still in the snack cup!! LOL

We made it to the car just in time for the rain to start!! At least we got a semi cooler day for the zoo! Thanks Tracy and Amy for the invite!!! We had a great time!


Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Playdate with Noah!

What a super fun day we had with our dear friend Noah!! Just to warn you this will be a very long post! There were so many pictures I just couldn't decide on a few.....

We picked Noah up this morning for Max and him to have some playtime! Noah's poor mommy broke her wrist (you can find out all about that at http://duffyclan.blogspot.com/ if you would like too...she has some pretty crazy pics). The ride to our house was so funny! The boys were just talking away to each other about anything and everything! I wish I could have recorded it!Anyways, we started off playing in the playroom and once they destroyed that we played some pitch back in the dining room (aka playroom 2)!
They had a BLAST throwing out ALL the balls!! I think only a few of them actually bounced back to them! LOL

Good thing the boys like clean up! We gathered the balls up in bags and sang the clean up song while we did it! Of course it may have helped that I told the boys the water slide was all ready for them!!

The boys couldn't get out the door fast enough! I had to make them come back inside so that we could get their swimsuits and sunscreen on! Oops! Guess they forgot about that part! They were just so excited to go play on it! So a little funny...while putting on Noah's sunscreen I noticed he had a bite mark on him. I asked him what happened and he said "Maggie (his baby sister) bit me and my daddy bit her back"! I thought that was hilarious! Just to clear things up their daddy didn't bit Maggie back but Noah wanted him too! LOL

Noah was trying to "get" Max as he came down the slide! It was too cute how he told me to "shhhhh, I gonna get him!"

It wasn't long before the boys were ready for a snack!! Chex mix and BLUE drinks!!!



Here they are taking turns squirting each other in the face before they slide down! I mean these boys really came up with all sorts of fun things to do on the water slide!

WATER FIGHT!!!!!

And now for a little lunch....I asked the boys what they wanted for lunch and they told me peanut butter sandwiches! So I threw together a peanut butter sandwich, grapes, and some Cheetos! When I brought their lunch out Noah informed me that he didn't like peanut butter sandwiches....too funny because that was the FIRST thing he ate off his plate!

OH NO!!! We have Cheetos fingers!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Some serious lunch talk.....

So I probably should have reapplied sunscreen before they headed back to the slide but I forgot...good thing they only got a little pink :( Sorry Candice!! They were just having such a great time and I honestly didn't think they would play on the slide for over an hour!!

They def got BRAVE after a while! They were running up the slide and jumping about halfway down to go flying into the water at the bottom!

Got some crazy shots of them flying down!

Then they decided it would be FUN to drop from the ladder down into the big pool of water!

Noah kept saying "Watch me Mommy or Look at me Mommy!" and Max would say "Noah, that is not your Mommy, your Mommy is at home" or he would say" Noah that is my mommy, that is Miss Jenny to you!" LOL These boys kept me laughing today!

They did get in a little basketball!!!


Miss Emery woke up from her nap in time to watch the boys play a little.....

she was much more interested in her bottle though.....ha!

Since Emery woke up and the boys were looking a little pink...I talked them into coming inside to play HOCKEY!!! Wahoo! I let them run around in their diapers so that they would be completely dry!

And I think they look adorable even if they are 3 (well Noah has a few more weeks) and should be probably potty trained....but neither one of them really has ANY interest!! Maybe they will very very soon!!!

Max played some goalie and actually blocked a few shots! Noah was quite the little hockey player! He was slamming those balls in the goal!

I think Max was sad he was so good so he decided to get out the bowling ball game!

Well, it just so happened that Noah was quite the little bowler too! He got 2 strikes right off!! Go Noah Go!!! Notice how Max is standing watching like...ugh....he is good at this too!!!

Then when it was Max's turn Noah tried to stand like him when Max was waiting! Ha! It was so funny seeing him reposition himself to try and stand the same way!

Love Max's pose here!! He really gets into it! He is quite the bowler too!

Emery wasn't so sure about the boys getting all my attention so she had to show me a cute pose....

and another....she was laughing and cutting up in the ball pit while we were doing the bowling right next to her! It really was so stinking cute to see her trying to get my attention!

I think the boys were starting to get tired here...notice Noah up top and Max sitting down to bowl now...

Love this pic too! They were talking and laughing about something! So sweet!

And moving on to Don't Break the Ice Game....or in Max and Noah's world BREAK THE ICE!!!!

We actually had to get this game because Max had played it at Noah's house a while back! The boys had a blast counting 1-2-3 and then they would race to get all the ice knocked out! Such silly little boys!

And we are back to the playroom....playing UNO farm game!

Sweet sweet little boys!!! Love love love this pic of them!

After a few more games and we finally got dressed it was time to take Noah home! BOO!! We really had such a FUN day with our little friend! We are already planning on having him over again next week to give his Mommy another little break and to have some more FUN!!! I look forward to many many more memories with him!!!


My lil helper...

Little Miss Emery is pulling up on EVERYTHING these days....

She thought she would help me with a load of laundry....
Too bad she was taking the clean WET items out of the dryer as I was putting them in....

Ha..ha! She thought it was hilarious!!! Gotta love my lil girl!!