Flashback

Flashback pictures from November 2007

How can you not love this little guy?

Fishing at Mt. Baldy trout ponds with gpa tractor. (Vincent is wearing Chris's childhood coat.)

Brotherly/Sisterly love at its finest.

Yippeee!

We have another thumbsucker! Love it, love it, love it.P.S. Thank you Caldwells for the awesome photo!

Gentry's Blessing

We blessed Gentry on November 8th and this is the only picture we took of the whole day. She is wearing the dress all three girls have worn for their blessing. I am sad that this is all we got of the day but glad to have at least gotten one, unlike Vincent. Fortunately, my wonderfully talented friend Stacey took other pictures which I will try and post.

This is us very rushed & very late for church.

Random Pics

The calm before the storm

This was just seconds after putting her in her car seat. Have no fear she started screaming moments after. Seriously though folks, how cute is this child? She has the chubbiest cheeks and chin ever!

Ahhh, to be young again. Here is Vincent on the kitchen floor with the latest toy catalog. He is studying it very carefully just like I remember doing with my brother & sister every Christmas.

Okay, so now this is getting out of hand. Seriously, someone is going to break the free swing we were given years ago that I am looking so forward to trashing after this last baby uses it - do not take that away from me.
Give this girl an apron
When Hadley puts on her cleaning apron she goes to town. She cleans everything she can find and keeps asking me what she can help with. Here she is displaying the cleaned up playroom. (Do you want to guess if the joker next to her helped?)

Just A Typical Saturday

I don't know what Saturday's look like at your house but here we do it in style. And yes, those are Lauren's footed pajamas with shoes, Hadley is wearing a hat and mittens, while Vincent has on shorts and a tee.

Halloween 2009

We went to an awesome pumpkin patch that had tons of rides & games.

Here is Lauren enjoying a 25 cent ride.

Here she is pointing to the machine, asking daddy for another quarter.

Daddy saying, '"No more quarters." (It looks like there were some negotiation going on)

We all remember what it was like as kids, you're dressed, all ready to go get candy & then Mom remembers she wants a picture. First she has to find the camera, find good lighting, wait for a good pose - enough already - we want candy NOW! Well, I am not one of those moms (probably b/c I have never in my life seen a picture of myself at Halloween as a child.) This is it folks - as good as it gets. Two candystripers and a doctor.

Baby Toys

It's funny how excited little ones are to play with the baby gear. Today I found Lauren had crawled in the baby swing - oh, first she turned it on for herself. By the way, this child probably spent no more than 5 hours total in the swing when she was a baby!

Want to entertain your 20 month old for a loooong time? Get out the exersaucer and plop him/her in it.
P.S. As a side note, and for journaling purposes, I took Gentry to Target the other day and for the first time since 2004 and 3 other babies I actually kept her in the car seat and strapped it on the car seat. As I was walking in I couldn't believe how lucky I was that she was content enough to just sit there and I was not going to have to unbuckle/rebuckle her in the car later. I made a mental note and was so excited that we finally turned a corner and now I could be like other moms whose babies sit in their car seat. Weeeeell, no sooner than I thought this and got into the store she starts screaming! And if you have had the pleasure of hearing my last three children scream while in their car seats, you would know that it is a bloodcurdling scream that cannot be buffered by the shade cover or any number of blankets. Luckily I brought my sling and put her in and pulled the shopping cart the rest of the way.