A Small Accident....

Joel let me sleep in a little this morning. Asia needed a diaper change, so Joel asked her to go get a diaper and wipes from her bedroom. About 5 minutes later he realizes she hadn't come back out...she had gotten ahold of the diaper rash cream.

All About Gage

So you might be wondering, "What does this Rockstar look like??" Well...he is tied with his sister for the most beautiful baby in the world title. Okay, okay; every parent says that.

Gage will be 9 weeks old this Wednesday, and he smiles all the time. In fact, he laughed for the first time tonight! It is such a wonderful feeling when your child smiles just because he hears your voice. It's also wonderful when he can go 6-8 hours at night between feedings! He loves his swing with the birdies, and puts up with big sis beating on him day and night. If she only understood that one day he'll get her back!

In good tradition, we took head shots of Gage on the white blanket my mom made us when I was pregnant with Asia. These, or ones similiar, will be turned into black and white 8x10's for our big wall. We just need to get updated pics of Asia...when we have the time...

A Trip to the Park!

I've posted about this park before...the one that has the water sprinkler area, and the sidewalk right next to the lake...and the huge play area...

Well, we took Asia and Gage there a couple weeks back, and had lots of fun. Asia loves bridges (in the jungle gym) and kept running back and forth on them...in fact that's all she really wanted to do. She cried when we left to eat. We found a spot under a nice shady tree and ate our bologna/turkey sandwiches. Then we took her to play in the water - both the lake and in the sprinklers. Gage was asleep the whole time.

Off we go!

Helping carry lunch.

More from the Lake

A couple weekends after Memorial Day, we went back down to the lake so that Joel could help his dad finish the stairs down to the lake, and put the dock in...another relaxing weekend!

Except when the Tornado sirens went off and Joel and his dad were moving the pontoon in the water and his mom and I had no way of contacting them... Praise the Lord they weren't hurt!

After a hard days work.

After the storm.

Done! Except for the railings of course...

Memorial Day Weekend

We spent the weekend at Joel's parent's lake house...

We celebrated Claire's 1st, Alyson's and Jay's birthday, spent time swimming, and lots of time eating and hanging out. Here's some of the fun!

The birthday girl!

Socks!

Mmmm...cupcakes.

Even as her mom....this is gross...and yeah - it's 3/4 of the cupcake!

She really loves her brother!

Gage is 4 weeks old.

No Time...

For those of you that check our blog regularly, or at least used to....we haven't had much time to update...

I had it set in my mind that I was going to update last Wednesday night, FINALLY, but then I learned that we were going to be showing our house Thursday night, and we had LOTS of work to do to get ready! This is the first time I've had since then to sit down and look thru our pictures to post and explain what's been going on with us, since a lot is changing.

Well...I just spent all of my "blog" time, signing up for Facebook. I'd gotten lots of invites to join, and I guess I finally got one to many, that I decided it's time to sign up (thanks Ryan). I've got to say...WOW - there were a lot more people that we know than I was expecting to see.

So the plan for tonight, is to post a REAL update on our lives. We'll see how it goes.