Happy Birthday, Chaz & Nolan!

Can you believe those little monkey butts are one??? I sure can't! 2011 has gone by WAY faster than 2010 for me!

I know this picture is really poor quality...but Joy, Laura, & Mark...just look so silly looking up at Luke I had to post!

Braden had a toy camera and was taking pictures of everyone saying "Cheese!"

Not my best work, but #1 cakes with brown fondant accents for the boys!

And one of me and my special little guy...

Last year:

This year:

While I'm posting about my nephews...I'll share some pics that I took of these beautiful kiddos last week!

And the many faces of Danika:

Another Visit With His Cousins

We've been really busy this July and haven't seen them since our family pictures in June! You can REALLY see how big the twins have got! Braden is taller and has a few pounds on them, but when they were sitting down you could hardly tell the size difference, especially cuz Chaz has a pretty big noggin! :) Also, I know they all look really impressed, but the fact that they all stood still is a small miracle!

Also note the cute onesies I bought the boys from our Vegas trip.

And Danika had to join in too!

Nolan


And just some random stuff from this morning... Braden often carries around a picture of the Huskas that I have framed when Sophia was a newborn and he says "baby baby!" It's very cute!

And here's a video of him dancing to his fridge Leap Frog toy!

Have a great weekend! Ben and Jess are on their way after work today and we're so excited to have them!

A Visit with the Raytons

As Murphy's Law would have it, the weather was beautiful yesterday morning - meaning Jay could go work. This is a good thing, but I was hoping to have him home until after lunch so I could have a good sleep after my night shift. I told him to just stay home until he put Braden down for his nap as if Braden has 2 naps a day he wakes up from the 1st at around 12 or later which would be perfect. So Jay puts Braden down at 9:30 and wouldn't ya know, the child who loves to sleep woke up super early before 11! So I barely got 2 hours of sleep after working all night. Eesh. Makes for grumpy Mommy and Braden was grumpy too from lack of a good nap. So instead of enjoying each other's misery at home, we decided to go to Joy's house!  You see, I just can't be grumpy in front of my niece and nephews!

It's just way too easy to take pics with my iPod!

Strike a pose!

Cuddles with mom

And Mr. Nolan wakes up from his nap, he's always SO happy and giggly, very content like Braden!


hehe, don't you get a kick out of this one?

Then after a long while, Chaz woke up from his nap too

Braden had a good nap at Joy's, as always, and was trying to escape pretty much the minute I got him up.

Bear with me, with the changes to the blog, I plan to add a few more pages to it too!

An Update on the Boys!

I had the pleasure of visiting the boys when they were 3.5ish weeks old and also on New Year's day when they were just shy of 4 weeks old. They are one month old on Wednesday already! They are growing beautifully as you will be able to tell in the pictures! Enough talking...and on with the pictures!

Mr. Chaz man was most awake when they were 3.5ish weeks....(check out the hurricane swirl)

And Miss Danika always has to be in pictures too, so sweet!

Snuggles for Auntie!

Meanwhile, Nolan was having snuggles with Grandma,

Even though he was snoozing, I had to steal him to take some pictures!

I loooooove this picture!:

Chaz is was 6 lbs 15 oz and 20" and Nolan is 7 lbs 1 oz and 19". I miiiight be wrong on the lengths, but I know for sure Chaz weighs a bit less but is a full inch longer! Nolan & Chaz:

I love the little look on Chaz's face!

And here they are on New Year's day, I put Chaz on the play mat, just like I used to do with Braden:

And Nolan was awake this time...clearly not too impressed to be sharing the spotlight with his big sister! :)

Well, that's better!

Hope you enjoy all the pictures!