new family drawing yet again! LOL

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yup that's correct....we are expecting baby #3!!! yes you are also correct that taylor is only 9 months old, and no this was not a big huge accident. we are really that crazy! LOL taylor has been such a wonderful easy going baby we figured we would not avoid anything and just let the next one come whenever it was ready. honestly i did not expect it to happen the very next month but guess life is full of suprises. we are due the end of june and taylor will be 15-6 months old. landen will be a few months past 4 yrs. we are not going to find out the gender of this one since we already have boy and girl stuff on hand. guess that means we will need two names going with us to the hospital, so any suggestions that sound good with landen and taylor would be greatly appreciated. hope you all enjoy this ride that is about to get very crazy!!!

we look forward to the new adventure in our lives and cant wait for the little thing to get here!

2009 family pictures

have i mentioned before how much i love the fact that one of my best friends happens to be a professional photographer?? it's soo nice being able to get awesome quality pictures done and know the person doing them and her knowing me enough to know exactly what moments i want her to capture on film! well last month we had family pictures done since we hadnt done them since taylor was 2 months old. its sooo much nicer to have them done by an actual photographer compared to just going to the mall and paying JCPenney's to click the camera (not complaining about them, especially since my sister works there now, but its just different). so here are a few of my favorites from the one hour photo shoot. and feel free to contact me for info for the photographer. im sure she would love some extra business!!
temporarily on hold with the pics, they are too big so i gotta shrink em down.

we are still alive!

so the past month has been kinda hectic around here. and with the decent camera still MIA, i havent been taking many pictures. on a good note, i have my laptop back up and running. my wonderful step-dad had a laptop that died and just so happened his screen would fit on my laptop so he gave it to me. so now i am mobile! i do have super cute pics of the kids in their halloween costumes to put up, but they're on the other computer. so i guess this is just a quick one to let everyone out there that reads this, that im still alive. i will try to get up to date in the next couple days. and with pictures as soon as my new memory card comes in the mail!

we are moving now!

taylor is offically 8 months old today and she is so much fun. recently she has learned to do the army crawl and is very much enjoying her new found independence. she loves to follow the cat around and pet on his and tug on him. and maxx is so good with her and tolerates her torture.
how do kids manage to grow up soo fast?? it seems impossible that this little girl is already 8 months old! didn't i just have her like two months ago?? it's not fair! she's going to be a year old in no time at all! someone please make it stop, or at least slow down.

i had to run upstairs the other day and asked landen if he could keep an eye on taylor for me. he was more than happy to help out and was so careful to make sure she didnt fall off the couch. how cute is this!!
taylor wasn't so sure what exactly was going on here. but how cute is this pic? this is why woman are crazy enough to go through pregnancy and child birth more than once!

just hanging out around the house

my little sister is my idol when it comes to taking pictures of just random nothingness. not that she takes bad pictures, but she ALWAYS has her camera handly and gets adorable pictures of stuff from just hanging out. since i lost my nice camera (more like got stolen!!) a while ago, i have been using out old crusty 3.2 mega pixal one from forever ago. but i have been keeping it downstairs and trying to take pictures more often. poor taylor is going to think we didnt embrace technology cause we only have her professional pictures. so here i am trying to capture some cute moments.
it has been amazing to see how much landen has grown to love his little sister. he is a very rough and tumble little boy, so when we were pregnant we were really worried about him being too rough with the baby and hurting her. but he is sooo gently and protective of taylor! he always wants to check on her when he hears her cry and always tries to entertain her with toys when im busy doing something. they are soo much fun!
one of his favorite things to do is blow raspberries on her little tummy. he always is asking to blow bubbles on her especially if he catches sight on some flesh. taylor doesnt really love the idea, but she doesnt complain either. i know he would really love doing it to her if it made her crack up. maybe later down the road she will start to get more ticklish.
just a random pic of landen watching a movie. now that we dont have cable we watch movies all the time. always cartoon ones or disney ones, but a movie none the less. luckily he has grown out of the phase where he wants to watch the same one over and over again. he still has his favorites of course, but at least we get to see a little variety.

they'll hate me when they're older

So one night last week my sister called me up and asked if i'd be willing to babysit AJ for her while her and her hubby went out to dinner for a little date night. of course i was more than happy to watch him. they left me food for him and said if he gets cranky usually a bath will calm him down. well he didn't get cranky at all, but the idea of TWO naked babies in the bath was just too much for me to handle.
isn't he just the cutest little guy you've ever seen? it was so cute cause he kept pushing the water faucet over to taylors side of the sink. he was just having a great time!taylor looks kinda drunk in the picture, but she was having a great time as well. just remember not to add any baby soap to the water as it's running cause it makes for very slippery baby butts.
landen thought the idea of taking a bath in the kitchen sick was awesome. he kept asking if he could get in there with the babies. we told him he was too big and that there's wasnt enough room for him to fit in with them. lately we have been having the hardest time to get him to eat his meals so joe told him if he finished his dinner before the babies were done with their bath that he could get in there too. we KNEW he wouldnt get done in time, but he had some serious motivation!!
i swear i do my dishes on a daily basis, but i didn't get much time after cooking and eating dinner before landen was naked and attempting to climb into the sink. i quickly got one side emptied out and he was set!
he thought this was sooo much fun! luckily he has forgotten about the bathing in the sink issue, cause i was soo sure he was going to want to start taking his bath here on a regular basis. ill just be sure not to show him the picture reminders!

my little california surfer girl

the post is a little late (like a month and a half) but the pictures are from when she was six months old. sine it was right in middle of the summer, we felt it was appropriate to do a beach them photo session. and what's the fun of a beach if you cant bare it all right!?!?


i seriously am in love with all my pictures that brooke does for me! she is so patient with trying to get taylor to smile and work with all the cute poses. im sure it helps that she has a super expensive camera and all the lighting and stuff too, but id like to think it helps that i have cute kids to start off with. i love how perfect her complexion is in the picture!


she wasn't at all interested in smiling during this photo session, but at least she wasn't making scary funky faces either. guess you gotta take what you can get when you're working with a baby.

and finally a crack of a smile! i love the faded colors in this one! i really like the color ones best where you can see her bright blue eyes, but these always look so neat too! for her seven months pictures brooke was sick, along with her kids too i think. so we had to go to JCPenny's instead. but i think they did a good job, and will be anxious to pick em up in a couple weeks and post em on here too!