Monday, July 13, 2009

The last few weeks...

It's been awhile since I have posted. Life gets so busy sometimes it is hard to keep up with everything that I need to. I went through all my pictures and picked out only my very favorites... well 50 pictures later I decided that I really shouldn't do a blog post of 50 pictures. So I have just picked a few and will add a little more commentary than usual.

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Julia experiencing an ice cream cone for the first time. She LOVES them. It's so cute. Another child with a sweet tooth. We'll blame that one on Christian!


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Christian's brother Brent and his wife Kimberly and there three beautiful girls, Chance, Reese and Delainey visited with us overnight on their way from TX to CA. It was a lot of fun to see them and get to hang out a bit. The girls had so much fun. Delainey is 6 months older than Julia but they are about the same size. It was fun to see them play together. Eliana and Reese are about 4 months apart (Reese is older) and they also had fun . Chance took time to play with and read to Eliana and she really loved it. She keeps talking about her cousin Chance.
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Beautiful blue-eyed cousins

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Eliana and Reese had almost matching pj's.


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Eliana and Dean did Kindergym together. Eliana loved it and has some natural talent. She is definitely built like a gymnast and has the energy for it.

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Eliana has been in swimming lessons for 4 weeks so far and has two more. They meet 4 times a week and she loves it. She is such a fish. She can swim now with her head above water. (She use to only swim under water)

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Christian had his 30th Birthday! We had a fun day. I made him a bundt breakfast cake and then made him an argentine dinner. We love Christian so much! He is such an amazing husband and father!
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I just can't help myself. The other day I was playing with Julia and had to get out my camera. I got a bunch of great shots, here is just one of my favorites. She is growing so fast. She is into everything these days and loves to climb. If I don't have my eyes on her every second she is likely to be climbing up something or doing something dangerous! The following picture shows one of her favorite places to be!
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Eliana has had lots of fun play dates with friends. Here she an Bethie were doing a fashion show and wanted me to take pictures. I told them to do something cute and this is what Eliana does... interesting.
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Having a messy playdate with Madeline. (Thanks for the inspiration Gina!)
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Playing in the water at the Phoenix Zoo. And yes, Eliana is having the water spray straight onto her bum.
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Our garden is growing! Here are some squash we ate for dinner last night! Yum Yum!
Gotta go get Jewels... will have to add more later :)!

7 comments:

Summer said...

What a fun time. I love reading about your family and seeing how you capture the moments.

Brooke Colvin said...

Cute pictures. Of course, with you, all of your pictures are cute! Gotta love the toddler climbing stage :)

LaCee said...

Looks like you've been busy!

Newman Family said...

You have been busy. That Squash looks great. I think you must have a green thumb.

Amanda said...

Love the zoo pic, silly girl. :)

Rebecca said...

Looks like you guys are having a fun, busy summer! I am also impressed that you were able to grow some squash. Blaine and I planted some tomatoes, peppers, and stevia. I thought the stevia was a different kind of tomato but it is actually a natural sweetener. Our tomato plant already has two tomatoes. I am so excited!

Candace said...

I love all the pictures!! Not only are they always so beautiful, but it's fun to see you guys!