Family Photos

Jacob's mom took some family photos for us today. It was too sunny when we took them, so a lot of them didn't turn out, but we had a few that I liked. Here are the ones that turned out ok:

This one is my favorite:

This was a really cute one of Naomi, but the rest of us looked terrible so I just cropped her out:

Just Jacob & me:

I don't know why, but I really like this one even though no one is looking & smiling:

This was the best one of Aleta:

And here's a few more that were decent:

Happy Birthday, Naomi!

On Thursday, my beautiful girl turned 2 years old! I can't believe how big she is! She looks more like a little girl and less like my baby... it makes me happy & sad at the same time.

We went to visit Jacob's parents for the weekend and had a birthday party for Naomi on Saturday. Everyone in the family who lives in Missouri was able to come! We brought bubbles for the kids, and they had fun playing with them outside for a while. Bubbles are pretty much Naomi's favorite thing in the world, so she loved it. She's not very good at blowing bubbles on her own, though, so her cousin Zo tried to help her--it was pretty adorable!





This picture I took of Naomi's cousin Adelyn is one of my favorites from the day:

Naomi got some pretty awesome presents, but she wasn't interested in opening them. She loves cameras--probably even a little more than she loves bubbles--so anytime someone is using a camera or video camera, she cares about nothing else. And of course I wanted a video and some photos of her opening her gifts, but as soon as she saw the cameras, she stopped caring about her presents. It's very frustrating... I try to video tape her and take her picture when she is doing cute things, but she stops doing everything as soon as she sees me. Her cousins were more than happy to help her open her presents, though!

She got a lot of clothes for the spring and summer, which she desperately needed, and some toys including a hula hoop and an awesome tea set which I am ridiculously excited about. We're going to have some pretty fun tea parties when we get home!

We left our main presents for her at home because they were pretty big. Jacob & I got her a little tikes table & chair set and a little tikes art easel (with a chalkboard on one side), both for way cheap off of craigslist. I was so excited... I gave her the table early, because she was awake when it was dropped off, and she has been having a lot of fun using it for coloring and other things.

For the rest of her party on Saturday we ate cake and ice cream and just hung out with the family. Naomi had a blast playing with her cousins. She loves playing with other kids, so she always has a great time when we get to see her cousins.




Aleta slept through the entire party--I'm not sure whether it's teething or something else, but for some reason she wasn't feeling well. She finally woke up and made an appearance around dinnertime. Even when she isn't feeling well, she is a cutie pie!

And the winner is...

Well, no one was actually able to get every one right! The game ended up being even a little harder than I had expected, which just made it that much more fun! :) Not even Jacob was able to guess every picture correctly! I think the closest person was Benjamin, who only got one wrong.

I've edited the post and put the correct answers by each picture. Thanks for playing my little game! :)

Who's that baby?

Naomi and Aleta look crazy-alike. If I don't label their baby photos, I won't be able to tell them apart in few years, especially since Aleta is wearing all of Naomi's hand-me-downs so we can't even use the clothing to tell them apart.

Can you tell who's who? There's a prize if you get them all right!

(Just kidding.)

1. Aleta

2. Aleta

3. Naomi

4. Aleta

5. Naomi

6. Naomi

7. Aleta

8. Naomi

9. Naomi

10.

Just kidding... that one's me. :)

Old phone videos

I have some cute videos of Naomi on my phone, but I've never had a way to save them to my computer. On our last visit to Odessa to see Jacob's family, I found out his mom had a way to get my videos and photos from my phone to her computer! So now that I finally have copies of them on the computer, I wanted to share some of my favorites...

Naomi loves to wear dresses, and she brought me a dress that she wanted to wear on this day, so I put it on over her dress and she started spinning in circles.


Before we owned any blocks, I made Naomi a bunch out of different sizes of cardboard boxes. Every time, she would stack them all until one fell, and then she'd get frustrated and hit/knock all of the rest onto the floor.


When she first started saying "Whee!" all the time.


Just running & being a crazy girl.