BBB's New Born Pics

For a baby gift, my friend Alison Jensen, a professional and well-known photographer around here, gave me free newborn pictures of baby Boyd. I was flabbergasted when she offered to shoot the pictures, because I know how much she is worth!  

The photo session with Alison was so casual and fun. It was so fun molding Boyd like a little play dough ball into all these little squishy positions.  As a person that enjoys taking photos myself, it was fun to get some tips from an experienced photographer on newborn photo shoots.


I love the way the pictures turned out. I can't decide which one to put on my wall! The one with my grandma's old chair turned out amazing. It was the first thing that Alison noticed when she walked in my house.  I would have never guessed it would turn out so cool, but the photo with the chair is my favorite picture from the session.

I personally find dried up umbilical chords pretty nasty, so I didn't want too many shots with his umbilical chord showing, but I still love the way this one turned out with the cool design of the rug in the background and his little naked bumby. 

I couldn't believe that Buster didn't even pee once while doing the birthday suit shots. This boy seriously peed on every nurse that changed his diaper in the hospital, and one nurse he peed on like four times in a row! Poor girl. Needless to say, I was very grateful that he didn't pee on the photographer. 

I love this photo, in spite of the fact that I hadn't washed my hair in like five days and I look totally greasy and tired. I kind of forgot that she might be taking pics of me too otherwise I might have actually showered, but I still love it, because the Buster-babe looks totally squishy and cute. Oh man. I love that little babe.

Alison did a blog on the photo shoot of Buster, if your interested you can check it out. 

Fourth of July at North Bend, Magical as Always.

I have no time to write, but pictures are worth a thousand words right, and they tell the story of our magical fourth of July good enough. Happy belated 4th America.

  I love how Warner is pointing the gun at himself in this picture, totally unaware. He had a rude awakening when he pulled the plastic, orange, trigger.

 Every ready to catch a ball.

A visit from the Las Vegas Toe Heads

Here's what we hit up all in one day:

The Ballard Locks (one of our favorite Seattle destinations). Its always fun to see the size of some of the boats that pass through the locks, and it was such a beautiful day so it was just fun to be outside. We also caught a glimpse of some baby salmons which was fun. 

(Note: all of the below pics of Seattle were taken from the internet, because we forgot to take our camera) 

Pike Place Market

With six kids under the age of 6 years old, this was just a quick walk through, but its always fun to watch the guys throw the fish and to see some of the hideous dead fishes that they have on display. 

 The International Fountain in the Seattle Center

We spent the most time here. The kids loved it. And all of us loved basking in the hot sun.  The day before Jude came to hang out, I said "Yea, we should totally go do fun stuff in Seattle, its supposed to be a super hot day". She said "Really? How hot is it supposed to be?" I then replied that it was supposed to be around 75 degrees. Then my sister who left her 105 degree weather in Las Vegas to come to Seattle simply laughed. :) I guess hot is completely relative isn't it? 

Safeco Field

To end off a great day Jeff and Jaron took the two girls to a Mariners game, which suprise suprise, the Mariners actually won. Wahoo. While they were at the game Jude and I came back to mi casa to chill and eat. It felt so good to sit and eat and chat and lounge on comfy couches after such a fun long day.

Liv and Warner both had so much fun with their cousins. Lexi was so cute with the baby, she wanted to hold him as much as she could.  What a cutie.

Come back soon Jude. It was so fun seeing you and Jeff and the kids.

Life with 3

I have to say thus far the transition from two to three has been much easier for me than the transition from one to two. Recovery gets easier and easier with each baby, and this is my first time to have a baby in the summer time, so colds and sickness isn't as much of a worry. And furthermore Susan, it has been quite sunny, and it just seems like its easier to recover from childbirth when the sun is shining doesn't it? 

Olivia and Warner are adjusting wonderfully to Buster/Fred/Boyd/Warner (yes Warner calls him Warner).  They have their usual fights and quarrels but for the most part my life isn't too hard, because when I feed the baby, Liv and Warner have each other to entertain. They really are getting to be quite good friends, which is so fun to watch. In fact, today after putting both kids in their beds for a nap, I heard Warner call out from the next room "Nie Nie Oweea, I O you" (Night night Olivia I love you). It was pretty sweet.   

These last two weeks have been dreamy, all accept for the dreaming part, which is kind of non-existent since baby Brown likes to wake up every couple of hours and eat, but honestly, I don't really mind the lack of shut-eye since he's so cute and fun to spend time with. He is worth waking up for.

One downside to having three kids is that now there is more stuff to cart around, which means things get forgotten. Last week we did a lot of fun things with Jaron off of work, and I have no real documentation of it, because well, because we forgot our camera every time we got in the car. 

Speaking of Jaron being off work, he is an angel. I'll be honest I was a little worried we might get sick of each other, being around each other so much when we aren't used to it any more, but it was not the case at all.  But then again how can you get sick of someone who is constantly busying himself with keeping kids happy, doing dishes, mowing the lawn, grocery shopping, sweeping floors, and filling up endless cups of ice water for a thirst-crazy nursing woman? I fell in love with the man all over again, and now I'm going through major Jaron withdrawals, as are the kids who got used to dad being around all the time. 

I'm grateful for my little family, and so happy to all the help we have received over the past few weeks. I feel so blessed to be a part of a church, where people are so willing to help and to serve.

Keep you eyes peeled for some more posts on a visit from Judy and our fourth of July. :)

Happy Thursday to you friends.

Sweet dreams my Baby Buster

If I had my bet, he is dreaming about eating. If Jaron had his bet, he's dreaming about surfing. If Liv had her bet he's dreaming about a fairy land where suckers grow like flowers out of the ground. if Warner had his bet, he's dreaming about throwing something, anything, a basketball, a rock, a baseball. What do you think this babe is dreaming about that makes him smile so big and get all sorts of crazy eyes?

(Video credit to my mom who diligently waited for a moment like this to happen with her camera in hand).