birthday boy. Jax.

UP jax on his first birthday:)

what a difference a year makes! - see birthday one here:)

JAX-MAN is TWO!!!!!

and possibly more feisty than ever;)

below are some photos from tonight's little Birthday Get-Together!:) - We also celebrated Nasher's upcoming Birthday (he turns 3 tomorrow) but I'll do a separate post for that kid tomorrow:)

UP jacob and I got Jax some new fatty's. Our tradition:)

i couldn't be there for Jax's 'official' Birthday on Saturday BUT I was able to get a delivery to him that day...a box of Lucky Charms and a Balloon. He then bit the balloon and it popped and he proceeded to cry for 15 minutes.
Birthday Mission: Accomplished;)


happy birthday to the little guy we all thought would be so much chiller than his older bro, Luke. We thought wrong. DEAD.WRONG;)


Happy Birthday Jax-Man!!! We love your crazzzzzzyyyy ass:):)

daily happenings:)

UP/DOWN L being his adorable self. On this particular day...the kids allowed Mal and I to sit and have a glass off coffee. NO crying. NO freaking out. It was actually...quiet!?

It was a good day:)

no description really needed here. Just a bunch of cute shots of the kiddo's:)

UP jax wearing Mal's hat...and being adorable (behaving;) while I refill my coffee:)

UP/DOWN nasher and T riding their little scooters around in the kitchen. T was obviously a hard ass that day!!!:) And Nash is really not known to pose for photos...so I took advantage of him saying 'cheeeeeseeeee' for once;)

UP jacob and I before I left for my night out on the town:)

UP me 'resting' at work. I'm not going to lie. I'm now just over 6.5mths pregnant and the last few weeks have brought on some serious napping. No kidding around here. I'm TIRED.

wow...our happenings are quite boring. I'll try to spruce it up next time;)

daily happenings:)

a lot of my spare time is spent taking photos of these kiddo's right here. I need to put some of that photo-taking energy into taking pictures of everything else too...until then...:)

UP on rare occasions, I get to wake baby Drew up from a nap and those are the most snugly times and the times when her hair is the weirdest. She's so freaking adorable:) Here I am taking photos of her eating Lucky Charms, while I eat Lucky Charms:)

UP the biggest personalities in our niece/nephew bunch right here;) The boys saying bye to me through the window;)

UP luke with his headphones on, playing with mom's iPhone:) It gets intense.

UP jacob and I and my 3rd kitty cocktail. mmmm:)

last night, before the above photo was taken of Jacob and I at a Wedding Reception, my sister and I went and registered for this child...the one in me:)

after 2 hours and 2 dead register gun batteries...we got it. Unfortunately, everything was picked over because of the New Year's sales...SO I'll have to go back and re register in a few weeks. Which is totally fine. Then Jacob gets a chance to go (I haven't broken this 'good' news to him yet;).

i had prepared myself prior to going down. I thought that there was probably a pretty likely chance I would cry. Cause apparently that's what I do;) But it really wasn't so bad. As I saw other couples wandering around - registering for stupid stuff they wouldn't need;) - Mal lead me to exactly what I would need. Which made me feel WAY better about the idea of those other couples thinking I had no baby daddy;)

in the end, I learned that I need to work on my listening skills.

As Mal went on and on and onnnnnn about the need for this certain paste for something on the baby's body...me and Luke shot each other with the register gun;) When Jacob and I talked about the experience later, I was only able to tell him that babies need a lot of 'stuff' and there would have been NO way we could have registered on our own cause we would have printed off a list with candy and cute socks on it.

POINT: we are registered. And in no way does that mean we are any more prepared for this baby than before. Excited though?!...hell yes:)

iphone photo daily.

on my Friday's off, I often get to have coffee in the mornings (aka. mid morning...10-ish;) with my sister, Mal and her little boys!!

above is Jax-Man...waiting for us to head out on our walk:)

signs of summer:)

and as summer gets into full swing...so do the kids' activities. Obviously, I can just come and go as I please...but I'm sure this time of year is CA-Razzzzzy for Courts and Dave!

UP austyn at a Tball game!:) SO adorable! And seriously...I'd call her 'running' - prancing. This girl is...all girl!!!!

UP jax-man

SHHHHH: tball is SO boring. Don't get me wrong...I love being there to cheer the kids on (I'm convinced they love the yelling and clapping;)! But I show up about 30min. late and it STILL seems like it drags on all night. It's not what I'd call the most action packed/on the edge of your seat sport;)

as long as they enjoy it!

one for JaxMan:)

i'm not sure how it happened but Jax...or Jax-Man...or J-Man....or Jaxer-Man....

he's ONE!!!!

this real-life Chucky Doll turned one on this beautiful Spring day!! He's adorable and cute and funny and there are sooo many ways that he's different than his older bro, Luke (and a lot of ways that he's the same;) but I can't wait to see where time takes him and when he gets there, I hope he doesn't beat Luke's ass too bad;)

PS. I'm this awesome little boys Godmotha'. And I take this very seriously. Which is why I have bestowed him with his first awesome Converses and now...his first Fatty's....

wa la:)

more birthday party pictures to come tomorrow!!:)

me daily.

i worked this weekend. Which is why all this post will include are some random pictures of the kids cause they are my entertainment on my working weekends. And all these iPhone photos are starting to remind me that I have 2 other brilliant cameras at home that I should be utilizing. Making that this weeks goal!:)

UP lia bear

DOWN pretty A:)

UP some mail that Courts got from our cousin Neen. We all stood around it feeling bad about ourselves for a while;) But seriously...we love doing the snail-mail thing, especially when it comes looking like this:)

UP/DOWN jax-man. First off. LOVED the bibs. So awesome. I already called those for my future baby. As well as those awesome converses. A gift from his GODmotha' - yours truly:)

so far, so good weekend and looking forward to wrapping up with work a bit early today and heading home to watch a movie and chill! Hoping for a speedy week!!!!

baby boyyyyy.

oh, my lord. I can't believe I almost forgot to mention that my little sis, Pal had a teeny tiny baby yesterday!
Jax. How GREAT is that!?
It wasn't great when I walked in the room to meet him for the first time and she proceeded to tell me that she had named her baby boy MY (unborn - nothing in my belly, all in my head) baby boy's name (I'll leave the name out for fear of followers...I'm pretty cool, so I'm sure you won't be able to help yourselves;).
Apparently if looks could kill, Pal and her child would not be with us today!
until that moment I had no idea 'my name' meant SO freaking much to me. So yes. It does and I willll kill over it!

congrats to the happy family. Jax is a beautiful addition!