Brent, Elaine, Jacob & Maggie

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter Bunny!

We had a wonderful Easter yesterday...we were able to have lunch with some good friends from college and their children, but we did miss spending the special day with our families as well. Below are some pictures from Easter as well as a few random shots. Much love!

Here are some shots of the kids and their Easter baskets...

And some of us getting ready to go to church...all spiffed up.

And now for the random shots. It was my nephew Wesley's 3rd birthday this weekend and I made him a cake in the shape of the rocket from Little Einsteins. I think he really liked it!

Also, here is a shot of Maggie and her first ponytail. I couldn't get all her hair in it but it was adorable anyway! She is starting to look less like a baby and more like a little girl.

Saturday, April 04, 2009

Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Sorry it has been a while since my last post. We accidentally left the camera in Birmingham and had to have it shipped back. Below you'll see some pictures I took of the kids (Emma Kate, Jacob and Maggie) at Birmingham's Botanical Gardens. You'll also see a Minnie Mouse birthday cake I made for a friend and some pics of Jacob helping Brent plant flowers in our yard.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Girls only edition

Hi everyone! Here's a post to show off two new things for Maggie...a bathing suit and a custom made Alabama hair bow. Roll Tide! She has some gorgeous new clothes (as does Jacob) so hopefully I'll get some pics of those up soon. Things are going good for us. Jacob and Maggie keep us busy, but we're truly enjoying them. Jacob has started "reading" his books to himself and it is quite funny to listen to him. I'm actually amazed at how much of the story he is able to recite just by looking at the pictures. Maggie is growing (finally). She is 20 pounds now so we have turned her car seat around to face the front (yay!). She has also learned to hit when she is angry about something. She is trying this new behavior out on Jacob, myself and Brent pretty regularly and she isn't quite understanding what "no" means right now. Ahhh, the joys of parenthood. Love to you all!

If you can't quite tell, the gray part is supposed to look like an elephant. : )

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Fun in a Box

We recently brought some boxes down from our attic in a effort to get rid of some of the clutter around our house (possibly to sell our house, but that is a different story). So, Jacob and Maggie got in a box one morning and had a blast. I couldn't decide on just one picture to post so I put a bunch of them up...they're so cute! You'll also see some shots of them from around the house as well as baby Dylan.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Grandparents

We've had a visit from both my parents and Brent's parents over the past week so here are some shots of the kids playing around with Gramma, Grandaddy, Nana and Pop.

Maggie is trying to feed Grandaddy something delicious (probably a mushy cheerio)

My soon to be sister-in-law's mother sent our kids some monogrammed presents this week...so here is Maggie sporting her new bib and a new bow (you can see that Jacob is enjoying the bubble wrap in the background : )

Maggie sporting an outfit that her great grandparents bought for her (thanks Grandma and Granpa Shelton)!

Pop got Jacob a fishing reel and rod along with a tackle box. They had a good time putting it together and then learning how to cast.

Nana brought Maggie an enormous caterpillar that she LOVES!

Yesterday, after Jacob woke from his nap, he wanted to get bundled up on our bed. So I covered him with a blanket and then put his pillow on top of him...all that was showing was his little head.