Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

10 July 2010

for my most beautiful friend on her birthday...

amazing, she is.  really.  even when she invited me to go out the night before her birthday with some other gals and fam and i assumed she was asking me to keep her babies...and then, when i didn't even realize we were out for her birthday...yep.  she still loves me.  and that isn't even the half of it.
gorgeous baby-maker, creative connoisseur, yummers biscuit-maker,dog lover, tender hearted, lover of art and all things vintage and/or antique, beautifier of a ridiculous amount of things (name it, she could probably make it look better- dirty hair? she makes it look fab),self tanner pro(we'll ignore the post-abigail orange feet)...and our hubs and kiddos get along famously.   
she has one of the most beautiful loves i've ever seen.  and shares it ever so freely and in abundance.  she smiles and laughs with her beautiful eyes...and it warms the coldest heart to its core.
an amazing mama whose grace and poise(and occasional clumsiness) is unmatched.  she somehow makes most things look easy-peasy and pulls it all off(you want to get invited to her kids' parties).
(remember when we dyed our hair dark and what John said it made you look like?!)
i am beyond thankful for her presence in my life...i wouldn't have survived life as a preggo or a mama without her encouragement, support, and house to go crazy in.  we are so alike and so un-a-like at the same wonderful time...making each other sane and pretty crazy sometimes.  
presh, gorgeous mama
the world is better because you were born.  happy birthday, Kara love.

17 December 2009

J.A. Laub Photography

Disclaimer:  As if the two of you who read this didn't notice, I'm in a bit of a blogging slump.  Promise to take pictures over the next few weeks and post a lot to make up for my slacking as of late.



The last time we  had professional family pictures taken, Ace was 8 weeks old.  We really liked those pictures, but man oh MAN was I still a blimp, haha!  A couple weeks ago, we had our photos taken in our neighborhood by J.A. Laub Photography.  LOVE them!  Abby came to our house on her lunch break and got some precious shots!  We are so thankful to have found her!  We used several on our Christmas/New Year's cards (want one?  send me your address)! 









We adore these!

27 October 2009

The "Great" Pumpkin(s) '09

Last year we went perfect-pumpkin-hunting with our dear friends John, Kara, and June.  I cannot believe how much our babes have grown in a year!

 So sweet...we miss this gal(and her parents and sibling in utero) so much!

This year Mace, Ace and I were hoping to go to a farm here in Kentucky to pick apples and find a pumpkin at their patch, but it never worked out so we went to a church we had passed on Sunday that was selling pumpkins.  We got Ace two pumpkins for less than two bucks and this "pumpkin patch" was only 10 minutes from the house.  Winner! 


 He pretty much touched every pumpkin we walked past


 They were wet on the bottom...he's saying, "eeeew"

 
 Off to find the perfect punkin

 
Finding beauty in the ugliness

 
Very intrigued by the wart-y ones 


 Touching...

 
 every...

 
 pumpkin...


 So many to choose from

 
 yeah, he's barefoot...parents of the year

 
run, fat boy, run



 pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere


 I CAN'T PICK THIS ONE UP!!

 
 I asked him to sit with the pumpkins (please notice his anti-grass hands)

 
 poppin' a squat with the pumpkins

 
 found more wart-y ones

 
 not that one

 
 trying to get the warts off

 
 two-timing

 
we hope his infatuation with warts exists only with warts on pumpkins

 
 nasty

 
 sweet baby(I know, I know, big boy) hands

 
 And this is exactly where we were when Mace asked, "what kind of church is this?"
  Love you, Captain Obvious

 
 These are more like it


 Got me a pumpkin

  
 hey, hey, hey, hey!

 
 another weird pumpkin/gourd

 
Ace and the Giant Scrotums

 
 Wanted this weird white pumpkin

 
Warts, what else?

 
 Perfection

 
 He needed two

 
Inspecting

 
Hey, look everyone...

 
me Ace. you pumpkin

 
 A whole bunch of the weirdest, ugliest I've ever seen

 
 have you ever?

 
 Pride

 
 satisfied

 
 counting the pumpkins

 
holding his pumpkins

 
Checking out their smell...please notice it IS in his nostril

 
peace and a pumpkin