Birthday Suit(s)

My dad's birthday was last week, and in honor of him, we all showed up to his birthday party in sweat clothes. My dad thinks sweats are as fancy as anyone should ever have to dress. Bless him.

This is us, pretending to be normal.


This is us, being more like ourselves.

Dancing Monster

We went to a Halloween party and Ella Rose was dressed up as a little green monster. She had a hard time convincing anyone that she was scary.

Jonathan was Richard Simmons and I was Excited About Christmas. Neither of us had a hard time convincing anyone that we were scary. His shorty shorts and my big behind jeans and blue eye shadow were enough to scare anyone.

My man and me


My sisters and me - taking the kids trick 'r treating before the Halloveen party

A Vapor

Today I realized that this year is almost.over. Whaaaaat??? Just yesterday Ella Rose turned one. Tomorrow is Christmas. January is birthday number two. Isaac is 4 months next week! Is it just me or does time go even faster once you have kids...and then double fast once you have two. How sad. My kids are going to be grown in a minute. I don't like it.

I wanna keep this...

and this.

Stop growing babies!

My Baby Daddy

My superawesomefun bff Jessica (503 Photography) was in town in early September and snapped these shots of Jonnie with our babies. I think they PERFECTLY depict his fathering style. He is so sweet, attentive, and loving to our babes. Ella Rose and Isaac have completely captured his heart, and that's just one more reason he has captured my heart.













Oh man. I LOVE my baby daddy. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful man in our lives.

ER's new hobby

I bet there aren't many other 1 1/2 year olds who change their 3-month old brother's diapers.

Cooley-O

Here are a few pictures I took today of our little fella. He is 11 weeks and 6 days today, and he is one happy little guy. :)

My bff Mandi got Isaac this fabulous onesie, Cooley-O! We love it! (Cooley is his middle name, after Jonathan's grandfather.)

Adventures of Jenny & Emily

Last weekend I got to go on a much needed girlfriend date with Jenny while our husands stayed at home with all the kids. We went to Candace's wedding. And what more perfect outing for two bffs who love food, fun, and photos?? None that I can think of.

On our way to the wedding we decided that since we don't get out much, we should document our evening with a little photojournalism. So here was our night (in pictures)...and I think you'll be able to tell that we don't get out much...

Us on our way to the wedding

Us leaving the wedding (Dangit! We forgot to take a picture AT the wedding!)

Jenny showing off her spanx in the parking lot of the church

Me laughing hysterically at Jenny

Jenny & me with the Bride - Candace (Bennett) Joseph

Jenny & me with Josh - our other date that we picked up at the wedding

Us reallllllllly enjoying our wedding cake. We unashamedly asked for corner pieces, and we got 'em.

J-Hen, K-Full, and E-Wil having a blast. K-Full settled for hanging with us when Tina wasn't around.

What the? Don't ask...

The Photobooth

Girls just wanna have fun. (Tina, Jen, me, & Kristi)

Dance #1: Get yo groove own...

Dance #2: Doin' the butt

Dance #3, and it looks like we have a wannabe back there (nice one, Mer).

Our 4th and final dance, a slow one. We were without spouses, but that wasn't gonna keep us off the flo. At this point we were concerned that some of the other guests may have been concerned about us.

Us - being exhausted, waiting for the bride and groom to make their grand exit

Tina lovin' on Kev's cheek

Us being grossed out by Tina & Kevin's PDA.

Ohohh say can you see....

Me getting excited to hold a sparkler, and to see Candace leave

Wait. I gotta concentrate so I don't set anyone on fire (Jenny!).

Jenny inserting herself in front of the getaway car to take one last picture. I'm pretty sure by this point every other guest at the wedding thought we had lost our minds.

Good times, Jenny. You are one FUN date. But since I have 2 kids and you have 3 1/2, this may be our last date for a while...

Photographically Challenged

You'd think that we would be able to get a good shot in one take...afterall, Jessica is a pro-fessional and I reallllly like to take pictures (and do it quite often). But after this "photo session", I realized that we are quite photographically challenged when it comes to setting up the self timer to take pictures of ourselves. It literally took more than 15 pictures to get one good shot (where we were actually ready and looking at the camera). I like candids though, and we got plenty of those!

Love you, Jess. Miss you already! Can't wait to see you Thursday. Mwah!

Jess getting in place so I could know where to set the camera, but then I forgot to set it to self-timer and when I pushed the button it just took a regular ole picture. Duh #1.


Seriously?

We had no idea The Cakes was back there making a fool of himself.

Why do we keep moving back so far?

Fantastical, finally.

4 week old Isaac

Here are a few pictures of our new little Isaac. He is fluffing right up!

Wilson World

I take it back. Isaac does spit up...often. And he does occasionally blow out his diaper. I knew it was a-comin' but I had hoped I missed out those baby blessings.
Everything is going pretty well here in Wilson World however. Ella Rose still hasn't bit or slapped or kicked or fell on or head-butted Isaac (yet). I just knew that she was gonna be ultra angry that he is in her house being taken care of by her mommy and daddy. But actually, I think she kind of likes him. She has adjusted quite nicely. Isaac is only 4 weeks old, so she could morph in to an angry toddler-monster, but hopefully she will remain a sweetie.
The big change with Ella Rose is that she has become a sold out 100% Daddy's Girl. She is seriously so attached to him, and I (secretly) think it is so precious. What's not too precious is when she busted on the kitchen floor (as she does at least 6 times a day) and I quickly ran over to her to make it all better, and that little girl proceeded to run away from me, flailing her arms and screaming! She ran to her daddy - like I can't make it better or something. Only daddy can?? What's going on here? Most kids will take any pity they can get...but not her. She only wants Daddy's pity. But I do think it's pretty cute. I worked long and hard at getting her to fall in love with her daddy. When he is at work, we talk about him and look at pictures of him. When the phone rings, it's always Daddy. And and after lunch I tell her at least 100 times "Daddy's gonna be home soon". Daddy is the superstar around here, and apparently she has now caught on.