Smiles

Max started smiling around 5 weeks and I just LOVE it!!  It is the cutest thing.  Here are some pictures I took yesterday (on his 6 week birthday).

This is the first documented picture of Ollie smiling around 6 weeks.  You can totally tell they are brothers.

Weekend in Lincoln

We had a really fun, busy last weekend.  A friend of mine is getting married in a few weeks and her bridal shower was in my home town (Lincoln).  We left Thursday afternoon to drop Jason's boss off at the SF airport and then headed to the Presidio where Jason was invited by Chevy to test drive the pre production plug-in electric Chevy Volt.  After that we headed to Lincoln.  Friday Jason worked from home while the kids and I ran some errands.  Later that afternoon we met up with my mom and friend Brendi and her kids and went to the pumpkin patch that I grew up going to.  It was not an ideal day for the pumpkin patch.  It was 93 degrees and just so hot, but we had a good time.  That evening was the bridal shower.  It was so fun to see friends and celebrate my awesome friend Stacie.  Saturday we just hung out, visited my grandparents and then I went to dinner with my friends and did some shopping, sans children.  It was awesome.  Sunday was great too.  I love going to church and we had dinner with both our families.  While we were gone Max slept in his own room, so now that we are home he is in his own room and it has been going very well.  I am now sleeping much better between feedings.  Once he is on more of a schedule we will be moving him in with Ollie.  Here are some pictures from the last couple weeks and our weekend.

Ollie loves pushing his lawn mower with daddy.

Speaking of being like daddy, lately Ollie will come over to me and say "kiss mommy", give me a kiss and then go outside get on his bike and say "going to work now".  Just like his daddy does, so cute.

Seriously...how adorable is he??

Jason and the volt (what a nerd) :-)

This was Ollie at the end of our day at the pumpkin patch.  Really red from running around when it was so hot, and dirty, oh and carrying two sticks of course.

Checking out the goats.

Playing in the hay.

All of us on the hay ride.

Me trying to get Ollie to look at the camera while we rode the train.

Deacon showing us that he can pick up Ollie.

The kids playing in the pumpkin.

The whole gang.

Me, Tam, Stacie and Brendi at Stacie's shower.

Before dinner on Saturday night.

Max's Blessing

We blessed Max in the Campbell ward on 10/10/10, should be easy to remember.  Jason gave a beautiful blessing and it was so fun to have some family and friends come to the blessing.  We had a little luncheon after church that was also very fun.  We just love little Max, he really is such a blessing to us.  Here are some pictures.

First decent family picture.

The family that was in town.

The luncheon.

Max slept through most of his party.

Friends.

Ollie and his friends.

Later they decided they wanted to watch a movie.

Ollie just LOVES Max so much, a little too much at times.  But really he gives him kisses and cuddles ALL day long.

Sweet little baby.

My parents with my boys.

Pictures of Max

I have a couple of friends with much nicer cameras than mine who offered to take some pictures of Max so we can remember him at this adorable stage of life.  They turned out so cute.  These first pictures where taken when he was one week old.  Thanks Brittany and Abby!!

These were taken yesterday, he was three weeks old.

Week of Fun

Well it is Saturday night at the end of our week of fun with daddy home for paternity leave.  We had a great week and while I am so sad to see Jason go back to work, I am anxious to see how I do with the two kids on my own.  Not going to lie, I'm a little nervous.  Two kids (especially one who needs to be fed every 2-3 hours) make for very busy days.  I feel like I run and run and still nothing gets done.  So if you have called or emailed or texted me and I haven't gotten back to you, I'm sorry, I will be better soon!!  Here are some of the fun things we did this week.

We have this place called "The Jungle" near our house.  It is the perfect place to take Ollie to get his wiggles out.  We took him there on Tuesday.

Thursday we went to Happy Hallow with our friends.  Here is Ollie with his two best friends Alexander and Jason.

I just love this picture of Max.  

Here he is totally conked out.  And look at those little leg rolls, I have been working hard to get some fat on him after he lost nearly a pound  within a couple days of his birth.  But I am happy to announce that the Dr gave me 3 days to get his weight up and I did, by 6 oz (babies usually gain about an ounce a day at this point).  Then at his 2 week appt (they usually like them to have gained their birth weight back by 2 weeks) he was 8 lbs 9 1/2 oz, up from his birth weight of 8 lbs 2 oz.  Ollie and I had some obstacles to overcome with breastfeeding so I am happy that it is going so much better with Max.  

While we were at Costco this week Jason saw tickets for the Salinas Airshow.  We thought it might be fun for Ollie so we decided to head down on Friday.  We spent the day at the Gilroy outlets, then spent the night in Gilroy and headed to the airshow Saturday afternoon.  It was so fun, we all loved it.  Some of the tricks they can do were so amazing, and we got to see the Blue Angels perform at the end which was definitely the highlight.

Brothers hanging out together in our hotel.  Apparently Max is tired of having his picture taken, so don't mind his finger...haha.

All three of my sweet boys.

India-Golf Niner-Niner is buddy-spiked! Abort-abort, there are children aboard this airplane!
(we have seen "The Incredibles" way too many times).

Sometimes it was pretty loud.  We did make Ollie wear earplugs during the Blue Angels performance and I just held Max really close to me and covered his ears.  Only time will tell if we did permanent damage :)

Flying a helicopter.

We took this picture for my friend Russ who is a retired Coast Guard helicopter pilot...how cool is that?!

The day isn't complete without a family picture.