It isn't all happy times...

But I love it when it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

please don't distribute this last one widely. =)

Iris's baptism

Iris was welcomed into the Catholic Church on June 18, 2011. Her Godparents are Annie and Mike McHugh. Tom's parents came in town for it and we had a good crowd of friend join us!

Dance Party

Iris is amazing, and so is her daddy!

New Iris photos

I got my friend Rachel Garay to take more photos of Iris. I picked a few to use in marketing materials for Happy Healthy Birth. She is beautiful, pleasant, and has a tonguey smile. She is a real joy and gift to us. She is 5 months and just started sitting up. She is incredible. She will be baptized this weekend. Please keep her in your prayers to become a Holy, just and chaste woman of God.

The one above is one of my favorites. She is so beautiful in it.

Videos of life - and a picture.

When I think of my life's goals. This is what I always hoped I could acheive. A Sunday afternoon in the backyard. A blanket under a tree with a cute baby on it. A wonderful husband. A naked little kid runing around the yard, splashing in the pool. A garden. Shade. Warm sun. Laughter. Discovery. A family who loves each other and wants to spend time together.

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Our new internet is twice as fast as our old internet, officially. What I see here is that it takes me less than minutes to upload these videos while our old interent used to take hours - and then maybe it would work. YAY for FioS!

Clark Swinging

Iris being cute.

Easter Egg Hunt

Clark and Owen running around a tree at the zoo.

On Mondays in the winter we went to this gym and played.

We got faster internet and everyone wins!

We went to a birthday party yesterday and there were princesses!

Some pictures from our garden. Our dogwood tree:

Little tiny flowers on the asparagus plant.

Some other beautiful flowers - Iris, the dogwood and ME!

Clark remains CRAZY about Iris. He loves her so much. He wants her to do everything with him. He insisted I put her in the firetruck with him.

One day I stumbled upon Iris, who was having some air time on her bottom, with a remote control in her hand and the choo-choo train nearby. Clark had wanted her to share in his awesome remote control Thomas train.

I bet he can't wait until she's up and walking! Then they can really play!

He does get a little jealous when I give her his toys however. I gave her the music thing that he is playing with in the picture above and he didn't like it. When I try to give her other things he sometimes freaks out for a minute. For the most part, however, I will find her with a toy placed on her tummy - a sweet present from Clark.

more princesses from the party!

15 weeks and 2 - eek!

Iris is getting so big! She is 15 weeks old now. She can kind of early sit with assistance, she has rolled a few times from back to front, she's got great head control, she can grab an object with 2 hands, she smiles, coos, laughs, she loves holding her feet, and she works out by kicking and bicycling almost non-stop every day. She is awesome. Her fat skin is delicious, she has the most beautiful fat rolls and fat dimples. You can just see her healthy fat glow, and smell her incredible milky fatness when you nuzzle in close.

We are finally settling into having 2 children. For a while, it was somewhat overwhelming. Our beloved 2 year old is quite "2". He is a handful, and armful, a room full and a house full. He is pretty awesome, but still quite a lot of work. As an example, we thought he was "taking a nap" today in his room. We heard thunking around, but assumed it was him hauling trucks into his bed. When we finally went in there. This is what we found.


He had hauled his vacuum, a wipes container and a bottle of lotion into bed, opened the lotion, spread it all over himself and kept saying, "broken, broken" because he couldn't figure out how to get the blue nozzle part back into the bottle.
We thought it was pretty hilarious, but tried not to reinforce it. This kid LOVES it when he finds something funny that makes us laugh. We have to be careful with him!

The good news about Clark is that he is turning into a big helper. He loves to do the things that we are doing. Here he is helping me vacuum.
He also adores his sister. He seriously adores her. This is why we were so eager to make another little one so soon, Clark has SO much love to give. He LOVE, LOVE, LOVES her. He is always eager to rock her in the swing, show her his toys, and he will run to her when I have the camera out and say "cheese!". Here, he is showing you her ear.

He loves to read with her!
Green Eggs and Ham is one of his favorite books. He can "read" some of it with me. He is so cute when he reads the line, "Would you like them here or there" I say the first part, and he says "here or there" and he points left and right. He loves how it ends when Sam-I-am finally says, "try them, try them and you'll see" and the guy trys them and then the guy says "Thank you thank you Sam-I-Am." While it is a long bed time read compared to "Brown Bear" or one of the other kids books we have, reading it to him is such a pleasure.
Here is Clark cuddled up with Iris for a photo.And another one. Don't they look so much alike? It is pretty nuts!

Here's one from last month with Tom and the kids, they look so much like him too!
And to end your day with happy sunshine. Our little flower!