Giraffes

The Giraffes hang out all day at the fence waiting for visitors to feed them.

Hi Train

Waving to the train.

Fake Animals

Fake animals are just as fun as real ones when you are 2.

Tunnel

Check us out, we went through this tunnel.

Jack & Dawson on a mission

Jack & Dawson on the hunt for something fun to see.

Jack, Kelsey & Dawson

They must have found something.

The Bruinwood Kids & Dawson

Jack, Kelsey, Cassidy, Taylor & Dawson

What did I get myself into?

This one is just funny because of Dawson's face. It pretty much sums things up for him.

Mmmmm

Mmmm....food that isn't mashed up, strained and in a jar!

Getting ready to stand alone...and, walk?

Not too long ago, we posted that Jamie was getting ready to crawl all over.

Well, she has mastered that, and cruises all over the place. Now she is getting ready to stand alone and will, no doubt, be walking very soon.

Sharing Bubbles

Dawson playing with Ben (one of our neighbors.)

Playing is Hard Work!

Playing with all of these toys is exhausting! Time for a nap.

Baby Shower

Laurie & I threw a baby shower for Candace this past weekend. I know it's mean to put pictures of her fat belly up on our blog, but I think it just makes me feel better that someone else is now going through it. (Candace won't mind!) Besides, if you look back to the August archives: I'm pretty sure there are a couple pictures of my belly, when I was huge, too.

Here they are...

...The Sweet One...and...The Guilty One.

Happy Father's Day

"Ahhh", we forgot to tell everyone Happy Father's Day!
So here is a good father-ish picture for you.

And another one

And, here is another father-ish picture, where everyone is actually smiling! Even David!

Jamie Has Graduated

Jamie has graduated to the big tub! Yeaaa!

Two-in-One

Now we can get two done at the same time. There are not enough hours in the day for everything...So it is all about efficiency here!

IKEA is open

So, for those of you that have been living under a rock for the last couple weeks, and don't know that IKEA opened...here are a couple stories (just two of the thousands out there...the media has gone crazy with all of the coverage!). I don't think I'm in any of these pictures...I was on a couple news channels for 1/2 a second, but I can't find any clips online.

All I can say about the past week is that it has been CRAZY!

http://edit.detnews.gannettonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060608/BIZ/606080355&SearchID=73247479569314
(there is a video that you can view if you look down on the right side where it says "Shoppers Party at the Grand Opening," and a Photo Gallery.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060608/BUSINESS07/606080355&SearchID=73247478934376

also, if you visit the store...you will notice some familiar faces in many of the rooms. Here is one example.

Memorial Day

Happy Super Hot Memorial Day!

Peek-a-boo

Since all babies have to have a picture like this...here is one of Jamie (I think we have one of Dawson somewhere like this at about the same age too.)

Almost Crawling

Jamie is getting really close to crawling all over the place!

New Post

Sorry, I realize that we have not posted anything for a long time...it's just that we have not had any pictures worthy of posting lately.

However, the following pics are definately worth putting on the blog! A couple red wings visited IKEA today to meet the staff (because they are both Swedish). So of course I acted like a fool and make them sign stuff and take pictures with me. Ya, real professional I know.

Swedish Red Wings

My new best friends...Nicklas Lidstrom & Thomas Holmstrom (no not really, they just smiled nice and pretended we were friends for 2 seconds, while they were probably really thinking "These IKEA people are crazy!")

Bike Ride

Heading out for a bike ride to the park.

 

At the park

Finally, a nice enough day to go to the park!

 

Trying new foods

It's hard to figure out how to eat things without making a mess when you are 7 months and only have 2 teeth.

 

Call Social Services

From this picture one might consider calling the FIA on us...but really they are happy and well cared for, not neglected and dirty I promimse!

Lawnmowers

D & d mowing our tiny lawn. (between the two of them it should take about 2 1/2 minutes.)

 

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter Everyone!

Sorry it has been awhile since we have blogged new pictures. We will try to catch you up with some pictures from this weekend.

We visited with both sides of our family. We were with David's on Sunday and with Janet's on Saturday. Here are some of the highlights from the weekend:

Easter Sunday

Yep, we're pretty cute.

 

Why do you make me wear this stuff?

It's Easter Sunday and it's a rule that you have to wear pretty clothes, right?

 

A very old...but still fun horse

This is one of the many perks of grandparents, they have really fun toys that no one else has (since they are so ancient!...the toys that is.)

 

Hi

Doesn't Dawson look like he's about 5 or 6? He's getting big.

 

Visiting the fam

We visited with Janet's side on the Saturday before Easter, at Chuck and Julie's...here are Emily and Jamie.