Saturday, June 13, 2009

PaRty!!!

Thanks for all who came and celebrated Lois' birthday with us!  We love you all and are grateful for your friendship and love.  
We ate some good BBQ, enjoyed great company (and weather), kids were swimming - nothing better than great friends and a fun occasion as an excuse to hang out!  

And now for some pictures...

Lois dug right in to her cupcake!  Yumm!

This is before she obliterated her banana cupcake in front of her.  She went for the chocolate first.  I'm thinking she must be Jason's daughter...

Jason, Lois, Aneesha and Sasanka - (Aneesha is only one week older than Lois)
This was at the end of the night and Lois was waaaaaaay tired (if you can't tell!)

Cosette and Gigi

Janae - can you believe this girl just had a baby less than a month ago?  She's hot!

Here's a shot of some of the group hanging out by the hot tub
...And Bridget making sure Magdalena isn't a victim of drowning.
Note to self:  Babies and swimming pools = pain for parents!

Ensigns and Grossarths 
Chad, I think that's the best "hard guy" look I've seen in quite some time.  Nice work!

Avery - so cute in her floatie and feeding herself.  What a big girl!

Shaylee, Miriam and Callie
I had to make sure there was no flash so Callie wouldn't blacklist me as a "flasher" - hence the fuzziness.

Magdalena and Bridget
These little punks are moving to Ithaca and we're really, really sad about it.  Magdalena is  Lois' great friend.  They like to swap toys and binkies down in primary and eat goldfish and cheerios together.  Don't go!  Sniff, sniff...

Miriam - she's another one of those "punks" that are moving to Ithaca.  
We love you Palmers!

Jason manning the grill while Troy and Ken chat it up...

The Burns twinners - Wyatt and Carter - chilling in the hot tub

The beautiful mother of the twinners, Mindy!

Eevi, Bridget and Rosemary with the bebes - both inside and outside the womb!  :-)

Tony, Lois and Tracy - we love the Mistry's!

Thanks for a great party, guys!  We love you all.

I missed getting pictures of everyone who came to celebrate - bummer! I hate it when that happens.  But know we love you although you're missing from this post.
Birthday Girl
& her morning activities...

Here's the result of a little photo shoot we had with Lois on the morning of her first birthday!  Gotta love the high chair pics and her picking her nose!  Sheesh!  I'm assuming this is an inevitable part of toddlerhood...

So happy to be ONE!


Eyes closed.  Check.

Puckered lips.  Check.

Obligatory nose picking.  Check.

Acting surprised while eating grapes and cheese - totally awesome!

Playing with her favorite "no-no" toy - the computer...

Flashing a nice huge grin!  

What a birthday morning!  Up next...party pictures!

Friday, June 12, 2009

Birthday Videos!!!

Good Morning Lois! 

(If you have a hard time getting the above video to start, try moving the playhead a little bit. It worked for me. I don't know why it won't start on it's own. Oh, and I started recording before the light was on in her bedroom, that's why it's black at first). 



1st Birthday Interview




Party Time!

Lili hosted a fabulous birthday party for our little girl.  It was so much fun to celebrate her first birthday with good friends. We wish we could have had family with us.  Can't wait to see everyone in Utah soon!

-Jason

Friday, June 05, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOIS!!
*And UNCLE MACK, too!*

It's pretty hard to believe that this little chunk-a-monk came out of me exactly one year ago!  The time has flown and we simply feel so blessed to have this bundle of energy in our lives.  We just wanted to get some pictures up to celebrate before midnight...more pictures to follow of her rockin' party!  

Sporting her pensive face.

Conked out!

Did I mention she weighed TEN pounds, EIGHT ounces?  Yep, that's right.  She was HUGE!

And here we are today!  Look at all those chompers!

Eating her grapes and cheese - she's so high class!

WE LOVE YOU LOIS!  
You're the light of our lives!!!