Third Time's A Charm

Our little Evan recently turned 1! He has been the perfect baby. He's a "smiley" guy, he entertains himself most of the time, and is generally well tempered. When we had my first son, I remember that I could not WAIT for his first birthday. I was chomping at the bit to take the pictures of him diving into his cake, frosting smeared across his cheeks. But unfortunately, he had some serious feeding issues at the time, and all he did on his 1st birthday was touch the cake and gag every time he got the tiniest bit of frosting on his finger.

When my second child, Aubrey, hit her 1st birthday, I was excited again to capture that magical "cake" moment. But we celebrated her birthday late in the evening and by the time we got around to eating cake and ice cream, she had lost interest and was cranky and pretty much ready for bed.

So you can imagine my joy when with my THIRD child, I FINALLY was able to get a picture of one of my kids eating his cake on his 1st birthday. He loved every bite of it, and pretty much picked all of the sprinkles off of the cake too.




We also recently had my mother visit for a couple of weeks. She has trekked out to Reno for every one of my kids' first birthdays (way to go Grandma!). Anyway, every time she comes out, I make a huge list of everything I need to do (or want to do without kids). This includes going out to lunch with friends, going to the post office (I absolutely HATE going here with my kids), and so on. I got most of my list checked off and even squeezed in a nap or two. Thank goodness for my mother!

And last but not least, we also managed to squeeze in the first day of spring, our anniversary, and Easter. And since life has been VERY hectic the last few weeks, I am being lazy and will just include some recent pictures rather than getting into all of that.

Grandmacita and Aubrey


Jake & Aubrey after church


Trying to smile after naptime


Celebrating our anniversary in Tahoe