Jack is born!

Jack was born August 14th, 2009 at 4:08 pm. He was 7 lbs, 14 oz and 20 inches long. His grandmothers were able to be there for the birth and his Aunt Kate. She took some awesom photos and just as soon as I get them all I will add some more here. These are some from when he was 2 and 3 days old. Can I just say it has gotten really difficult to find time to blog these days...I hope this gets better.

2 Days Old:
Isabella first meets Jack...

3 Days Old:

Animal Sounds...in sentences!!

Here is a video of Isabella telling me what animals say in short sentences. She started doing this with no prompting from me. I think she got it from her animal farm magnets. I find it super cute when she makes real sentences...which she is doing more and more these days!

Yellow River Game Ranch!!

**Added a couple videos at the bottom

We took a trip today to the Yellow River Game Ranch that is just east of Atlanta. We weren't sure exactly what to expect, but it was so fun!! I am going to post a bunch of videos because it was like nothing else we had ever experienced. You can just roam around with all this wildlife, most of which is free and uncaged and you can feed everything! It was a great time. We saw deer, bears, cougars, ducks, peacocks, geese, cows, sheep, pigs, bunnies and more.

I have to add a couple more videos. These are just too fun!

This one shows the bears eating. They were pretty lazy and wanted the food to be thrown right in their mouths. This shows them to be quite skilled at catching food.

30 years old and 37 weeks pregnant!!

Well I turned 30 this weekend on August 1st!
It turned out to be a more eventful weekend than planned. I had planned on having our friends Brad and Bridget and their son Nathan over for dinner on Saturday night and cake from Cold Stone Creamery, but Nick invited our good friends Ben and Lisa and their son Gabriel up from FL for the weekend as a surprise to me. I had absolutely no idea they were coming and at about 11pm on Friday night a car pulled in our driveway and I was a little concerned. I turned to Nick and said "a car just pulled up" and he said "Oh yeah that is Ben and Lisa. They came up for your birthday!" I said "But my pants aren't buttoned" (my pants had been feeling a little tight that evening) and he said "Well button them". What an exciting and unexpected surprise! I was so happy to see them and to have them here to celebrate my birthday! So our dinner on Saturday grew from 4 to 6 and we had the 3 little ones and it was a fabulous time. Nick made Shrimp and Grits and Fried Green Tomatoes (at my request) and we enjoyed the delicious cake. Nick also surprised me with a Garmin GPS which I love!! It is going to make exploring Atlanta so much easier for me. Next to the weather forecast, planning travel routes is my favorite thing to do, so I have had a fun time inputing everyone's address I know and figuring out how long it would take me to get there. Did you know we are only 11 hours from Dallas, TX? Who knew!!?? Now that I have my Garmin I may just show up unexpectedly on your doorstep.

Isabella helped me blow out my candles! It was fun to share my birthday with her.

Gabriel and Isabella had a great time together. Also, I am 37 weeks pregnant and so for the sake of posterity I took a couple pictures this weekend. Unfortunately I am starting to swell in my face some and all over, but my face bugs me the most...luckily there are only a few short weeks left...or maybe if God is so kind he will come sooner!

Some fun videos of Isabella

Isabella loves to play this game with daddy where she tells him to walk away and then calls his name and he runs back and swings her around.


We had some fish and chips tonight and I dumped some vinegar on a plate since Isabella was interested. Here she tries a piece of a hush puppy soaked in vinegar. Too funny!



Isabella got a Rody in the mail the other day from her Aunt Jenn for her birthday. She really likes it and loves for daddy to make it jump and throw her off it. Here she is when she just got it.

Birthday Party

Here are some pictures and videos from Isabella's birthday party for those of you who couldn't be here. This was after nap time and before getting ready for her party. She was wearing her Word World shirt.
Waiting for her guests to arrive...
I was going to invite all the kids her age from our Moms group but it was going to be a big party if everyone was able to attend, so I decided to invite the little kids from her tumbling class. So we invited 4 little kids and it was the perfect size. I can't imagine having more than the 5 kids 2 and under for a party. We had a good time and Isabella loved her pizza and cupcakes and loved opening her gifts. Eating their pizza:
Feeding her friend Kayla. Isabella loves to feed other people their food and Kayla really enjoyed eating her food so they were the perfect match.
Video of Singing Happy Birthday and blowing out the candles:



Eating her cupcake:
After eating her cupcake (or licking off most of the icing) she decided to take some of Kayla's icing when she wasn't looking.




Isabella loved opening gifts! I think this Christmas will be lots of fun! Thank you to everyone for your generosity. Isabella loved her new toys and movies. Here are a couple pictures and a video of her slowly but surely getting the DVD from Aunt Julia opened.

Her first tea set from her friend Lea:

Happy 2nd Birthday Isabella!

Well today was Isabella's 2nd Birthday. We had a great day. We went and got her picture taken this morning and then we spent the afternoon at Chuck E. Cheese playing, just the two of us. We also bought her a single cupcake to commemorate her birthday since she isn't getting her cake until her party on Saturday. It was a great day. I can't believe that at 6:14 pm 2 years ago I laid eyes on our little angel for the first time. She has since brought so much joy to our lives. She is so full of life and keeps us smiling day in and day out.

We love you Isabella Rose!!


We brought what she calls her "guys" with us to the picture studio. She loves these guys and carries them with her everywhere.
Playing at Chuck E. Cheese


Having a cupcake for her actual birthday.