Friday....

Jack and I hung out around the house all day today. It was too hot to go to the park or anything so we sat around pretty bored. Days like this drive us both crazy. I was sitting in the living room watching cartoons, which was where Jack SHOULD have been. He got really quite so I walked into the kitchen to see what he was doing and this is what I found. Lately he has been infatuated with my cookbooks(books in general, but these are easy for him to get to). I just thought this was cute and everyone would enjoy seeing it. He doesn't usualy go around in a diaper all day, but he had just figured out how to unscrew the lid to his sippy cup and had dumped juice all over him. He is definitely keeping me on my toes these days!

I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend! For those family and friends that are running from Gustav please be careful and keep us posted on where you are. We love you all!!

Girls Night Out

All of the girls got together last night to hang out with Ali before she headed back to San Fran. We have not been able to get everyone together at the same time all summer, so it was great all being together again like old times, before kids, and busy schedules. Lindsay and Missy were even able to come into town. The only person we lacked was Mindy and we missed her sooooo much. We are all counting down the days until the Strickland move back from Switzerland. It could not be soon enough. Despite the rain we all got dressed up and went to our favorite restaurant Thai Emerald for the best sushi and wine around! We hung out so long that they started closing the restaurant around us.
Whitney, Shea, and Leeann

Karen, Dannette, and Allison
Allison, Carey Martin, Lindsay, Barkley, and Missy

I really miss our girls nights spending quality time together. I just want to say that I love all of my girlfriends and feel so fortunate to have such wonderful friends in my life!

It's Raining It's Pouring

I'm sure most of you had rain all day yesterday like we did. We tried to make the most of it though. Our friend Allison was in from San Fran so we all went to lunch with her. It was chaotic with all of the people and kids but lots of fun. After that Jack and Brandon went home to nap(what do all men do on a rainy day:)) while I went out to get Jack some school shoes and church shoes. When I got home we tried them all on and had them model them for us. We were obviously bored out of our minds and trying to entertain a 1 year old that desperately wanted to go outside. All of the cute pictures were in the same pair of shoes.
He wasn't really sure what to think at first.
Then he got really excited! Check out the fro. This picture reminds me alot of pictures of my Dad when we were growing up. He had hair just like this. Sorry Dad, you know we love you!
He was just being silly here!
We left shortly after to get ice cream and then came back home for Mom to take a nap. Even though it rained we had a fun filled family afternoon.

Gymboree

Today my friend Lacey and I took Jack and Ian, who are 3 days apart to our first Gymboree class. They loved it. I think we are going to start classes in 2 weeks when Jack starts school.
Jack was mesmorized by the bubbles. These were the coolest bubbles. They don't pop instantly so the kids could play with them.
He was trying to eat them here.

Jack and Ian fighting over the ball. They each had one alike but only wanted the one that the other had. If you look close enough you can see that Jack is biting the ball right before he tried to bite Ian because he tried to take it away. I hope he doesn't get kicked out of school! Say prayers for me.
They weren't sure about this. They had to go down a slide to get down.
More bubble pictures
Precious Ian in teh bubbles

I hope everyone has a great weekend!