Hodge Podge...(more Noah Birthday to come when I get more pics)

Noah's Birthday Family Party...definitely more to come...Aunt Mindy took most of the pictures and life has been so crazy recently I haven't had a chance to pick them up from her yet...so here is a preview. (Trying for a black bear theme...this is all I could find decorative wise that kind of matched.)

Playing at the park one sunny evening with Grandma and Grandpa (Cross). What fun!

A long weekend trip to Valdez to visit Papaw and Granny and to fish with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa. It was a wild and crazy weekend completely different than planned due to a family emergency. But Praise God everyone is safe and recovering! And we still got to sneak in a little time with loved ones.

Daddy caught the one and only fish (of the two hour quick trip out to fish) and this is the best picture I could take because I was driving the boat and it was pretty busy out there. If you look very closely the splashing in the water is Josh's fish playing hard to get.

Great Grandpa unhooking it from the net.

Mateo and Mommy on the ride back...the rocking kept lulling Mateo to sleep.

Back at Granny and Papaw's Apartment we barrowed Papaw's clippers and gave Noah is first full hair cut (before this he had just gotten a few trims around his ears)

Talk about squirmy! It took 5 or 6 shots to get them all holding still together to get this shot!!

And FINALLY...with a little tackle help from Daddy we managed to get the clear picture!

Noah trying to stand without help...and having a blast with his hat (that he tried to put on himself-so we helped him)

Our Noah is such a character!!! :) He is so much fun (when he isn't teething :) and he is feeling good)

Daddy and Mateo building with the blocks...can you tell who is the handsome engineer in the picture and who is the handsome engineer-to-be?

The last of our garden this year...

Here are some pictures I stole off of my sister's blog of our time together this summer. Melissa and John came up from Washington to be in Sterling for my Grandma's 80th birthday party. They are expecting their first child, so we through them a shower too, while they were up here. It was a good time and fun to all be together again for a little bit.

This is our mom and all three girls, Mary, Melissa, Maria, and Mindy!

Melissa and John


Aunt Mindy and all of us at the Wild Life Refuge!

One of my all time favorite photos!! This picture speaks a thousand words! And just incase you don't hear them :) It is so fun and such a warm fuzzy blessing to see my Grandpa and Mateo be such great buds! Mateo adores him and they are always heading off somewhere to feed the chickens or some other cool country thing!

Grandma and I in a Chicken Croquet Duel...and of course Grandma won!

My handsome and funny boys!