Beep Beep. That’s what it says on the pajamas Noah is wearing right now. He won’t let me play with my photos today. I finished two pictures before he started saying, “Okay Mommy, pay attention to me now.”

A few days ago I posted family pictures of Nate’s side of the family. Here is my side of the family, not in its entirety, since Evey was sick and stayed with her mom instead of coming over. Niki and Stephen are not pictured since Niki lives in Arkansas, and Stephen went to Chicago to spend time with his girlfriend’s family. I hope I can get the whole family together for a photo during Christmas.

Here’s one of little Jacob asleep on the ottoman. Too much turkey, perhaps.

Noah and I are off to the ol’ nurse & nap before I have to go to work at 11pm. Goodnight!

I love these pictures of Sarah’s family from Thanksgiving. I have pictures of everyone else, too, but I have to go nurse Noah now, so I’ll work on those later. For now, enjoy my sister’s beautiful family.

This is what I’m thankful for:

Look at those chubby legs… Mama don’t make no skim milk!!

I’m thankful for:

My wonderful, beautiful, chubby, happy baby, Noah Patrick.

My husband Nathan, who is a wonderful daddy, does 95% of the housework, works harder than me, never complains, and always lets me put my cold feet on him under the covers.

My faith. Sometimes I wonder how I became Catholic, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

My family. As I grow older, they are becoming my best friends.

My nieces and nephews, the cutest babies in the world.

My job. I hate going to work, but I know that I am lucky because I have a job, food, a house, a car, clothes, and the money to pay back my debts.

What are you thankful for?

The other day my sister Niki asked me if this is all I do all day. Yep, pretty much. I just take a thousand pictures of Noah.

A couple days later I went to Sarah’s house. She kept watching Noah smile and laugh and talk to us, and she said, “How could you not take a thousand pictures of him?”

My thoughts exactly.

His laugh is the best sound in the world.

Class of 2026.

I don’t usually blog about other people’s websites, blogs, or crafts (maybe I should start?), but I saw a giveaway for these adorable aprons, and I couldn’t resist blogging about them (for a chance to win!). I am in love with the one called “Susie;” the bird print fabric is awesome!! If you want a chance to win a too-cute-for-words apron, go check it out! Check out her awesome website, too. I’m in love with the photos there.

I’ll be off work in about 2 hours. Nate and I are going up to Sarah and Shane’s house this weekend to help out with things. I have an ulterior motive, of course. I’m going to take 1000 pictures of Jacob. I can’t wait to see how much he has changed in his first week. They change so fast. Looking at pictures of Noah when he was a week old versus now, he doesn’t look like the same baby at all. Every day I see his little “personhood” becoming more and more evident. He continually amazes me. Is it weird to be amazed by a four month old? Nah.

Here’s Noah two days ago:

Here’s Jacob last weekend at the hospital with Isabella:

In another month, Jacob will be smiling and starting to coo. In another month, Noah will be sitting up on his own.

Oh, how time flies…

I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas time, ya’ll. It’s amazing how fast time flies once you have a baby. Wasn’t it yesterday that my baby came into the world? He’s almost too big for his infant car seat now. It almost makes me want to cry. Almost.

Just look at this sweet face…

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Noah’s Christmas Wishlist: Warm and Toasty!

No Hair Day Beanie

JJ Cole Bundle Me Hat

Bobox Chocolate Sheep Shoes

Three-Piece Hoodie Set

Noah wears size 6-9 month clothing.

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Nate and I are blessed to be so close to our families. We have a lot of brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews, and we are all so different, yet we share the same blood. It is amazing to see all the differences in these photographs of Nate’s side of the family and to know that whatever differences there are, we are still family.

Mom and Dad, the reason we’re all here. I have a less grumpy picture of Dad, but this one is just real. Deal with it

The beautiful Amy and Stephen, and their daughter, Emiliana. We miss you so much! Please move back to Ohio

Andrea with her children: Alexis, Kaitlyn and Tyler.

The expectant parents Nicholas and Kristin, with Gabriel on the way! I can’t wait to take his picture!

Emiliana with her Daddy.

Noah with his Daddy.

The boys: Tyler and Noah.

And a couple more of Kaitlyn…

This picture has a bit of a story to it. My mother-in-law wanted a picture of all five of her grandchildren together. After throwing them all on the couch and snapping 27 pictures of them before they could run away, this is the best one I got. At least none of the babies are crying. And Tyler is smiling. For some reason Alexis thinks she has to hold Noah’s face to make him face the camera, and the picture is a little blurry. But about twenty seconds after this picture was taken, Emiliana started crying and trying to run away from the couch, Noah was blowing bubbles all over himself, and Tyler refused to smile anymore. So this picture is pretty much a miracle.

One big, happy family!! This group shot was taken by Kristin. Hooray for tripod and timer! I edited the shot, and this is our collaboration:

From left to right: (Top) Stephen, Nathan, Mom, Dad, Nicholas, Andrea with Kaitlyn
(Bottom) Amy with Emiliana, Me with Noah, Kristin with Gabriel in her belly, Alexis and Tyler

We had a lot of fun doing this, even though it was a lot of effort. Hopefully the effort was worth it. I certainly learned from the experience, and I love the photos!

This weekend we had an early Thanksgiving dinner since Amy, Stephen and Emiliana were in town from New Mexico. Here are some pictures of the kids on Sunday.

This picture of Emiliana has a slightly “dreamy” feel to it.

She moves so much that getting her eyes in focus like that is quite a feat!

Alexis hams for the camera a lot. This picture is so her.

If you can get Tyler to take a picture like this, you can do anything I love his eyes!

Alexis and her baby sister, Kaitlyn.

Kaitlyn isn’t afraid of the camera… yet!

Noah looks like he’s trying to punch his grandma, hehe.