Look who's 2!!!

I can't believe it has been 2 wonderful years since this little man was born!! Happy birthday baby!

Jared, Josh and Braydon

Trying to get a pic of the three of them IS impossible!!! I am partly to blame since my camera settings were off. Whoops. Hopefully we will be around each other much more now so I will have a lot of opportunities to practice :)

Braydon and Josh

The boys were both wearing their Phillies shirts so I tried to snap a picture. Taking a pic of the 2 of them is nearly impossible anymore!!!

Pops

Jared and Jules hanging out in the back of Pop Pops truck, after dinner, eating pops.

Uh Oh

We went to the mall last weekend and Josh took a spill before we even entered the mall. The poor kid was so bloody people were pulling over in their cars to give us napkins and tissues. He ended up with a very swollen lip, chipped tooth and road rash on his nose and upper lip. Since then it has scabbed over and the scabs are falling off. It is looking much better in just a little over a week. Boys will be boys.

Fun at the park

I took these to practice with my new camera. So far so good. I also got photoshop CS3 so I was able to play around with some pics too. I will hopefully be taking some portraits of the boys later this week. I found a "field" of yellow flowers I am going to take them to. I think they are buttercups. Hopefully they will still be there when we are ready. Stay tuned . . .

New Camera

Sometimes I can add pics and sometimes I cannot. For whatever reason my mom's computer has a mind of its own and I have been having difficulty uploading pictures. I have been playing with my new camera and wanted to share some of my snapshots. Here is one for now.

Jared talking on my cell phone to Jenny about his new light saber.

Last post in MA

I have mixed feelings as I write this. I am ecstatic to get back to NJ for countless reasons. However, I have established a small family in MA that I am extremely sad to leave behind. My neighbors, across the street, have been nothing but fabulous since the first week we moved in. Kim came over, very early on, with a homemade treat for our family welcoming us to the neighborhood. We hit it off right away as we have so many similar interests. She is a reading specialist, loves scrapbooking and anything crafty, decorates her house the same way and enjoys taking hundreds of snapshots of her children. When I first met her she was pregnant with her first son. She now has two beautiful boys that I am going to miss dearly. Josh and Kaden are only 3 weeks apart and have grown up together. Her mom and sister have also helped us out tremendously since we have been here. Kim's sister, Kendra, has babysat for us countless times and her mom, Janice came with us to the ER in the middle of the night when I was by myself with the boys. I don't know what I would do without them!!! Soon after meeting Kim, I met another very good friend, Melissa. Melissa has helped Kim and I advance in our photography skills and post processing of our photos. I get so many compliments on the pictures I take and I owe it all to Melissa. She has a photography business and has even let me accompany her on a couple of newborn shoots. She is a stay-at-home mom as well so she has really kept me company on the phone and with playdates during the week. Melissa just gave birth to her 2nd child this past week and I am really going to miss watching her grow up. Between playdates, newborn shoots, 12 hours scrapbooking crops and card making classes, I have kept myself occupied outside of the home. Being a stay at home mom with no family around can get very monotonous very quickly so having these outlets outside of the home with good friends has allowed me to stay somewhat sane :) I have also become friends with Kim's friends as well and they have all been so nice to us. I am so fortunate to be able to have surrounded myself with such wonderful people and that is why it is somewhat difficult to leave MA. I never really hated it here. I wasn't happy at first but meeting such fabulous people has made it very easy and tolerable to call this state home. At the end of the day it doesn't matter where we live as long as we are living together as a family. Don't get me wrong, I am so very excited and fortunate to be moving back "home" especially at this point in our lives. With our third baby arriving very shortly this move could not have happened at a more opportune time. All of this just goes to prove that I have been very fortunate in my 32 years of life and I hope it continues in that direction.
I wish I had a picture to go along with this post. As much as Kim, Melissa and I were together with our cameras in our hands you would think we would have a pic of us together. Unfortunately we don't.

More house pictures . . .

As the boys are enjoying this beautiful weather playing with moon sand on the deck I snuck inside to post the rest of the pics of our house.

Master bath

Boys' bath

Backyard

Playhouse in basement

Jared's favorite - the beer bar.