My Nephew: John

Here are some of the pictures I took of my nephew John. (My little sister Kirstie's baby)
Giving First-Time-Grandpa some kisses
And the proud new Grandma (weird! lol)

He was such a happy little guy for me :)

With his mommy & daddy

My Doggies

These are my doggies. I just wanted to share some cute pics of them :)

My little sis...

♥ This big, pretty belly belongs to my little sister Kirstie.....
She was nice enough to let me use her (and her hubby David) as my guinea pigs to try out my new camera. I probably had the most fun out of everyone :)

I took HUNDREDS of shots of them and I'm having a hard time picking just a few to go on here so I apologize for the overload of preggy sister pics. lol

(I love her smile in this one ^^)

It was a lot of fun to spend some time with these two, and I loved to see how much David cared for and loved my sister. These pictures really show that I think. ♥

I'll end this with one of my MANY favorite pics.



ps. i'm looking for my practice subjects so if you'd like some pics taken let me know :)

May Days

I know it's been a long time since I've updated this, but I really haven't felt at all like blogging. Sorry lol. I will try to be better and at LEAST blog once a month..... hopefully more.

Hmmmm so lets see what I missed... Well My Brithday! That was back in May and lets just say that my Joshy spoiled me pretty good (even though i asked him not to) lol. He planned a surprise for me to have a "Girl's Night" the night before my B-Day with my good friend. He got us a really nice hotel room across town and then she took me out to dinner and we had a great time! The next day we spent most of the day shopping, then headed home to get ready to go out with our hubbies. We went to my favorite resturant, Abuelo's, and then we went country dancing. I also rode the electronic bull! I've been wanting to do that forEVER, but never have. I figured my Birthday would be a good time! I feel I did pretty good and stayed on for a while (even though I'm sure the operator took it easy on me for the first part). It was fun, but it's out of my system now and I don't feel the need to do it again lol. I seriously thought my arm was gonna break in half and rip out. ;)
I have been wanting a NICE camera for a long time and I finally broke down and let Josh spend the money on me to get it. I Love it! I wish I could find more great chances to use it!

What else happened in May...... oh my little sister Kirstie had her baby shower. And I also got to try out my new camera and take Maternity shots of her. I can't believe that my little sister is having a BABY! (Oh and as of Right Now she is currently in labor with him, three weeks early) I had so much fun helping her get baby stuff together and making stuff for her and him. I can't wait to meet the little guy! ♥

At the end of May my parents and some of my sisters came down to visit and go to my new brother-in-law's police academy graduation. It was nice to be able to spend some time with my family and let them break in the pool for this summer :). We got to spend lots of time making fun of my big pregnant sister and her water-swollen ankles and feet.

For Memorial Day we had some of our friends over for swimming and BBQ. It was really nice to be able to just relax and hang out with our good friends.

There are a few more things that I want to blog about, but I'll do those later. (Like our new bedroom furniture, pics of my sister, etc)

I will also be able to brag about my TWO new nephews pretty soon! Today my sister-in-law Shan had her first baby! And either today or tomorrow my sister Kirstie will be having her first baby, also a boy (which is also the first grandshild on my family's side). and THEN in a few more months my other sister Melanie will be having her baby, which is Another boy! Craziness!

4/12/10 Happy B-Day to Torque

My little Torque is now a year old

He went from this at about 9-10 weeks

To this at about 10 months

These are his best friends....

We love our big snuggly pup! He is the sweetest dog ever :)

Running Free

Last year we had the opportunity to plant a garden on some land that some people in our church own. Well this year they gave us that option again! We planted our stuff several weeks ago and have been going each saturday since to check on the plants and see if any weeding needs to be done.

One time we decided to take the dogs out with us. There were no other families around so we let them out of the truck to run in the big open space. They had a lot of fun chasing eachother.... and Josh.

(Torque trying to turn really fast to catch Bentley) (Torque decided that it was to far to run after Josh)
(having a fun time)

Poor Torque

Poor Torque has a reason for this sad face......

Ouchy!!

We found out that the dogs like to chase Josh up and down the street on his dirt bike. It gets them good and tired and lets them use some energy, without wearing us out. Well apparently Torque's pads on his feet are still pretty soft because after doing this one morning he came into the house limping with his feet bleeding :(

I felt so bad for him, he had to walk on the very outside toes of his front feet and hobbled around whining. I had to clean them out and bandage them for him because they wouldn't stay clean.

(See the bandages on him....)
Poor guy...... after these FINALLY healed he had another problem pop up....

It looks like he had some sort of allergic reaction to something. We still have no idea what did it! It looked like he had a bunch of grapes under his fur. They were itching him like crazy and he looked kinda gross with those lumps all over. I gave him some benadryl and that helped them go down a lot.

Poor Torque just can't seem to catch a break. :(