park day with rex cousins

julia and her cute boys, emerson and calvin, came to visit for a week. it was great to spend time together and to watch all the cousins play. laughing and playing babes and deliciously chubby sleeping babe. it was great!

a new addition

my beautiful sister in law gave birth to another perfect little boy in july. we were able to go up to utah and meet him when he was just a week old. little calvin kingsley smith is just the cutest thing ever and we are grateful to have another nephew! i can't wait to watch this little guy grow up! love you guys!

look-a-likes

you remember emerson, right? as he has grown, i can't even tell you how many people have said "this is what your babies will look like" or "he looks just like tyler when he was a baby". to tell you the truth i wont mind one bit if my baby boy(s) look just like little e. he is just the sweetest little boy and oh so handsome. i feel like these photos of him and tyler together really show just how much they look alike. i mean look at the first photo of them together making their "serious" faces. haha. so cute!

emerson is one

on sunday emerson turned one! luckily he was here from utah to celebrate with us so we had a nice backyard family party for him. it was fun watching the adults fetch candy from the pinata and play silly games like "grunt piggy grunt". what on earth is "grunt piggy grunt"??? well i didn't know what it was either, until sunday that is. it's a brady family game that i was so lucky to be excused from since i was the photographer. phew. so happy we got to spend some much needed quality time with family on a beautiful sunday evening.
happy 1st birthday emerson!

spending time with emerson

this is our sweet nephew emerson! he just turned one and we love him to pieces. right now he and his mama, tyler's sister julia, are in town for a couple weeks and we love spending time with them. i mean who doesn't like naked babies? this naked baby is so highly favored that he is allowed to sit those bare buns right there on grandma's new carpet. or pretty much where ever he pleases.

thanks for making the trip down jules. we've missed you and little e. we're so happy you're here!

we went to the zoo

last week we went to the zoo. it was a really hot and humid day and it even rained on us a little bit. but oh what fun it was to watch those sweet babies oooh and aaah at the animals in their habitats. it's such a blessing to me to be so close with my nieces and nephews. i am grateful that i get to spend time with them and watch them learn and see how they develop as they get older. it really is a miracle to watch a baby grow up and see how they progress so quickly. so smart and so witty! i can't wait until they are all talking so i can hear the funny things they say!