Happy 1st Birthday Joshua!!

Wow my baby boy is really one!! Hard to believe it! We had two birthday parties for him. The first party was with the Nolans' and we did a joint party with Beau who turned 3! We had a great time and we were then ready to head to the beach the next day! Our second celebration was at the beach and we had a little party for him for the Pickels' side. It was such a fun beach party!! The girls loved it and Josh learned that he loves cake! Joshua is such a sweet little boy! Very into crawling and keeping himself busy! He is so cute with his big eyes and huge smile. He still babbles a lot and sometimes I hear him say a few words like this or that and hat?! Still sleeping 12 hours and 2 naps a day..a champion sleeper!
My neighbor Cindy took some amazing pictures of him for his first birthday in her backyard. We are so thankful for her taking such awesome pictures of our babies! We love our sweet boy and he is such a joy to our lives!!

Sweet brother and sister...Picture taken by our neighbor Cindy!



Birthday party at the Nolan's!



My sweet boy:)



Cora helping Josh open presents at the Nolans!



My pretty girl!

Aunt Susie and Cora!





Love the black and white shots!

Party at the beach!!  What a great background!

So hard to believe he is 1!!

The rocking chair that Nana and Pop gave Joshua for his birthday!



Love his coloring!



Trying to get in with the action at the Nolan's!

Just a random pic of Cora doing her "ballet"!



Look at all of those teeth!



Lots of crawling in the grass at Cindy's!

Another random pic of my girl:)  She will be 4 in December!

Birthday cake at the Nolan's!

Loves his rocker!

What a great moment...Cora meeting her baby brother:)



Joshua in his new shoes rocking in his new rocker:)



New haircut!

I took Cora and Josh to get their haircuts the other day and it was a success! Joshua got a real haircut and Cora got a little trim. They say the more you trim her hair the more it will grow..which I think is working because it has grown a good amount since I got it trimmed it back in February and April. Josh looks so much older now it's crazy!! He is a handsome little guy and was so calm and cooperative during the cut! Totally not the same child at home!

New haircut...same little busy guy:)

Cora getting her "trim"!



Ta dah!



So handsome:)



He was an absolute angel!



Happy Birthday Meme and Aunt Gerry!!

It is so amazing that Meme and Aunt Gerry celebrated their 80th birthday together last weekend! They are so cute together and the day was just wonderful. We met half way in between both families in Yorktown and ate at the Carrot Tree Kitchen. It was so cute and we all had a really nice time! It was so nice to see the twins celebrate together, which is something I have never seen before since Aunt Gerry lives in Virginia Beach! What a great day to celebrate such an awesome occasion!!

Delicious carrot cake!!

The birthday girls with Kelly and I!



Josh and Sam...I feel like they are starting to look more alike?!



The twins blowing out their candles!

Sweet cousins:)

The girls again!

Ready to eat!

My little man, I can't believe he is almost 1!

Trying to stay cool..in the pool!

Just keeping busy in this heat as usual!  We actually joined Church Run Pool last week.  We were going so much with the McGuire's and we got such a great deal we just couldn't pass it up!  We are just trying to stay cool and today we acutally went bowling!  Cora loved it...Josh just wanted to crawl down the lanes and get the bowling ball.  So he was a little hard to deal with!  I will be glad when this boy starts walking...or will I?!!

Showing off her Dora the Explorer bikini!

Natalie joined us one night at the pool!

Poor Josh...he needs another male on our side of the family:)

Princess Joshua:)

Lena trying to stay cool...and giving the evil eye?!

At a pool party last Saturday night...Cora loved the salt water pool!

Josh trying to stay cool...in the fridge!

Cora with my friend/co-worker Suzanne

Loved her bowling shoes!

And not so happy...wanted so badly to crawl and grab the pins and bowling ball!!

My girl and I:)

And she's out for the count...who knew bowling could be so tiring?!
Two kids napping=me able to update my blog!

11 months and on the move!!

Phew, I now fully understand the difference between a boy and a girl!  Or maybe my girl was just tame and not into everything!!  My sweet, silly little boy is everywhere!  I have said this before, but he is getting more curious by the week!!  He keeps us on our toes all day (except when napping:)). However, I LOVE every single minute of him getting in trouble!  He is just so cute and his curiosity just makes him even more delicious!! 
He turned 11 months old on July 24th.  He is starting to cruise more but prefers crawling because he is so FAST!  His new words are "this" and "that".  He points to everything and says either of those words.  And wants to touch "this and that".  Josh is still taking his two naps a day (thank goodness!)  and sleeping his good ole' 12 hours at night.  It's funny to watch him with Cora because he is starting to get "mad" when she takes something from him.  He defintely has a little temper.  His whole life Cora has taken things away from him...but now he has realized that he can try to get it back!  His personality is just blossoming...so sweet but I can see a little temper emerging from the surface!  We can not believe our boy will be a year in a month!!??  Wow time has flown.  Love love love our sweet boy!!

Doing so well with picking up table foods!

What a profile!

Sweet boy!

Sometimes you just have to "contain" him to get anything done!

I turn my back for a second and he's ready to get washed up!

So sweet playing together (most of the time!)

Early morning love:)

Love these two...do they look alike??!  :)