Cousin Rhys's Birthday, New Shoes, and Isabella's First Haircut

 My niece, Rhys, has a birthday the first of September.  Her family was down the weekend before and we celebrated her birthday with her then.  Bryce thoroughly enjoyed the cupcakes as you can see.

 And of course, we didn't have any extra clothes for him, so Bryce ended up in just a diaper the rest of the day.  Since his cousin's can't be here for his birthday, they brought his present down ahead of time.  He really enjoys these blocks.

 And he really enjoyed being naked too....as you can see.

 And Bryce got some new shoes that he was not too sure about.

And last but not least, Isabella had her first professional haircut.  We took her to Cartoon Cuts, thinking that it might help a little.  Boy were we wrong.  She was not thrilled about this experience at all.

They were able to get it relatively even, although they didn't cut off as much as we wanted, but it was a start.

Some fun pictures

Thought I'd share some fun pictures.

So, I went outside to take a picture. I think I was taking a picture of a storm front coming in. It was so cold in our house that the camera fogged up because of the change in temperature. Well it ended up being a pretty cool picture.


This picture is just too darn funny.


Isabella was not quite ready to wake up from her nap but letting her chill out on the couch in her sleeping bag kept her from fussing too much.


Just too cute with them sitting there sharing cereal and watching cartoons


Playing in their John Deere sleeping bags - which we got for $5 each - SCORE!


I'm gonna get you


She's gets very focused at times when she's playing


How can you resist this guy?


Like I said!


This was too funny. I went out front to take a picture through the window and this was the face looking back at me


What? I'm not doing anything, I promise.



Yeah, can you tell we're in trouble with him?

Isabella's 3rd Birthday Party

We had Isabella's 3rd Birthday party today. Here are a few pictures from that. We had lots of fun with all the family that came.

New Camera

So we bought a new camera and it came today. We spent a good chunk of the afternoon playing around with it. The last camera that I bought was probably 7 years ago and it is a point-and-shoot that is *gasp* only 3.1 megapixels. Our new one is a nice DSLR camera. Awesome quality. Here are a few of my favorites from the 237 pictures I took today.


My sweet boy



Isabella

Supermodel Isabella



At the playground (this is Bryce's normal look when he's happy - mouth wide open)



Sleepy boy - those swings really took it out of him

A trip to Lowe's

So we needed to go to Lowe's this morning to get a couple of things. We didn't know it when we set out but they had a Kid's craft thing going on. So Isabella (with some help from Ken) went to build a cup and ball toy. They give each kid a little hammer (which they have to return), but they get to keep the apron and safety glasses. She had lots of fun. Bryce and I just wandered around the store while Isabella and Ken were building.