Time to Wrestle!

I take a peak out my back door and what do I see - but two little boys rolling around in the backyard having a blast. Granted, I see this image - boys wrestling just about all day everyday - but this particular instance just warmed my heart because they were just giggling and loving every minute of their all-boy time together. Plus, it just captured, so perfectly, the bond my little guys have together.

An introduction

Anderson holding his new cousin

We were blessed with a quick visit from Paul, Rebekah, Avery and their new sweet baby - little Adam. It was a whirlwind visit but we were glad to introduce our boys to their new cousin- we were able to meet Adam during our moving spree in VA in June, but we didn't have Anderson & Carter with us - so this time they got to meet! I just know Adam will be very special to my boys.

Anderson & Carter July 2009

Today I did something I don't do very often - I took the boys to have their pictures taken. The last time I had pictures taken of the boys was April 2008 - I did a large portrait of the boys together at that time and got many individuals of Carter - but he was still such a babe! Sure, I have a gazillion 'snapshots' since and some that I consider very frameworthy, but none that were by a professional. I took the boys to a local Portrait Innovations just to satisfy my recent desire to get a couple pics of the boys before Anderson heads back to school next month. Even though it was quite an ordeal and a good reminder of why I don't do this very often, I was pleased with the end products. The pics I ordered also have muted black vignettes on them as well, but you get the idea from the images below.


Carter Christopher - 2 years old

Anderson Scott- 4 1/2 years old

Brothers, best friends

Juddz Dig Chikn

So everyone knows about the annual 'Cow Appreciation Day' at CFA, so I pressured Mark into dressing up like a cow to get our free dinner. He resisted and resisted and tried to get out of it, so I just said - that's fine, I guess you can have a bowl of cereal, because me & the boys are having CFA! Fortunately, I was able to twist his arm. I mean, we truly did 'cow-lite', here you can't see our spots or our tails and we didn't wear our snouts. Oh, the things we do for free food!

Enjoying the Summer

We've had lots of fun the last few weeks settling into our new home and enjoying the fruits of summer!


We got to celebrate Evan's 5th bday - the boys put a sprinkler on the slide and voila' = instant slip n' slide and fun for little boys.

Team effort blowing out Evan's candles...

Mark took Anderson to his very 1st major league baseball game - the Braves won!!!!

Anderson taking the slide with power at a friend's bday party!