New Found freedoms

Before Cameron was willing to potty train, I tried to get him excited about peeing outside. It did nothing to motivate him, but he didn't forget it when he did potty train and he still loves it. His latest addition is to see how high he can make his 'stream' go. He might have raised the bar today. Here is the pic. He was standing in the exact same spot, but facing the fence.


On a less exhibitionist note, Cameron hasn't worn a diaper in about 2 months now. One day I decided to put a painters cloth under his sheets and give him his milk early. He went to bed in underwear and woke up dry, and hasn't ever wet his bed. Good Job Cameron!

Fourth Festivities

Beach baby, beach baby

I really love having the opportunity to live so close to the beach, aka The Shore as it's know to Jersey-ites. I really wish we could go every weekend! While I know that's never going to happen we did get a chance to go when we had friends in town staying with us for a few days. We went to a different beach this time and we really loved it! We all had a great time and we're going to go back in a few weeks when we have more people coming into town. YAY!

The boys loved gettin' dirty in the sand.

I love Az-Man's little belly hanging out in this photo:

We are beyond mean parents. Muahahahhahahah. In reality Cam didn't started crying until I pulled the camera out. He just wants people to think he wasn't having a good time.

Our setup- SO nice! So glad we had the canopy for shade.

Happy Birthday Abuelo!

Kemp had a birthday recently and because we couldn't be there to celebrate we had our own cake and ice cream celebration for him. Happy Birthday! We hope you had a great day!

The Yummy German chocolate cake. Notice my "half" without any pecans.

Az-Man ready to break into it

A progression of Cam blowing out the... erhm...candle (YES, we were that ghetto and used a match). He Really gets into it!

Finally getting a taste

Strawberry Picking

We had been wanting to do strawberry picking after we came back from Idaho. We were finally able to do it yesterday- and just in time. They only had enough left to last them through the weekend. We all had a great time, I think Cameron the most. He loved finding good strawberries. AzMan just liked eating them- he would pull them off the plant and stick the whole strawberry in his mouth - he even continued to do that after we got home and was sneaking them out of the fridge.

Cameron posing is the awesome cutout!

AzMan already bored with the camera in his face...

They were super yummy strawberries!

Ahh... Ahh... Don't worry, he landed it.

This is his "Seriously, Mom, Stop" Look. I see it often.

Cameron with some of the end loot.

Heirloom Chair

My grandma was about 8 years old when she got this rocking chair and now it's been passed down to my mom. While in Idaho she wanted to take pictures of all the grandkids in it - here they are Mom (and Grandma!) in age from oldest to youngest grandkid:

Top Three Contenders

I post on a photo blog - M24 - where a challenge word is posted and then you have a certain amount of time to take a photo that fits that challenge. Here's the finalists from my most recent challenge:

This is the one I chose- Ryan liked the top one the best: