Oh, hello...

I know, I know. Apparently I forgot that I had a blog. But life has been busy the past 15 months. Cameron turned one, we celebrated Christmas 2012, we traveled to Florida, celebrated the birth of our nephew Jack Joseph and our new friends Charlie, Tanner, Addison, Elizabeth, Axel, Hudson and Aurora. We had our amazing little man Andrew Joseph. I started a new job at Cerner and we redid the kitchen, just to name a few things. 

I am going to try and post videos and pictures when I can because really, those boys are darn cute. We just celebrated Andrews first Christmas and Cameron's first Christmas where he was so excited to leave cookies for Santa. 

Our first snow this season!

At the cerner Christmas party

Writing a letter to Santa 

Meeting Santa

Our tree after Santa visited

Just chillin at home

"I daddy."

Two posts in a day...is it possible?

Well, the baby is sleeping, Cory is glazing a window in the garage (whatever that means), and the DVR is empty.  All signs point to one more post tonight of more summer updates.

Our trip home was great.  Cameron got to visit with three of his great grandparents, play with all three of his aunts and his uncle, and play with his two cool, older boy cousins.

The best part was that each day he was so exhausted he took two great naps and slept pretty well at night.

Nothing is better than a cellphone

 

Possibly my favorite pic of the week- Helping Aunt Jenny work (or restarting her computer a few times)

 

Working hard at the beach

 

That's sunscreen on Corys face - not a mime costume

 

Chillin' in the backyard

 

The game we played all week. We put it on, he took it off...

 

Our resident Camera-Ham...i could eat those cheeks!

 

 

 

 

 

Baby hawkeye

Once again, I have fallen severely behind in the blog.  What can I say, we have spent the summer trying not to melt.  Which means way less outdoor activities (and less interesting things to write about).

 

We did manage to get an action packed road trip in last month.  We drove to Chicago, then to Wisconsin for the week.  Cameron had many firsts, including meeting lots of new people, attending his first wedding, his first trip to the beach and his first boat ride. 

 

The biggest first was his first trip to IOWA CITY!!!!  It was a perfect day and our timing couldn't have been better.  On our trip north, we were able to eat a picnic lunch on the Old Capitol lawn.  This coincided with freshman tours, so Cameron got to spend the hour watching all the ladies go by in their gold shirts and waving to them.

 

 

 

Picnic Lunches Rule

 

Oh hey, the Old Capital. 

 

Our first family pic in IC..hopefully many more to come

 

The best way to get up the huge hill from the IMU

 

My first Cambus

"mill-e-wah-que" which is Algonquin for "the good land."

We had a wedding to attend over Memorial Day weekend in Milwaukee, so Cameron got to fly in a plane and swim in the lake.  He was in heaven!

Hey Murphy, wanna swim?

This is the life

Life vest trial #1

Life vest trial #2

Adios Milwaukee,  Hello Kansas City

and bonus points if you can name the movie quote used in this posts title

As usual...

...I am way behind on my updates.  Today Cameron is 8 months old.  Unbelievable!

He has been pulling himself on anything everything: the coffee table, his crib, the toilet (gross, I know).  He blabbers Da Da Da all day long, and sometimes whispers it very quietly (like Brick, on The Middle).

He is still the master of the army crawl, but can now push himself into a sitting position.  He has been on his first airplane ride and swimming in his first lake.  All have been successful!

We have a wild man on our hands, but he is a happy one.

An impromptu sink bath after blueberries AND a blowout

General Silliness

Cameron has already shown us his love of hats.  This weekend, we discovered a new one.

He also has a love of laundry baskets.

First Zoo Trip

To celebrate Mothers Day, we got ourselves a zoo pass and headed out to the KC Zoo for Cameron's first trip.  It was really busy, but we saw lots of the animals in Africa and have managed to make it back twice so far!

You mean, that's a real cheetah in there?!

And a real rhino???

Mama, Cameron and a few baboons

Checking out Nikita the polar bear