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These are two consecutive shots - taken about a second apart.  Is this not hilarious?  And does our child not look absolutely enourmous next to Dexter??!  They're only 8 1/2 months apart.  What happened to my tiny baby?!!

Amanda, my great friend from college and matron of honor at my wedding, just had a baby boy!  Dexter Ethan Jones!  I'm SOOO excited that we both have boys and they're so close in age.  She and Doug came over a couple weeks ago to get some pictures for the nursery.  I have such a hard time selecting baby pictures because I love every little expression!  I want to post them all!  Here's Dexter!!

Gotta love the cloth diapers.  Looks kinda like the incredible hulk huh? :).

My sister-in-law is 21 weeks pregnant and is in the hospital due to some serious complications.  She's been there since Friday and will likely be there for the remainder of her pregnancy.  Please pray for her and the baby - their baby needs to stay in the womb an absolute minimum of 32 weeks (40 is the goal)!!  They've been moved to a pretty nice room now (complete with hardwood floors and a refrigerator) and my mom is picking up their dog today.  Please pray for Brad, Lori, and the baby!  It's good to know God is in charge! 

My brother sent me this picture of the crib and bedding from his cell phone a couple weeks ago.  They just bought yellow paint for the walls as well.

The three of us enjoyed our first sporting event over the weekend!  We arrived late, so we were there for the perfect amount of time :).  One thing that was really exciting for us, was that our boy learned how to clap after seeing everyone in the stands clapping.  He's been clapping over and over again since :).  We also were put up on the big screen during the game - it was a shot of our boy "dancing" to the music being played!  Another neat thing about Rays games, is that we always see people we know.  We saw two families we're pretty close with from church (one family was behind us), and then a highschool friend after the game.

He liked having a ticket like his dad :).

We're very grateful to be able to spend so much time with family at my in-laws' gorgeous lake house.  We were all over there recently for Cole's birthday - Happy Birthday Cole!  However, this is actually a pretty typical Saturday over there!  We're very fortunate!

Grilling with his grandfather :).

My sister-in-law, Lori, is four months pregnant!  We did an impromtu shoot behind our house right after my mom's party!  We can't wait to meet this little girl!

We had our first big bash at our new house - my mom's surprise 60th birthday!!!  Happy Birthday Mom!!!  It's been in the works for a couple months now and my aunt & uncle even flew down for the big event.  We had over 30 people!  I should have the video clip of the actual surprise up today.  My sister-in-law, Lori (thank you!!), stayed with us the night before the party to help cook and setup (my mom thought she was at her parents' house).  For appetizers - we made warm corn dip, guacamole, pizza dip, and a corn/bean dip.  For the main course - we grilled mini hamburgers and corn (we had two grills setup outside - one that we sneakily got from my mom).  For desserts - we had lemon blossoms, cookies, cupcakes, cholocate cake, and ice cream.  Thank you everyone for making it such a speical day!!!

Tyson made the invitation!  This is my mom when she was a little over 20 :).

This was actually painted on the wall :)!  I was going to buy a wall decal, but they're kind of expensive.  Instead, Tyson borrowed a projector, traced his design on the wall with a pencil, and painted it!  I loved it!! 

Here are my cousins with the snakes outside.  Kristen braved it up for a picture.  I like how David is looking at it in the background :).