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Jude- ~11 months

Jude ~ 12 months

Presley in her leotard one night before gymnastics

Jude ~ 12 months

Presley ~ 27 months

Jude after tearing into his first birthday cake and smearing it all over his face. Jesse called it his "William Wallace" look (from Braveheart)

Presley getting ready to go to gymnastics. She rarely looks at the camera for me, so getting this picture was a nice treat!

Kaylee posing on the new swing set we got for the backyard

Jude grabbing for a bubble.

Emily, unlike Presley, LOVES getting her picture taken!

I forgot where this picture was taken, maybe at Aunt Lindsey's graduation?

Jesse squirting Emily down with the hose in our backyard.

Kaylee and her baby. I have tried to buy clothes for the baby, but she immediately takes them off!

Rare picture of Presley giving Jude a kiss. Normally she just pokes him in the eye.

Presley at Auntie Lindsey's graduation.



Jude and his friend Taylor taking a bath in our kitchen sink!



Emily went to a birthday party at Sweet and Sassy- a salon for girls. They dressed all the girls up like princesses.



I think she looks like a little twenties Shirley Temple here ;)

Jude covered in presents on his first birthday



Kaylee's reward for getting pottytrained- ears pierced! She didn't cry at all!! This was her subsequent conversation with Jesse.

K: Daddy- are you pottytrained?

J: Yes Kaylee I am pottytrained

K: Oh

K: Are you going to get earrings?

J: Kaylee, I already had earrings, but most boys dont have earrings.

K: Oh. OK. I'm a girl. And I have earrings.

I thought the girls looked so cute one day in these outfits I had to take their picture!

Although I have trimmed Presley's baby mullet a little, this was her first official haircut from Nannie!

I love this picture of Jude for two reasons, 1) he is wearing a "Jesse outfit"- plaid shorts and a Tshirt with some kind of swimming picture on it, 2) he is partaking in his favorite activity- splashing in the toilet (ewwwww!!). He earned a new nickname- "Splashy" because he is SUCH a water baby! With his genes though, it would be a shock if he didn't take to the pool like a fish- his great grandfather is in the Swimming Hall of Fame, great grandmother holds world records in the mile swim, Grammie Alice swam in the olympic trials, and Jesse was an all-state swimmer in high school!

Oh by the way- the picture in the post below was a little "Creativity with Pictures." Jude can't even walk yet, much less crawl onto the roof and jump off, LOL!