Christmas Photos

Halloween 2009

Here are some pictures from Halloween.

"Fins to the Left....Fins to the Right...."

"Trick-Or-Treat"

Side view of the Shark

Double Trouble

Baby Shark

GO NOLES

This was from "Team Spirit" day at school this week. Go NOLES!

Keepsake Edition Photos

These are the pictures I had made for the Keepsake Edition for the local paper.

My Bathing Beauties

Newborn/Sibling/Family Pictures

Yesterday afternoon, I took the kids (still seems funny using the plural form!) to a very good friend of mine from high school to have her take some newborn photos of Maggie, some sibling shots of her and Michael together, and some first family shots of us together. Despite the fact that Michael was completely totally "done" after about 30 minutes, she was able to get some TERRIFIC shots!!! If you will go to her blog, she put a few pictures on there so you can see them...go to the link from this blog down on the left under "friends" for Davis Photography and it will take you there.....THANKS AGAIN ATHENA!!! See you at Christmas!! :-)

Family Photos

As most of (the few of) you who read this blog know, my mom passsed away last Saturday, August 15th - 4 days after Maggie was born. We had lots of family come in for the funeral and took the opportunity to take some family photos with our newest addition!

Richie, Michael, Richie's dad - Papa (Roy), and Maggie

Proud Papa and his grandchildren, Michael and Maggie

My grandfather, Joe, with Maggie

The first and last photo of my mommy with her new granddaughter - these were taken on Friday afternoon before she died on Saturday. I will cherish them forever.

More Maggie photos

Check out that hair!!! No wonder I was up at 2 am every morning eating Tums!!

Big Brother feeding Maggie

Michael holding Maggie for the first time

Sweet Kisses

Just chillin' on the hospital couch!

Maggie's arrival

Miss Margaret Rebecca VanNostran "Maggie" made her debut this morning at 10:28 am via c-section. She weighs 7 pounds, 12 ounces and was 20 1/4 inches long. She has a head FULL of LONG black hair - and I have had the heartburn to prove it!!! :-) Here are a few pictures....Michael is on his way down to meet his big sister so I will post more pictures later!! Love you all.

My doctor, Dr. Brown, actually got to deliver a child of mine!! He didn't deliver Michael or Caden, so we were super excited he got to deliver Maggie!!!

Shortly after she came out!

The Big Kahuna

These are Michael's school pictures from this summer. Look at his face!!!!

Can we say R-O-T-T-E-N?!?!?

Margaret "Maggie" Rebecca VanNostran

Sorry it's taken me so long to post these pictures of Maggie....our scanner/printer is buried deep within the junk room so I had to clear a path to get to it to scan the pics!! :-) Anyway - here is our baby girl....

Ok - so the top picture is Maggie compared with the next picture which is of Michael 3 years ago - can we say definately related?!?!?

Profile shot of Maggie

Um, yes, she stuck her ENTIRE fist in her mouth - and we saw her do it.

This was her reaction to the ultrasound tech using a buzzer to try to get her to flip over so we could get a good shot of her face.....she immediately put her hand over her ears - as if to say "Leave me alone - I'm not paying attention to you!" I think we might be in trouble........:-)

Little Daredevil - Part 2!

See previous "Kneeboarding" post on how my child is no longer scared of anything! This includes "motorcycles" (aka, dirtbikes). This is his new favorite thing to do on Saturday mornings - go to the motorcycle shop and sit on the dirtbikes - and he has to make sure he gets the helmet to put on too! Where did my little baby boy go?!?!?

Kneeboarding

Well, I have to admit, I was hoping that I had at least a couple more years before I had to deal with this BUT my wonderful husband and all-of-a-sudden-not-scared-of-anything-anymore 3 year old son had other ideas. This past Sunday, while I was helping to give a baby shower for one of my best friends, Richie and Michael went to the lake with "Uncle" Paul. Well, after being perfectly content riding in the boat while Paul and Daddy took turns kneeboarding, Michael decided that he wanted to try too!! So, after riding around on Richie's back (while he just held on to the board like a float) he was ready to give it a go! Ugh. I soon got this picture coming thru on my phone!! Needless to say I was a little freaked, but figured he was just sitting on it. Thank goodness I didn't get the WHOLE story until I got home. No, he didn't just SIT on it - he RODE it! Richie set him up on it, showed him how to balance on his knees, tied the rope to the strap on the board, held on to the back to keep it balanced, and Uncle Paul took off!! Richie said they literally rode FOREVER before Michael got tired!! Now, all Michael wants to do is go to the lake!! I think Richie has created a monster!!! :-)

(P.S. Sorry about the poor quality of the photo - it was taken from the boat with a cell phone!!)

Easter 2009

Here are some pictures from our Easter day. We got up and went to church, came home, and Daddy and I dyed eggs while Mommy mixed up the yummy sweet potato casserole! Then we ate lunch, Daddy hid the eggs in the backyard, and Mommy and I went to find them. Then, Mommy and I took a nap! It was a fun day spent as a family.

My Easter basket from the Easter Bunny

Helping Daddy dye the eggs

Me with the finished product - I even waited PATIENTLY for them to dry!

Eating dinner at our kitchen table in the new kitchen!! This was the first time we have eaten at the table in 6 weeks!

Finding eggs........

I counted them to make sure I had found them all.....

Cheese!!

Recent pics

I know I have been slacking in the post department lately. Here are some recent pics that we have taken the past couple of weeks. I have tons of pics of the kitchen renovation that I will post later!

Michael totally enjoying Taylor's Birthday Cookie Cake - mostly the icing!

What a mess!! But it was SO Yummy!!

My little man is growing up so fast!

Michael and Mommy (and Maggie)

Belly shot @ 20 weeks - officially halfway!!