Noah Perry Congdon

 

(I will come back and fill in the story soon.  :)  Just pictures for now.)

A Few Recent Cell Phone Pics

It has been so busy, and with moving and not usually knowing where in the world my camera was, my cell phone camera became important.  :)  Here are a few recent ones that kind of sum up life.  Don't worry... there will be much more later on the arrival of our newest little angel.

Here I am at 38 weeks... taken randomly as I was walking through our old bathroom packing things up.  I'm so terrible about taking belly pictures, probably on purpose, but it is good to at least have a couple to remember the hugeness.  :)

This was taken the day before little Noah's arrival.  Tony had installed the seat, and I had to load everyone up and take them to Jaden's school to drop off his work for the quarter.  I looked back and this is what I saw.  Wow.

And of course, our new little man.  This was just taken yesterday, on his birthday, March 9th.  I did find my real camera before he came, so there are plenty more, but this was taken to share with my mom on her cell phone since she was stuck at home with all the other kids.  I love it.  More to come!!

Jaden: "So, the baby looks a lot like me when I was a baby, except my hands were not crummy like that."

Happy 2nd Birthday to Chase!

Can you even believe he is 2?  It goes by so fast!  Here he is on his slick new tricycle.

He enjoyed opening presents, he loves to rip one thing after another out of the bag and toss it aside.  :)

Olivia enjoyed this balloon for quite a while.

Brenna was very crabby, but there were enough people there to keep her mostly happy.

Olivia loves Aunt Robin.  :)  The big kids were there too... they mostly played with games in "their" room, and I mostly sat in my one spot and just took pictures of people in my vicinity.  (2 more weeks to go!)  Then hopefully I will be back to chasing everyone around and getting really good pictures of all of the action.  :)  Happy Birthday Baby Chase, we love you!

He's Back!

After a couple month break from Tae Kwon Do, Jaden is back in action.  He was thrilled to start back up again.  We switched over to the southwest location because it is just so close to our new house, and his old coach is coaching there now also.  He was very happy to see Jaden and made him feel special by introducing him to everyone and making a big deal about how much better he had gotten since he's seen him.

I was worried that he might not like it as much since all of his normal friends weren't there.  He asked me, "What about Luke and Caleb and (tall blonde kid I'm blanking on right now)?"  I said, "Well, you will just have to make new friends in this class."  As I said it, I was cringing, knowing full well that it would not have done a thing to make me feel better... I am terrible at making new friends.  He surprised me as usual and said, "Oh, yeah, I love making new friends!"  Then, went along on his way perfectly happy.  I'm so glad he is the complete opposite of me, he will have such an easier time in life.  :)  He came home with stories of all of his new friends, funny things his coach said, and a sparring victory he was very proud of.  I'm glad he is back!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Kids

Just because there haven't been that many posts lately... Here are a few recent pictures.  :)

My boys with their fresh haircuts:

Baylee:

The three musketeers:

Brenna enjoying lunch:

Olivia (I never want to forget this sweet thing she does at every meal) clapping and saying "Yay!"

Kid Quotes

At lunch today, Jaden and Baylee were in an argument about a toy, I was choosing to postpone addressing that as I was in a heated debate with Tony about Carol Sorrell... I felt this little hand on my arm and looked down to see Aubrey (the only one who actually does what we always tell the kids to do and touch our arm and wait for acknowledgement before asking their question.) I say, "yes Aubrey?" He says, over all of the noise, in his sweetest little voice "Excuse me Mommy, it is just getting a little crazy in our house right now." And walked away. :) We had to agree, there are a lot of people that make a lot of noise in our family right now!

Sneads Photoshoot

Well, in case our lives couldn't get any more strange, or busy, Tony was asked to be in a photoshoot for Bakersfield Life Magazine in a story about Sneads.  He had to go down there and wear his casual clothes (they must have replaced his shirt with this Bakersfield one, because that is not what he took with him) and they were supposed to do a "makeover" on him and dress him all up, which, in reality, did not happen... he just put back on the clothes he wore to the office that day.  He is a very snazzy dresser.  They did give him a tie though, since they wanted everything in his outfit to actually be from Sneads, so he was stoked about that.  I thought the tie I picked out was better, but clearly it is not my fashion sense that is being admired here.  :)  They had a few other guys do the same thing and they interviewed them all... it will be in the March edition of Bakersfield Life Magazine.  I am looking forward to reading it while I am at Dr. Walker's office the first week of March for hopefully my LAST prenatal visit!

Christmas 2010

Better late than never, right?  I did take a few pictures of our Christmas this year... it was  a very fast, and a very fun blur, we enjoyed it very much.  :)  Here is our mantle:

Here is our very dead Christmas tree:

Here is Aubrey, very excited about some Star Wars figurine he got in his stocking.  :)

Here is Baylee enjoying her new little doll house:

Here is Brenna, of course, enjoying the wrapping paper more than the gifts:

And my Jaden, finally getting to play with his battleship:  (he knew for a couple of months that he was getting it, at least he was pretty sure.)

Aubrey was thrilled to be a might knight, I remember when all Jaden wanted in the world was to be a mighty knight... he still has his moments.  :)  I love boys.

I made a concerted effort this year to take less pictures and just enjoy the moment.  We had a blast Christmas morning, and yes, Livie was there.  There were a couple of pictures of her crying but I thought it would be best to leave those in iphoto.  :)  We went up to my mom and dad's that afternoon and had a great time.  Hopefully my mom has some pictures  of that, because apparently I don't.  Well, either way, Christmas was a hit this year and no one had more fun than Tony and me!  :)

January...

So, I just realized that I haven't blogged Christmas yet... we did have Christmas, and I will get to that soon, hopefully.  I think that we would honestly say this is the busiest time of our lives, this month has brought a whole new slew of things to do and unfortunately blogging has been way down on the list.  But, in an attempt to catch up a little, here are a few pictures of recent things:

The kids have been working hard with Brenna and Livie trying to get them to walk, no success yet, but they can both cruise like champs, stand up by themselves, and love to walk around the house with the big kids like in the picture above, which is a huge help for me.  (Except for the big kid who doesn't "get a baby" and feels left out... not for long though!  Soon, we will even out the baby/big kid ratio.  :)  Did I mention on here that we are having a boy?!  Yes, that is going to even some things out too, which we are very happy about.  :)

These kids love their little sisters!

One day Aubrey randomly fell asleep on the ottoman, he made sure his little makeshift knife was by his side.  :)

Baylee with my glasses, Jaden commented, "Wow Baylee, you look so beautiful!  Just like one of those girls who sings the blues!"

My favorite first grader.  :)  We are having a fun year and learning so much.  It is true what they say about the teacher learning more, even in first grade!  I might be having more fun than he is, but I guess it just depends on the subject.

And lastly, we bought a house!  This has been keeping me occupied, we close in a few weeks and should hopefully move in before the baby is born.  :/  That is assuming the baby is cooperating.  We are so excited, but very busy!  Looking forward to a very quiet and relaxing summer, that's for sure.

Kid Quotes

"Mommy, I really need to dump out all of the toys so that I can find the remote control to the eighteen fire missle." "Ok Aubrey, but you have to pick them all up when you are finished, ok?" "Well, there's just one problem, that is really hard work, and I don't really like really hard work."

Funny Business

Real Life at our house. :) Baylee with no shirt, Brenna screaming in the background... but too cute to pass up, especially after how long it has been with no post. Life is good, just busy, hope to catch up soon!