Me & My Dad

Jack and Reagan have the BEST Daddy...and we celebrated his "special-ness" (is that even a word? ha!) all day long on Sunday. We went to brunch at the yacht club with our friends, relaxed at home, let Daddy workout at the gym while Mommy watched the kids in the indoor splash pool (um, have you checked the weather lately? it has been raining for DAYS here! yuck!) and had a delicious dinner at a new restaurant!

I pulled some cute photos from our archives of the kids & Matt...Happy Father's Day!

Little Models...

Maybe Jack & Reagan have a future in modeling? Hmmmm, not sure about that. ha! But...they did help out my friend, Lauren. Remember the beautiful holiday photos of the kids that Lauren took? Her and her business partner have decided to expand their wedding photography business. They've had so many requests from friends to photograph their kids that they wanted to include some of the pictures on their website/blog.

About a week ago, we took the kids down to our beach and attempted to get some good shots of the kids having fun on a beautiful summer morning. Lauren got some GREAT shots...and as you can see from the pictures, the kids were pretty cooperative. Of course, after about 10 minutes...they started to get a little silly and we had to bribe them with a treat! ha!

Here is a link to Lauren's blog and you can see some of the pictures...

http://personkillian.squarespace.com/person-killian-photographers/2009/6/4/children-photography.html

Old Pictures...

I love to look at old pictures (and I do this frequently) - I have so much to be thankful for and looking at pictures from the past make me realize this each time! Some days, we wake up tired, stressed, sad, sensitive, frustrated, etc...but once I see all the amazing memories we have created - these negative feelings go away!!!

So I thought I would do another "Remember When..." post and put up some of my favorite pictures of the kids from the past few years...and of course I'm biased but I think they are too cute! :) I'll also tell a little story about each photo...a memory that I have of that picture & time of year.

Enjoy!

Spring 07 - Reagan loved to look at herself in our bathroom mirror (oh and I LOVED this paint color - so dramatic and I'll never forget the name "Cayenne")

Summer 05 - Jack was around 9 months old in this picture. We went on a bike ride through the Missouri Wine Country and it was a HOT summer day. But Jack loved it!! And we loved the wine! :)

Provincetown, MA June 2007 - We took an ALL FAMILY vacation (Lehmans + Waldners) to the Cape this summer and Jack flew his first kite with Grammy & Gramps. He had a blast but unfortunately the Dora kite took a hard dip in the ocean and went bye-bye. uh oh! This is Jack looking up in the sky watching the kite fly around!
Spring 07 -Reagan had just discovered how to crawl up the stairs...life as we knew it was over! She was quite the climber and loved to give us mini-heart attacks each day.