Celebrating 5 Years!

Happy Anniversary, honey! Here's your new baby!

This year we joked that we got each other a baby for our 5 year gift. What else could we want?

A trip down memory lane, if you will...
Aaron and his groomsmen and some friends at the rehearsal before heading out to the Rangers v. Astros game.

Our wedding day, June 26th, 2004...

This photo is soon to go on our fridge for motivational purposes ;)

Me and the Bridesmaids and cute little Maddie...

On our honeymoon in Maui. We are hoping to go back one day!

Love you Aaron! Remember how we said we wouldn't have kids until at least 5 years?! Funny how things change and now we have two of them!

Tonight we are celebrating (with Cohen) at the cheesecake factory...thanks Bonnie and Chaz! ;) Tomorrow we (with Cohen) are going to the Sixth Floor Museum. Aaron has never been and always has wanted to go. So, we thought we could definitely do that with an infant! Noah is with his Mimi in Oklahoma at a family reunion. Thanks Mimi! Happy weekend everyone...stay cool!

Side by Side

Okay, so this is the best that I could come up with. They have different expressions, so it is hard to see the resemblance. Cohen is definitely favoring his Daddy these days. I guess that is not such a bad thing ;)

My Boys...

A friend of mine, Mckenzie, came over the other night and snapped a few pics of the boys. Here are a couple of my faves.

Brotherly Love and First Bath

But first a pic of sweet little Cohen sleeping. He's been doing it a lot lately!

Noah laying down by his little brother.

Cohen's first bath. He loved having his hair washed, but the rest he didn't care for all that much.

I love the sweet smiles he has during his sleep. You can't tell in this pic but he has dimples like Noah.

So far, Noah has been doing great with Cohen around.


And another pic of Cohen to end with.

cohen thomas

Cohen is here!

Born June 7, 2009

at 8:13 pm

7 lbs 7oz

19 1/2 in

Beware...lots of pictures!

one last picture of our family of three...

getting ready to go in!

he's here!

and looking a lot like his big brother!

cohen's first picture with his mommy and daddy...

introducing noah to his new little brother...

cohen with his nana...

and his graddy...

and his great aunt penni...

and with his mimi and papaw...

and with his aunt lizzy...

and his cousin maddi...

i didn't get one of rylie and cohen but she looked too cute to not get a picture of!

cohen and his cousin emma...

cohen and mommy...

precious little boy...

cohen and daddy...

on our way home...

close up picture of his sweet little "coming home" outfit...

We are adjusting here at home with our new addition! More to come a little later!

ZOO!

Things are getting checked off the checklist as we approach Cohen's arrival. One thing I wanted to do before we become a family of four was to have Noah fun days! One of those being the ZOO! He has never been to an actually zoo. He has been to aquariums, museums, safari-type parks but never to the zoo! So, on a whim we decided to go yesterday. An overcast sky, school still in session, and a random Wednesday morning was the BEST time to go! There were no crowds which meant we could zoom through (as much as a 9 month preggo lady can) and see pretty much everything in two hours! Noah had a blast and all the animals were easily visible. (Sometimes, you go and they are hiding in the corner or in their little house, which is SO annoying!) We had an awesome day!

Daddy and Noah

Let me just say say that I was very impressed with Dallas Zoo. I hadn't been in awhile and I don't remember it being so nice and clean!

Taking pics of the BIG turtles...

The giraffes...

The tiger...

Looking down at the duck pond...

Noah loved the penguins!


Didn't so much love the gorillas...

See why...they were up close and personal!