Awesome recent pics

Check out the truly beautiful recent photos by Sarah and Ben's Aunt Suzie (Split Second Photography) in her blog post from 3/25/10...

http://suzieandbrad.blogspot.com

I love the first photo of Sarah as she just woke up from her nap, and of Benjamin with full smile in the blue bib.

Thanks, Suzie! My babies are so beautiful!

Me and my babies

We need some good family photos. It seems like we only ever take photos of the kids alone, and never with us. :) Stephen took this photo, and its not great but it captures me with my babies. Sarah would NOT look at the camera at all, and Benjamin was about to go into full meltdown because Sarah was yelling at the top of her lungs. Anyway, like I said, at least its a recent pic of me and them.

Sarah- our newest photographer in the family

Sarah is beginning to use the camera by herself, and loves to take pictures. Thank goodness we do not have an expensive camera! Usually her shots are so bad, we just delete them from the camera when she isn't looking. But these that she took actually turned out somewhat cute. :)

Sometimes she takes the pictures while holding the camera backwards, so that she isn't capturing the image, she is actually photographing herself! So funny! Thats what happened here...

and here...

This is me, leaning WAYYYY over to actually put myself in her view because she wasn't lining up the camera with me. So funny!

Benjamin- 3 months

As you probably know, we are not the best at taking pictures- at remembering to have the camera handy, or taking good pictures when we actually do have the camera in hand! Ha! Our poor kids...luckily they have Aunt Suzie!

Anyway, here are a few shots of Benjamin taken just last week. He is getting big, and can almost sit upright by himself with no support. He loves to smile and laugh. Amazing that we even caught a smile on camera. :)

Silly boy!

Seriously, how cute is he...?!

Callaway Gardens

A few weeks ago we spent the day at Callaway Gardens--me, Sarah and Benjamin plus Mom, Becky, Jennifer, and Jordan. It was a sunny warm afternoon, and we all had a great time. Here are a few pics of the cousins (minus Benjamin).

The Ruppert Landscaping Annual Awards Ceremony

Stephen joined Ruppert Landscaping in October of 2009. They hold a yearly banquet to celebrate their employees in Baltimore, Maryland. They invite the spouses for the ceremony as well. Here is me and Stephen in the bar dressed in our best before the event.

This is Samantha and Steve (who Stephen worked with formerly with TruGreen)

Benjamin and Sarah

Sarah loves to try to kiss and hug Ben...but almost every time she does, he gets upset with her and cries, "Get away from me!" (or something like that, seeing how he can't talk yet...). I'm always nearby with the camera, trying to get that perfect photo of them being sweet...notice that didn't happen in this set. :)

Fun in the Snow

We had quite a bit of snow the weekend of my birthday- 2/12/10. It was really beautiful, and very fluffy for Georgia snow. Stephen took a photo of us measuring how much we got here.

Sarah being silly playing in the snow in the front yard

Sarah in the front yard

Making snow angels (and she did a good job, too!)