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Bedtime Story

These pics are from a few months back...

The Boys

Connor so excited for some rice cereal action:

Peas...not so much!

Basketball dude:

We went to a family fun day at a Karate place last saturday and JR got a little mini lesson in karate kicks and a few hits.  Here is him in action.  He was loving life.

Cuties:

Connor loving him some more food:

Evolution of a Tipping Baby

Connor was super smiley during a recent diaper changing session. I didn't want to risk the moment passing, so I ran to grab the camera and plopped the boy on the bed with high hopes of capturing some cute smiles. Decided not to waste time with something as trivial as finishing the dressing process, hence the bare leg! haha :)

Uh-oh...

No stopping it...

Here we go, all straightened out...

I see you!

Getting a little uncomfortable, so...

...I'll just flip over onto my back.  Exactly where I wanted to be...just snacking away on my fingers!

Connor Blessing

Winter Weather Advisory.  Treacherous travel conditions due to black ice from freezing rain.  This is what we woke up to.  Church was cancelled. The first time our church meetings have ever been cancelled since we've lived here in Raleigh.  Just so happened to be the meeting we'd arranged to bless our sweet Connor boy.  Crazy! Jeff's parents were in town for said blessing...from Colorado.  We ended up just blessing him at home late morning.  It was wonderful.

Beautiful March morning in Raleigh...hahaha!! :)

The baby of the hour

Practice Session

I finally figured out how to get higher quality videos on the blog and am so excited! Here is a little sample More to come :) They boy has been shooting on his new hoop nonstop since his birthday on Saturday!

The boy is THREE

I can't believe JR is 3 years old! Seems crazy to me.  His birthday was so fun this year because he is just old enough to have been really excited about it leading up to things.  It happened to be family day at the athletic facilities at NC state.  So we headed over there around 9:30 in the morning. They had a some basketball courts set up with snacks and fun crafts.  Also some badminton, bean bag toss and a few basketball hoops (shame on me for not getting any pictures of that).  JR was loving life.  After we spent some time there, we headed down to the swimming pool area.  

What a stud! haha :)

We had dinner at Golden Corral which was followed by the part of the day that JR was really looking forward to...PRESENTS and CAKE (or cupcakes at least).

We were so excited to give him this new football uniform and thought he would just love it.  But apparently it was "TOO HUGE!!" Oh-well.  Maybe we'll wrap it up, stow it away and try again next year! Haha!

So excited to try out his new hoop!

Connor was a sweetheart just hanging out on the couch in great spirits

I wanted to get a shot with JR under a "happy birthday" sign we had hanging up so I asked him to go over and get under it. He immediately complied and got down right into this position! I just started laughing so hard. Jeff recently showed him how football players "take a knee" when they need to take a break.

Stripped down to keep his clothes clean...by his own choice :)

So sad it was time to end the cupcake eating festivities!

Happy Birthday, JR!!!