Shaver Lake pt. 2

we were privileged once again to be invited to this amazing cabin with some amazing friends!

THIS is a glimpse at the first trip.

and this time we got to go when there was snow!

it was a very eventful weekend with bumps on the heads, cheerios and an assortment of food all over the floor, snow forts, a CT scan, sledding, snowboard injury, babies! and lots of kids running around.
you know how we party people do!
(actually I think we were all in bed by 10 almost every night. yeah we're old so what?!)

sledding!
disclaimer: no babies were harmed during this photo shoot

stevie nose-diving
i love their faces!
our own private concert
katherine, clothe your daughter! immodest ;)
i like this picture because you can see how jess and i are as tall as the other girls when we are sunk in the snow ;)

my california girl, we don't like the cold!

thank you Bussells! we love you guys!

13 Months & counting

. 21 lbs . 29in .

. milestones .

1. 4 molars (1 is still on the way out poor babe)
2. sits in a forward facing car seat and LOVES IT
3. first In n Out burger (just cheese and a bun)

I'm not really into counting months after a year (because I always have to count on my fingers to figure out how old your kid really is when you tell me 19 months) BUT it keeps with the theme I've been doing.

fun fact: I started doing "blank Months & counting" because when I was in the hospital a lot with Clover, the only channel on the TV with anything good on was TLC and so we watched a lot of 19 Kids & Counting. I love the Duggar family!

Clover is our miss personality. She is so much fun, I just know she'll have so much fun with her little sister. That's right! another girl! Our Dr. is about 90% sure, and we go back in 3 weeks for our 18week 4D super awesome ultrasound, so I can give the for sure then. The only reason I was really hoping it wouldn't be a girl is because we cannot agree on a name. We have 2 boy names and zero girl names. But we have time.

So we'll have two little Irby girls running around, so keep your boys away!
NO DATING EVER!

just chillin' in her crib staring at the camera (creepy!)
trying on mom's sandals, such a cutie
soarin' over california, literally

Place your Bets!

Alright followers, Wednesday is (Lord willing) the big day!

Are we having a boy or a girl?

Hopefully baby irby #2 will be as "immodest" (for a day) as Clover was. To help your decision: I have been craving meat especially hamburgers.
I haven't been very sick but I'm super exhausted and could probably sleep 14 hrs a day (but I was like that before children)

So? what do you think? huh? huh?

Christmas 2010

I know this is late but better late than never right? .... right?!?!

So we flew to Georgia for Christmas and we brought the whole fam. My mom and dad included. Clover got a ridiculous amount of gifts ... I foresee restrictions on how many she gets next year, not because we don't want her to have toys, but we have too many to even know what to do with!

We had so much fun with all the family. We were all squished into MawMaw's(brian's grandma) house. Clover got to meet her beautiful new cousin baby Kate. We got no sleep thanks to Clover, she even graced us with our first experience of her falling out of a crib. Thank you. And to top it all of we had a beautiful white Christmas.

And I was blessed with a wonderful present. Brian got our families to go in on my gift and give me a really nice camera. It is top notch and even though I don't know the tricks to it yet, it still took beautiful pictures. It's so nice to be able to capture all of Clover's facial expressions, whereas my other camera would take to long to take the picture and I would miss everything. So thank you so much to my wonderful husband and family.

This is just a short and sweet little post, because it's so late. So here are some pictures of our favorite moments with my awesome new camera.

meeting baby kate for the first time

getting stuck between the laundry shoot & the wall

singing Christmas carols with Granny
receiving SO MANY Yo Gabba Gabba toys
I think this is a foreshadowing of E & JD's near future hint hint
MawMaw getting coal for Christmas (i know the lighting is bad, still figuring out photoshop)
SNOW!

day after Christmas football (see the guy in the shorts? yea, uh, crazy!)

hope you enjoyed our Christmas as much as we did!

12 Months & counting

. happy birthday to my little blessing .

. 21 lbs . 29.3in .

.Milestones.

1. has said a few words, mostly babbles. I think we have an evangelist on our hands.
2. successfully climbs out of the barriers I put up for her to keep her in one room
3. no colds for the last few months! woohoo!
4. rubs her tummy and says mMmMmm
5. puts her finger to her lip and does lip blubbles (I don't know the correct term, but do you understand what Im trying to say??)
6. has her first molar! phew that was a toughy!
7. got more toys for Christmas than any kid should EVER receive
8. had her first cupcake and ice cream ... bad idea ... she loves it, now she and I will probably be on Biggest Loser season 30 as the mother/daughter team (hopefully pink!)

Let me just recap our past for you who have missed it. We tried for almost 2 years to get pregnant (which doesn't seem like a long time compared with others who've been patient in the Lord for 15 years!) But still it was our struggle and the Lord used it to grow us where He wanted us. I prayed and cried for just one child, just one! And when we found out we were pregnant, we were on our knees crying and praising God. I have not stopped! This child is the biggest blessing I have received. She teaches me so much and loves me so much even when I don't deserve it. She is my little comedian and slowly turning into my little snuggler.
Okay on to the details. We celebrated her birthday with not one, but TWO birthday parties. I know, I know, we are pretty cool parents. ;) We had a California one, and Georgia with some family and some of our close friends. Clover got some really thoughtful gifts and we loved the fellowship and seeing everyone.

. birthday highlights .

first time eating pizza

your first Barbie!!!!

first time eating a cupcake

cool new outfit (the minnie mouse beanie & cute boots)

and to top it all off, we celebrated her first birthday with immunization shots! whoo hoo! I told you we were the best parents ever ;)

Huntington Library

Let's play catch up! I have some posts to catch you up on, for the 3 of you that read this: Uncle Mark, Aunt Elyse and maybe like 2 others ... maybe. But hey, I do it for you guys!

So last month, November, our friend Steph got free tickets to the Huntington Library. I know, I know, who would pay to go to a library. Not this girl. So Im so glad she invited me, because I would have missed out on such a beautiful place! They have a bunch of gardens to visit and it's so peaceful there. My favorite was probably the Japanese Gardens, I think I'd like to have a bathroom designed after it and it can be my own personal at home spa. So here are some shots of Clover and her friend Ellie.

Aunt Elyse was there for moral support.

This is like the one shot I got with me and her where she's actually looking at the camera.

On a side note update. Clover didn't win the Gap Casting Call. Im only upset about it because the kids they picked out of the "baby girl" category, aren't babies! They are like 2 year olds. Not fair. :( Oh well, Im over it. ;)

We didn't get pictures of Thanksgiving ... I thought someone is suppose to follow us around making pictures so we can catch all those moments with mommy and daddy. Guess not. So I'm kind of a slacker with the picture taking. boo.

Other than that, the only other thing is Im still pregnant, due July 15th. Don't really have morning sickness, although got a fantastic case of the stomach flu with Brian. Somehow we did not give it to Clover, praise God!

We are going to Georgia for a week for Christmas and it's suppose to snow while we're there which is kind of exciting and kind of not. I don't know if any of us have snow weather clothes. And Clover's first birthday is coming up this weekend. So hopefully we will get this blog rolling again soon and I can get some pictures up here. Maybe I should just hire someone to follow me around with a camera all the time. That'd be nice. How do you other mom's do it? Don't you want to be in the pictures? Tell me some secrets!

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