Darth Maul

The horns and contacts...
Then the red....

The finished product along with the master behind the face...Brother Jones

Another view...

Emma loved to look at Rich and touch his face. She found him fascinating.Cache thought he was pretty cool.

Cache helping with the clean up...

Head Shaving

For Halloween Rich decided to be Darth Maul. In order for him to do so he had to shave his head. SO Cache decided he could help with that.
Cache continued to shave the same part over and over until Rich almost had a bald spot.

Rich took matters into his own hands and began to look like Mr. T!

Cache thought his head felt pretty cool!

My tough little Man!

Asking Rich if he is going to use shave gel on his head.

Getting the remainder of the hair off!Not as easy as you would think.

The finished results....Emma has more hair than Rich!

Family Pictures

We decided before Rich shaved his head this year for Halloween we would get family pictures. When we arrived both kids were sleeping! I wasn't sure how things would work out, but I am very happy with the pics.Posies Photography did an awesome job getting both of our wiggly children to smile!
Cache is such a ham! This is how he wanted to hold the football. Trying to get him to hold still for more than a minute was challenging!

Emma was having a hard time keeping her head up, but was all smiles!

This picture should make any green bay fan proud. I must say it makes a bucs fan pretty happy! Although Emma's double chin is much cuter on her than mine is on me!

Rich trying to wrangle in the little man to come smile with the fam!

Miss Emma just hanging with dad!

As soon as I laid down with Miss Emma, Cache jumped right on!

I love this family picture! I think Ginger captured our family personality well! However according to Brandon one of these is not like the other!

Emma's Blessing Day

We blessed Emma Labor Day weekend so that Brandon, Melinda and family could make it. She wore my blessing dress that my Grandma made almost 30yrs ago! It was crazy to think it is that old. Ginger was kind enough to come and take some pics for us. They turned out wonderful. Here is some of my favorite. We of course had to start out with the boys club, or peanut gallery whichever you would like to call them.
Here is my little poser doing a fake cheesy smile!

One of the whole family together. Cache was insistent on having the croquet mallet and ball with him.

Three generations of beautiful brunettes!

Emma with the proud grandparents minus my dad.

Brandon does actually clean up nice?! Or maybe it is just the cute kiddos!

My personal favorite picture! Cache gives this look all the time!

The poor little missy was all done and ready to take a nap. It is exhausting to look beautiful and take all those pics!

The Greatest Big Brother

Being a big brother has many duties which Cache takes very seriously!

The Protector...
The Personal Assistant...

The Adventurer...

The Fashion Consultant...

The Babysitter...

The Entertainer...

The Pyro...

The Comforter...

The Gunslinger...

The Gamer...

The Lifeguard...

The Repairman...

Greatest of all.... BIG BROTHER

Bath Fun!

Cache helped me give Emma her first bath. As you can see she wasn't too keen on the idea.
The look on Cache's face is my favorite. He couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about!

Nice and warm in her little towel!

All clean!

Since that first bath Emma is getting a little better about getting them. Although every time we give her one Cache says, "She isn't going to like us very much!"

A birth story...

It's a Girl! the nurse says....and so the journey has begun. She is 19 inches long and 7lbs.6oz.

The delivery went well and we were all very happy to meet our new little addition.

After going to the nursery or should I say spa? she came back all clean with her hair done all cute!

Cache was sleeping when daddy brought him to the hospital. When he woke up he was trying to figure out what we were doing. We then introduced him to his new baby sister. He said, "she is pretty cool!" He gave her lots of kisses and kept telling us that she liked him!We asked Cache what he thought we should name her and he decided she should be named BLUE TOADY!(like in mario brothers).

Both Grandmas were very excited to have a new baby girl.

Cache falling into his role as big brother. Although, he does prefer to hold her all by himself.

After much thought we decided to name her EMMA. So far this is one of my favorite pictures!

I would say she was definitely worth the suprise!