Baby Mae's Blessing Pictures

Here is my friend, Rachel's, baby, Mae, in her blessing dress.  I can't believe it's been almost 5 months since I did her newborn pictures.  She really is the easiest baby to photograph because she is so smiley!

And of course, after they left Rex wanted me to take his picture.  Since this is the first time he has willingly posed, I happily obliged.  I cannot believe he's going to be 3 in a couple weeks!

This picture kinda makes me want to pinch his cheeks. 

Catching Up

I finally had a few minutes to update our blog with the things we did from mid-July until now!  Scroll down to see 3 more posts!

Trip to Utah

We moved back to Durham over the second weekend in August and left a few days later to spend a week in Utah visiting my family and Josh's family.  It was lucky that Josh's family were able to come down from Washington so we could spend some time with them as well.

Our first day there, Kelsey's friend gave us a tour of the BYU football facility.  It was really neat and I bet Josh's favorite part was changing Rex's poopy diaper on the floor of the weight room while football players looked on.

We took both families to the zoo to spend the day together with the animals

Here is my bro with his beautiful daughter, Sophie

My parents are currently living in SLC serving a Family History mission for our church.  They live just a block and a half from the temple and I just loved staying with them downtown.  My dad took Rex and Sophie on a walk to the park across the street from their apartment to see the little pond.

And the last night we were there my sister flew in from Missouri and met up with us for dinner.  She and her husband were dropping their oldest son off at BYU for his freshman year.  I can't believe he's all grown up (*tear)

Blowing Rock and Tweetsie Railroad

Josh finished up his duties as slave intern on August 5th and we decided to spend a day in northwestern NC and enjoy the cooler mountain air.  We drove about 2 hours from Charlotte to Blowing Rock, NC and went straight to a little "fair-like" amusement park called, Tweetsie Railroad.  Rex was in little boy heaven!

Riding the chair lift

They had a petting zoo where you could feed the goats, llamas, emus and miniature horses.  

We discovered that Rex is taking after his Dad in his love of all things chocolate.  He has declared that chocolate is his favorite ice cream and will accept nothing less.

Summer Trip to Columbus

While Josh was working his buns off this past summer, I decided to man up and take Rex up to Ohio to visit my sister and her 4 kids.  The 8 hour drive turned out to be not too bad and it was so worth it to see some friendly faces.  Here are some pictures from our trip!

My friend, Heidi, was spending the summer with her family in Columbus while her husband worked in NYC.  She came and met us at this awesome kids museum - it was so fun to see her and her cute kids.

With my sister and her kids

A trip to Ohio would NOT be complete without a dance party. 

The Pett Family

This family wanted me to take some photos to capture their daughter's 1-year milestone.  Little did I know we scheduled the shoot on her actual birthday! And holy cow, did we pick a HOT night to take photos!  They were such good sports despite the really uncomfortable temperatures, especially the little one.  And on top of everything, she was one of the most photogenic babies I've seen.  Here are some of my favorites! Happy Birthday, Elle!

What we've been up to lately...

So, here is a quick recap of what we've been up to since we moved to Charlotte in June.

 Josh started his internship as an investment banker on June 1st.   Here he is leaving for his first day of work.

And Rex is imitating Dad

Since we don't see much of Josh, I took Rex to Missouri to spend the weekend with my siblings and their kids.  We stayed at my parent's house despite the fact they aren't there (they are in SLC on a mission). Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us use your house.  We promise we left it looking like it did when we got there :)

Claire and Rex helped me make a treat.  

We played at the pool

And we got a babysitter one night so we could all go out to an adult dinner and a movie

Then when I got back from Missouri Grandma Melanie came out to visit for July 4th weekend and we loved having her here.

We found a nice little spot to watch the fireworks.  Please don't judge me by my child's outfit.  We weren't sure the fireworks were going to happen because it had rained and Rex was already in his PJ's when we left the house.  Since it was cool he needed a jacket and this was the only one we brought with us to Charlotte.  Good thing it was dark out there!

We are really enjoying our time in Charlotte despite the fact we never see Josh.  He works CRAZY hours.  He's gone M-F from 9am-11pm (sometimes later...sometimes 3am) and works Saturday and Sunday afternoons.  Needless to say, Rex and I are getting really sick of each other!  4 more weeks and we'll be back to student life in Durham, ahhhh.