jonathan's birthday

Today we celebrated daddy & his 27 years of life.

Daddy wasn't thinking, and packed up the trusty ol' Kitchen Aide mixer a week ago. Hence the store bought, frozen, Pepperidge Farm cake, which, we decided, tasted like a glorified ho-ho. We're not complaining. Who doesn't like a good ol' ho-ho now and then?

Want in on a secret? This really wasn't the exact moment Jonathan blew out the candles. He did it before I was ready with the camera, so he kindly reenacted the moment for me. What a guy.

Daddy and his boy. Rowan even got a couple bites of the cake, but all he wanted was to touch the candles. In all the other shots like this, he is doing all he can to grab the candles. All in all it was a simple birthday.

Food + cake + present = a happy birthday boy.

**special thanks to Emily & mom**

Happy Dad's Day

Happy Father's Day my love.
Thanks for being such a great daddy to your carbon copy.
Gee I'm lucky being surrounded by so much beauty.
I hope you like your gift.
I can't wait to see what cool pictures we get.
You + camera = magic.

And Happy Father's Day to all the other great men in my life.

my perfect anniversary gift

Really, it's all I needed. I loved it.
I am such a sentimental girl.
I'm going to love looking at this when Jon & I are old and wrinkled.

Front of card reads:

To: THE BEST wife & mommy
Baby Rowan's bubble says, We love her!

Inside of card reads:
honey,
I love you very much. You R the greatest. I hope I can be a better husband every day.
Love Jonathan

Mother's Day 2008

Well, I had a great Mother's Day weekend. Jonathan and I kicked it off Saturday by doing things that I wanted to do. On the agenda was a trip to Mor Furniture so I could daydream about couches and dream of the day when we can get a new one. Then we headed to Babies R Us to check out some essential items. We spent most of our time looking at car seats and strollers. I think we found the one we want. It was very cute to see Jon pushing them around and trying to figure out how to fold them up. Then we ate at Cafe Rio- yummy! Of course we had to top it off with a Nielsen's Frozen Custard dessert. We could have eaten one each, but we shared. Our final stop was Target where we bought a cute pair of pj's for the baby. Sunday we went to church- none of the ladies in my ward got anything :0( Sunday evening we had our 1st Mother's Day photo shoot! It was fun and I can't wait for next year when the baby is really here! Hope all you mommas out there had a great day too!