more christmas pics

christmas 2008! wow. so i guess i'm a little behind on working on my personal pics, huh?

and another fun thing i learned this week is that my monitor needs serious calibrating. don't worry. i ordered a calibrator the other day. it should be here by monday. i know you were worried. i ordered some test prints from my new printer and realized my monitor is brighter and more yellow than reality, so now the perfectionist in me wants go back and color correct all of my pictures before i post them, but in keeping with my new resolution to be more real, nope i'm not gonna fix 'em. here they are... a little pale. oh well. that kid's still cute, you gotta admit. although in these christmas morning pictures it looks like we need to get him out in the sun a little bit more. =)

so can you guess what jonah's big gift was for christmas this year?!

thanks once again to our wonderful friends the noes we were able to give jonah a gently used riding device. last year was the cozy coop they gave us before we left illinois for texas. this year we busted out the big boy tricycle that's been hiding out in the garage all year. and look... his feet actually reach the pedals!

i love this picture! this was one of the test shots i ordered as an 8x10. i can't wait to find somewhere to hang it up.



this was jonah's 2nd favorite gift this christmas... a matchbox lightening mcqueen. i do believe jonah has him sleeping in bed with him tonight.


he can't even stop playing with "cars" long enough to look at the camera.

we were dog sitting my sister and brother-in-law's pooches over christmas.

"good moose... no moose! my bike!"

"thomas tracks" from grandma & grandpa. another favorite this year. i love when jonah says "henry". it sounds like "hungry".

dave's sister leah and her boyfriend scott and cousin kaleb and scott's daugher madyson came over for christmas dinner. scott made an awesome seafood lasagna. here's jonah and madyson takin' a spin around the house. it was cute. madyson was steering and pedaling, and jonah was just happy as a clam getting a free ride and thinking that he was steering.

whoo, all that bike riding and excitement made me hungry! when's dinner? i'm ready.


merry christmas, y'all!

what's the right way to spell y'all anyway? y'all or ya'll? anyway, merry merry!

too late for christmas?

as i was working on something else this afternoon i came across the pictures from christmas day this year and realized i never put them online. and since dave's on the road again this week i thought i'd share this pic of jonah and his favoritest daddy from christmas 2008.

jonah gettin' his praise on...

seriously. how much does my kid rock? seriously.

really really serious about his music on his rad "air guitar".

mad hatter angry rock drummer face.

just playin'! i just can't be mean for too long.

rockin' out with daddy. it's a shame neither of them could ham it up even just a little, what with mama taking the pictures and all.

"oh my gosh. dada you're so funny!"

see, i know a little air guitar myself...

"so a guy walks into a bar with a duck under his arm..."

"it gets funnier every time! let me tell it again..."

wouldn't it be awesome if jonah and his little friend preston really do grow up and are in a band together. this will be their album cover. mark my words. and they'll use it in their rockumentary too.

these pics were from the rock star daddy / kid party at our church last weekend. my kid and our church have something in common... yep, they both rock.

caption please

cousins are the best

jonah with his cousin katarina. can you tell neither of them mind having their picture taken?

the photo lean...

oh kat! you're so fun!

let me draw you a diagram

jonah playing with his new easel from aunt leah. chalkboard on one side...

dry erase board on the other...

"here thomas, i'm drawing you a choo choo track. see!"

jonah's 1st symphony

at the ripe ol' age of 27... months.

spare me!

jonah's 1st time...

wakin' up from a good nap

this one goes out to all you kids quest volunteers.

we had to wake jonah up from a really good nap before we went to Christmas eve eve (december 23rd) service at church. and just a little background on why this is so humorous... they have this song they sing in kids quest where they count to 3 and then all the kids yell "elmer!" and then a puppet named elmer comes out. jonah loves elmer.

a ham in pa-jam's

he actually left it on!

my little man must be growing up. i put a baseball hat on him today and he actually left it on long enough for me to take some pictures.

normally he rips them right off. i think it might have been because he was playing with his baseball and i called it his "baseball hat". and lately he's been into doing things with themes.

this one's my favorite...

and this one...

hmmm... maybe i'll take it off now.

nope! just wanna put it on backwards.


LOL!

christmas lights

when we got home from our thanksgiving day festivities last night it was a beautiful 68 degrees. jonah climbed out of the car with puppy and bips (blanket) in hand ready to head to bed. as we were unloading the car and enjoying the fresh air, jonah decided to check out the driveway lining christmas lights. i couldn't resist busting out the camera and capturing the curiousity...

some stuff jonah did in november

played a little piano with dada

blew bubbles on the back porch



hung out in a box.

jonah thought it was super funny to tip himself over backwards. he did it for a good 10 or 15 minutes and laughed the whole time.

wore elmo camo socks


and got his fourth hair cut. nana got to come!