Emmy's 3 month pictures

HUGE thank you to my bestie Katy for taking these!  I love them and they are so Em!

The search for the perfect sibling picture...

I am on the hunt for the perfect, or at least decent picture of my three kids.   You know, one where everyone is looking at the camera, smiling or at least not grimacing, and you can see them clearly? Yes I know what you're thinking.  That picture in your header is great.  And you are right, it is, except it's photoshopped.  Yep, it's John's head from another picture.  We are just having a hard time getting a second, non-photoshopped picture of our trio.

 One day old. No one is looking

 1 week old. Closed eyes.

 2 weeks old.  Colin is crying.

 1 month old.  Em is pulling J's hair, Colin is... Something.

1 month.  Colin is kissing Em, J is doing his silly face.

So today I set out to take a picture of all of my children....  Easier said than done:

 Em is smiling, J looking, C is sucking thumb, fail.

 Weird look, C and the thumb?  What is that?

 Close, look up Colin!

 No, stop kissing your baby sister and look at the camera!

 Great picture, thanks for the help John.

 Are you gonna bite her Colin?  Oh maybe...

What's on my nose boys look at my nose, no not show me YOUR nose!! 
We're getting hair cuts this weekend, maybe that will help.  This session didn't go so well except we finally got an Emmy smile on camera.  Oh well!

Brotherly Love

The Boys are totally in love with their new little sister and ask to hold her all the time.  John started calling her the peanut baby and that has stuck.  Colin gets more gentle with her every day and for that Em is thankful!

 Reading her stories

 Kisses!

 This was the best one, seriously

Silly John pretending to sleep with Emerson. 

We are so happy the boys are doing as well as they are, and that Em is too!  The transition into a family of 5 has been as smooth as we could have hoped and we are so blessed the boys love her so much.  She may not be as thrilled once she is interested in boys...

Andrea Roberts Photos

Recently (OKAY, it was over Thanksgiving break), a wonderful friend Andrea was kind enough to take time out of HER vacation to take beautiful pictures of my family. Andrea owns Andrea Roberts Photography of Ohio but, lucky for me, she's moving to Colorado over the summer. I cannot wait to have her take our picture again. They are all beautiful! Thank you Andrea, and I'm still getting my order together, EVERYONE wants some:)
Our new header is my favorite family shot, and here are a few of the others.

Buff Family

Every year since John was born we've taken a picture on the first home game of our family.
Here's 2007 (the year J was born)


Here is last year's 2008 picture:



And finally here is this year's 2009 picture again:


And here is the silly version:


Here is the whole gang at the game!


Yes Seth is wearing the very same shirt and hat in every picture. I guess I know what he needs for Christmas!

A REAL Camping Trip

You know the kind. With A down pour while you're setting up the tent, your two year old falling in the mountain lake, your 8 month old getting a sunburn while it's cloudy out, deer playing through your camp site, and the tent zipper breaking open right before the night when it gets below freezing. Oh yeah, we rocked it all! This was the second annual camping trip with some of our great neighbors. We're already talking about next year!!

Colorado Condo Camping

John really wanted to go camping, I just wasn't up for it. SO we went to our condo, it's like camping only with a toilet and cable and two pillow topped beds. You know JUST like how you camp right?
But then we went to Vail and played at the Pirate Ship Park, and swung, and Colin had his first frozen "yogurt" (it was really ice cream, but it was peach, so it's a fruit:). We fed the giant fish in Keystone (and played at another park), we took silly pictures of the boys at landmarks around the city, and watch the Courage Classic biker riders, played at more parks in Dillon and Frisco, and Fished, oh boy did we fish. Outside of the Condo probably six different times, at parks, in parking lots. JM LOVES LOVES LOVES to fish.
We really are going camping in just a few weeks, you know with a tent, but for now, my little camper is a happy one!

I've been slacking...

I know, I could give you more excuses, but you probably wouldn't believe me... So instead I'll give you pictures! I'm sure blogger will put these in the wrong order, but I'm much too lazy to fix them.