It's Been a Long, Long Time

So you may have noticed that I haven't updated my blog for a long time. There are a ton of things I want to say and even more pictures that I want to add, but it happens to be 12:52 a.m., so I will have to do just one post tonight and get back to the rest tomorrow.

Now for some pictures.

Katie had her first ice cream cone at the end of March on one of our Family Home Evening excursions. She reminds me of her Aunt Heather in this picture.

Charlie just wants to say,"hey!" If you expand this photo, you can tell that Charlie has green eyes. They 're so awesome.

One of the ways in which Josh and I differ is that he has a green thumb and loves to garden. He bought this rose bush during the fall semester when he was taking his horticulture class. I do love having the beautiful roses to look at. They spruce up our pathetically small patio.


Charlie is a lover of the simple things in life. He loves to sleep. He loves to cuddle with stuffed animals. And he loves to spit up on my carpet.


Every once in a great while, we do something cool like take our kids to the river.
This was one of those times.


Alek and I had a little photo shoot last week. This picture cracks me up.
Side note: This is not a Boston Celtics cap. This is a Celtic Football Club hat. And it's football as in soccer. And it's a Scottish team, not Irish. I know you were thinking they were Irish, because that's what I always think. And then Josh has to keep telling me that they're in Glasgow.



One last picture. Alek and I had this little photo shoot last week because I was feeling kinda skinny that day. So I asked him to take some pictures of me so I could show you all how skinny I am getting. Looking at the pictures, I am not sure why I was feeling so skinny. The outfit is clearly not as flattering as I thought. I am wearing size 10 pants in the picture below, however, and that is pretty exciting. I still have a ways to go and I am having a super hard time right now sticking with the program. But at any rate, here I am: the skinnier Jessica.


And by the way, I do realize that my house is a mess in every single one of these pictures. If I waited until my house were clean to take pictures, then there wouldn't be any pictures. I spent all day cleaning on Saturday and my house still looked like this. It's pretty hopeless.

More pictures forthcoming, including shots from: Bring Your Child to Work Day, Young Women's Conference, and Charlie's Birthday. I may also post a video. Oooh!