Congratulations Adam Joseph Canfield

On Saturday, we celebrated Adam Joseph Canfield's baptism.

Here he is (in the middle, in daddy's arms) with the Goncalves family. It was so nice that Steve and Dorene, with their three girls, flew in from North Carolina to participate as Adam's God Parents. We know that they'll do a great job.

Here is Emma hanging out with her friend Jillian on the grass at the after-party. We were so suprised that Emma tolerated the grass because she usually doesn't let you put her down on it.

Here is Melissa sitting at a table just her size :)

Welcome to the world Baby David!

David Elias Prieto Jr.

Friday August 14th

12:28 pm

6 lbs. 15 oz.

18 inches

My cousin Cris and her family welcomed their newest little addition, and I do mean little.

Everything about this guys is so little, but maybe that is because I have a volley ball player for a daughter, so it makes him seem tiny.

I had big David sneak our camera in to the nursery to take a few pictures.

Here is a sweet picture of Uncle visiting Cris after the surgery.

Everything went well with the c-section and both Cris and David Jr. are doing wonderfully.

We were all spying on the little guy in the nursery.

This afternoon we made a little trip back down to the hospital to see everyone.

This little guy is adorable.

I think he has more hair than any baby I have ever seen. And not just on his head, he is hairy every where, it is kinda cute.

Emma was really curious to meet her new little cousin.

Here is the happy family!

Cris, David Jr., big sister Anyssa and David

31 Weeks... and all grown up!

What a big week around here...

Emma is now in her big girl car seat.

Don't worry she is still rear facing, I just want to make sure you all knew we are still being safe.

And so far I love them, she slept so well in it today.

Most kids can stay in their infant seat until they are about a year, but not our giant!!! At 7 months, she is right at the 30 inch max, so it was time to upgrade. This seat goes up to 59 inches, so we figure at the rate she is growing, we've got another 6 months left in this seat, haha. :)

Thank you Kevin for sharing your car seat wisdom with Doug!

A few years back while visiting my cousin Val and her family, Doug caught a glimpse of Lauren's super cool car seat. It was a Recaro, and to those of you that don't know about them, Recaro also makes race car seats. Doug said to me, "when we have a kid, they are going to have one of those."

So apparently Emma is cooler than she even knows, because she now has a super cool car seat too!

She has also become quite the crawler!!!

She still falls over often, but she gets right back up and tries again.

This little kid is persistent!

Here is a little clip of her in action.

We discovered that she loves wrapping paper rolls, so we tried to get her to crawl by showing her wrapping paper, and it worked. Awww, she is girl after my own heart, I too love wrapping paper!

Yay for 31 weeks!

Bye bye bangs. :(

So we finally decided to cut Emma's bangs, or reverse rat tail, what ever you want to call the 6 hairs.

Before

Papa Bob was a bit sad, because he used to style her bangs with a little gel and swirl them into a little curl.

Silly mommy even used some scotch tape to hold the bangs still while I cut them.

I also wanted to make sure that I didn't lose those precious little hairs, because those puppies are going in her scrap book.

Emma did so well, she even decided to brush her incoming teeth with her hair brush.

After!

Pretty darn cute, even without the bangs.

7 Months, that's nuts!

Yikes, Emma turned 7 months on Friday.

I know, I am a little behind, but we have had a busy weekend.

She loves to chew on her shoes, actually she loves to chew on almost everything.

BIG NEWS!!!

Her two bottom teeth just cut, but we are still waiting for them to grow in a little more so that we can get a good picture.

Dinner at the Hodgson Home

Friday night we had dinner at the home of Mr. & Mrs. H. They were out of town so since Tim, Heather and Rachel were house sitting they invited us over for some really yummy chicken burgers. :)

Sweet little Rachel. She is 4 months old.

Jillian and Emma decided that they wanted to try and take each other's pacis. Lucky for us, they were pretty gentle.

But we did learn that Emma is a bit aggressive.

We are in trouble, we have an aggressive giant on our hands. I can just see the parent teacher conferences in our future, where the teacher is telling us our sweet little girl is the ginormous bully of the play ground.

Our little bully in action.

She made Rachel cry, poor thing.

Emma wasn't trying to be mean, but she was just so curious and wanted to play with Rachel.

Jillian and her dada (Jason).

She is way too cute to be a bully.

Look at that, "who me, I didn't do it" face.

We tried to lay the ladies down for a group shot, well it didn't work so well.

Poor Rachel, this time Jillian made her cry.

The next attempt wasn't much better.

Jillian was still attacking Rachel and Emma was trying to crawl away.

Crazy little girls!

We had a fabulous time at dinner and we will have to do it again soon.

Next time we can host, and maybe have another pizza party.

Thank you to the Lewko fam (Jason, Kristyn & Jillian) and thank you to the Hodgson fam (Tim, Heather and Rachel), we couldn't have picked a better way to spend our Friday evening.

30 Weeks!!!

Wow, it's hard to believe that our little girl is already 30 weeks old.

She is learning so much lately and it's so cool to see her try things that we "teach" her. I especially like it when she tries to repeat what you're saying...sort of. We're looking forward to her learning how to crawl soon. Happy Birthday little girl.

Congratulations Cris!

This afternoon we hosted a baby shower for my cousin Cris.

She will be having her son David Jr. by c-section on August 14th.

What a beautiful and happy mommy!

It was a perfect day for a shower, a tiny bit warm, but not too bad.

The spread.

"Showering Cris with love."

Playing a few games.

Opening some gifts.

Me, Cris and Ebit.

The family anxiously awaiting their little guy.

Cris, David and Big Sister Anyssa

A few special thank you shout outs:

Ebit - For being a terrific co-host!!!

Bri - For helping with all of the decorations.

Mom, Caubbie, & Connie - For helping with the food.

All in all it was a great shower.

29 (weeks) and feeling fine.

I love this little gal!!!

This little face cracks me up.

And this little shot shows two of my favorite things, her eyes and her smile. They are both perfect!

Mama and daddy love you lots!

Happy Birthday Douggie!

So I am about 30 minutes early with this birthday shout out. Since I love him so much, I think he deserves an extra 30 minutes of well wishing.

From the moment we brought our little girl home, I knew that you were not only the world's best husband, but you were becoming the perfect daddy for Emma!

You are also the best bath giver.

Your smile and dimples make our family photos that much cuter! :)

I love your sweet little kisses to Emma.

I love that you find so much joy in teasing me and picking out crazy outfits for Emma. And I love it even more that you give me veto power on them.

Did I mention I love your sweet kisses to Emma.

I gave in and let Douggie open his present tonight instead of waiting until tomorrow.

Emma helped open it, she loves tissue paper.

Then she inspected his new ipod, I think she gave it her approval.

Happy Birthday Douggie!

I love you so much and I am the luckiest girl in the world to have met you!!!

I hope you have a great day.

Vegas!!!

So this may be a bit of picture overload, but we had such a great time so I wanted to share lots of pictures.

Started out Friday morning with some cocktails at 9 am while waiting at the airport.

We were lucky enough to fly instead of drive. The other half of the group was even more lucky and they flew in on Stephanie's families private jet... crazy.

Stephanie is Bri and Tyler's cousin.

A little self portrait while getting ready for dinner.

Stephanie, Noel and Hannah on our way to dinner.

Stephanie was kind enough to hire a limo for us all weekend.

Bri, Noel and Tyler at dinner at Nobu in the Hard Rock Hotel.

Then we went to the Blink 182 show at Hard Rock, it was a great show!

We started Saturday morning off by a few minutes of gambling.

Bri won $4 in just 2 minutes, and it was her 1st time ever gambling. I would say that she is pretty lucky.

Me and Douggie in front of the Paris fountain.

Then we hit up the Cheesecake factory for my Birthday lunch.

Doug's good friend since childhood Dave joined us.

Then we hit up the pool.

And these lovely beer maids served up some cocktails.

Since it was so hot they decided to cross through the pool instead of walking all of the way around.

All ready for a birthday dinner at the Venetian.

Then we were once again spoiled by Stephanie with table service of 5 bottles at Tao.

Needless to say we had a great time!

Such a fun group!

Douggie and Tyler.

Me, Stephanie and Bri.

As we were leaving the club Stephanie was tired of holding her new purse so I gladly carried it for her. She just bought this Louis V. that afternoon and I don't think I have ever carried such an expensive purse. She said it looked good on me... maybe that means she will pass it on to me when she is done with it. Hey, I can dream can't I.

Our fabulous roomies.

Snoop Dog

When we headed to the airport we happened to walk through the door with Snoop Dog.

And the best part of the entire trip was coming home to little Emma! :)

She is almost crawling.

This is about as close as she can get with out officially crawling.

We have been encouraging her so I am thinking it will be coming along soon.

We had a fabulous time with the group.

A special thank you to Stephanie for her generosity, she sure spoiled us this weekend.