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A Visit from Papa and Nanny

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My parents came to town for a quick visit. My Dad dropped my Mom off Thursday afternoon while Jessica was napping. He then had a business meeting and afterward went and had dinner with Jason, Julia, and Aspen. My Mom had dinner with us.

Jessica and her Nanny

Yesterday, Jason and James took a break from work and came for lunch. Julia and Aspen came for lunch and a play date. (See Julia’s post about our last play date.) After lunch, Aspen and Jessica got to play. Aren’t Aspen’s dimples cute?

Aspen Smiling

Jessica and Aspen aren’t quite to the point where they know how to play with each other. I put them next to each other and Jessica wanted to pull on Aspen’s ears.  At her house, Aspen was rough. At our house, Jessica was rough. Oh well, it will come as they get older.

Aspen and Jessica

Papa had fun playing with his two grand-daughters.

Papa and Aspen

Papa and Jessica

Aspen and Nanny

Aspen is quite mobile. She enjoyed standing up on the Crawl-n-Cruise Jungle. Both girls enjoy the balls that are with it.

Aspen and Jessica

Julia and Aspen

After Julia and Aspen left, Papa read Jessica a story before her nap.

Papa Reading a Story to Jessica

My parents then left during her nap to head on to Houston for a wedding they’re attending. It was nice getting to visit with them.

Imaginisce May Sketch Challenge

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For my mother and mother-in-law for Mother’s Day, I put together photo albums with pictures from the first 3.5 months of Jessica’s life. When I printed the photos at Costco, I also printed copies for me. Now it is easy to scrapbook Jessica as I can just go through the photos organized chronologically in the photo box and pick out some to scrapbook. This makes challenges easier to accomplish on time as I already have photos printed.

This layout uses Imaginisce’s May Sketch. I was especially inspired by design team members Melinda and Liz‘s takes on it. I found it somewhat challenging since I don’t have a lot of photos of Jessica that worked well square, so if you look closely,  my photos aren’t quite square. I used the super cute  Imaginisce Wild Things Collection and coordinating solid paper I picked up the scrapbooking convention I went to last September with Kristy. I thought the collection would be really good to scrapbook all the zoos I like to visit when we travel, but it also worked perfectly with the adorable little outfit our friend Robert sent to Jessica. I just added a touch of purple paper.

Imaginisce May Sketch

My Take on Imaginisce's May Sketch

I had a few extra pictures from that same day, so I made a second layout that coordinated with the first. This is where writing a blog comes in handy as my journaling came from this post about Jessica.

2nd Layout

Paper: Imaginisce Wild Things Collection; Paper Studio purple textured cardstock; Stampin’ Up Bashful blue (title, journaling, stamped elephants)
Stamps: Imaginisce Wild Things Elephant
Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Brown (elephants); Dell (printed title, journaling)
Accessories: elephant brads
Tools: Xyron 5″ Creative Station; Nestabilites Standard Circles Large

Mother’s Day Weekend in Midland

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James took Friday off from work and we traveled to Midland to celebrate Mother’s Day with our Moms. Jessica did pretty well in the car. This is a beautiful time of year to drive to Midland. The wildflowers were gorgeous. The stretch between Llano and Brady was especially vibrant. There were red and yellow, orange and white, pink and purple wildflowers and even a few bluebonnets (usually this is too late for bluebonnets). Some fields were covered with only one type of wildflower, making one field look like it was dusted with snow there were so many white flowers. Other fields were covered with red and yellow wildflowers giving the impression they were on fire.

Friday night, James’ Mom hosted dinner at her house with my parents, James’ parents, James’ grandparents, James’ sister Tami and her boyfriend Randy and our nephew Dawson. It was a full household and I didn’t get any photos.

Jessica Saturday Morning Before Lunch

For lunch on Saturday, we headed to Tampico with James’ family. Afterward, we visited back at James’ parent’s house.

Jessica and her Great-Pawpaw

Jessica with Daddy and Aunt Tami

Someone’s getting sleepy.

Jessica and her Great-Granny

Olivia and Tami

James’ Mom had gotten out some of Dawson’s toys from when he was a baby and Jessica had a grand time playing with them. She especially enjoyed this little musical piano.

Jessica Playing

Dawson enjoyed playing with Jessica.

Dawson Playing with Jessica

We went over to my Mom’s house for dinner Saturday night and she got to feed Jessica her dinner of butternut squash. Jessica is really starting to like butternut squash, of which I’m really thankful.

Jessica Enjoying her Butternut Squash

Before we left Sunday morning, Jessica got to play some more.

Jessica Playing

Jessica and her Grandpa

Jessica and her Nana

Grandpa, Jessica and Nana

We stopped in San Angelo to visit with James’ Uncle Chuck. We took Jessica to the Sante Fe East Park, which is across the Concho River from the Visitor’s Center. The park has a toddler section. She enjoyed swinging, going down the slide with her Daddy, and riding a little pony.

"Driving" with Daddy after Arriving at Uncle Chuck's

Jessica and her Daddy

Jessica Riding a Pony

Jessica with her Great-Uncle Chuck and Daddy

Sunday night after we had gotten back and Jessica had played, eaten dinner and had a bath, we took some more photos.

Jessica and Daddy

Jessica and Mommy on Mother's Day

Overall, it was a lovely weekend.

Chatty Gabby

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I’m being somewhat of a bad blogger this week. I have a lot going on, some of which you will see tomorrow.

That said, I’m taking the easy quick route and sharing a video of my chatty gabby. In person, you may not hear Jessica talking this much as she tends to quietly observe her surroundings when out in public. But at home, she chats up a storm. Sometimes it sounds like she is saying daddy, but who knows.

Video taken April 22nd after her afternoon nap.

Butterfly Love

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Jessica really enjoys her exersaucer. I’ve got it in the middle of the kitchen so she can play and watch me cook dinner. Sometimes this location is not the greatest, mainly at night when it’s dark (hello stubbed toe), but it is great that she can have a ball and I can get dinner ready without too much fuss. She doesn’t seem to have a favorite toy on the exersaucer, but she does show the butterfly some love frequently. It is so cute how she holds onto it.