Family pictures May 2011

A few weeks ago, we had our family pics taken by Mimi from Yasmin Photography at www.yasminphotography.com. She is amazing.........obviously!!!! :) Here are some of my fav's:

My absolute favorite!!!! Look at those baby blues!!!!!

Thanks Mimi for giving us a family treasure!!!!! You are amazing!

Me and my baby boy

It's Official!!!! (and has been for a while)

We are moving here.......... So Mark can go here..................

and we are excited!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Saturday is a special day!

Last Satuday we took Sam swimming!!!!!

He LOVED it!!!!

Can't you tell? (it was a little cold, but he DID love it!!)

Man, I need to learn how to take good pictures!

Then that afternoon, my parents took us to the lake!!!

Oh.....what a stud muffin!

My brother Tanner and his cute girlfriend (who will hopefully be my SIL one day) Heather

Captain Daddy-O!

Aaron and Mark, being the brave, manly men that they are decided to jump off this cliff. Can you see them?

Action shot!!

Thanks mom and dad for the fun filled afternoon! And thanks Connie, for watching Sammy!!

This guy........

......is officially an ASU college graduate!!!!! Woo hoo! He graduated last Friday with a bachelors in Social Work. The ceremony was good......and LOOOOOONG!!!!

My hour 1 face.....

My hour 2 face.........

But it was all worth it to see this!!!!! (even though Mark's name was already gone when he walked across the stage!)

I am so proud of him!!!

Mark and his mama

Mark and his padres

Mark, me, and my padres!!!

Sam didn't get to come because we could only have 5 tickets and that included infants. (can you believe that!). So he got to play with uncle Aaron and Aunt Allie!!! But he sure loved the balloons Mark got!!!

Congrats Mark!!! now on to the next phase!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU!

I AM a Mother!!!!!

Mother's Day.....what a great day! I am so grateful I get to be a Mother to this beautiful boy....... ....and that one day I get to kiss him again as much as I want (or as much as he will let me!) and because of the Saviour I KNOW I get to see him again. I miss you my sweet Miles. Mother's day morning I lost it. I hadn't done that in over a year! All because I missed my sweet baby Miles. I want him here! I want to see him and Sam playing. But I am lucky, because I know the truth of the Restored Gospel, that Families Can Be Together Forever!

Then this cute boy woke up....and I was happy again!!! I am so grateful for my sweet Sam boy who always makes me happy! He is such a sweet boy!! Who wouldn't love being his mother!!!

Happy (WAY LATE) Mother's Day to all you wonderfull women out there who have influenced my life! Including my WONDERFUL mother who is a great example to me and my best friend! Also to my WONDERFUL mother-in-law who is one of the most Christlike people I know!!!

So.....the night before Mother's Day us Huston girls had a girl's night. It was a BLAST!!!! We laughed so hard!!!! Unfortunately...this is the only pic I got (that I wanted to share). We were doing the curly girl method to our hair....and doing our nails.

Then....one Mother's Day we got to skype with my cute baby bro Taylor who is serving a mission in England! He is too cute!!

We had fun talking to him!!

Sam had fun too!! Especially on his new car Grandma got him!!! Seriously! How can you not LOVE this boy!!!

My cute hubby setting the table for our Mother's day meal!!!! He is sweet.

My beautiful Mom with Sammy! (and Dad in the background)

Sammy and Allie......

Oooh! and Sam gave me a great Mother's day gift!! He took his 1st steps! What a cutie!!!