Natalie's Baptism

We had the joy of celebrating Natalie's baptism today!!  We were so happy to celebrate this occasion with so many friends and family members!!  We are even more thankful to Jon and Nicole who drove in from Orange County to be here as Natalie's godparents!  We are also extremely thankful to Joe and Chelsea who drove in from Vegas, just for the day!!  :)  We love everyone who was able to come and celebrate with us, and those who weren't, but are super thankful for our friends who also love our kiddos!!

Here are some of our awesome pictures from the day!  These pictures are all thanks to my awesome dad, and his new camera that my mom bought him for his birthday!!

Cheese!

Family picture before we go to the church

BFFs!

Pastor Shrank being the big kid he is!!

Family picture! (Our family has grown since our last family picture!)

BFFs

Abby loves Natalie

Our precious baby girl

We love Aunt Chelsea (and ICE CREAM!!)

Thoughtful Tuesday

My favorite parenting bright idea we've had lately was moving bed time earlier. Now that Brandon is in school twice a week, he has only been taking one nap most days. This makes for some grouchy evenings. To help this we moved up our bedtime routine to start at 6 now instead of 7. This puts B in bed no later than 7:15ish, which has been great for this mama!!  Natalie has been going down between 6:15 and 7, which is working well too. Even when we try and keep her up later, she's still up at 5, so we've stopped trying to keep her up.

Wordless Wednesday