Sammy's 2nd B-day

We had such a fun day!!! Thank goodness my mom was visiting. Because of her we were able to throw Sammy a pretty great party. I really think that he knew it was all for him, and I think he had a happy birthday.

Hear he is--Quinn Albert Bigler

Our first family picture!
Here is Sammy holding his little brother--his VERY little brother!
Such a proud daddy!
What a sweet, peaceful, perfect face!
All that hard work was worth it though.
They say the labor and delivery is hard for your first, easy for your second and unpredictable the third time. Well, not so for me. It was definitely harder with Quinn. I'll skip all the gory details, but he was 7 lbs, 6 oz--very small to me. Thankfully though, a month later he's now over 10 lbs! He doesn't contribute much to the family now, since he sleeps most of the time, but he sure is cute to look at. We love him and we know how lucky we are to have a healthy baby!

WAY behind

I just realized that I haven't blogged for a month! Only a month has past?!? So much has happened in that month. First I had a baby, then my first baby turned two!! We've had so much family come to see us and we've traveled to see family--a lot of fun, and had work, has been crammed into one month. Stay tuned for the pictures.

Bear Lake 2010

I can't believe I haven't blogged these pictures yet!! Jared, Sam and me went to Utah in August to visit my family. One of the weeks we were there we spent at Bear Lake--my favorite place on earth! Here are some pictures of our time there. My parents and my sisters and their family came and it was sooo fun spending time there with them.

Bear Lake is my favorite place on earth because I have so many precious memories from that place. My family has been going there since my oldest sister was a baby. We are so lucky to have that place and I am so happy that MY kids, now, get to experience it.

Beach day

Last weekend we went down to Ojai again. Jared's aunt and cousin from Ohio were visiting. We went to the beach on Saturday and had such a good time! We had a barbecue lunch and then moved down to the water. Sam thought it was too cold to get in, but he did have a good time playing in the sand with his cousins. Jared and Scott were the only ones to get in. The waves were HUGE and it was fun just to watch them play in them.

A few random shots

Here is Sam on the site of one of Jared's projects in Santa Maria. We stopped by on one of our trips down to Ojai. Sam loved the hard hat but didn't like the vest so much.

And here is Jared teaching Sam to do the dishes. I think he really liked seeing what it is that we are doing when we stand in this one place for so long all the time. And Sam's not wearing any pants because they had just come in from watering the plants and the garden outside. Sam loves helping with that chore because he loves playing in the water. He usually gets wet from head to toe, but this day he had actually climbed into the water bucket.

SURPRISE!

I have a wonderful husband who threw me a surprise birthday party on June 19th. He was going to play at the park with Sam while I ran some errands. So we got to the park and Jared suggested I come and play for awhile. Lucky for him I was agreeable to that suggestion. So we were walking to the play area and we saw a big group of people who yelled "SURPRISE!" And I was so surprised! So we barbecued burgers, ate cake, played games and I went around hugging all the people that came! I was so happy to find all those people came to make me happy. There were friends from my ward there, my family from San Jose and Jared's family from Ventura county--I was flattered that so many would drive so far to wish me a happy birthday. And a little bit shocked that my husband could pull it all off without me finding out! So here are some pictures from the party.
Thanks Amy for taking pictures and for decorating those incredible cakes. I am so lucky to have such wonderful friends and family! And I know that there were others who wanted to be there but couldn't. Thank you all for thinking of me. I LOVE YOU!!!