Nephews & Birthdays

I have some pretty cool nephews, and I have the pleasure of having a dual birthday celebration with one of them every year. Isaiah and I are 20 years apart and both of our birthdays are in June, so this year I turned 28 and he turned 8. We celebrated with family by having home made "In & Out style" burgers, which were amazing by the way, and insane cheesecake with strawberries for dessert. I can't believe this little dude is 8 years old...he is so sweet!

It wasn't Benny's birthday, but I think he likes all of the hub-bub (is that a word? is that even how you spell it?), so he snuck in on this photo. I think it's a cute one!

And I think this little dude likes his uncle Brian just a tiny bit....

Mr. Giggles

Last Friday night I watched Little B...Brian wasn't able to make it, so I figured it would be good for Beniam and I to have some quality auntie/nephew time. Little girl was there at the beginning, but ended up going out with her parents. Aren't those some pretty blue eyes?

I think her dad makes her laugh...

We bought B a random shaker instrument (he loves music) while we were in Ecuador and I finally gave it to him...here he is giving it a shake.

His favorite game for the night was...let's-hang-this-instrument-on-Auntie's-ear-and-have-her-shake-her-head-around-while-I-laugh-at-her...he had a blast, and I had a blast laughing at him. Here is Mr. Giggles in action laughing at the instrument hanging on my ear...isn't kid laughter the best?

Sweet Baby Girl

Little Evangeline is already getting so big. I was able to hang out with her a bit last Saturday when we celebrated her big brother's 2nd birthday at Vasona Park in Los Gatos. She spent most of the day soundly sleeping in her baby bjorn, but I was able to manage a few snapshots before she slipped off into dreamland.

Poor girl, she was being smothered by all of her aunts, uncles, and cousins. I'm sure she was wondering what the heck all of the commotion was about...

"Auntie Em, will you please get out of my face with your camera, it's starting to get annoying..."

Isn't she sweet? She kindly let me take one last photo of her, thanks baby girl :-)