Almost a year has past

I can’t believe next Monday, Sept. 14, Julia will be 1 year old. It’s incredible how quickly time passes – and in that time, how much growth occurs. Julia is just about walking now. She’s averaging about 10 steps from one point to another. She’s also able to get in to the standing position without holding on to anything. Julia’s 3rd tooth is now poking out – top tooth. It’s been causing a lot of fussiness – and sleeplessness. We’re having Julia’s 1st birthday party next weekend – Elmo theme – her favorite. Speaking of Elmo, over the weekend Rachel, Meme’s dog, stole and buried Julia’s FAVORITE Elmo doll somewhere – and we can’t find it. I tried to get a replacement Elmo, but it’s not the same – and Julia knows it. So I’m now on the hunt for the same one that’s lost…

Paul is good. He starts school tomorrow. Like Julia, he too is growing fast. He’s 94 pounds, 4 ft 11 inches. What I find most interesting with Paul is how quickly “maturity” hits. One day he’s playing with toys, and suddenly now he’s “texting” with girls, surfing the Internet for skateboards, hats, gadgets. BAM!! A tween. Yesterday I took him shopping to reward him for helping us out with some yardwork. He had about $20 to spend. After walking through all of the toy isles he decided that he’s not really in to toys anymore. He wanted me to buy him a DC hat instead. Fine. Later, he changes his mind. He wants to save it instead. Fine! What a good kid.

Anyways, I’m tired of typing. Check out some new photos from the past couple of weeks on our photo site. Click on the image below…

Summer Fun – July Pics

Been taking a lot of new pics with the new DSLR! Check out our photo site:
http://gauthierphotos.shutterfly.com

Vitals

Julia is now 9 months (soon to be 10) and is doing great. She’s VERY close to walking on her own. She’s in to EVERYTHING. It’s funny how they KNOW what they SHOULDN’T touch and want to play with those things instead of their toys. She’s 20 pounds exactly. I *think* she’s 28 inches (or maybe 26, I forget – I will look later). She absolutely loves “school”. She is excited when we walk (or sometimes dance) in to the building every morning. Her “boyfriend’s” name is Jacob (Jake). And her “best friend” is her cousin Camden. She recently started “kissing” everyone… especially other babies. It’s funny. She’s very gentle. She can have quite an attitude too though… mostly when she’s over-tired and refusing to sleep…

Paul is 11 and is also doing great. He’s a super star baseball player – made the 10 year old (he was 10 when he started the season) All-Star Team. He’s in a tournament this weekend. Dave and I were talking tonight how quickly socialization changes… 7 girls recently “asked him out” and they constantly are texting and calling him now. OY!

David is good. We’ve got a lot to do with the pool this weekend. Although we do have baseball most of the weekend, so who knows what will get done. We’re anxiously waiting for some land court matters to wrap up so that we can have some work done on our house.

I’m good, but misrible. I have a HORRIBLE case of poison ivy. It’s all over my neck, arms, and right hand. Yucky. Work is good, but SO busy. Lots of new projects. I’ll post links when they start launching for the public. Not sure if I ever posted it, but here is a sort-of recent project launch: http://top10.patriots.com.

Alright, that’s it for now. It’s getting late and I’m tired.

New camera fun!!!

Got a new sweet DSLR yesterday and had a lot of fun taking some photos today. It ended up being a beautiful day so we were very busy outside. Here are a few of the photos – check out more at http://gauthierphotos.shutterfly.com

9 Months!

Wow… Julia has been alive as long as it took to “cook” her… I really can’t believe how fast time passes. We went to get new photos taken today… came out GREAT. Check ‘em out at http://gauthierphotos.shutterfly.com.

Lots of May Photos

We uploaded lots of photos from May… check ‘em out on our Photo Site (click here)

Tyler & Julia

LOTS of new pics on our photo site @ http://gauthierphotos.shutterfly.com/

6 Month Photos

Julia had her school photos taken recently and the timing was perfect – 6 month milestone. Here are my 2 favorites:

4 Month Photo Shoot at Sears

We went to Sears Portrait Studio for Julia’s 4 month photos… VERY good experience.  Go to our photo site for the FULL GALLERY of images. However, here’s a teaser:

Updated look for Photo Site

So I decided to get rid of all of the black on our Photo Site. Like?

I also updated it to include an RSS feed of this blog at the bottom of the home page – as well as in a new tab. Fun stuff.