Christmas in Ames

Finally I've sifted thru the photos I took in Ames and they are all, except for a few here and there, photos of babies.
HIZZAH it's Christmas ol' chums.
two days apart.
Two hours to get ready every morning. It works as Shauna is pointing out in this photo. (That's why there are no photos of me, cause it's like two minutes of getting ready)

Riley and Max

She totally pushed Maisie off the piano bench with her feet. Sully and his Daddy
Grandma Jo and Ella
The Mustache That Saved Christmas, I saw it on Hallmark, I lived it in Ames.


Riley has an uncomfortable smile. I love it.

Chris and Kim
Aaron and his baby boo

Christmas in Ames. Went by like a blur, and all I really remember is holding babies, chasing my baby, holding a baby and watching a baby, looking at babies, babies, babies babies...I missed a lot of photographic moments *opening presents* because I was so busy with my baby and all these other babies.
Can you blame me, I mean come on, there's this one who slept most of the time. Making him incredibly nice to snuggle with.
Then there's this one, who spends a lot of time awake and sometime yelling but always incredibly alert like he's writing his memoirs already or something.
Or it's gas. Either way it's cute.

And then there's this one. *sigh*

I know what you're thinking. And I asked, they just refuse to give her away. Seriously, I know my baby is cute, but this is the cutest, sweetest little baby I have ever had the pleasure of wanting to steal. And eat. Look at her, she wants Maya's cookie so bad...It took A LOT of strength not to steal them both. I regret my decision everyday. LOOK AT HER!! She's a doll. And Sully is zen baby here.

And I cannot forget this guy, who is the best kid ever.

Except when he conspires with this one......And they won't let this one...

(yeah, they won't let Kyle play with them..so cruel. He cried, A LOT)
follow them around like the rock stars they are. Like it really bothered her. She still talks about them and if she sees little girls in the grocery store, "Maisie??" And little boys, "Max???" They are like her freakin' heroes man.

Max really wanted me to take a picture of this, but I kept tricking him into talking so I could get those GQ poses earlier. So I'll end with



A SCARY GHOST FACE!!!!!!!

The Face

A friend recently suggested that I submit a photo of Maya to the Regis and Kelly Most Beautiful Baby Contest. Maya could win a lot of scholarship money, or baby food. Both of which she'd hopefully eventually use in the unlikely case that she'd win (I'd have to pay like 12,000 dollars in taxes-gulp).


I was trying to take some new photos of her to see if any were "contest" beautiful, and in typical Maya fashion she started with "the faces". This face made me laugh so hard that she started with her new favorite face.

Within the last week she's started this one.

It's her, "I'm copying you when you laugh at me" face. This is what Maya thinks we look like when we laugh at her. She makes this face and breathes in and out of her nose really fast(pretending to laugh). It is hilarious.

"Funny Baby" contest winner, hands down.

Oh and I forgot! She started crawling on January 31st, and that is also funny. It's this cute little army crawl that makes us laugh. One day she just started doing it. It was because she wanted my scissors. And she was so fast, she almost got them.