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Jared's 3rd Birthday!

Doesn't he "look" 3 now?

I feel like we celebrated Jared's birthday for two weeks straight. First we took him to the zoo (while he was still 2 and free!) Jared loved the animals, but of course he loved the automatic potties even more!

I have some pictures of me taking drinks at this drinking fountain when I was little, too!

Maggie's stroller didn't quite fit in the "infant" spot, so we left her out of the picture

Jared on the snake slide

Jared the baby chick

The weekend of Jared's birthday we ate dinner at a restaurant, took Jared to a splash pad close to our house, and then had a pizza picnic lunch at a park and fed the ducks.

How Maggie enjoyed the picnic

As if that's not enough, Jared got TWO parties: one with Alan's side of the family, and one with my side the next day. He is one well-loved little boy!

Jared and Aunties Shawna and Angela

Jared and Uncle Beef

I promise, we did have cake and ice cream (twice, in fact!) but for some reason I get errors when I try to upload those photos. Oh, well! Happy Birthday, Jared!

Vintage dresses

Shortly after we found out we were going to have a girl, my mom and I found several of my old baby dresses in a cedar chest in her basement. Since then, I have been looking forward to dressing baby Maggie in them. The two dresses in these pictures used to be mine!

The shoes were a homemade gift from an older lady in my ward. Aren't they cute?

A rare picture--Jared is actually smiling!

Happy 4th!

Here are some pictures of our 4th of July picnic with Alan's family.

Aunt Shawna and Maggie

Jared in repose

Most of the gang

Sampling of Photos

This is one of my favorite pictures. I think Jared kissed Maggie without me even asking him to.

I just love my kids! (It's so weird to have that word be plural!) Here are some random photos from several weeks ago. I seriously have so many things to blog about, but I'm afraid they will all get mentioned with about a two-month delay. . .

Here is a four-generational picture when Alan's grandma came to visit. Priceless! You can definitely tell that they are all related.

Jared before church one Sunday. We have to thank Aunt Amanda for the clothes and tie!

This is a picture I took of Maggie and her double chin late one night! You can also see her cute dimple on her right cheek. I love this girl!

Maggie recently had her 2-month check up. She is over 14 pounds and 25 inches long! That is off the charts for both weight and height. Wow! We have a big, beautiful baby on our hands!

Bear Lake

Jared and some of my nieces and nephews testing the waters at Bear Lake

Recently we returned from our 3rd annual family reunion on my side of the family. Three summers ago we stayed in a big cabin in West Yellowstone, and last year we stayed in the beautiful home where my sister-in-law grew up in Idaho, not far from Bear Lake. This year we decided to repeat the Idaho location since Maggie was such a tiny baby and my sister-in-law is due in a month with her baby. We had tons of fun (other than the sore throats that went around!) and spent lots of good time together as a family. I wish I had a picture of the whole gang! I can't wait to do it again next summer!

Alan and my brothers and bro-in-law dunking the picnic tables at the beach to get rid of the spiders

Alan and my brothers and my dad on the beach. This picture is missing my brother-in-law.

My mom and I at the entrance of the Paris Ice Cave

Jared and my dad are hiking buddies on the way to Bloomington Lake

On the way to Bloomington Lake

Jared and Alan at Bloomington Lake. It was still frozen!

Me, my mom, Mags, Jared, and my niece Christina taking a rest

Maggie and the Fellas

Yesterday we went to visit our newest nephew (and Jared and Maggie's first cousin on the Stout side!) Little Gabe is so adorable! I love him already and am glad that he and his mommy are fine after a bit of a scare at the hospital.

Jared and me and Baby Gabe (sorry about the angle of your neck, Gabe!)

Maggie and Gabe. There's nothing that makes a newborn look big like having an even NEWER newborn right next to her! Excuse the spit-up on Maggie's onesie. I love Gabe's little man clothes!

Here is Maggie and her just-older cousin, Atticus (internet alias). Aren't his eyes ADORABLE? I am in love with them.

I am going to have another niece born in just a few weeks, so Maggie will be lucky to have THREE cousins in her same grade! How fun! I am loving all these new babies!

Baby Smiles

Here are a couple of Maggie's first smiles, just before she was six weeks old. I was lucky to catch these on film, since right now she only seems to smile about once a day. They melt my heart!