Birthday Celebrations

The birthday boys!

Joaquin had to try a hat on too.

Family Reunion and other pics from August

Joaquin playing with his pinwheel

At the playground talking to Papa.

With new cousin Javin.

Everyone who made it to the reunion

Tuckered out after an afternoon at the playground.

Joaquin was not in the mood to pose....

My little monkey demonstrating why I call him this.

taking a chair over to where pictures are being taken....

Because why would someone take a picture he wasn't in?

Riding Doug's motorcycle

Chilling in Daddy's lap

Can I have some more?

Walking his Elmo balloon and his duck

GG and Joaquin sleeping on the drive home from the reunion.

Playdate

Some pictures my friend took at our get together last weekend.  Some of them are a bit blurry.... I think kuz most of our cameras got wet from the splashing kids.

Joaquin and Samara playing house together.  I just love these two pics!

Joaquin and Samara swimming

Joaquin, Samara, Charlie and Andrew

Joaquin getting ready to climb in.

Fun in the sand.

A fun start to August

Yay! Someone has listened and now we can again put videos on the blog!  I'll have to find some videos from the past few months to post on here soon.

My friend Kim recently gave Joaquin a ton of clothes and shoes the her youngest has outgrown.  Joaquin of course had to immediately try on his "new" boots.  Gotta love it, tanktop, shorts and snow boots!

At an impromptu family reunion at Grandma Vickery's.  How come Joaquin and Grandpa always end up matching? :)

He's already wanting to drive!

Driving Grammy :)

Fun at the pool

One week after I bought Joaquin's birthday balloon and it still has plenty of air.  And Joaquin had to take Elmo swimming with us.

Finishing off the last of his birthday cupcakes

getting ready to jump off the diving board

in the water.. but where's daddy now? :)

swimming in the deep end with daddy

swimming with grandma and daddy

a nice snack of raisin bran between dips

riding his new boat from uncle jonathan and aunt anna

Birthday Extravaganza!

Some pics from the past few weekends.

The first few are Joaquin's 2 year pictures we had done at Walmart last week.

Inspecting his first gift with his cousin Donathan.

Playing with his new remote controlled car.  As you can see Donathan also had to try everything out :)

Joaquin and Donathan getting extremely dirty playing with Joaquin's new water and sand table.   More realistically I think it is a mud table.

We had to hose them both off after this.

opening gifts.

Elmo cake and Oscar, Big Bird and Cookie Monster cupcakes made by grandma.

On my birthday we went to a Safari place and petting zoo.  Here are some pics of Joaquin with the animals.

All tuckered out on the way home.