the second half 0f 2011

JUNE

My 28th Birthday, celebrated with delicious food at Minnehaha Falls

JULY
Hanging out on the shores of Lake Nokomis
Daddy holding Archie at Abby's grandma's cabin

Grandpa and Archie at John and LeAnne's cabin

AUGUST
Naked baby photo shoot with mom and grandma- Almost 3 months old
Uncle Andy and Archie at Great Grandma's 89th b-day party
Going on a walk to the Dowling Gardens
Daddy with Archie in the baby bjorn

SEPTEMBER
Beautiful Archie photo shoot at the Pizza Farm

House church pic at Pizza Farm

Mullet head Archie
SPIT UP!!!

OCTOBER
Grandma Colleen comes for Archie's dedication, we take her to Pizza Farm

Archie is dedicated to God on a beautiful fall day

NACHO LIBRE!!

NOVEMBER

First stab at food! Egg yolks! Just shy of 6 mos.

Such a sweet boy!
Davy Crockett in the leaves

DECEMBER
Sitting up!
Silly boy
Mark and Stephanie come out for Darren's birthday!
Mom and Dad go to a fun murder mystery party
Love
Christmas smoochies

Posin' on Christmas Eve
handsome dad and his son on Christmas EveChristmas Day in his elf suit
Rolls!!

New Year's with the VanNoords

Our 2011 in pictures- the first 5 months

This has taken me longer than expected but I wanted to gather up a few pics from each month of the past year. Here are the first 5 months. The rest are coming!

JANUARY

22ish weeks

Getting Archer's room ready (formerly the guest room)

FEBRUARY

Home cooked Valentine's DinnerLots of Snow!

MARCH
Saying goodbye to the TV
The first baby shower given by my mom's friends
Becca Oehrig came and took our pics!

We went out to the farm in Saco MT for Grandma Helen's 80th
birthday party and we got to see Mark!

APRIL
Like 35 weeks here
Hope, our doula, preparing me for labor!

MAY
Last photos before baby! May 14th at lake harriet
May 17th laboring at home
After laboring for 3+ days, Archer is almost here
Archer Louis arrived via C-section on May 20th, 2011 at 5:34 in the morning!
After we heard the cutest little cries that sounded like rawr, rawr...he
was handed to Darren! What a proud daddy!Our new family of three (and my puffy face)

Our beautiful, healthy baby boy is finally here and the labor is over!
It was time to fall in love with him and recover from the crazy labor.
My family comes to meet Archer, after many worrisome days they had, since
we didn't update them on everything going on...
Friends come to meet Archie
Oh, how we love his chicken wings and frog legs as we lovingly
called them, always curled up! Such a long little guy at 21 3/4".We are home! Our new family of 3!
The baby is at home!
A boy and his dad! About 5 days old.