picture catch up!

mama took a photography class yesterday so she could learn how to learn all the fun features on the fancy DSLR. it turned out to be 2 hours outside in very hot humid weather, not ideal for an almost 7 month pregnant lady. the second hour was a walking field trip...holy buckets, i was a hot sweaty mess by the time we finished. hopefully some of the information actually sank in...i'll admit it though, most of the time i was thinking i would rather be inside:)
my BFF, K, gets here tuesday so we are all super excited about that!! she is coming for quick visit between jobs...she got a new job teaching at our old university...go K!!!
knock on every piece of wood you see and say a prayer to any god you might have, but sleeping the last 2 nights has gone pretty good. he cries for a minute or two, gets out of bed to check the door, then climbs back in bed, stops crying, maybe gets out again but gets right back in and precedes to sleep the rest of the night...now, i say sleep but its really hard to tell what he's doing in there with the monitor so far away:) i think we're making progress...woot!!!! last night he even reached for the bed a bit when it was time to put him down:)
eta (wrote this all a day after the above): last night was great at bedtime. max reached for the bed after his songs and didn't utter a peep when we walked out. papa said it was the best birthday present evah!!!
so much for my photography class, i took total crap pictures of baby J's room but i'm going to put them up anyway:(


here is max's new set up

here are some more pics from our trip to cali
hangin' at the pool!

the whole family!

the only one the kiddos would look at the camera!

i have a video of max and brenna jumping on the bed but will have to get that uploading at another time as i think the beast just awoke:) enjoy!!