11/52

Guess who is all caught up on this blog? Yay!

Yesterday we took a mini trip to Lubbock, just for the day. This week was Jaxon's spring break and he got stuck spending it at Ellie's daycare... so we decided to take off work Friday and have a little fun. We did a bit of shopping and then picked up his good friend, Carter, and went to the science spectrum. The kids had a lot of fun. After that we met up with one of my best friends, Lindsey (Carter's mom-- she had been at work during the day), and had dinner at Pei Wei-- yummy! They both crashed out on the way home and slept 11 hours!

Look at that-- 3 smiles at once-- never happens with that bunch, lol!

The urge to eat her up is overwhelming, huh?

He has the cutest little profile I have ever seen. 

I told John that 2010 was going to be a new year with more pictures of MOM and the kids. I have about 10000000 pictures of the kids on my computer, several hundred of them with daddy, and maybe 5 with evidence that the children have a mother. That's changing this year! LOL

It's hard to get a real smile out of him.

And she is hard to catch!

Passed out reading his books.

Her too. :-)

~Mallory

10/52

YAY! My new Epiphanie camera bag came! I have been eyeing this bag for quite some time now. It was sold out over Christmas when I really wanted it. I had been carrying a boring black Canon backpack. This is much more fun. So fun that it deserved it's very own blog post... haha!

Carrying a camera body, 2 hoods, an external flash, 2 prime lenses, and 2 zoom lenses. And it has room for a wallet, keys, phone, and lip gloss! Score!

Love the bag! You can check them out here: RAD CAMERA BAGS! and you can check out what I use it for here: Mallory Buck Photography blog !

~Mallory

09/52

Brother and sister! They love each other so much. The best gift we have given them is each other. Nothing really exciting happened this week, just a lot of playing together time-- which is my favorite!  You will notice more pictures of Ellie throughout most of these posts--- no, I am not partial-- but Jax HATES pictures. (Well, Ellie does too but it's easier to 'trick' her into looking at me.) I take pictures of other people's kids all the time-- easy peasy. But my own? They are impossible!

It was a nice day and the kids played on their new fort together. Ellie makes me nervous, she is a dare devil! I need to get some shots (and a video!) of her on the glider-- she's crazy. I managed two pictures out there, that's pretty good for them-- lol!

And in their jammies, hanging out in the playroom:

Look at those eyelashes!

She loves books, just like her mommy. :)

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"Ooooh dixie!" (She calls all dogs "Dixie"-- the name of our mutt)

Nice, Jax

Knights and dragons and batman oh my!

One event that happened this week-- Ellie transitioned to a toddler bed (after a nasty fall out of her crib mid-tantrum)

Can you see her in all the blankets, pillows, and animals?

And when I went to check on Jaxon before I went to bed, this is how I found him. :o)

I am so thankful for my sweet, fun kids!

~Mallory

08/52

Happy Birthday, Jaxon Lane!

Time flies faster and faster every year. I can't believe our sweet little boy is already five years old! He had a great birthday. :-) Thank you to all our friends and family that helped to make it special.

Here are a few photos from birthday breakfast at home. He wanted blueberry muffins and got to open his card and 1 gift.

Sister with a mouthful of muffin

Counting those 5 big ones

I'm FIVE!

Snack time at school:

This is Jaxon in his classroom at school. Daddy and I took birthday cupcakes to his class and he wore the cool sunglasses and ate of the special dish. 

And one more birthday celebration and brownies that night:

"Unwrapping" his big gift from mommy and daddy- playset and fort!

And a couple days later Jaxon celebrated his birthday with family and friends at a Scooby Doo birthday party at our house. It was so much fun. The weather was perfect so the kids played on the fort and ate cake and snacks outside. We also had a magician come! He was really good and Jax and the kids loved it. 

What a goofy face. He wanted down b/c he heard the doorbell ring and knew it was someone there for the party. 

I am so behind on this blog! Sometimes I have to fight the urge to "fix" these photos in photoshop, but they are just family snapshots and that is what I need to leave them as! 

~Mallory