Waiting for Pierce Boy #3 to Arrive

Jordan started 3rd grade this year! He has a great class and a great teacher, and of course he is a fantastic student!

Here is a picture of Jaron with several bottles of salad dressing, specifically "Paul Newman" salad dressing. He now recognizes Paul at other people's houses too. There is a story behind this. Cary tells him all about how Paul Newman was from Westport where Cary grew up, and that he drives race cars and has given "200 million dollars" to charity. Cary also does some "voices" for each of the different flavors of Paul Newman dressing (Italian accent for the Caesar, etc.) "Paul" sits at the dinner table with us and asks Jaron to eat his vegetables, and he does it! Yes, that's right, we are using bottles of salad dressing to get our kid to eat dinner. Now Jordan does it too, and it works like a charm!

A new Babies R Us opened near our house, and at the Grand Opening, several of Jaron's "friends" were there. He got to give hugs and high fives to Diego, Geoffrey the giraffe, Sunshine Bear, and several others. Then the characters had a dance off...check it out below.

Birthday and Fun weekend with Kim and Jim

For my birthday, Cary took me to Bolla restaurant at the Stoneleigh Hotel. It was AWESOME. Then we stayed there for the night, and I got a massage at the Stoneleigh Spa the next day. It was so much fun! I have a very wonderful husband!

The weekend of the baby shower, Kim AND Jim got to come in town. Here are some photos of us all going swimming at the UP pool.

Look at that funny face! (Jaron's, not mine.)

Sweet boy giving Mommy kisses!

Baby Shower!

On August 22, we had a fantastic baby shower at the Woodlands Grill in Dallas. It was BEAUTIFUL! Kim, Lacy Smith, Jenni Morse and Kyla Muns hosted it, and my Mom made a really cute cake (as always). Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate with us at this special event. We are truly grateful for all of you! Here are some pictures from the day.

Jaron got to come at the end of the shower to check out what was going on. His main interests were the cake and the M&Ms...

Everyone decorated a cute little onesie for baby Elijah. Check them out below. It was such a fun activity! Also, all the guests were given a card to predict the birth date of our new baby boy, and to write a blessing for him and our family. Fun fun fun!

If it's been a while since you checked out my blog, that's probably because I haven't touched it in 4 months! Sorry! But I just did a major update covering everything from Jaron's birthday in May to the end of the summer and all the fun we've had. Please don't forget to check out all the pictures of Jaron's birthday a few posts down....I know it's a lot but I am sure it will be worth it to look through everything! Thanks for sticking with me!

Jaron visits Ava!

Last week Jaron and I took one last summer trip before Jaron's baby brother arrives...we drove down to Galveston with my aunt Laurie to visit Jaron's best friend, Ava, and her mom, Kyla! It was a sweet little reunion, as you can see.

They played in the sandbox and colored with chalk in Ava's back yard.

Then they needed to get cleaned off...

Ava with her "Jo Jo" (my aunt Laurie)

The next day the kids were ready to go to the beach.

Ava was very excited to show Jaron her new home just minutes from the Galveston beach!

Here are the kids with Kyla and I...she is 9 months pregnant and I am 8 months pregnant.

Jaron really liked the water!

I hesitated to post this one, but I figured that if I didn't do it now, I would share the photo at Jaron's rehearsal dinner years from now, so why not? He really liked playing Ava's piano "nekky."

My cousin Alan showed off his fishtank.

The last day we went to the Aquarium at Moody Gardens.

This photo is blurry but still kind of cool to see the fish Jaron is looking at!

Wow! I think Nemo is in there! Thank you Kyla, Alan and Ava for a WONDERFUL time. We love ya'll so much!

Summer in Snowmass

At the end of June we spent a week in Snowmass, CO with my Mom and Mammas and Poppop. It was a FANTASTIC trip. The weather was beautiful, and it was especially nice to get out of the Texas heat while I was 6 months pregnant! Jackopierce played a great show at a beautiful amphitheater in Vail while we were in CO, so Mammas, Poppop and I went to the show. We spent the rest of the vacation in Snowmass. Here is a picture of my boys playing in the pool at the Snowmass Club.

Here are Jaron and Mimi at the Snowmass Rodeo petting zoo. Jaron liked the animals the most. He did not like to see the bareback riders get thrown off the horses. He kept referring to them as "man falling down....no like it."

Here's Jordan at the petting zoo too!

See, Jaron looks a little distressed.

Lollipops saved the day many times as we drove from Snowmass to Aspen and back.

Here we all are at Woody Creek Tavern. My favorite!

Look how handsome Jordan is. He is such a cutie!

The driveway in Snowmass is rather steep, and Jaron really liked to run his toy cars down the driveway "really fast." Here are Jaron and Cary watching the cars...

Mammas and Poppop got this statue of a mommy deer and 2 baby dear to put in the courtyard of the house. Each night, Jaron enjoyed eating his dessert popsicle outside next to the deer, which he called "kangaroos."

On the 4th of July we went to this SUPER FUN parade in downtown Aspen. They had a carnival for the kids, burgers (and veggie burgers for my Mom!), face painting, games, candy and more.

Here's Jaron playing one of the games. It was hard for him to understand that he could only pick out 1 prize. :)

Jaron got a mini-beach ball, and Jordan painted a tie-dyed frisbee.

Mom and I enjoyed watching the boys!

So, the whole time we played games at the carnival, my Mom waited in line for the face painting. And it was SO worth it. Jaron got to pick what he wanted, and he picked an Elmo to be painted on his face. Jordan got his entire face painted like a US flag. Both boys were really patient and still while the girls painted their faces. Here is a picture of Mimi and Jaron with the Elmo on his face.

Here we all are again after the face painting.

After that, we watched the parade come by. Jaron watched all the cars and animals, while Jordan collected all the candy off the street.

Yeah!!!

Jaron really liked these "baby horseys."

Here's Jordan collecting more candy.

Here is our big boy with the 4th of July flag painted on his face. HAPPY 4th!!