Joey's first laugh

While Uncle Derik was visiting in June, he was able to get Joey laughing.  Luckily, I was able to get video of it :) (Joey is 4 1/2 months old)

June family time

This summer we've been lucky to have family come and visit us.  Starting in June we had Grandma & Grandpa Stephenson, Aunt Julie, Uncle Derik, and Mikaela (Uncle Matt came to visit after). It was so nice to get to see the cousins play together and spend some quality time with everyone. 

 A picture of our family the day we had all three boys blessed :)

 Mikaela & Baby Joey

 Grandma & Grandpa Stephenson

 Just like Dad

 Uncle Derik @ The Pima Air & Space Museum

 Aunt Julie & Mikaela @ The Pima Air & Space Museum

(in front of some plane that I'm sure has importance :/ )

Swimming!!

Anyone who is familiar with Noah's anxiety of swimming will be proud of this post.  He would scream bloody murder if you'd try to take him away from the wall and not have both hands securely on him.  I'm sure not being able to go in the pool at all last year (broken arm) probably didn't help the problems.

After Brian working with him and lots of screaming in the process we now have a swimming (with floaties) boy.  Logan has been swimming all year with floaties, and had no problem jumping right in :)

Getting dressed

Logan is such a big boy now, more then I'd like to admit. He's fully potty trained and has been for a while now.  He trained himself right after Joey was born, and regressed when Brian went on TDY, but shortly after I worked with him and he's been back to being 100% since April.  He also dresses himself, and is great at it.  One night he got his own pajamas on and I was able to capture the full effect the following morning.

 Watching some morning cartoons together.  These two are great friends!

Noah's 4th Birthday (March 24, 2011)

On Noah's actual birthday, Brian was out of town on TDY so we didn't celebrate until he got home the next day.  He did get to have a little party at preschool and I made batman cupcakes (whether or not they actually look like that is subjective).

Dad was finally home the next day, and helped to make/decorate the birthday cake.

 Logan may have attacked the cake before we had a chance to sing.

Grandma & Grandpa Allen (along w/ Aunties & Uncles) got him this fun wagon for his birthday

We took Noah to go pick out a bike for his birthday, but I will have to find a picture of that.  I will add that he's AWESOME on his bike :)

Joey's birth (professional photos)

A friend of mine took some pictures of me a day or two before Joey was born so I could have some maternity pictures and then showed up for the birth so I could have some great photos then as well.  Honestly, it was nice.  I got to focus on Joey, Brian and myself.  I didn't have to worry about whether I would get any good shots, and for that I will be forever grateful.  Since I already went over his delivery I won't bore you with the details again, instead I will just post the pictures :) 

 I've obviously done this before and knew to be be prepared for the waiting.

 I had an epidural, but the contractions were coming hard, fast.

 They had given me another dose of the epidural by now (notice me smiling), and the nurse was joking with be about how I wasn't kidding when I said I would have the baby fast.

 11:19 am Joseph "Joey" William Stephenson was born

(2 hours & 19 minutes after they broke my water)

Joey is such a sweet baby, and I'm so happy he's a part of our family.  I will be updating more, so you'll be able to see his progression over the past few months.

All of these photographs were taken by Heather Whitten