Monday, September 3, 2012

a family of four plus martin

nova and i capitalized on griffon's nap and made some paper boats with styrofoam people and had put them in the tub and raced them. here is nova with her winning boat.



 here is nova oog-ling her brother. man she loves that boy.
 2 weeks ago we took griffon to church for the first time.

 nova had fun showing him off.
 we also took griff for a walk and nova brought 'martin' along as well. martin is our 2nd baby. he normally is pretty quiet, but according to nova, he 'can get pretty stinky and he wakes up 16 hundred and 36 thousand times a night.'
 griffon and martin.
 griffon in some orange jammies loaned by cousin camden--thanks elisa!
 yesterday we made our family of four official. well, not really, but we blessed little griffon. i know as a mom i am completely biased. but he looked really adorable in his church clothes. (side note: i have been debating standing outside a grocery store and having a poll set up to rate the cuteness of my children to get a true outsiders perspective......you know so i can validate my opinion. thoughts???? hahaha....just kidding. really thought, stranger things have happened outside a grocery store in CA...just sayin...)

anyway, i opted to not have him wear all white and we blessed him in a shirt and tie--which i made with liquid stitch--the tie, not the shirt----i may or may not be REALLY proud of myself for that---but i digress. here are the pics for those that couldn't be here!

we also had dan's family here for the weekend and it was so much fun having family here. because we don't live close it is a real treat when we have people here to play!
our family of 4 and the best pick we could get on our camera. (sorry martin.....you missed the photo--maybe griffon is looking for him?)
 and apparantly griffon was confused....this was NOT a crazy face picture. but its good to see he is in the right family---he knows how to pull a crazy face. i can not NOT laugh when i look at this picture! HA!
 a close up of our boy
 tired of pictures.
 both my handsome men
 and the sweetest boy on the block. it was such a sweet day. dan gave him a really awesome blessing and i felt so blessed and overwhelmed to be trusted with another of Heavenly Father's special spirits.


6 comments:

The King's said...

He is so stinkin' cute!! Congrats!!!

Heather said...

Wow, he couldn't be any cuter! We missed you guys at the reunion. It just wasn't the same without you. And we were all sad to miss the baby blessing. But I am glad that it turned out great! We miss you guys!

Margaret said...

Cutest pictures. He has changed so much since I was there - getting cuter by the day. We miss you all and hope to get you this way before too long! Love you all!!

Elisa Martin said...

The outfit is all yours. It's not new by any means. I found it at a kid consignment store and had Camden wear it once and thought, this really belongs to Suzanne. So enjoy! You have our vote on adorableness! So sad we couldn't make it but we hope to see you soon! Love you all (including Martin)!!

James and Melony said...

love love love it :) I think its cute to bless him in a shirt and tie. the picture where you can't stop laughing? neither could i! congrats again :) you all look great as a family of four (+martin) :)

Andersen said...

SOOO CUTE. I love his tie for his blessing. very cute!