Been up to lately...

This is a little scattered, but I thought I'd try to catch up since our last post.


We have been so busy this Summer already! We finished off the Spring with a visit to the National Zoo with our friends, the Gates and Youngs. This has now become an annual event which is SO fun! Not to mention that still today (almost 3 months later) if you ask Lars what he did today he says, "Monkey, Elephant, Tiger". I think he likes the Zoo a little:) We have been to 2 other zoos since then, the Dallas Zoo and this week the Reston Zoo. Both of which we had a great time at too! If you live near Dallas you should go to the new exhibit there it's awesome! You can actually feed giraffes! Thanks Wallings for coming out in the heat with your new baby, Ace!


We kicked off the Summer, Memorial Day weekend with my sister Jenni's wedding to the wonderful Mr. Todd Singletary! We are very excited to have him in our family! (All the pics after this are from Jenni's wedding).

Who does Stina look like?

My uncles will say Stina doesn't have to look like anybody! We know, she is special and unique and her own person, but we can't figure out who she favors!

Who do you think Stina looks like? The black and white baby pictures are Karl and the color ones are me, Jessi.

Life with 2 kids!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while! Having two kids keeps me quite busy! I'm not sure how people with more kids keep up on their blogs.

Stina continues to be a great baby. She's a great sleeper!! She has already had 2 nights that she slept 7 hours straight!!! She's a little colicky in the evenings, but James Taylor and a box fan are helping take care of that:)

Lars is doing great with her. He is definitely a little more jealous, but I don't mind having them both in my lap so it usually works out.

I'm sure it will be a while before I'm back to regular updating.

Here's a couple pictures to hold you over for a while!

Aug 1st, Stina Smiled!

Aug 14th, Lars climbed all the way down the stairs by himself, VERY carefully!!!

1917 Military Truck

For those of you who know my dad, Dale Hardy, you will not be suprised at all by his resent request. He has been a major player is having several old LeTourneau Vehicles located, rebuilt and modeled. As a result of his interest in LeT vehicles he is a member of a Historical Truck society. One of his good friends in the society is the owner of this 1917 Military Truck, that is currently the oldest vehicle taking part in the "Transcontinental Motor Convoy", traveling from D.C. to San Fran. For more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_Motor_Convoy
Dad's request was to have Lars' picture taken in the 1917 truck! Lars and I had a great time checking out all the military vehicles that are taking part in the TMC. Lars took a particular interst in the motorcycle:) The owner was nice enough to let Lars sit on it for a photo op!
Dad, wish you could have come with us!

More snow!!!

We finally got A LOT of snow! This year we've gotten a few flurries here and there, but this is the first really big snow we've gotten. The bad thing is, it was so windy you couldn't stay out in it.
I thought it would be a great time to get some good snow pictures of Lars, but he thought it was a little mean of me to just sit him in the snow by himself. He didn't quite get the concept of snow angel yet:) He did have fun playing afterwards with Avery and Reagan!

Christmas in Longview

We had a great time up in Longview with my family for Christmas! If you can't tell Lars enjoyed himself:) We did miss Kim and her fam!!! We really wish they could have come too! We had lots of fun hanging out with Grammee, Papa, and Aunt Jenni. Not to mention the great company of Jenni's friend Todd and, of course, Jordan and Ava (our furry family)! We filled up on Dudley's (our fav Cajun resturant) and lots of Mexican:):)
One of Lars' favorite gifts is his cowboy hat (pictured on Papa:). He wears it without even trying to take off!

Halloween!!

Kids in costumes!! Can they get any cuter? The pictures above are from Trick or Treating last night. We had lots of fun passing out candy. Our neighborhood has lots of kids, so we got to see everything from Minnie Mouse to Yoda! Don't Karl and Brent look cute with the cutest kids in the neighborhood, Lars, Avery, and Reagan?!

We had a Halloween Luncheon at our house earlier in the day. It was totally mass chaos, but it was worth it! We had 11 moms and 15 kids running around all dressed up. Thank you to all the moms who brought food and helped with food once you got here! I couldn't have done it with out you!!
All of Lars' little friends (above on the couch) are boys, but you can see in the pictures below he is quite the Ladies Man!! He doesn't care if they are older, he just flirts with all the girls:)!

Friends to the bitter end...

I wanted to share this post with ya'll, cause my friend Dre is so dear to me. I hope that you enjoy the pictures and the video at the end that is just classic Dre and Jessi:)

http://silverthornes.blogspot.com/2008/10/long-distance-visitors.html

Karl's Outfit, Recycled

As if we hadn't already tortured Lars enough today (bath, birthday party, sharing his chair with Funk), we decided it was a good day to play dress up with him.
This outfit that he has on was one of Karl's outfits when he was a baby, at 7 months (Lars is only 3.5 months)! We had to go ahead and put it on Lars now cause there's no way it would have fit him in the Fall, when Karl would have worn it. Lars was such a good sport putting on this winter outfit that nearly cut off the circulation in his muscular guns:)! Doesn't he look cute?!