...halloween fun!

grant's first halloween...so fun!

we saw lots of friends and paige went trick or treating for the 1st time...of course she loved it!

 

paige and grant were dora & boots...that is what she wanted so i went with it! 

 

visiting daddy at the firehouse!

...fall fun and a few firsts!

we so busy these days and i am so very behind on posting...so enjoy these for now and hopefully at some point i'll catch up (mom i hope you enjoy)!

we couuldn't get her to smile normal.

 this was paige's first starbucks hot chocolate...i think she is going to be like her mommy!

that's my girl!

our first time carving a pumpkin with the kids...paige was not sure what to think!  we got cute pictures with the jack o lantern in their fun halloween outfits from gigi!

...light of christmas BOUTIQUE!

the one week BOUTIQUE countdown begins!

i'm so excited to be making crafts and preparing for our annual boutique in southern california! i have been a part of this for the last several years and always have fun preparing for and participating in this fun event! this year i am making scrapbooks, gift tags (i have made over 500 this year!), love letter journals, party hats, baby onesies and MORE! if you live in the southern california area and are interested in coming please check out our blog: www.lightofchristmasboutique.blogspot.com

hope to see you there! love- *laura*

...i can hardly believe that our sweet girl is two!

happy 2nd birthday paige!!!
(we love you)

p.s. there are many pictures to post...but these were my favorite from today (in her new birthday present...a Tinkerbell dress...she is very into dress up and princesses right now)!!! enjoy!

...all i want for my birthday!!!!

yesterday was grammy's birthday...and she said that all she wanted for her birthday was new pictures of her grand kids on the blog. so i have now spent the last two hours doing just that...i hope you love all the pics grammy. we love you...happy birthday! (and happy birthday to aunt ev also...we love you too! xoxox


fun at the mall's water park!

these two are already having fun together...at least paige thinks so!

mr. smiley

three months and they are both proudly wearing their "tax deduction" shirt!!!!

i love these jammies and they no longer fit...so i got pics the last night he wore them...doesn't he look like his cousin asher in this one? i think so!

someone wanted in on the pics...imagine that. she also wanted elmo in the pics!

here's paige at 12 weeks...the look similar but paige was so chubby!

paige loves tomatoes (or "matoes") these days...she eats them like apples as you can see. hmmmm...she is more like aunt fifi everyday!

last month aaron turned 30....yeah! we celebrated with some of our favorite people and of course yummy food! so much fun. even some of our family members were able to come from out of town! aaron got an amazing camera from his parents that we are LOVING! thanks nana & papa!

the next day we had little grant dedicated at church!
that basically means that we committed to pray for him, teach him about the Lord and ask others around us to help us do the same. so all of our church friends and family gathered around us to do so...we are so grateful! and we were also very honored to the first baby dedication at the well southeast!

we had a great trip to southern california in june or was it may? hmmm. but these are some of the "lost photos" that are now found!

the whole time we were down there uncle ray kept telling paige to say "lose the beard dad" and so we decided to document the losing of the beard (more "lost photos").

and finally here are a few more "lost photos" of my lovely baby shower! the meyer's girls threw me and grant a wonderful party with good food & friends. it was fun to get so many great little gifts for grant and to introduce him to everyone! love those meyer's girls. i wish paige was in this photo...but isn't it cute even so?!!!

seven years later...

...and no itchy...scratchy!!!! happy anniversary babe!!!!

...and then there were four...oh boy!

sorry for the lack of blog updates. we have been soooooooo busy with these two kids and aaron has been working a lot. along with that we have had some issues with the pictures on our computer disappearing...so in the words of my mother sorry to let our fans down. i have been very overwhelmed with the transition of two kids...so i will try to update the blog when i can...but right now i am just in survival mode!


happy 4th of july!

we got a quick surprise visit from the trempers...what a treat!

i had to see how he would do in the bumbo...he has a really strong neck...and he liked it...but i think he needs a few more weeks before we can really put him in it...i cannot wait!

outdoor movie (eight below), snow cones, popcorn and snow...sound like a fun church outing? only in fresno would you see kids in the middle of summer (i think it was over 100 that day) in a pile of snow having a blast even though they could no longer feel their fingers. paige was right there in the mix with the big kids and could not get enough of it...in fact she kept playing while everyone else watched the movie- this was right before we left at 9:00 pm!
if you don't know what it is like to have a child who spits up...let me just say it is not fun. i thought i would give you a taste by taking pictures of him in each outfit i changed him into on his ten week birthday...there was actually one more before bed but i did not have the energy to take a picture.
AND here are the other pictures from the last several weeks...
this guy is too cute!
someone wanted in the action...imagine that!

sad lip - i think paige taught him this one!

he is changing so fast...tooo fast.



some friends at our church lost their little baby boy Tyler Rumley last week (their blog: www.therumleys.com ) please join us in praying for them...and be sure to kiss your babies everyday & tell them you love them.

our good friends, the sherfields, were gracious enough to do two photo shoots for us last month. one before grant was born & one when he was only 3 days old! we had so much fun! be sure to check out Sherfield Photography ...thanks again Josh & Katrina!

these are my two favorites of grant!

a few of paige's many faces!

...three weeks has come & gone!

three weeks? where is the time going?

we are busy, busy, busy with two kiddos...but loving it (well most of the time)! grant is growing, very sleepy but waking up a lot more, and very strong (he'll have to be to keep up with paige).

wow- does he look like my dad in this one or what?

poor guys spits up just like his sister (in this picture i imagine him saying "oh great- here we go again..."). paige was trying to grab his toes and would not get out of the picture despite my begging. she just kept saying "baby grant's toes...baby grant's toes" again & again!

after his little photo shoot i stuck him in here real quick to grab something and paige had grabbed a spit up rag and was trying to wipe up his face...so cute. although i had to again urge her not to cover up baby grant's face...oh boy...i love how sweet she is with him most of the time!

the boys

can you believe our boy is two weeks old? here's the little dudes latest pics!

we had a wonderful visit with nana & papa!
they got to meet grant & play with paige-it was great.
it included a trip to the zoo and lots of fun around the house and yard!

here we are in front of the monkey cage....we love monkeys!

can you tell we are not morning people?

we are loving our sweet boy!

congrats to aunt fifi for being our ExpectNet winner!
she guessed a boy on april 22nd...is that amazing or what?

paige is loving being a big sister- she is doing really well. i think having a baby around has made her advance towards two a little bit earlier...but we expected her to have some difficulty with the whole thing. all in all she is doing pretty well and even when she is throwing a fit or not listening she is making us laugh a lot. her latest thing is telling us "bye,bye" when she doesn't want us watching her do something she is not supposed to do. she is too smart.

some family pics!

grant turned one week old yesterday!
we just love our little peanut. he is such a sleepy head...we call him the turtle because he is rarely awake and when he does decide to wake up he opens his little eyes like a turtle as if to say "wow...i've been in my shell for a long time."

i had to take a comparison picture of paige and grant at one week...he is so tiny and sleepy!

we have seen dr. kratzer a lot lately...we love him and his staff!
and paige has wooed all the nurses...they just love her.

"YOU DID WHAT - TO MY WHAT?" (grant after his little operation)daddy & paige have been working in the yard everyday. we are enjoying this weather and going outside as much as possible...the fresno heat will soon be upon us!

More pictures of the baby...

Here are a few more from the birth day and from today...

It's a boy!!

Grant Andrew Panfilio was born on Wednesday, April 22 at 9:17am. He was 6 lbs, 7 oz and 18.5" long. We are all home now and enjoying time with Grant and his "big sister" (as Paige calls herself). Everyone is doing well...will post more later.

...less than a month & some old pics!

it's that time again for all of you to make your guesses on ExpectNet for the baby. Let's see how you do...Ryan was the winner with Paige...let's see if he can keep his title! Click on the link to the right to play and have fun! Only one more month until this little baby is here...we are counting the days!


also, here are a few old pictures that we just got developed (we have a really nice camera that uses film and so we forget to take the pictures in). these are from our trip to Redding last spring to attend my cousin Todd's graduation. we had a great trip and i cannot believe how much paige has changed since then...i knew she was chubby but it's easy to forget because she has changed so much since then!

sundial bridge (it's so cool- not temperature cool- that day was over 100)

paige loves uncle ray - he was her protector at the top of this viewpoint

aunt fifi & paige

...eighteen months going on 18!

paige is too funny these days. between loving on her baby and kissing "mommies baby" and having fun with Jenna (enna), Kirra (kia) and Cohl she is becoming quite the chatterbox. her sign language has slowed down because now she just wants to say everything! and i mean everything- she never stops talking. my favorite word that i have her say for everyone is peanut butter or "pee pee bu bu" in her terms. February was a very busy month along with our first really bad stomach flu for paige (you don't know love until your child throws up five times in one night and most of the rounds are on you)! we did make it to southern california for my cousin kim's baby shower (little asher is set to arrive about two weeks before baby aaron planned a wonderful birthday party for me with friends and we even got a visit from aunt fifi for the whole weekend...it was a great way to celebrate my last year as a 20-something.

we are counting the days until baby number two arrives (about 8 more weeks) and i am for sure in the nesting mode- in between naps of course. aaron is very busy with church involvement and more classes this month- along with an upcoming snowshoe backpacking trip in Yosemite for a few days. call me crazy but camping in the snow does not sound fun to me...but he cannot wait. enjoy these pictures!

Grammy was begging for some new JCPenney pictures...so here are her latest as she just turned 18 months! Where is the time going?

peek-a-boo

smelling the flowers!

The weather has been beautiful- so we got out the other day for some fresh air & sun!

the belly is growing!she is always pointing at the camera because she wants to see the "babies" on it...she does not realize the baby is her and sometimes we honestly cannot get her to smile because she keeps pointing and crying "babies, babies, babies"

we have been really enjoying time with our friends the obwalds- they go to our church and only live several blocks from here! paige is in love with them and lights up whenever they are around...here we are enjoying our "dress up box."
cohl

Kirra

Jenna

paige's first art project. she had fun...but didn't like her hands getting dirty (i was the same when i was little)

kim's baby shower was really fun- but paige was having one of the worst days of her little life- so i was very preoccupied. here we are trying to distract her by singing "wheels on the bus"...it only worked for a minute. usually i can bring her anywhere- but she was a mess that day and as a result i was wiped out. that night i went to bed at 8:00 and slept in too! the only bummer about the trip is that paige and i were so "out of it" we did not get to see all of the friends we wanted to see. we'll just have to get back there after the baby is born!
kim & aunt ev!katie, aunt fifi, paige, me & aunt chris!


we love cousin Madsen! he is so cute!

we finally got to meet madsen on our trip to southern california for kim's shower- unfortunately because paige had been so sick and because my mom got sick (the day she was supposed to leave with us for the trip)...we decided that paige and i would keep our distance. i was so bummed that i could not hold him- but paige loved helping out by rocking his car carrier! so fun!

paige loves uncle ray- they had a great time together. she also loved kitty & aunt ev. aunt ev & uncle ray had a lot of practice for little asher...they got up with paige and helped watch her and feed her and change her diaper...they are going to be wonderful grandparents!

i love pictures of her sleeping!

paige LOVES taking care of her baby dolls. the amazing thing is we have never shown her what to do- she just loves them. she started hugging them and giving them "loves" and kisses and feeding them all on her own. it's amazing. she tries to give them their pacifiers and puts them to sleep on their pillows...i guess she is watching mommy more than i realize! also, in the picture above she is reading her favorite book- surprise, surprise it is called little mommy and is all about a little girl who takes care of her dollies! she would be happy if we read this to her 20 times a day!paige trying to swaddle baby & upset that she cannot seem to do it herself!