My baby boy is a year old!

Yesterday was my little Noah's first birthday. Today we just spent most of the day at home (except for visiting Chad at Macaroni Grill!) because we celebrated with family last Sunday. Here are a few highlights from his actual "birthday" last year and the celebration of his first year last week!

Here we are at my shower just over a year ago! With Georgia getting ready to meet her brother! On our way home for the first time as a family of 4!

Proud Mama.

Georgia meeting Noah for the first time.

Proud Papa and Mamaw. (Nana was the photographer, again camera issues, we forgot ours and so my dad got us a disposable in the goft shop).

Now for this year!

Noah LOVED his cake. He dug right in and ate over half then cried when I took the rest away!

(sorry for the poor exposure, the Nuss family has camera issues. We forgot ours so we borrowed my dad's which was low on battery so this was the best I could do!)

He didn't really get the whole "opening presents" thing so I did most of the opening and he did most of the playing!

Here is my attempt at making him open some gifts...

Here is Uncle David helping Noah play with his new Buzz Lightyear vehicle from Nana. Sad to say he hasn't gotten a ton of playing time on it at home due to the competition from his big sister!

A Day of Firsts

This is the "after" shot by my neighbor. So handsome! Can't believe he is almost a year old!

He had had enough by the end of the haircut.

Haircut? What haircut? Mmmmmmm sucker.....

So today our sweet neighbor agreed to take photos of my kiddos at my parents' house. She is a brave woman. Noah will be a year old in a few weeks so I wanted to get some photos made and I am not brave enough to take them to a studio. We got a couple of teasers of Noah that turned out great but if any of the 4 of us turned out any good then she is a miracle worker! I will keep you all posted. Since these are the most formal photos we are going to have done I wanted to get him a MUCH needed first haircut. I took him to the Great Clips down the street and they did a great job. First haircuts are free (bonus for my day!), they get a little certificate with their hair clippings taped inside and to keep them happy and still they gave him a sucker (his first!). I don't need to tell you all that he LOVED it! He did a great job; only cried at the end. What a handsome boy!

Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter this year. Georgia was so excited about hunting for Easter Eggs, coloring Eggs and the Easter Bunny (who she calls the Easter Rabbit). Here are some of the highlights...sorry about the crummy camera!

On Saturday we went to an Easter egg hunt at my sister's church.

Hunting eggs with Aunt Rhonda

Noah trying to get in on the action...maybe next year.

Georgia with her Uncle David and Aunt Rhonda looking for any forgotten eggs...



Here is Georgia opening her Easter basket on Easter afternoon after church.

At my parents house we hid eggs for the kids. My oldest nephew was in Florida with a friend's family for Spring Break. We really missed him but are so glad he was able to go.

I made Ben work for his this year. Each egg had a clue to where his next egg was hidden. The last clue led him to his Easter basket.

We just scattered eggs around for Georgia to find.

My mom gave Noah a bottle during the egg hunts.

Then today we colored eggs. We just ran out of time yesterday.

Georgia was so excited. She is still a bit too young but we went for it anyway. She totally didn't understand that the eggs would crack if you bang them together or drop them. Good thing you use hard boiled eggs!

Baby Nuss #3!

Well, it is official. We will be welcoming Baby Nuss #3 on or aound October 23, 2010. My dad's birthday is the 24th and mine is the 18th so October should be a fun month!

My Snow Babies

Today was a snow day! Seminary cancelled classes and Chad was off work so we played in the snow!

Noah was having so much fun bouncing that most of the photos I took we was just a blur!

As you can see, Chad wanted to make a snowman so big that he used a storage bin to transport the snow from the driveway to the yard....Canadians.

Then, Noah took a face plant into the snow and it was time to go in!

Our New Little Paper Carrier!

If you follow our blog you ight remember a post about Georgia "helping" us on our paper routes meaning we just had to take her with us sometimes. She sits in the back with all the papers and tries to hand Chad the papers as he reaches back for them. It is so sweet. Well, we have been taking the kids in with us to stuff papers on Sundays and Noah wants to be a bit more hands on. We got a portable DVD player for Georgia and I wish I had taken a photo of the seat we made for her out of papers in one of the carts but I didn't...maybe next week but I did get a photo of Noah "helping" Chad stuff his papers!

The Princess and the Frog

Oh, how I have neglected my blog. On Halloween night our good camera broke so we have very few photos since then. We do have a camera but it is not nearly as nice as the one that broke but I will try to do a "catch up" post for the last 2 months with bummed photos and the few we have taken ourselves.

On another note, we took Georgia to see The Princess and the Frog yesterday. My parents kept Noah so we could go. It was Georgia's first theater movie and she did awsome! The movie was really cute and we had a great time!


I know Georgia's eyes are closed but I still thought this was a sweet photo.

Enjoying the popcorn during the previews.

Mmmmmm, candies....

Getting the tickets. There were only a few other people there! It really took the pressure off to keep Georgia quiet and still, although she did a really good job.