Barbecue's....

are one of the best parts about summer when the weather is nice!

An accident waiting to happen: Jed and Derek supervising Colton as he tries to hit the golf ball.

Jace and Kyler hanging out, loving being outside under a shade tree!

When one baby starts crying, the other one has to join in!  I THINK that Kyler started crying first, and Colton ran over to talk to her, and then Jace started crying, and so why not take a picture?

Jace definitely fills up his swing!

And last, tummy time!

Baptism!

Jace was baptized at church Sunday.  He was a very good sport...awake during most of church, just taking it all in! 

Jace's Godparents: my sister Jennifer, and Jed's brother Jay, Father Roderick, Jed, Jace and Angela

Jace is blessed to have so many great-grandparents!  Bud and Pat Boos, George and Erma Johnson, Lucille Wilke, and Darlyne and Richard Johnson.

We had a picture of Jace and all his grandma's and great grandma's at his baby shower, so here is a picture of all his grandpa's and great grandpa's! 

Front: George Johnson, Bud Boos, Jed, Jace, Jerry Boos

Back: Jerry Johnson, Richard Johnson

Jed's family: Front: Grandma Janie, Grandpa Jerry, Jed, Jace, me, Aunt Jena

Back: Morgan, Uncle Jay, and Carl

Angela's family: Aaron, Aunt Melissa, Jed, Angela, Jace, Uncle Derek, Colton, Aunt Jennifer, Grandma Carol, Grandpa Jerry and Kyler 

Old friends, new friends!

This week after a lot of planning, I was able to get together with two high school friends, Stephanie and Andrea.  It was so much fun seeing all of our babies together! 

Here is "Little Stephanie", miss Taygen, holding Ella, Andrea's daughter. 

Taygen was anxious to hold both the babies, and Jace didn't seem to mind!

And here's all three of them!

Taygen is going to be the best little helper when her baby sister arrives in August!  She was very helpful giving Ella her bottle, and she kept an eye on Jace, and she didn't even complain when Jace cried most of the way home!  The only thing she says she won't help with?  Dirty diapers!

Another graduation!

Tonight Jennifer, my mom and I took the kids and went to our cousin's graduation party in Winchester.  Cheyenne graduated from the 8th grade, while wearing a CAMO and blaze orange dress!  Wish I had a picture, but I was a little busy trying to keep Jace happy!

Kyler didn't sleep very much at all on the ride there, and she was very sociable at the party!

Jace, on the other hand, slept the entire car ride, and was fussy from the moment we got there until the moment we left.  In his defense, he did get his shots today, so it has been a rough day on him!

I was pulling out all the stops on the way down to keep Colton from going to sleep.  Here he is playing with my phone--playing "Tumbling Dice" game.  Not much of a game, just some dice that roll when you shake the phone.  It lasted for, um, 5 minutes?  After that we went through all the animal sounds that he knew, took off his shoes, and finally watched part of a movie.  On the way home though he totally amazed me!  Jace started crying when we were coming through Atchison, and pretty much cried the rest of the way home.  As I was trying to talk to Jace to calm him down, I hear Colton saying some things that he must have heard Jennifer or me saying to the  babies: "It's alright Jace"  "You're sleepy Jace" "It's okay".....Colton is such a good little helper!!!

Tough Guy...

Jace had his 2-month check up today, and his first round of shots!!!  He was a trooper for the most part.  Of course by the time they were ready to give him his shots he was almost asleep in my arms, so that was a rude awakening, but it didn't phase him TOO much!  He even got some cool Taz band-aids! 

Jace is 11.9 lbs, 23 inches, and his head is 16 inches....growing just like he is supposed to! 

Hobbies...

It has certainly been a busy week! Jace is now 8 weeks old!  Last weekend we attended graduation parties, and Tuesday night Jace and I went to the TMS graduation.  It is always great to see the kids all dressed up and ready to go to high school!

Jace has picked up a couple new hobbies.  He is really into sucking on, or drooling on his hand, wrist, my hand, whatever is close to his mouth.  He isn't very interested in a pacifier, but likes his own fingers!

Jace has also become a fan of staring out the window.  Not much to look at lately, besides cloudy skies and rain, but he seems to like the view!

You can see from the pictures he is getting really good at holding his head up too!

My favorite time of TODAY.

Today I went back to work.  Dang.  Lucky for me, there are now only 7 more days until school is out for summer, so it won't be so bad. 

Jace had a great day at Grandma Janie's!  Also lucky for us, it wasn't hard to find a babysitter for these 8 days between two Grandma's, and a couple of Aunt's that are busily trying to finish up finals at K-State this week.  In fact, here's a video of Aunt Jena and Aunt Melissa studying hard at the library last night with a few friends:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWE7UqnSqLU&feature=related

My favorite time of today?  Rocking him as he went to sleep this evening.