Bluebonnets

SO, I know I promised our Michigan trip pictures next - and they will be coming still, and now I have Easter! - But I wanted to throw our Spring Bluebonnet picts out here this morning! We had them taken last week with the amazing Sarah from Butterfly Chaser Photography and she posted a "sneak peak" on her Facebook page this morning. She has taken our family pictures in the past and does great work. Jerra really responds well to her (unlike when I take her picture). We had some done of the whole family, so those will be coming soon when I get the rest of the pictures. But for now, enjoy these of my girls....

(And for those that don't live here in Texas - its a wide spread tradition for people to take pictures in the bluebonnets every Spring....you see moms out with their kids on the side of the road all the time. The wildflowers here are so beautiful, I really love the whole 2 weeks of Spring we get here in Texas - just wished it lasted longer!)

Check out Sarah's website: http://butterflychaserphotography.com/

February!

so excited to finally be catching up on our blog. We had a pretty low key February except for a very fun trip up to Michigan to visit Kristin, Tim and Gavin. (that will be its own post).

Jorja had puffs for the 1st time and is now a pro at eating them!

Jerra got a wonderful surprise in the mail - a snow white dress from grandma. she has been asking for this dress for months now. she was so excited. she has worn it everyday since....and we even have to address her as 'snow white' when its on! such drama!we had a tea party on a cold day!
we made cookies...jerra loves to decorate them...
jerra of course did lots of coloring and painting...
our princess!

the rest of January!

The rest of january in pictures!

We discovered Jorja LOVES the bouncer!!
"Butter Crunch"- if you haven't tried it - you should!
I got an Ipone! yay! thanks honey!
I made baby food! I did homemade baby food with both girls....

Jorja looking cute!
Jerra worked on lots of art projects!
Yep, Jorja just being cute again!
Nala thought she needed some Blog love
February coming soon!

jorja's baptism

On January 10th we had Jorja baptized. The baptismal took place at the same church we were married in and that Jerra was baptized as well.

Louis (family members will remember him from our wedding, he was Geoff's best man) has been chosen as the Godfather. Geoff and Louis have been friends since middle school, they were roommates all through college and now they work together...well, technically Louis is Geoff's boss! They have seen each other through the good times in their lives as well as the really hard times and Geoff really values Louis' friendship.

We have not yet chosen a Godmother for Jorja - we will when we know which will be the right one. Godparents play an important role in the lives of our kids and we want to make sure we pick the perfect ones. Back when picking Jerra's Godparents, Geoff and I decided we wanted the Godparents of our kids to be not related to them, we feel it just brings in an extra set of people into our kids lives that becomes an important part of them growing up. We feel Louis will be an excellent Godfather for Jorja....

jorja is wearing the same dress that both I and Jerra wore for our baptism's!

Louis, Geoff and Case

January catch up....happy birthday Jerra!

In an attempt to catch up with our blog - I am going to do just a few shots of Jan....even though I have TONS of pictures.

January 10th was Jerra's 3rd birthday. 3rd! I can't believe its been 3 years since we welcomed her to our family. She is such a character and has such a personality. She is drama and diva all rolled into one. She loves to dress up as princesses (almost an every day occurrence), dance around the family room, hide with daddy, and play with her friends. She ADORES her sister and is constantly kissing her and saying, "you are my best girl ever." (so stinkin cute!) She amazes us daily on the comments that come out of her mouth - where does she hear some of this stuff!? She is smart as a whip and remembers EVERYTHING! She knows all the days of the week, how to spell her name, the pledge of allegiance and we are working on the Aggie War Hymn!

We had her party at a place here in town called Powersports - its a gymnastics/dance gym. She attends Mother's Day Out there twice a week and has really learned a lot from there. We invited all the neighborhood kids as well as her friends from her other Mother's Day out program that she attends at Christ United Methodist Church. All the kids had so much fun!

jumping around!

loves the balance beam

Jorja with Case (Jerra's Godfather)

Little Monkey!

With Lilli and Camryn, neighborhood friends

singing happy birthday!


Princess cake, of course!
Happy Birthday sweet girl!

A Belated Merry Christmas from our family!

SOOOO - we had a family picture taken, Geoff and I created the card and I had them printed! And STILL they sit on my desk....I even put them in envelopes! So - here is our Christmas card that none of you got! I guess I will try and be better at this next year! I was thinking of everyone and loved getting all the cards from our family and friends....I just never made it to the post office with ours!
Merry Belated Christmas from the Spahr's!

Christmas - part 2

Well, I didn't get Part 2 up as quickly as I hoped...we took a little mini-vacation and headed to Michigan last week. I uploaded almost 1000 pictures to my snapfish account yesterday to include all of 2010 up to date! WOW! i have some serious blogging to do!

So, here goes with the last of 2009!

Jerra and Jorja after church and before we started opening our presents. I have never opened presents on christmas eve, but Geoff wanted to give it a try - figured that it would be too overwhelming for jerra in the morning to open all our gifts as well as have Santa's presents there...It worked out well. I think next year we will just have to start earlier in the evening!

dinner before presents!

Jerra wearing a gift from grandma/grandpa (she LOVES dressing up) and opening her guitar from daddy

she insisted that daddy get his guitar and play with her!

setting out the milk/cookies/carrots for Santa and his reindeer

checking out Santa's gifts! She was pretty specific with what she wanted from Santa - a princess bike, new glass slippers and a new kitty cat. Santa delivered! and she was thrilled!
We had to go out and try out the bike as soon as we could.

So happy! and SO big!