thanks bob.

happy happy father's day

to my husband,

i love you. max, bob, and i are so blessed to have you. everyday with you only gets better and better. thanks for being my best friend, husband, and confidant. you have given me the most beautiful boy. when he smiles i think of you. we are yours always and forever.

isaac and i have also been blessed with wonderful fathers, who are also some of the greatest grandfathers. scott t. has always been more than a father-in-law, he's been a great friend. i know i can go to him with any problem, and he can help me work through it, and he gives some of the best advice. we love you scott t. thanks for all you do for us.

one of the most special guys in my life is my step dad joe. he's more than a step dad, i think of him as my father. he's been there for me during every high and low point. he's taught me to be more patient, and kind. he always puts things in perspective. he always has my back. and he has the biggest heart of any one i know. i thank the Lord every day for letting joe come into our lives. we have been so blessed.

happy father's day everyone, love the buie's.

i love love love this picture.

isn't my grandpa so handsome? i hope max is as cute as my grandpa was when he gets older. for those of you who don't know, we named our little max after my grandpa max. he passed away a little over a year ago. i was very close to my grandpa, i always knew nobody loved me like my grandpa did. i remember telling my grandpa a few months before he died that i was going to name my first boy max. it took me the whole 9 months of my pregnancy to convince isaac max was THE only name i would accept. obviously, he didn't have a choice. it's so important to me that my little boy knows what a great man his great grandpa was. i was named after my great great grandma sophia, who came here from denmark to be a nanny for a widower with a lot of children. she ended up marrying him and having even more children. she was a beautiful, stylish woman with a wonderful heart. i never knew her but i always hear about how wonderful she was. i hope the name max will mean as much to my little boy, as the name sophia does to me.

everyone loves a baseball game.

except me. but grandpa joe bought us all tickets to the bee's game, so we went. it turned out to be pretty fun. max was more interested in his favorite toy than learning about baseball.

then auntie amy and max snuggled. max loves a good snuggle.

grandpa joe ate one of the biggest hot dogs we've ever seen.

is this little boy seriously ours? i still can't believe it.

i pretty much love these two. yay for family and baseball.

midway weekend

this past weekend we went up to midway. isaac's parents have an ideal place there, and we usually go up once a month or so. we always do the same things, but they never get old. isaac usually takes ideal pictures...

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then we played with our little nugget. and took lots and lots of pictures of him. how cute is he getting? i can't handle it anymore. i seriously just want to eat him.

especially here...

played driveway tennis

had handstand contests. erin won.

kartwheels contest with adam. nobody won here, obviously.

max still has a flat head, but its getting better. and he's getting so much better on his tummy.

what a cute smile. love him.

love him even more here.

the end.

a date with husband.

there is barely any time for a date with your husband when you have a new baby. that's where grandma's come in. my momma is the sweetest. every week she comes over to watch maxie while i run errands and have me time. and when they can, joe and mom come to watch max at night so isaac and i can go on dates. so when they offered...isaac and i went to do one of our favorite things! antiquing!...

euro treasures isn't even in the category of antique "store". it is a massive warehouse of amazing furniture, paintings, china, books, and everything else you can imagine from europe. what more can a girl ask for? its kind of like the louvre museum, it would take 3 days to see everything it has.

then we went to our favorite place. the pub. you know you don't get out much when you spend half your dinner date taking pictures of each other.

mmm...french onion soup and potato chips. isaac gets embarassed when i do this with my soup and chips. i kind of make a mess.

and then of course we ended the date with top it frozen yogurt.

when we got home, this is where we found my sweet parents. sitting in the same chair, cuddling max. i couldn't ask for a better date. thanks husband, for being my favorite friend. and thanks parents, for always wanting to take care of our sweet max. we love you.

yuck.

i woke up to this. boo!

but on the bright side, i also woke up to this.

yum!

some people think disneyland is the happiest place on earth. but that was sooooo six months ago. now there is a magical place named top it where delicious frozen yogurt is made. when you step inside this delightful wonderland happiness fills your heart, and yogurt fills your tummy. ike and i frequently support our local frozen yogurt shop by going at least twice a week. who wouldn't?

we took adam and erin there last night, and they whole heartedly agree. good job top it, you win!

babywise love

have i ever told you how much i love babywise? this whole week, my sweet little nugget has slept 8 hours, straight! and last night, i put him to bed at 8pm, fed him at 11pm (which he was completely asleep the whole time) then we woke up at 7:30am this morning. i know, i know. it sounds dumb. but this is something a momma bear like me dreams of! and i owe it all to babywise. this whole schedule thing has been hard, but really, it has made my life so much easier. and little nugget's life, too. i'm pretty sure i have the happiest, sweetest baby on the block (but what momma doesn't believe that?) you can love babywise, or hate it. but i'm officially a believer.

almost summer

i love summer. i feel like i haven't seen a night like this since i was in italy. i was so sick when i was pregnant last summer, it passed by me. not this summer. after a snowy weekend, the thought of summer and this beautiful night couldn't be passed up. i had to swing. so i did. (ignore our unmowed, patchy grass, we are having mower problems).

this was max's first time in this little get up, and his last now that summer is here. i remember tiana crying at the thought of georgia turning one. i didn't understand why. now i can't imagine another day going by, because every day he gets older. smarter. funnier. i love it but it makes me sad. tonight i cried when isaac and i were putting him to bed, singing primary songs and saying family prayers. i hope tomorrow is just as great as today was with him. because today was so fun.