Isaiah Robert Proulx's first two weeks!

We welcomed our third boy, Isaiah, into the world on June 25, 2009 at about 7:30 am. The biggest of the three boys, he weighed in at 6 lbs. 4 oz. and was 19 inches long.










Isaiah's home coming picture












Who does he look like?




























Here he is getting to know Grandma.



























One of many many sleeping pictures.














One of his first alert moments.









































Teeny fingers!











































This was his first "smile". It was really a accidental reflex, but it was still cute!














more sleeping...












and more...














Here he is meeting Grandpa














Nana came from Reno to meet him when he was a week old.













This is the life!




























Tobias and Kiernan are awesome big brothers! They love having a baby brother and are really good with him. Kiernan was very nurturing from the moment he met Isaiah and he wanted to hold him right away. Tobias was more stand offish at first, but has warmed up to him. This is the first time Tobias held him. The big boys are wearing their "big brothers Rock!" T-shirts. Kiernan is not the baby anymore!






Just can't resist these sleeping shots!













and he's finally awake!













and asleep once more. This time he took dad down with him.














Here's Kiernan giving Isaiah a good night kiss



























Isaiah's first bath at two weeks old. The brothers had to help, of course. He took it very well. He didn't even cry.

June Foodie Club

After six months of having our schedules not match up, the planets aligned and our Foodie Club was re-united! The theme was berries and the food was fantastic, as always, and the company couldn't have been better. Next time I'll have to remember to take pictures of our friends too :)







For the first course we had turkey and berry spring rolls with a rasberry sauce and blackberry stuffed turkey meatballs. I never would have thought of putting berries inside meatballs, but it was yummy!








For the salad course we had a mixed green salad with berries, herb goat cheese, pine nuts, and a blackberry vinaigrette.












For the main course we had Rasberry and Balsamic glazed chicken wrapped in bacon, steamed green beans with rasberries, and a wild rice and blueberry tart.










and Berry bread pudding for dessert. mmmm...

June 2009, Tobias' 4th birthday

Here's me, 8 months pregnant. Almost done!













Kiernan likes to make creative spaces for himself to sit. I think last month I got picture of him in a garbage can :)














Tobias is turning 4 June 30th, but we had his party this weekend so it wouldn't be too close to my due date, which is July 10th. Tobias asked for a pirate theme and I had a lot of fun with it! I highly recommend doing a pirate themed party, if you get the chance! Here he is the morning of his party all geared up. He was super excited. He had been waiting all week to wear his pirate shirt his Aunt Niki got him.






Arrrrgh Matey! Showing off the pirate ship tats.













I made vanilla shark attack cupcakes and...



























Chocolate chip pirate skull cupcakes.





























Here's T and his cousin Emily getting ready to head out to the park. Tobias Nana, Aunt Niki, and cousins all came from Reno to spend the party day with us!











We try to get a picture of all the cousins when we have them all together, but it wasn't working out so well this time.














From left to right: Emily, Tobias, Rowdy, Sawyer, and Kiernan.














This is all the cousins last year and...













Two years ago!















After a major park mishap (there was another party already in full swing at the park where planned to have ours!). We found another park with a free grill, tried to re-route everyone, and Justin started que-ing.









Matt and Amy hanging out with Emily and Kiernan on the swings (Kiernan's favorite park activity)
















Uncle Eric, Grandma, and Tobias












Captain Matt!
















First Mate, Amy!










These are T's buds, Landon and Luke having a party blower duel.














What's a pirate party without some sword fighting?






























Pinata time! Here's T's friend Aaron taking a good whack.











Landon














Kiernan













Candy!!












Tobias with his loot.














Tobias blowing out his candles (and my belly off to the right :)












Emily with the sweet pirate balloons and Kiernan scoping out the presents.
















Tobias opening presents




























Sweet guitar from Nana!













Here's T the next morning trying out his guitar.


























Justin didn't get much time to party like a pirate at the actual party because he was cooking most of the time. So he got into it the morning after the party instead. There was much sword fighting with him and the boys! and yes, he has two eye patches on.

The Amazing Date

Have you seen the show the Amazing Race? Well, our church does a smaller version of that for married couples every year called The Amazing Date. This year was the San Francisco edition. So we got up to the city Friday Evening, had dinner, then started the race at 7:30 pm. Then we spent the night at a hotel at the wharf and resumed the race in the morning. We were running all over the place- the wharf, the whole Pier area, North Beach, Lombard street, China town, Union Square, then back to the wharf again. It was super fun, but super exhausting doing the race while being 7 months pregnant!



Before the race started we had dinner at Joe's Crab shack on the Warf. it was a really fun place! They put bibs on you and the middle of the table has a bucket sunk down in it to put all your shells and junk and your napkins are a roll of paper towels on the table. It's messy, but so yummy! Oh, and the servers periodically drop whatever they are doing and do a coordinated dance number in front of all the guests! Our server told us that they actually do that to buy the kitchen some time. Very clever.





The race begins. One of first tasks was to have our picture taken in front of sea lions... check.














Then we had to hold a live oyster...check.












take a picture by a surf board...check.















find the heart crab statue and take a picture by that...check.













identify flavors of mystery jelly beans...check. Thankfully Justin didn't get the vomit or booger flavored ones! He did get black pepper, which ironically was white, and baby wipe.













The next day was a beautiful day in SF as you can see here. Time to start the second leg of the race.













Justin's game face.














Yes, this is us standing by fertility statues, our first task of the day. Notice how I'm trying not to stand too close :)











Another task that Justin had to do was chop up a squid a specific way. Just in case you want to try this at home, and who wouldn't, I would reccomend gloves. He did great, but his hands reeked all day!













One of the challeges of the race to decide how you will get places. Walking sometimes isn't the best option (to the top of Lombard street, for example). So we also took cable cars, street cars, and buses. I didn't even know what the difference was between all of those until this race much less know how to navigate the city using them. Justin did an excellent job of navigating and not getting us lost!






A beautiful church in the North Beach area.















Another task we had to complete was put on crazy outfits and have our picture taken by strangers in front of three of the four heart sculptures at Union Square. Normally, this would be a little embarssaing, but in SF no one even bats an eye at you because you are certainly not the weirdest thing people have seen!

Easter

Before Easter our dear friend Jamie came over to decorate Easter cookies with the boys and we had a lot of fun (and sugar)!


























































On Good Friday my mom came over and dyed eggs with the boys.










































Here's Kiernan bright and early Easter morning.

























Kiernan is still little enough that I can pretty much dress him however I want so he's got his sweet Easter outfit on. Tobias on the other hand insisted on jeans and a T-shirt and refused to be in any pictures in the morning.










my paparazzi shot.















Kiernan at the Easter egg hunt at our church.












Tobias, easter eggs in hand, finally agreed to take a picture.





























In the afternoon we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house where there were Easter baskets waiting for them!











































Here's the boys playing with their new bubble toys.













My parents' next door neighbors, the Levesques set up another Easter egg hunt for the boys, but this time the eggs were filled with money!

March 2009

Here's Kiernan at the Childrens museum in Palo Alto. He's learning how to be "green" by using wind power to light up a city.












Here's Tobias and Kiernan putting hockey puck type things into this slot thing.





























Tobias and Kiernan went to a birthday party and came home with top hats and sticky ball toys. So they created the ensemble you see here.





























Kiernan trying out his new scooter he got for his birthday.













Kiernan always wants to see the picture that you are taking before you've actually taken it so it's hard to get a picture of him that's not like this.















or like this.











Costco sized packages of toilet paper are good for so much more than just bathroom use! Kiernan decided to make a little bed out of ours :)

Tobias pursues his career in Marine Biology

Tobias, the aspiring Jaques Cousteau, made up the "diver" game this morning when he found my goggles in my gym bag. Kiernan, his research assistant, joined in. He swam all over the house finding sea animals for me. It was very cute!

Kiernan turns 2!

Kiernan, my baby (not for long), turned 2 on the 23rd. We had my family over and a couple close friends the day before his birthday and Nana came to visit from from Reno so it was a fun weekend!










Here's Kiernan and Auntie Jamie, who finally made it onto our blog :)













Here's the chocolate chocolate chocolate cupcakes I made with the boys' help of course.














Cupcake time!



























Diving in














Heaven!












Present time















Grandma and papa got him a scooter and helmet!













He looked like a little mushroom in his helmet. It was very cute.













Takin' it for a spin!




























Breakfast cupcakes with Nana on his actual birthday, woohoo! hey, at least it was carrot cake!

February 2009

The boys were in a wedding this week. Our dear friends, Matt and Amy, got married and the boys got to march down the aisle! They were super cute and did a great job at the wedding. Here they are at home all dressed up for the occasion. Tobias was super excited to be wearing his special wedding outfit.
























Here's proof that they do actually hug each other sometimes :)












Here's us at the church pre-wedding.
















Kiernan having some snacks to keep him tame while we waited for the ceremony to start.














Justin and I stealing a quick photo amidst the chaos.











The boys all dressed up and handsome.
















Here's Kiernan rockin' the accordion!















Here's Kiernan playing peek-a-boo in the laundry basket.




























For Valentines Day we decorated cookies at our friends house. The boys loved it, of course.













Kiernan loved the frosting :)












The cute, but very sugary, end product.