Dad (Brett)
All around rockstar geek. Brett enjoys his job as a Clinical Data Manager (helping research medical breakthroughs at Celgene); in his time off he enjoys reading books, watching movies, and learning new tricks on his camera and in Photoshop. He absolutely adores his wife and 2 daughters.

Mom (Erin)
Complete supermom. Erin loves her job as a Youth Field Researcher (aka 'mother'); in her plentiful spare time (ha!) she enjoys sleeping, re-reading Twilight or Harry Potter, and cuddling with Brett.

Aeriana ('Wacko', 'Princess')
Hybrid Angel/Devil. Aeriana loves her mommy and daddy, each of whom she loves to test at times and pretend innocence at others. A veritable sponge, Aeriana wants to do anything she sees an adult doing; she loves babies and especially adores her little sister, taking great care of her every need.

Zoe Jean ('Stinker', 'Cutie')
Growing fast, Zoe wants to be just like her big sister. Very goal oriented, she'll find a way to get that toy she's been looking at. She loves her pacifier and can't help but snuggle up to her blanket. Zoe is as relaxed as they come, she just loves chillin' out and watching TV.















Apps We're Excited About


CarcassonneAirVideo
Angry BirdsiBooks
ShiftDropbox
iBlast MokiSentinel 2

Monday, September 22, 2008

Summer 2008

So yeah it's been forever again... sorry.

We watched some kids from our home ward (we usually go to a branch where we serve) for a week. So we temporarily became a family of seven. It was crazy, but fun and they were great kids. This is them at the Turtle Back Zoo.


We went back to D.C. again for another fun filled family adventure!
(Riley and Aeriana)


Mary Anne and Cache, Dacia and Alyssa, Erin and Aeriana swimming and keeping cool.


Kaitlyn loving a doll that moves and plays back!


Aeriana taking a bath. This is the face she makes when she almost drops her duck but catches it, or if Brett or I try to take it away. She's so cute!


A few friends from church had a pool party and Aeriana loved every minute of it!


She had so much fun; when I went to go check on her when she should have been napping this is what I found! (she's working on crawling, she has the backwards thing down and is now aiming for foward motion).


Aeriana has also figured out that grass is yummy!



Driving around town ;)


Playdate with Raquel


Playdate with Rebekah. By the way these two are three weeks apart.. yeah, Aeriana is a big fatty.


Aeriana also has found a long lost love...


ELMO!


So we went to Sesame Street Live with her best friend Pierson!


Needless to say she loved it!


We also recently took a trip up to Mass. to do some Family History work. On the way up we went out to dinner with the Bassetts (luckily getting to catch up with them before they moved away)!


While we were in Massachussetts we had fun but it was kind of frustrating too... the family history part that is. The cemetery was really old and we had no map so it took us quite a long time and I only ended up with a few extra dates. Fortunately with those dates I was able to connect names in a book I have and now I have over 400 names that are almost ready for the temple! And those are just the names I've already imported, there are thousands more I still need to research! I do have my work cut out for me, and it's all thanks to my great grandfather Raymond Patterson! He left me several boxes of family history stuff.


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8 Comments:

Blogger Dacia said...

She continues to be absolutely beautiful - we miss all of you so much - any chance you want to head this way for Thanksgiving!!!!!!!

September 23, 2008 at 1:09 PM  
Blogger The Mid-Cart Parentals said...

LOVE all the pics! She is soooo cute - & good for you tackling your genealogy!

September 23, 2008 at 6:30 PM  
Blogger Camille said...

LOL LOL! Her face when she is dropping that duck is HILARIOUS! How cute it she? And look how many little friends she has!! Quite the popular little baby! I stole the sesame street pic off your blog to post on mine. Hope you don't mind =)

September 26, 2008 at 2:11 PM  
Blogger Shantel said...

Oh my heck, I love looking at your blog - it makes me laugh everytime. My fav pics are of Aeriana in the bath and the next one. I laughed right out loud when I saw her faces. The second one looks like she just said "Oh no you didn't...". I am so excited to see you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

September 28, 2008 at 3:40 PM  
Blogger Shantel said...

And I just read Dacia's comment - she seems a little excited for Thanksgiving. We are still almost two months away and she has been talking about it for the last two as well...

September 28, 2008 at 3:43 PM  
Blogger Joel and Crystal said...

LOVE the pics of her in the tub with her ducky and in her bathing suit. What a cutie!

September 29, 2008 at 9:49 PM  
Blogger Middleton said...

Wow... Aeriana has gotten so big so quick! She sure is cute!

October 1, 2008 at 2:00 AM  
Blogger karen garner said...

Wow - what fun adorable pictures -- I loved her "behind" coming out of the tent. What a great smile she has in all the pics. The face when she is dropping the duck is THE BEST - what a cute picture!!
Good for you doing your geneology - I need you to teach me how (I truly do want to do it - it's just the getting started part that I don't understand.)

October 11, 2008 at 6:21 PM  

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