Nick's First Father's Day

Nick,

Happy First Father's Day!  You are such a huge gigantic blessing to me, and the best dad I could ever ask for, for our sweet boy!  You have been so close by my side and so so much help these past 6 months! Thank you for those nights you get up with me even though you are half a sleep, for your extra hand around the house, for providing for us, for grocery shopping, for taking care of the endless stack of non-sense papers, for encouraging me, for being so stinkin' excited to see me and Justus when you come home, and most of all for being a Godly example to me and our boy.  If Justus plans on being anything like his dad...he's got some huge shoes to fill! Thank you so much...I love you millions!  Look forward to being on your team when raising Justus!

~Ambee

After camping we came home, unloaded, napped, and relaxed a bit, then we were off to mom and dad Goltry's...for a Father's Day get-together.

Justus sitting all by himself for the 1st time! :)

Wordless Wednesday

You Know Your A Mother When...

So I totally had a... "you know your a mother when" moment on saturday!
Nick and I were working in the  backyard and found that we had 2 birds nests on our house...right by our bedroom window.  I was trying to get Justus to fall asleep a couple weeks ago, and couldn't figure out what the condor raptor wast going on outside our window! It was so loud and obnoxious...I hate birds! Oh and there is bird poop all over our concrete, fence, and blackberries...looks like there was some sort of bird poop bombing! Anyway, so this past weekend we were working outside and I decided these nests had to go!  Nick rigged up something to knock them down, and I came over just in time to see a poor sweet little baby bird on the ground crying. He was so small you couldn't hear him! I was devastated!...In tears! Felt so bad for him and then feeling so sad for the mama bird! Later just as I was getting over this tragedy, I went over to that side of the house again only to find...the mama bird (I think) Looking up where the nest was! Again...pretty much almost in tears! What a wierdo!  If you know me...I HATE birds...and I do not cry very easy...but this showed me...I must be a mamma! :)  This concludes... my fisrt "You know your a mom when..." Maybe I will post more...who knows! :)

Camping Trip...Father's Day Weekend 2011

Nick put a little camping trip together for us and some of our best friends and their kids. We went up to a place called "Boulder Basin" up in the Idyllwild Mts., and got our favorite spot.  Justus did amazing! It was colder than I had thought, so the first night,  I doubled up J's pj's. Moments later, he exploded his diaper dirtying both jammies! Yeah Sick!  He knew what he was doing though...he got to sleep between Mom and Dad in our sleeping bags! :)  Loved cuddling him...wouldn't have changed a thing! :)  We had a really good time and are already looking forward to our next annual "Friends Camp Out."  Hopefully more of our  friends can make it next year and we can raise a camping riot! :)

Eden playing her #1 hit "Heart"

Sawyer is such a little boy...loved the dirt and climbing the rocks

My sweet boy being so good, but probably wishing he could get out & play

Leslie and cute Madison

The Homies-
Uncle Connor and Justus

Went on a hike up to a fire look out! My men are so so handsome!

Thompson's striking a pose

Hiking wore him out! :)

Sawyer loving on baby "J"

All the mama's trying to keep the kiddos occupied up on the fire look out, while the boys enjoy the view!

Eden the Ham! Love her!

Some serious "Horse Shoe" playing

Leslie and all her "Stud-Mom-Ness" Brought a few activities for the kids...a egg hunt being one of them! 

Justus and Madison being stroller buddies

Tom brought his guitar and led some nice worship

John enjoying roasting one huge marsh mellow!

Nick loving him some Smore's

Connor  preaching from his flaming stump :)

Some Of Justus's Favorite and Not So Favorite Things...

So we bought a little blow up pool for our back yard and on Memorial Day, we put Justus in it for the first time...this was not one of his favorite things! :) 

His buddy Eden is trying to pump him up by giving him a motivational speech

One of Justus's Favorite Things is...Grappling with Turtle St. Pierre

He's got some mean kicks and has been known to get Turtle in some sweet "Arm bars"

We took Justus to the pool for the first time...the whole trip was about 20 min...He did ok, but not so much one of his favorite things...at least not yet! We will keep trying! :)

Justus Loves to Talk to his bears...He is such a big boy! :)