celebrating my 2-year birthday

today i celebrated my 2-year birthday with family and friends. ryker came along with his mommy, and eliana joined the fun with her parents. kristi and josh also came to help us celebrate. we all had so much fun. although my official birthday isn't until the 17th, this was the best opportunity for all of us to get together. thanks everyone for making my 2-year birthday a blast. i love you all!

testing out my new strider bike...it's gonna take me a while
to get used to it

umma and uppa really wanted to get me a tee pee...
mommy thought it'd be a great reading place!

zzzzzzz! (not really, just pretending for the camera!)

eliana's mommy made me this cool shirt

go eliana!

on your mark, get set...

go!!!!!!!

taking a beverage break

ryker loved chillin' in the pool

eliana on her tippy toes...no wonder she seemed taller

mommy made me a birthday cookie

lots of cool stuff from family and friends...especially a lot of
new cars and trucks, my favorites!

word from daddy

Okay, so after two whole years, I finally got around to finishing Owen's 1-year video. Kelly has been reminding me of it and well, it's a year late but still in time for his 2-year birthday. I'm hoping Owen will look back at the video one day and be reminded of all he did in his first year. As for me, it's now onto the second year, which at this rate will probably be done by the time he leaves for college :)

a weekend of fun

this past weekend, we celebrated mommy and daddy's seventh anniversary. saturday night, they went on a date for dinner and coffee and i got to go play with eliana and her parents for a few hours.

what can i get you, ma'am?

how do i get out of this thing?

on sunday, we all went to estes park, a special way for all three of us to celebrate as a family. we had a picnic and went hiking in rocky mountain national park. daddy got some great shots of our walk around bear lake, and we marveled at God's creation. it was a fantastic day and one we will try to do again soon. mommy and daddy are already thinking of our next trip to the mountains.

getting ready for our hike

a 70-year old lady who hikes up here everyday was kind
enough to take our picture.

a look down our path

it was quite a view of long's peak.
it was neat to see lakes high up here in the mountains.

enjoying our mountain hike close to mommy

fishing anyone?

happy anniversary daddy and mommy!

child of God

this weekend was a very special weekend in my life. mommy and daddy knew before i was even born that they would one day have me baptized in our church, cherry creek presbyterian church. well, this past sunday was the big day! gampa, grammie, and greats all got to come and be part of it...and it was really neat to actually be baptized by my gampa (a very special honor that our church was gracious to allow), just like my cousins jackson and anabel were years ago.

in gampa's arms as he's dipping his hand into the water

baptized by gampa

gampa, daddy, me, mommy, and pastor marty

all the family, including kristi and josh!

happy 100-day birthday

yeah, yeah...i know. it seems like i'm always having a birthday. but i'm not making this one up just for more cake.

in honor of my korean grandma and heritage, today i celebrated 100 days of health. historically, many babies in korea did not live past 100 days so it has become custom to celebrate once a baby has reached this milestone. my daddy had a traditional ceremony full of all the korean clothes, gifts, food, and money. mommy and daddy scaled it down a bit for me. even without the material things, we still enjoyed celebrating my first 100 days of health.

my daddy's 100-day celebration with my grandpa and grandma

my 100-day celebration with daddy and mommy