Shirtless Dinners

This pic gives a really good description of what our dinners are like most nights. We fully understand that nothing says "we're from Alabama" like letting your kids eat dinner every night shirtless. However, I hope this picture would tell the genius involved in slumping to this standard. Tonight we had pasta. By the end of the dinner I was quite sure that Lawson's mouth had found about 2% of the pasta. After cleaning him up I realized that his hair, cheeks (both kind), nose, chin, neck, legs, armpits, eyebrows found the remaining 98%.

Jax & Harley

So we finally got Jax to "hold" Harley. The issue is a 2.5 year old doesn't really have any good infant holding techniques. As you can see in this picture Jax is confident that he is doing nothing less than a perfect job holding his brand new baby sister. However, Harley tells another story. She's probably thinking "why would you do this to me"? We had to snap this photo with little attention given to focus, lighting, or smiles even...

The New Fam

Ok, get a good look because this is how it's going to be for a long time...like, forever.

Harley warming up

The clan stopped by

Dad wanted to bring the boys up to see Harley last night. We were so happy to see them. Derek and Lindsey brought tacos. It was fun...and crazy....and loud...and crazy (did I say that?)!

More of baby Harley

Here are a couple of more pics of Harley. She's sleeping of course.

Harley's Visitors

We were thrilled to introduce Harley to some friends and family. Harley with our close friend Lisa Collins and with cousin Blake and Uncle/Pastor Jeremy.

Worth the Wait

Being confined to a hospital room while the world moves at its usual insane pace outside give one a chance to...well...blog. Not something that I typically get to indulge in because I have one of those jobs that keeps me out crazy hours and when I'm in I rarely feel like using my brain...
Given that Kimberly had our first child in 2006 and now our third in 2009 I'm reminded that my wife has been pregnant for 90% of the last 4 years. However, this last pregnancy was special.
First of all, it marked an end to an era for us. God willing we're done having kids! The most interested part of this last horrahh has been our decision to be surprised by the sex of our baby. We didn't set out with this plan to maintain ignorance to the bitter/sweet end. We actually tried to find out the sex around 12 week mark but was told that it was "anatomically impossible". Shortly after that we made a decision to throw caution to the wind. The issue was that Kimberly and I are forever planners, plotters, and goal setters. The "not knowing" almost became unbearable in the last few weeks as Kimberly settled into her heavy nesting phase. Not knowing meant no bedding, clothes, paint colors, toy purchasing, etc...
This would have been tolerable had the pressure to produce a girl in my family not been such an enormous deal. I say this with sarcasm although after 8 straight boys and ending up on the brink of a studly baseball team the pressure was indeed mounting. If we would have found out the sex our entire family could have sat back and relaxed for the last several months knowing that we had finally accomplished what seemed to be the impossible. Kimberly and I, nonetheless, stood our ground.
Fast forward to June 16, 5:08am. When the moment arrived and what emerged was a beautiful, healthy, baby girl Kimberly and I both realized...it was all "worth the wait".

Harley is HERE!!!

At 5:08am this morning, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 we were blessed to bring Harley Jane Lombard into the world. Deciding that three weeks early was more her style we rushed to the hospital last night at 9:30pm. With only Ashley and Lindsey sharing the moment we deliriously chatted and laughed through the night while Kimberly inched (or "centimetered") closer to push time.

How Great is Our God

OK, Jax is in full worship leader mode in this video. The video is kind of crazy because all the kids are together but Jax wanted to perform and we let him.

Happy Father's Day!

Well, we went our our annual Father's Day boat trip. This year, it was all the siblings and Wayne and Donna. We had a blast for four hours without kiddos. Everyone (except me) tubed and tried to ski. This is Wade tubing. It was a perfect afternoon relaxing and enjoying time on the lake.

Silly face!

Jax and the guitar

The boys like to pretend at church that they are playing the guitar. Jax has recently taken a liking to music and instruments. It's funny to me, because Wade and I don't really show an interest in it. But he's always requesting songs and such from our ipod. I'll have Wade post some videos later. They are so sweet.

Lovin' some pasta

Wade took some pics for me this night. He was watching the kiddos while I went to get my hair cut. We recently realized that Lawson is allergic to milk, so we have to modify a lot of our recipes or make something similar for Lawson (He doesn't like it when we are eating something completely different - he totally knows!). I think he enjoyed this particular modification!!! Jax hasn't been loving to eat at all lately. He's gotten really picky about dinner in particular??

Fruit Chews and Scooters

These boys are, sometimes, very easily contented. If they could ride their scooter and eat fruit chews for every meal, I think they would be SO happy. We go through so many bags of fruit chews. Lawson could seriously live off of fruit and fruit chews. Also, notice his new kicks. I bought these for Jax, forgot about them. Then, found them just as Lawson was growing out of them! Just my luck. They were cute for a few weeks.

Playing with Dad

When it was a little cooler out, the boys and I would always be out waiting on Wade to get home from work - when its a decent hour. This particular day they wanted to hit golf balls and be just like Dad. How sweet are these moments?

My first busted lip

Lawson was playing outside and fell off of Jax's scooter (which he thinks is his). He got a few scratches on his face and busted his lip. He looked so pitiful but he was a trooper with it. Since then, he's probably had two or three more...not sure why? He's tough.

Montley Crew?

Can you imagine...this is actually our crew before church starts on Sundays! I think Sam was actually in time out and then everyone decided to join him. They were singing songs in the lobby of the theater...Happy Mother's Day, I think!