Thursday, September 24, 2015

.gusa gram

20150806 Ames is three (47) edit

Hey! I have a lot of photos and videos from instagram and some that didn’t make it that far. I’m really behind so I’m just going to say sorry not sorry for posting all of these at once right now. This is basically the second half of our summer. Enjoy!

↓↓↓Tessa left us for school at BYU Hawaii at the end of July… we are all still pretty choked up about it so lets stop talking about it mmkay?//Alice has officially joined Ames in his favorite piece of playground equipment. Dang she’s getting big↓↓↓
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↓↓↓This is the shower tile we are using in our basement bathroom renovation. I picked the paint on the right side for the walls//WE HAD A FLOOD in our basement! All thanks to this dumb kinked pipe coming of the main water head exploding. We knew it shouldn’t be kinked like that when we bought the house, but we figured we’d get around to replacing it when we were done replacing the rest of the plumbing in the entire house (We’re almost done btw). I was home alone cleaning my paint brushes (from painting the bathroom walls) and I heard a weird sound so I turned off the water and went downstairs to find the utility room soaked and water coming from everywhere. Scariest moment ever↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Aaron made me peanut butter chicken and it was probably the best chicken of all the chickens ever cooked//I took the kids to the farmer’s market with Grandma and Tam and we had a blast. Ames loves his Aunt Tam so much↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Speaking of Tam, these dinosaurs are Ames’s birthday gift from her (which he loves)//Alice has the cutest nakey bum every. Turns out this was our last pool day before the weather got too brisk… this little pool got a lot of use this summer↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Alice can’t sit still or stay quiet in Sunday school anymore so we often sit in on nursery with Ames… she loves it so much//We’ve been enjoying some late summer drives through the country near our house. We walked down a path to see the new highway bridge they are building over the North Saskatchewan River. It’s truly amazing to see the scale of things that humans are capable of building↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Ames has been getting better and better at drawing! I can’t tell you how exciting it is for us to see him able to draw things the way they actually look. This is his picture of a fish… which is also baby Alice somehow?//It takes a lot for Ames to muster up enough courage to hold a bird at the pet store. It jumped right up to his shoulder and he was giggling so hard. He loved it↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Three babies in a tub at Grandma’s house, it’s so fun to have these little people around to do this stuff with↓↓↓
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↓↓↓I’m pretty sure we are done having hot days around here for the year so we ran off to a splash park one last time. It was pretty awesome to find an ice cream truck selling spiderman popsicles//Air and I got called as the food drive specialists for our ward this year. There was a ton of organizing to do… and flyer counting… we spent many nights getting this all together and I am so glad to almost be done with it all↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Alice is not as easy to get to take naps as Ames was. On this day I had been trying to get her to sleep for hours when I finally gave up and started feeding her lunch.



↓↓↓Ames loves this song and often requests that I sing it while we are on walks. Does anyone know what the Daddy's on the bus say? Not me.



↓↓↓splash park fun... it's seriously so sad to see summer go


↓↓↓This is probably the best dancing clip I have captured of Ames to date


↓↓↓Have you ever heard of these "sensitive plants"? It quickly closes up it's leaves as soon as you touch it. So awesome. Grandma Gusa got it for us


↓↓↓We had so much fun shooting off these rockets in the driveway with Rhys. Please just ignore my squeal that came out way louder than intended hahaha



↓↓↓My Momma said she wishes that she could see Alice wave at her one more time now that they left Canada. So here it is. Alice is the waving queen!



↓↓↓It might be hard to understand in the video, but Ames is chanting "I think I can, I think I can..." as he was climbing up the big ladder. This boy is getting so brave!



↓↓↓and a little voice recording of Ames serenading us on the way home from Grandma's house late one night.

Friday, September 11, 2015

.tenth month

Image procured, produced and/or edited by Aaron and/or Amber Gusa.

Time is flying by over here… the days are like minutes, so you can only imagine what an actual minute feels like. I need to soak in Alice’s sweetness so that in a few years when she’s having screaming tantrums (like Ames lately), I can look back and say to myself, “she’s still the same sweet loving little baby she used to be”. Maybe that will help me get through those times. For now, I just really appreciate her smiles and uplifting spirit at all times. When I’m having a bad day, there’s nothing better than having her beside me, just so happy to be here.

Here’s your monthly dose of her photo shoot shenanigans. The girl will not stay put! haha:

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Words she can say now: “mama” “dada” “ah-oh” “hi”

Alice learned to pull herself up to couches and walk along them. This is totally her jam and she does it constantly.

She enjoyed Ames’s birthday this month and having Grandma and Grandpa Leary come to Canada was the ultimate treat for all of us this month (I will be posting more on this later). She loved them so much.

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Wearing one of Ames’s birthday gifts from Grandma. haha

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Seeing her with my parents made my heart happy.

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She likes to go out and about with us. She seems to enjoy riding in the car… I always catch her looking up out the window at the light poles passing by one by one, trying to examine each thing she sees.

20150817 Canada visit (2)

She is a little stranger shy these days, especially with men. But in a shocking twist of events she was not the least bit scared of my Dad! AWESOME!!

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