The Helman Family

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

First Haircut! Well....kinda

We have been wanting to get Jarrett's haircut for a while now because his hair is out of control! This kid always has the worst case of bed head I've ever seen. Even when we wet it, brush it, gel it....it still seems to be everywhere 10 minutes afterwards. We haven't been able to find time to go get it cut, so Justin decided to give it a whirl last Saturday. Take a look...

Jarrett LOVES the sweeper. Everytime I vaccum, he chases me around trying to catch the sweeper...weird, I know. So, in these pictures, Jarrett was sitting next to the vaccum (while it was on, so he couldn't hear the trimmers). Everything was going great until Jarrett leaned back and SNIP! He know has a small shaved area at the back of his head! Ha! Just adds character, right? So, Justin decided to call it quits and we will just have his hair cut some other time!

Monday, July 21, 2008

Congratulations!

Now introducing...Mr. and Mrs. Rich and Nikki Gilman!

My college roommate, Nikki, got married this past weekend up in Lafayette. It was such a pretty ceremony and I've never seen Nikki so happy! Rich is the perfect guy for her. Congratulations Nikki and Rich!

Justin and I right before the wedding.

We have to say thank you to my parents for watching Jarrett overnight, so Justin and I could go to the wedding and enjoy a night out together!

Time to Catch Up!

How cute is he????

Well, I was on vacation last week, so didn't have much time to update everyone. Ha, yeah right! I had all the time in the world because I did absolutely nothing, and loved every minute of it! Jarrett and I spent the whole week together going on walks, playing, swimming, etc. Of course, we missed Justin terribly while he was at work, and we so glad to see him every night when he got home! I didn't get too many pictures this week, but snapped a few at Shadyside Park on Monday when I took Jarrett, Kassidy and Krystin to the park.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

4th of July!

Well, we headed over to Justin's grandparents in Ohio on Thursday night for our annual family campout. We were interested in seeing how Jarrett would react to the campout and to sleeping in a tent. Let's just say by night two, Jarrett and I were sleeping in the house! He was up and down and very restless the whole first night. Teething hit him once again on Friday morning, so combined with not a lot of sleep, he was miserable. He ran a fever off and on until Sunday morning. Poor little guy, he just wasn't his usual self, which was unfortunate because his cousin Gracie was there too and was very active and playful. The few occasions that they did decide to play together, neither of them were wanting to share at all! Each wanted what the other had. Overall it was a pretty good weekend, we got to spend quality time with Justin's family and Jarrett got to go on his first tractor ride! We got home around 5pm on Sunday and Jarrett was out at 6:30pm and slept until 6am the next morning, he was tuckered out!

Oh yeah, Jarrett went to the doctor last Thursday and here are his stats:

Weight: 21lbs (75th percentile)

Height: 30 inches (95th percentile)

He is a healthy baby boy!

This is closest he got to the pool because it was too chilly!

1st tractor ride with Great Grandpa Cox. (He almost fell asleep on the ride)

One of his few smiles of the weekend

Jarrett and Gracie

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Joshua and Jarrett meet again

My friend from college, Lindsey Newton, and her family are up in Anderson visiting. Luckily, we were able to work out a time to get Joshua and Jarrett together to play. Joshua is 8 days older than Jarrett. They met for the first time when Jarrett was 10 days old, now it was time to meet again! Unfortunately, Jarrett was a little grumpy because he has two more teeth popping through and they are giving him fits, but I was able to snap a couple pictures.

We are so glad that we finally got to see Lindsey and Joshua! Thanks so much for coming over! Have a safe trip to Illinois and Arizona then back to Georgia!!!

A Weekend without my boys

On Friday, Justin, Jarrett, and Justin's parents all went up to visit Crystal and Cameron in Naperville, IL. I didn't go because I already had plans to go wedding dress shopping with my best friend, Ashlee. This was my first time away from Jarrett overnight, it was difficult at first, but I kept Will Friday night(since it was Aunt Kristy's bday), so he kept me pretty busy. They all had a great time over the weekend coming back with some patriotic clothes for Jarrett to wear at our Annual 4th of July family campout in Ohio!

So, what did I do all weekend, you ask?? Cleaned like a mad woman! But there was definitely time for some fun too. Like I said, I went dress shopping with Ash. It was so much fun because Ash and I don't get to spend too much time together anymore. We had a great day shopping for a wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses with a much needed stop at TJ Maxx! I spent Saturday night over at Kristy and Joe's because Kassidy, Krystin and JJ just got back from church camp and I missed them terribly! Lewis, Taylor and I ended up staying the night there too! Kristy and I redecorated her dining room, hung some pictures then ended the night playing cards with Joe. Sunday of course, was set aside for church and Ash and I went to a friend from high school's baby shower, which was fun because all of our high school friends were there that we hadn't seen in a while. Finally, Sunday evening....MY BOYS CAME HOME!