Friends and Family

We had a busy, busy weekend.  Saturday morning we went to Transportation Day.  The post about that will include approximately 14,867 pictures so you need to give me another day or two to get everything uploaded.  After Transportation Day I had my ladies group over for afternoon tea.  We planned this day way back in November at Amy's going away party.  The main focus was for all of us to get together to skype with Amy.

 

The snacks were just an extra bonus.

We ended up using Lauren's iPad to FaceTime.  We sat outside to begin with, but the screen was a little hard to see.

 

It was really nice to have Amy right there with us.

Want to know something totally crazy?  Shireen had baby Dahlia on Elliott's 1st birthday.  What are the chances that two babies from our small little group would be born on the same day?  There are seven kids total and two share the same birthday.  It's amazing.



 

The birthday twins were not quite as impressed.

 

Oh geez mom.  This is really embarassing.

 

Elliott physically moved away from her at one point.

This is what I would look like if I had two babies exactly one year and two hours apart.  And if I was on heavy duty medication, because I would NOT be smiling if both these babies were mine. 

 

Elliott thinks it is really funny.

Spencer had been having some asthma symptoms all day and by that night we decided that a trip to Urgent Care was warranted.  We have a family goal to make no trips to the ER in 2013.  Urgent Care is not the ER though, and we actually went in order to try to avoid the ER.  They gave him a breathing treatment and a dose of oral steroids.

Michael's cousin Parm and her daughter Grace are in Arizona visiting Parm's parents (Michael's aunt and uncle) right now.  They live in Vermont, so I am glad the weather is cooperating and they are getting some sunshine.  It's supposed to be 80 degrees by the weekend, so they might get a little warmth in their bones before they return to the cold. 

 

We couldn't pass up an opportunity for cousin pictures.  Even though they are 3rd cousins, I think Spencer and Grace look a lot alike.  Their grandfathers are brothers so I think they both got their looks from that side of the family.

Grace was born about a month after we got married.  Parm couldn't make it to the wedding because it was so close to her due date. 

 

I cut Grace's nails when she was about 8 weeks old.  It was terrifying. 

 

Here are the cousins!

 

I think we should use one of these pictures as our family Christmas picture.  We won't say anything and just see how many people notice that Michael has a new wife and daughter. 

 

 

 

Spencer was totally into Grace being in pink and him being in blue.  He has such serious ideas about gender right now.  Pink is for girls and only girls.  I tell him all the time that real men wear pink.

I made BLTs for lunch and Paula Deen's banana pudding for dessert.  I am not a big bananas for dessert kind of person, but this stuff is goooooooooood.  Google it.  Make it.  Immediately.

 

The week of Valentine's Day I put a picture of our still remaining Christmas gingerbread house on facebook.  I asked if I should toss it or revamp it with pink hearts and frosting.  Parm said she wanted to see it when we visited.  She meant she wanted to see it with all new VDay decorations, but I just let it sit there for two more weeks until she could see it.

 

Then we tossed it about 5 minutes after they left.

Last week was so busy and fun and then the weekend was even busier and more fun.  This week we have plans to listen to crickets chirping and to watch paint peel off of some walls.  We seriously have nothing going on.  I didn't even mind our emergency trip to the doctor this morning (to the allergist at her office, not the ER.  Our goal is still a goal) because it gave us something to do today.