A new forever family...

On Saturday, I was lucky enough to meet this friend
and this friend
at this place
to see this little girl
become part of this family forever.
Loved being there! I'll miss you Jen... are you SURE you have to move out of state this weekend??? I love these girls...
From our adventure at Cabela's. Thanks for the pics, Jen!

Matching...

I'm not usually a fan of dressing your kids in matching clothes... but with Sam's insistence, I couldn't resist. And then I couldn't resist taking pics. How stinkin' cute are these boys???

"The New Farrah Fawcett" or "We Miss You Bopie"

Soph- we miss you. From your 90's rock band groupie hair...


...to the way your hair FLIES as you run... (this pic TOTALLY cracks me up)..to your different funny faces and the way you make your parents crazy sometimes...




...to your zest for life - and FOOD (I still can't believe how you scarfed down thai food!)...
... and your fun little personality. Come back soon! Sam misses his favorite buddy!

Brothers

"Mom, can I hold baby Zack?"Since Sam has only acknowledged Zack's existence about once a day (at my prodding) for the past 3 months of Z's life, my answer was YES!


To see what else we've been up to, check out Lisa's blog. I love Ft Collins. :)
Welcome to the world baby Travis.

Bear Lake

Whew! Thanks for all the comments, loyal readers. :)

We had a blast with the Romneys at Bear Lake the few days before the 4th. What fun! I had never been there before, and it's beautiful. Our condo had a particularly lovely view... and thanks to Zack waking up to nurse at 5:20am, I was able to take this shot of the sunrise from the deck off the living room.



Slide.com worked so well last time, I'll use it again. Enjoy! (and of course... you are WELCOME to comment again... ha ha)

CA trip

We had a wonderful time in CA for my grandmother's funeral. It was a quick and last-minute trip (and yes! I survived traveling with 2 on an airplane for the first time - thanks to my mother-in-law for taking me to the airport and getting a gate pass to see me through security and to my mom for meeting me on the other side!!!), but it was fun to see everyone and good to feel closure from the funeral. I'm so glad we were able to go to Dallas in March to see my grandma one last time. Anyway - lots of pics!

This might well be my most labor-intensive post, so PLEASE leave me a comment or else I might never post again. :)

Library Books

Sam loves the library. One of his favorite activities is going through all the books from our most recent trek to the library and "reading" them one by one in his room.



LOTS more to post, so stay tuned! Just sorting through all my pics!

Grandma Beth

My fabulous grandmother passed away on Thursday. I can't say it any better than my mom or my sister. Suffice it to say that Grandma was the most generous, kind, compassionate, humble, most wonderful woman in the world. I loved her delicious spread of food all the time (egg salad, desserts of all varieties, lots of butter on everything...), her cute ways of showing how much she loves me (tucking a couple 20 dollar bills in my pocket each time I saw her while I was in college or mailing me random packages as surprises with knit slippers, jelly beans, etc), and how she always thought of others first. I will miss her lots.

I love you Grandma!

My favorite recent pic of Gma. Melissa takes after Grandma quite a bit - can't you tell??? From her fabulous coloring (that none of the rest of us inherited!) to cheekbones, smile, etc...

Out to dinner with Aunt Sandi and Uncle Phil and co...

With Sam.

My New Favorite Zack Pics

YELLOW BACKHOE LOADER

Yes. I know all the names of construction vehicles now. And we had a yellow backhoe loader in our front yard for about 2 hours this morning thanks to our water main being repaired. Sam LOVED it.

Here's where he was most of the day.

Here's how he celebrated.