Erin and Kevin: Married!

On June 2nd we made a little trip to McDonough, Ga for a wedding. 

Our friends Erin and Kevin got married and it was beautiful! 

Kyle and I actually had our first date with them as a double-date sorta thing.

So Erin and Kevin have always been one of my favorite couples. 

Their wedding was such a blast and it was obvious how genuinely happy and excited they were to be committing themselves to each other. 

Love them!

All of the details were so perfect.

First kiss.

My date :)

Congratulations Erin and Kevin! 

We love you guys and wish you all the happiness in the world!

Visitors from Utah

Over the holidays, my friend Johanna + her family came into town from Utah to visit some family here in Richmond Hill.  I went to high school with her husband Andrew and she and I swam together in middle school. Thanks to technology, we've reconnected over the last year or so, mostly through our blogs. Her blog is mainly about her family's life in Utah and her son Seeley who was born just two weeks before Ezra.  I've seen so many pictures of Seeley since he was born and I was thrilled to finally meet him in person.  I always looked up to Johanna as a friend who was unique, independent, and years ahead of the rest of my peers.  She's still that same person today and it was an absolute joy seeing her and Andrew again! We met up at the park kind of spontaneously one day to let the babies play.  Ezra and Seeley were SOOOO much alike.  Not only are they at the same stage in development, but they also look similar.  Fair skin, blue eyes, hardly any hair.  They were even dressed the same--flannel shirts, khaki pants, and brown shoes. Weird!

heading out the door to pick up Cambria from Mimi's, then off to the park

investigating one another

slide action

digging for something really awesome to put in their mouths

two bald little boys, they could be twins in this picture!

the whole gang

When we have play dates the kids are always Cambria's age so it was really fun having an Ezra play date. The weather was cool and beautiful and I think the few hours we spent there wore all the kids out. We had such a great time with the Hillens.  Can't wait until they visit again!{or maybe when we visit Utah one day} :)

San Antonio Wedding

This weekend Kyle and I traveled to San Antonio, Texas for the wedding of our friends Kirsten and Michael.  Kirsten was my college roommate and Michael was Kyle's college roommate.  And WE were the ones to set them up!! Wooo for matchmaking! We had Friday afternoon and most of the day on Saturday to hangout and explore the city and then the wedding took place on Saturday evening.  Everything was beautiful and we were so happy to be there for Kirsten and Michael on their special day.  Plus I got to see my other two besties from high school and we had ourselves a mini reunion.  We were kid-less because our lovely mothers and sisters watched our children for us back home in Georgia so we really had a blast the entire weekend.

Right after we landed in Texas, in a taxi.

Our balcony view of the River Walk from our hotel room.

Being creepers before we left to meet up with everyone.

The girls, minus the bride.

Love them so much!

Ashley and I making fools of ourselves singing karaoke.

The welcome bag from Kirsten and Michael.  Such a nice touch!

We walked through The Alamo on Saturday afternoon.

Loved those trees.

Remembering the Alamo...haha.

Us girls all fancy and dressed up for the wedding!

I was excited about my dress! :)

Waiting for the ceremony to begin.

My handsome Kyle and Jason.

Here comes the bride!!

First kiss.

We got fun lips, mustaches, and glasses to play with!

First dance.

We had more and more fun with these as the night went on... :)

Cutting the cake.

Kyle liked this grooms cake a lot.

Finally one of all the girls!

We're all taken now.

Us with the new married couple.

I just wanted to include this to give an idea of how we felt after this exciting/exhausting weekend.  :D It was so worth it though!!!

Although hard, it really is nice leaving the kids for a while to remember how fun things can be without them.  Kirsten and Michael will both be living in Florida now so we'll be seeing them more often! Yay!

Congratulations Kirsten and Michael!!!!

We love you guys!

A weekend visit

Life has been happening around here so I haven't been able to blog as much as I have wanted, but I'm going to try and start finding more time for it.  One of the main reasons I have this blog is to remember the things in our life that I know we'll all forget in 10 years.  I'm not going to remember anything if I don't post more often though so I'm gonna try and get on that this week...

Anyway, two weekends ago we had a lovely visit from one of my friends and her two children.  Alex lived in Germany the same time my family did and was actually my older sister Ashley's friend.  Over the last year and a half or so we have reconnected through Facebook.  We have similar parenting styles and interests and I've talked with her several times about different baby related stuff.  Her husband was at OCS in Columbus, GA and when she was planning her trip down this way for his graduation she brought up the idea of a visit.  Of course we were so excited to have them!!  I'm always looking for opportunities for the kids to socialize and I knew it would be fun seeing Alex again.  Her daughter and son are 2 and 1, they're a year and one week apart...and I thought 18 months was close. :)  So there were four kids 2 and under in our house! It was as crazy as that sounds, but I think both families are used to craziness so it was all good.

Jovi loves books just like Cambria.  There was lots of reading going on the whole weekend :)

The girls sharing a snack together.

 Jovi is 6 months older than Cambria and Bodie is 6 months younger.  They all got along so well and it was adorable watching them play and interact.  Soon after they arrived I realized Jovi is a little 2 year old genius!! Truly, she is a gifted child.  She knows how to count, the alphabet, letter sounds, colors, shapes, and so much more.  I even listened to her trying to sound out words in a book she was reading.  If you aren't familiar with the early childhood education field, that's pretty amazing.  Both her and Bodie were so cute and we all loved having them at our house! 

The boys.  We realized that these two are almost the same age difference as Jovi and Bodie.  I can't imagine!!!

Feeding the ducks in our backyard.

Playing in Cambria's room.

This picture pretty much depicts what was happening the entire weekend.
Ezra 4 weeks, Bodie 12 months, Cambria 19 months, Jovi 24 months. 

I hope we will be able to meet up one day again in the future.  Who knows where the military will take their family?!?  Maybe Kyle and I will have an excuse to visit them in some awesome location someday.  Hopefully ;)