Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to my wonderful dad. Thank you for being a wonderful dad for Jenni and me and a wonderful grandfather for the littles ones! Wish I could spend the day with you!

Prom in 2000

Lucas having a great time with his Opa

My baby sis with our dad

Cuddling Lucas a few years back

And a Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband and the best dad our kids could wish for. Thanks for all you do! We love you!

Day#1 of being a father of two

All smiles

Getting used to pink (and bows)

This little boy LOVES his Daddy!

Cuddles!

Dad in charge of bath time 

My favorite family!

And of course there's one more special father and grandfather in our lives! Paul, thanks for being such a wonderful presence in our lives! 

Birdy Quotes

Walking by Victoria Secrets:
L: Mommy! It's a pretty store for you.

More Pool Time

It's definitely summer. We are spending as much time as we can by the pool and Lucas has started swim class. He's our fish and loves it. He even got to spend some pool time with fellow fish aunt Jenni while Haley just loves napping outside.

Newborn Photo Session

A bit delayed but I'm finally getting a chance to upload some of the pictures from Haley's newborn photo session. We wanted to get more pictures of both the kiddos but sadly the kids ran out of patience  

Luckily we get our own camera out quite often to catch both of our peanuts in action. Professional photos were a first time experience for us and we're still trying to figure out if they're our style but we obviously think our little ones hang the moon so how could we not love pictures of them. Here are some of my favorites:

 (Disclaimer -- Matt does not approve of hats and flowers in baby girl's hair... I still think they're cute)

 

Haley - 2 Months

Our little girl is two months old today! Time sure does fly. I am most excited that she got her two month immunizations today (see bandaids in the last picture) and is all set to be out in the world with a little less of a fearful mommy.

At her 2 month check-up, Haley weighed in at 9# 5oz (10%ile) and 23 inches (75%ile). She is just about to outgrow her newborn clothes and is starting to fit into 0-3 month clothes just a bit better. So she's still our little peanut. I do feed her though, promise, and I hear that she can chug a 4oz bottle like nobody's business.

At 2 months, she is smiling more and more, waking up more, cooing, flirting, and holding her head up better and better. I'm back to work but she is doing great staying home with Nana (who has so graciously agreed to come stay with us until my chief job winds down).

I did a quick impromptu 2 month photo shoot with Miss Hales today.

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a great three day weekend. By some sort of magic, Matt got all three days off and we got to spend three lazy days enjoying some quality family time. We spend most of our weekend by the pool which Lucas of course absolutely loved. He told us he wanted to live at the pool. We'll have to check into that.

Haley with Baby Peter enjoying some poolside lounging. Emma and Lucas were too busy for pictures. 

I did catch one far away video of Lucas. Can you find him? (Hint: See the slide)

The time we spent away from the pool we spent in our backyard. We had sprinkler time, sandbox time, picnic time. In short we lived outside all weekend and loved it!

Hanging out on our deck. Lucas reading while Matt and I try to work on the long overdue birth announcements for HK.

Chetna's Bachlorette

 I traveled to DC last weekend to celebrate my good friend Chetna's last days of singlehood with an amazing Bachlorette party. I missed my sweet new baby (and of course my big boy) but it was so great to get to spend time with some of my absolute favorite people.

First a brunch and lingerie shower on the roof:

Our beautiful bride-to-be with the Whitley

A beautiful day for a roof brunch

 Then a tour to the Virgina vineyards in 75 degrees and sunny weather. What a perfect day!

Whitley's Happy Muppet face...I took this one for Matt

My friend India made us all personalized decorated wine glasses which she painted by hand! I'm still impressed. My favorites were Whitley's muppet glass (above... don't have a bigger picture sadly... but I've now requested drinking glasses for the kids) and of course my own (see below). Mine was ninja themed. I got to be the mommy/doctor ninja. Yay! It's kind of hard to tell but I'm holding Lucas in one picture (on the right below) and Haley in the one where I'm jumping up doing the splits (yes I wish I could do that). You're amazing India!

Outside at the Piedmont Vineyard after our first tasting:

Amazingly we found some energy after a day of wine tasting and sun to take on the DC night life. An amazing dinner at Buca di Beppo followed by a night out with our bachlorette. 

Congratulations Chetna and thanks so everyone that welcomed us in DC! I miss you girls already! Glad we get to see each other in 6 short weeks at the wedding!

It was wonderful to come back home to my sweet family. These are the pictures I got while I was away. I soaked up all my cuddles when I got back!