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A quick continuation of our trip to Tulsa to celebrate Miss Grace’s 1st Birthday…
Over on Grace’s mom’s blog I enjoyed seeing pictures of G + O so I thought I’d share some of my own of O + G. There’s nothing like a morning photo shoot in footed pajamas…
Grace trying to kiss Owen…
Owen showing off his standing and almost crawling skills to Auntie Abby…
The always beautiful Grace…
We love our friends!
-Shannon
We were recently invited to a birthday celebration! Grace was turning one and we were needed to help with the celebrating. :) Grace’s parents, Spencer & Abby, are some of our best friends so we made the trip to Tulsa to share in the big day.
Abby put together wonderful decorations with the theme of a circus…
Here’s the birthday girl and her beautiful Momma…
After enjoying the food it was time to open presents!
We brought this little shopping cart and Grace loved pushing it around…
Finally it was time for cake!
We had a great time celebrating with Grace and her friends. Happy 1st Birthday Grace!
-Shannon
On Labor Day we had some friends over for dinner. Kevin is a professor at CMU and Jennifer is a stay at home mom like me. So we all have lots in common. They have two daughters…Kathleen is almost 3 and Lucy is about a month younger than Owen. It’s great to have a mom’s perspective who has been through this and who is going through it with me at the same time. With all these kids in the house I couldn’t help but snap a few pictures.
First Owen and Lucy had to get acquainted again…and I just love that Lucy is a big baby like Owen! They are so cute together!
Once Owen got comfortable with Lucy, he tried to put the moves on her.
And of course Kathleen had to get in on the action.
And she was very excited to be at Owen’s house! She asked her parents if there would be a bounce house and horses. Unfortunately we disappointed her with not having those things, but we did have Owen and she seemed good with that. :)
Later in the evening we got the little ones together again and they loved checking each other out. And pardon the horrible pictures but I was trying to take them while holding Lucy and cracking up at them all at once!
And Lucy’s expression here is just too funny! She was so excited to see Owen!
We had a great evening with some new friends and hopefully Owen, Lucy and Kathleen can have more playdates in the future.
-Shannon
Welcome to the 5th and final installment from our Vancouver Girls Reunion! I had a bit of a forced break due to some family stuff that I’ll fill you in on soon. But for the last post on the visit from my friends I thought it was only fitting to share from our photoshoot together. We had a wonderful photographer (Lucas) and a bossy assistant (me) but everything turned out wonderful and we got some great shots!
The whole photoshoot idea really came from Grace when she found a website where she could design some t-shirts for us. So she took care of it all and we walked away with matching shirts! And really it isn’t a reunion without matching shirts. :)
So the photoshoot began on the front steps…
Fake laughing…
Turns into real laughing…
Which morphs into high fives!
And back to the real photoshoot…
Next we moved down to the brick wall by the shop…
And who doesn’t stand around a casually talk during a photoshoot…
Or climb the walls!
And we had to show off the back of our shirts which had all our names on it…
Had a get a laying on the grass pose…
And finally back to the porch with the babies…
I’m so glad we took these pictures and that Lucas was up for it. :)
It still feels surreal that these friends were actually in our house but I’m so glad they were. Hopefully we will have more reunions in the future and who knows what friends will make it there. But for this time I’m so glad Katie B., Baby Evelyn, Grace, Jess & Katie C. were able to make it to Boonville.
-Shannon
Surely you didn’t think I’d make it through my Vancouver Girls Reunion series without a post about babies?!?! I mean there were two in my house! It was too much to resist. :)
When we began planning this girly getaway we decided to do it without husbands or kids. However Katie and I are still nursing our little ones so everyone decided it was ok if ours tagged along…plus it would’ve been hard to ignore Owen for 4 days while they were here in our home. :)
So along came Evelyn! She is 5 weeks younger than Owen and she is Owen’s Scottish girlfriend. Well she isn’t really Scottish, she is American but she was born in Scotland. So any way you slice it she’s unique in Owen’s world. The two of them loved getting to know each other…
I picture Owen saying, “Whoa! She’s tall!” And it’s true…Evelyn is tall and skinny (like her parents) and Owen is average and plump (like his parents). :)
They enjoyed tummy time together…
They each enjoyed more cuddles than a baby knows what to do with…
And they loved their matching Bumbos! If you think two babies in Bumbos are cute then put them in their jammies and they’re even cuter!
Miss Evelyn…she had never been in a Bumbo and she loved to lean…
Mister Owen…a.k.a. Baby Zoolander
I was sad I couldn’t see all of my friend’s children but I know we were all glad to have the two smallest ones around.
-Shannon
When the girls were here I didn’t feel a need to plan too many things because I knew we’d be content to just sit around and talk. However, there were a few things we ventured out of the house for and it was a nice mix of relaxing and doing.
Their first full day in Boonville we took a nice walk around town. Here are Grace, Jess, Katie C., and Katie B. all ready to go…
We walked to the edge of the river and tried to take group shot. We captured the group but not the river.
We came across these ginormous flowers and couldn’t pass them by.
Later that day we headed up to Fayette to visit Lucas at CMU. Here he is trying to get Katie and Jess to come to school there. :)
On Saturday we headed to The 63 Diner for lunch. Jess had been here as a child with her grandma.
It was nice to have a few times of going out and about. And I loved showing these girls our new hometown and where Lucas works. It’s so surreal to have had them in this place with us.
-Shannon
Several months ago my friend Jess sent an e-mail saying how wonderful it would be if friends from our Vancouver days could get together. We all thought it sounded wonderful but we all live in the real world and it probably wouldn’t happen with kids, money and time standing in the way. But then we started really thinking about it and we figured a way to make it work. What if everyone traveled to Boonville and then stayed at the Endicott B&B for free. The only real cost would be travel for all the other girls and I would supply the food and drink. When we came up with this plan we put it in motion. Several months and hundreds of e-mails later, they were here!
I spent the week cleaning and scrubbing while Lucas finished up some last minute projects. There’s nothing like having friends visit to accomplish projects. One of my last tasks was to buy all the food and drink and I think I did a sufficient job seeing as there was no more room in the fridge or pantry…
We were a little low on drinks and all we had to choose from was water, milk, oj, coke, grape koolaid, pink lemonade, 6 different kinds of beer, margaritas, mojitos, rum & coke, wine and, of course, sweet tea! And the food was the same…we had SO much. Each meal I would post what it was on our handy chalkboard in the kitchen…
While I was busy preparing, the girls were busy traveling to me. Katie B. flew from Oregon, Grace flew from Idaho, Katie C. flew from Vancouver and Jess drove from Kansas and picked everyone up at the airport. Some shots from the journey to Boonville…Jess, Katie B. and Evelyn (Katie’s daughter and Owen’s playmate)
And add in Grace…
Once they finally arrived it was time for the reuniting to begin. Owen & Evelyn meeting each other…
Katie C. even brought them gifts from Canada…
Katie C., Jess & Grace on our first night together…
We had a lot more fun in store for us in the days ahead…
-Shannon
When Spencer & Abby were here we tried to take pictures with the babies. Grace & Owen were only so cooperative but it was still so much fun taking pictures of the two of them. And I can’t help but give you a play by play of what was going on…
Things start off nicely…Owen is showing off his sitting by himself skills…
But not for long as Abby has to add some support…
Grace is trying really hard to smile nice for the camera while Owen is looking at Abby thinking, “Get your hands off of me!”…
Owen has found a comfortable spot and Grace is about to dart away…
Again Owen is mugging it up for the camera and Grace can’t get out of there fast enough…
Baby overboard!!! Grace moves, Owen almost falls. Nothing like seeing fear in your child’s eyes. :)
And we’re back up but Owen is a little startled…
Owen tries to move in to grab Grace’s hand…
…and SUCCESS!!! They hold hands and Owen is loving it!
And end scene.
-Shannon
With the 4th of July visit of Spencer & Abby we had to get a photo shoot with Grace in her patriotic outfit. And no place better than on the front porch…
And look at those bloomers…
-Shannon
When Spencer & Abby came up to visit we were so excited to see them! But we were also excited to meet their daughter, Grace! She is almost 8 months old and we’ve gone all this time without seeing her. (Spencer & Abby live in Tulsa, OK so obviously seeing them hasn’t really been possible.) But now they were here and what did we do? Take pictures of the babies, of course!
Even though Grace is older…taller, crawling, pulling herself up, eating food, etc…Owen still gave her a run for her money in the weight category. Owen weighs as much or a little more than Grace and we tried to do a side-by-side comparison…
Grace was done with laying on her back since she is mobile and hostile. So I tried to just go with it…
While she was off playing around I decided to grab some shots of my docile (by comparison) 4 1/2 month old…
Enter the boppy and a series of photos the just crack me up to see the comparison of Owen and Grace…
And end photo shoot.
Although I have to say there are times when I take a picture of Owen and can’t help but put a caption with it. In this series, I picture Owen just laying there having a conversation with himself in his head. And in this shot…
I picture him saying, “Well now that I think about it, I see what you mean.”
It cracks me up but I don’t know if it will really translate to anyone else. :)
-Shannon
