Pics from a while ago

These were taken over thanksgiving. I don't think I ever shared them since they're from Steve's phone so here they are.

weekend in Chicago

This past weekend I got to visit 4 of my close friends in Chicago. Here we are celebrating Natalie's baby girl, due the end of March. (I stole the pic from Holly's blog)

It was a wonderful weekend celebrating an upcoming baby and another upcoming wedding. I had so much fun seeing them all again, and reconnecting with them. Can't wait to seeing them all again in June for the wedding :)

trip to cali

Pictures from the last month or so... in no particular order

Entertaining himself with my phone at the dock

Wen to the greenville airport, took a nap on the floor, found out our flight was canceled so we went back to my parents house and tried again the next morning at 3:45am :(

Ethan LOVED heading down to the water while we were at my parents house for Thanksgiving

Aunt Laura and Saige came over with a gingerbread house! The kids actually really liked doing it! It didn't hurt that Ethan LOVES candy :)

At the Mpls airport looking at all the planes on Thanksgiving day. Getting ready to head to B's house!

Quality time with Uncle Joe and Elmo

More gingerbread house

Down at the water with daddy

part 2

more pics from the south

he had to blow up the floaties just like mama

snacktime on the boat

then he promptly fell asleep

and stayed that way for about an hour :)

fun in the sun

The boys are both sleeping soundly and I'm about to head out to pick up our bags at the airport. The good news is that we arrived about 4 hrs earlier than we would have arrived by getting on an earlier flight home - what a huge blessing! Our bags didn't make the connection but that is a small price to pay for an early bedtime for my tired guys. We had a great trip to visit my family, and my brother Joe was even able to get off work to be there too. I might just have to register Ethan for swimming classes soon because he absolutely loved the water. No fear hopping off the side to mama as you can see in the last pic. He was blowing bubbles in the water and splashing away. He wouldn't leave the poolside on Sunday afternoon, and I was starting to worry that he hadn't eaten anything since breakfast so around 3pm grandma brought some lunch to the pool and he ate without having to get out :) What a great trip!

Ethan started a game over Christmas break

Christmas visit to South Carolina

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

From The Mellemas