The week leading up to our vacation

Well, the week leading up to our vacation was a VERY busy one! We said goodbye to some dear friends, I babysat a girl, who is exactly 7 1/2 mos in between my boys for 4 days, and we went to San Antonio for the weekend, partly to hit up my sister's baby shower, and partly cuz we were flying out of there!!!
Wow, as I look back at these pics, I see why people thought that Ben grew so much while we were gone. He has no hair in these pics and he came back with lots of hair!!! :)

Emma was so great with Ben, and he loved her. Not really sure why his shirt is half hanging off him in these pics. I must have been changing him!! He is way too young to already be trying to pull the "I'm too sexy for my shirt nonsense!!"


She was so patient with him



He even grabbed her hair and she didn't get upset.

Kisses


John got along for the most part with Emma (a rare thing for an almost 2 year old). I guess he was fascinated by her, and she's pretty easy going so it's not too hard! He actually missed her when she was gone. He would walk through the house calling her name.


Playing peek-a-boo with the bouncer

Adorable smiles for the camera

Sharing

Helping the Berge's move. One of the families who helped start the small group left us the first week of June. Our group got together to help them load the truck and to pray over their journey. It was a bittersweet time.
Ashley and Evie supervising
John directing traffic

loading the truck

Even the kiddos helped


We might have had too many people and not enough to do!!! :)


Ice cream, when all else fails to keep kiddos entertained give them ice cream!

Baby Shower
One of Sarah's dear friend and close friend of the family, Jenn, threw Sarah a baby shower. It was so good to be able to go to one of her showers, and my mom even got to come. Jenn and Sarah were pregnant at the same time, both with boys and they ended up having their boys within a week of each other. The boys (Chris, Dave, and T) got the experience of watching 3 kiddos while we were away as Laura's girls stayed back at Dave & Sarah's house. Ben came with us, as he refused to go down for a nap before we left. Thankfully everyone had just started waking up when we returned (and we stayed after and talked for a while!) and so the boys weren't too overwhelmed.

Sarah opening a gift, with Jenny & Laura looking on

Some of the presents and the back of the room

Some of the mom's in the room looking on.

Some more moms and soon to be mommy's. Charis on the left was due two weeks after the shower, and was itty bitty.

Some of the cuteness Sarah got!




We had a really good time hanging out with family and friends and helping Sarah & Dave get their house ready for their baby!!