Myla's Birthday Party

Setting up the moonbounce was a lot of work. But it was so much fun!

 Andi & Marc with the birthday girl.

 Sisters!

 Grandpa and Gabby. They had lots of snuggle time together.

  Myla with her birthday cake! I can't believe she is two already!

  Brooklynn was really shy around Myla's other cousins. She warmed up as soon as we had cake, though.

 Gabby loves her Aunt Andi. She just kept laughing and laughing at her.

 Myla kept coming inside sweatier and sweatier...she LOVED her moonbounce.

We were so excited to get to be at your birthday party, Myla!

Finally Caught Up

So we've been pretty busy! I finally finished all my blog posts from our trip. There are so many that they take more than one page...so when you get to the bottom just click on the link called "older posts" and it will scroll to the next page. Keep doing that until you get to the beginning.

Drive to PA

We had to go back sometime. After Michigan we stopped in Toledo to see Diana and Jacob one more time. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures this time, we got in pretty late and pretty much just went to sleep. Then we were off to PA! Brooklynn did GREAT again, but sadly with about 3-4 hours left my AC went out AGAIN. (I had just gotten it fixed before we left.)

Brooke took two naps I think and played and was great again. A perfect angel. I was so glad she didn't cry and freak out. I think she likes road trips, finally.

We stopped at the Hess's house to see Julie and Owen! It was such a nice change from another rest area, especially so Brooke could run around and play for a little bit. She LOVES Owen, kept giving him lots of kisses. I'm going to have to watch out for her. It was great to see them, too, we don't see them that often. Thanks for having us!

Uncle Josh

Everyone loves Uncle Josh! :)

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day, honey! You are such a great father to Brooklynn. I am so blessed to have you in my life. Thanks for all the help you give me with her, I love how involved in her life you have been. I'm excited to see you become a father for the second time and I know it will be more challenges but also so much fun. I love you!

Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3 came out on my birthday. I really wanted to see it and we all went to see it on Saturday (technically the day after but that was fine.) It was so cute and I cried several times. I think I cried even more than I did at the first two. (Yeah, I cried at those, too.)

Special Cousin Time

More cousin bonding time! I love when Brooklynn gets to see her cousins. They are so cute when they play together. Whenever she sees pictures of her cousins she gets really excited and points and babbles their names. "Addy" is one that we can understand the most so far, probably because it's kinda close to "Daddy". Even though we try to see family as much as we can, it still is never long enough and we miss everybody. We can't wait to see you next time!

Grandma & Grandpa Bean's House!

Our next stop was in Olivet, MI to Grandma & Grandpa Bean's house! Everyone was there when we got there (which we planned so that everyone would find out at once that we're pregnant) and right away we started playing and catching up.

Addy can do all her letters and letter sounds now and here are most of them...(I didn't grab my camera for the beginning)

Saturday morning we had a yummy breakfast of homemade donuts that Adeline helped to make, and french toast and bacon. Mmmm.

What a good trip, it was just over too quickly!

Big Sister!

So we finally get to tell Josh's family that we're pregnant! We tossed around several ideas but finally decided to borrow Marisa's "I'm the Big Sister" shirt and have it on her when we got to Michigan. Getting her to take a good picture in the shirt and still read it was really tricky, but you get the idea.

It actually worked out really well, we had such a rainstorm that we got to pull right into the garage and go in that way, so everyone saw the shirt at once. Brooklynn was a little overwhelmed but she got over it. Everyone was really excited, especially me that I didn't have to keep it a secret anymore!

Drive to Michigan

We stopped in Fort Wayne to see my parents one more time but only stayed for a few hours. It was good to see them again and for Josh to get to see them. Then we drove up to Michigan. We drove through quite a rainstorm from Angola up to Olivet. (About an hour 15 minutes or so?) I took some video because it just kept getting worse. Josh and I agree that it's a little redundant, but also funny as a sequence so I had to post all of them.

Brooklynn & Mommy

I got lots of snuggle time with Brooklynn while we were gone. She slept in my bed every night and it was so fun. I love you, Baby Girl!