Saturday, July 17, 2010

Happy birthday to Madelyn

Madelyn is one of Andrew's BFFs. She turned two yesterday!
Denise (on the left) is one of my bffs and the greatest thing about that is that we are next door neighbors. Literally our doors are two feet away from each other. Yesterday was Madelyn's birthday.

Andrew and I made her a polka dot cake and flag banner in her birthday colors.


Happy birthday Madelyn!

Monday, July 12, 2010

Baby Sprinkle

Since my due date is getting close (5 days!), my cute workout friends had a baby "sprinkle" for me. They are so sweet and fun to hang out with. Here are some pics.



So fun! I am still trying to get out and work out or walk every morning as much as possible, but what I realized is really the most helpful is that I do yoga every night. I don't think I'd be able to sleep without it!

Happy Birthday Mike!


Happy birthday Mike! What could be better than having your birthday on 7-11?




Thanks to all of our awesome friends who came over to celebrate Mike's birthday.

To Mike from Erin: I love you darling so much. Thanks for being such a great fabulous and wonderful husband.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A short trip to KL


Here are some pics Mike took on his recent trip to Kuala Lumpur.

His meetings were at the Hilton KL. One of his daily activities after work was hitting up the water slide with a few of his coworkers.


Here is the view from his room.




On Saturday he went to the Batu Caves--a Hindu sacred place with lots of shrines. To get there you have to climb up 272 stairs.





Mike: "Goodbye KL, see you soon."

Visit to Baltimore

Here are some fun pics from Eric and Courtney's trip to Baltimore.


Andrew and Eric are buddies. There is no other way to explain it. Ever since he was a month old, he would stare at Eric's face for hours.

Andrew and Courtney also are buddies. Their relationship grew even stronger when she let him help bathe Maggie (which shows how patient Courtney really is).


This was our first time meeting Maggie. She is such an awesome dog--well behaved and so well trained (Good job Courtney! I would say good job to Eric too, except he has been working 100 hour weeks lately, so I figure Courtney must be doing most of the heavy lifting).


One afternoon we met Mike for lunch in Fell's Point. We went to BOP (Brick Oven Pizza)--interesting restaurant name since "bop" is also the word Andrew uses for grapes and kiss (and about five other words). Please note how Andrew is actually turning toward the camera in the photo which is pretty remarkable.


In the rest of the pictures Andrew was doing this (below).

Check out our handsome high-rollers below. I think the brain power represented in this picture could light the city of Baltimore for a month.


After BOP (not the grapes or kiss kind of bop) we made the pilgrimage to Pitango. Mike was so excited for me to try the Cardamom gelato, and was quite disappointed when I declared that the dark chocolate was still my favorite.


One of my favorite Fell's Point landmarks (although we've never eaten here):



When the weekend rolled around we headed to Mt. Vernon. We have a season pass (though this was only the second time we've gone).

We spent most of the time searching for the animals to show Andrew and we finally found them around the side by the gardens. We got to watch the sheep being sheared. I think we took more pics of Mt. Vernon but they must be on E&C's camera.

Thanks for visiting E&C!

Fun shower for Abby


We had a fun shower for Abby last month (I am just now finally posting the pictures). Abby actually is a month ahead of me preggers and as of last week she just had her baby. It is her second boy!

Abby's first shower when she was preggers with Jackson was such a bummer (we didn't know her then) so we got together to have a real baby shower for her with all the dumb and silly baby shower games (including the smell the candy bar smooshed in the diaper game--her request).

Congrats Abby!

Monday, June 14, 2010

More on Andrew & the Szmurlo's visit





So I was going to do a post on the Szmurlo's visit but I just checked their blog and Courtney has done the most wonderful job covering the visit on several (4 or 5) posts! She has all these pics and videos of Andrew and Maggie and it is pure heaven to read. It makes me feel like I should do posts in such great detail! Check it out http://theszmurlos.blogspot.com/


5K


This weekend I am proud to report that I did a 5k. I'm on the left in the pink. I was worried I wouldn't make it being 8 months pregnant but I did. I walked as fast as I could--which wasn't very fast--and at the very end I ran with Darcy to the finish line. Mike missed all the festivities since he was in Asia but he is back now and I will post pics soon.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

KL


Mike is in KL this week. For those of you who have no idea what KL means (like me), KL is short for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

KL is where his company's Asia HQ is located. When we were skyping today I asked him what it was like, and he says the weather is a lot like Hawaii. He promised to take pictures.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Andrew at 18 months


Lucky for us, Eric and Courtney came out to visit! We were so darn excited because we not only have not seen our Chicago friends for almost a whole year, but also because we hadn't yet seen their new dog, Maggie. I will post more pictures of our adventures together once I get all the pics downloaded. In the mean time, here are some pics Eric and Courtney snagged of Andrew throughout the week.