Happy Birthday to Katelin

Hi Kateboard, the Boy wanted to wish you a happy 21st birthday! We love and miss you! Hope you had a fun day!

Pics from yesterday

Since I've been working such long hours at work, Courtney and Eric volunteered to watch Andrew last night. Pics included here.

Happy Mothers Day

Dear mom,

Since we are far away from you Chicago, we recorded some Mothers Day messages for you, our dear GrandMare and Cali Grandma Jillair...

To Grandma Marianne:



To Grandma Jillair:



WE love you. Thanks for being such wonderful mothers.

Love M&E

Happy 6-month Birthday to Andrew

We had Andrew's half-birthday party on Saturday.

Can you believe he's already 6 months old?

Thanks to Courtney for the beautiful cake.

I can't believe this was the first time she's done a fondant cake. Even Andrew wanted some.

Andrew also wants to say thanks to Jaime for his half-birthday cake (get it? half a cake). This was his first cake ever. So impressive.

The group.

The first feeding:

We waited for the party to feed Andrew his first real food--rice cereal. We had heard that the first time wouldn't be very successful (he would spit it out, or he wouldn't know how to swallow, etc.) but he loved it. He kept reaching his head out for more.

This is what happened when we stopped feeding him (I told you he liked it)...

Family picture.

Here are two of Andrew's favorite friends (Unkie Sid and Eric).

Lastly, a picture in parting.

Hockey Hangout

As the remainder of our school days are numbered, we are coming up with every excuse possible to hang out. This weekend we met up at Courtney & Eric's for some Canadian hockey.

We had to get some of Andrew in Courtney's hockey jersey.

Here are our beloved Canadians.


The "small human" (as Eric calls him) is right at home with Eric.

That is mostly because he plays with Andrew like this:

This is the "Eric stare," which usually means he is trying to communicate with Andrew through telepathy.

Here are some family shots.

And of course, here are the pottery girls, showing off our newly fired pieces.

And lastly, as always, a picture in parting.

Pottery Par-tay

For Heidi's baby shower we rocked a pottery party, courtesy of Courtney's fantastic planning. It was so much fun, I would do it again in a heartbeat. Heidi is so adorable and her baby will be even more so.

Simbo and I loved the dots, let's be honest.

Here we are with paint all over and Courtney somehow manages to look like a supermodel. I always wonder how Courtney does it!

After you paint your pot, you pick the pottery up a week later. Of course we had to have another party (with spouses this time) to see all the final products. New post to come.

New clothes

The boy is quickly outgrowing his current wardrobe, so we had to pick up some new PJ's. We took a quick vid for the fam...

Happy Easter

Sunday was Andrew's first Easter.

We had some school and neighbor friends over for Easter dinner. It was a fun way to celebrate Christ's resurrection. I wish we had gotten a pic of everyone together.

Courtney made amazing cupcakes.

Here are two of Andrew's favorite friends.

He was so happy hanging out with these guys.

I had to laugh that about half of all the pictures Eric took of Andrew were of him chewing something...see below. Can you tell what stage Andrew is in?

As always, a picture in parting...