i am a blogging machine these days.
may 10th 2012 sweet baby kevin was born.
his life was very short but his impact on our family was not.
we are so grateful for him and wanted to celebrate that boy on what would have been his first birthday. since all of us are so spread out we decided to have a pizza and ice cream party wherever we were in the world. mine was kind of sad - i had been on a bus for 7 hours (i thought it would only be 4) so i didn't get to brooklyn until pretty late. we found a dominos open and a random ice cream shop and decided that was as good as it was going to get. i was glad we were able to make it happen and i'm glad grace (and not pictured dave and sleeping alta) could join. happy birthday baby kev!
those friends are moving next month to california so a friendship weekend was a must.
saturday morning we woke up and went to the brooklyn botanical gardens and it was BEAUTIFUL. it had been raining all night so everything looked and smelled so good.
we missed the blossoms at their peak but it was still real pretty
(i guess now that my friends are all having babies we will have to
figure out how to pose in pictures in a way that doesn't make us look like lesbians)
everything happening behind grace was UNREAL. these pictures don't do it justice.
this tree house was made entirely from trees that were felled by hurricane sandy and irene. it's nice when creative people can make something nice out of something sad.
no one really knows why but alta was hating her life most of the weekend and looked like this more times than not haha
match teams
we went to a nice mexican place for lunch and then as soon as we got home it started to rain again (three cheers for great timing!)
the rest of saturday was spent napping, talking, youtubing, and enjoying a nice walk around their brooklyn neighborhood.
sunday was fun because i got to see these old provo friends! they were in our ward when we lived in the yellow house back when they were just dating. weird that they are coming up on their 5 year anniversary..how was it that long ago?!?! is the question i ask myself.
sunday afternoon was full of forced self-timed pics, dave showing us the panoramic feature on our phones, me completely ignoring all of his instructions and making the most terrible ones, a gangnam style mini dance party for angry alta, a nice dinner by dave, and some park time with my gals.
and then just like that my weekend in brooklyn was over. it was so nice to be with them and i will really miss having them as my east coast friends! grace is definitely a big reason why i even moved to boston so i will always be grateful to her for that.
(and also - when i said my weekend in brooklyn was over i really meant to say that i then got on a bus and talked to two german guys, one guy from boston, and a 17 year old for the next five hours about being a mormon. i was ready to finally have my international mary-kate and ashley moment and have a summer fling with one of the german guys (he is here to do research for three months) because i thought he was so nice looking and kind and respectful but half way through the bus ride i realized he was married and it blew everything. but yet, explained why he was so kind and respectful haha. k bye.)
3 comments:
here are my thoughts:
-i love the baby kev celebration. we always have rootbeer floats on paul's dad's birthday and all his siblings do it and it's nice and unifying.
-grace's legs are the tiniest and i'm digging her dark gray/yellow combo. (hi grace!)
-prettiest garden! i need to get to brooklyn stat.
-first a date w/ work friend and now the two mom picture.... hmmm....
;)
-i'm glad you had nice timing after mexican place lunch and got indoors because my experience that day was exactly the opposite. literally the moment we were getting stuff out of our trunk to walk to the ferry it started to the rain. someone named paul didn't believe that we should get back in the car and wait it out for a sec so guess who walked in that 10 minute torrential downpour and was wet for the rest of the day?
(me.)
-i'll stop being sad we didn't get to see each other even though we were so close and yet so far because it looks like you had a great weekend with grace and fam! too bad they are leaving our blessed east coast, i never even saw the lady. (hi grace again!)
that really looks like such a magical weekend! on topic of nate and annelisa (?) being married for 5 years..i told tanner about a fear of spiders in my basement that developed in the summer of 2007 just yesterday and he said "and 6 years later it's still haunting you?" and i couldn't believe that it's been 6 years. weird.
you look so great and i wish i could have joined in on this gf weekend! and i really really loved your last note about your dream of summer lovin'. i'll send a dream boat your way asap.
i bet we'd come to the east coast sooner if you'd update us on the sort of things we could be doing over there.
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