family = love

we are so blessed to have lola, uncle paul, and auntie taya visiting with us this week. laura has been an absolute angel. she has been loving all the snuggle time with her canadian rellies. no crying for mommy - just a content little baby. i love it!

laura was baptized at our lady of la salette catholic church yesterday morning. she was perfect the whole time. father reyes took her around to the congregation where the members laid hands on her to bless her and she just took it all in - not even a whimper. later, when she was being formally baptized, she didn't take her eyes off father reyes. she just watched him as he talked to her and walked around. she was absolutely perfect. we got some lovely pictures (click here) of all of the family.

claire has been awesome as well. lots of quality time with her lola, uncle paul and auntie taya, too! she played basketball with uncle paul yesterday and went to the pool with auntie taya. i think uncle paul and daddy are going to take her to learn how to ice skate this week, too. well, at least try. today they are all off to the fernbank museum. laura and i are staying behind so she can sleep and i can get some work done.

since it was mark's birthday week, we have been socializing a lot. friday night we had dinner with dear friends tommy and laura and then saturday night was a cook out with the perdues and the estes. it was even more fun as both the perdues and estes had their extended families with them. we were hanging out in our newly landscaped backyard and played cornhole (click here to learn more). a total blast. then last night, we had an improptu hang out session at the perdues with a short 2 on 2 -ball game with mark, paul, taya and me. it was fun, but difficult in flip flops. :)

of course, taya and i have been in the hot tub every night doing some sister-bonding. one night we were in there for about 2 hours!

all in all, we love having our extended family around to share in the joy of our girls. we will continue to post pictures of the visit, so check back.

on friday we head to dallas for michael and meg's wedding (kim's brother).