memorial day weekend

What a great weekend! Our fun started on Friday night as we started hitting graduations (it was graduation party weekend BIG TIME!) On Saturday, Mark and Addelyn headed to Cherokee for Ty's birthday party. They had a great time and got to meet a lot of Nicole's family. I headed to lots of graduations with our friends Tim and Shelby. I ate WAY TOO MUCH food but it was a great, full day.

This weekend we watched the bad weather hit VERY close to home...I was a psycho news watcher. We know people affected and are praying a lot for them. It hit us this weekend as sometimes we get so caught up in the little things- making sure the lawn is mowed, the house is clean, etc...it was a wake up call, a realization of what is really important. Because we could wake up tomorrow and have NONE of it. It is hard to comprehend the emotions, the feelings, the heartache of the people affected by the tornados. We are praying for them so much.

For Memorial Day, we hung out with our friends the Bartletts and the Hansens for a grillout. Austin and Addelyn played together (kind of, not really...okay, they sat on the floor together) while Boaz took a nap. They never wanted to smile at the same time of course! :)

Addelyn has started sitting up on her own just in the last week or so. Every once in awhile, however; she has a major face plant so you have to really keep an eye on her.

This picture of the three babes was at the end of the night, right before we went home. Addelyn and Austin were getting crabby and tired and needing to go to bed. Boaz was just chilling. But we decided we needed a picture of the "Trifecta." For some reason we got Addelyn to smile but don't let it fool you, she was crabby too! :)

Another new thing about Addelyn...she has been grabbing at EVERYTHING she shouldn't. While Mark and I are eating, she tries to grab our spoons, cups, plates, food, etc. Tonight Mark's chocolate pie almost completely ended up in his lap and she also took my napkin and tried to eat it! She is very interested in everything. I took a sip out of my water bottle, a minute later- she was trying to suck out of it. So of course, when we feed her cereal, she wants to grab the spoon herself. Finally, the other night we let her. What a mess!

This weekend Addelyn tried carrots and green beans for the first time. She did great! This girl loves to eat. She didn't even really seem to notice that they were a different flavor. She gulped them down. What an eater!

After leaving Cherokee on Saturday, Mark and Addelyn made the trip to Perry to spend a little time with the family. Addelyn saw Great-Grandpa Quinlan and Mark said she was all smiles.

Addelyn also got to see the Great-Grandparents on the Hoskinson side. I guess she was quite the ham while they all hung out! Her personality is showing more each day.

We are having way too much fun!!!