shanksgiving 2017!

We had such a lovely, chill, locals-only Thanksgiving potluck this year... complete with goulash! (Emily and I had MAHI, THO) There's a big video on my hard-drive, and approximately a million more hilarious pictures of the girls trying to get a GOOD PICTURE outside, haha. ;)

(This was the first family event in a thousand years where I had the emotional energy to bring out my fancy camera! Not all the pictures are 1000% perfect, not like they ever are!, but it's a step in my preferred direction, lolz)

Not pictured: lots of adorable family texting and a trip to the emergency room at 2am. WOOHOO.

Very Important: My Wes Anderson Thanksgiving Lewk.

Our pie situation #blest

Juju and Hoju went for a walk!

iPhone blessings: FaceTime from the creek (with Juju!) and snippets of Easy E!

DEM CHEEK BONES!

Mom brought some jeans for us to try, which Emily tragically rejected - BUT, she did let me capture this picture of her #LOOK and I will forever be grateful because it's SO DARN CUTE.

Meggie's baklava cheesecake!

Watching Sweeney Todd (after Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!)

And now the epic process of trying to get the Little Girls into taking a picture (MEGHAN HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY TRAINED/BEATEN DOWN, OBVS.)

We'll take this one! ;)

(Emily with her Pet Hand, haha)

"Y'all look at the camera!" Oh, thx. ;)

Feast!

The chef deserved an actual (non-paper) dinner plate. ;)

Important memories.

YUMMERZ.

fall is (not really) here

(the weather is so warm and muggy, ugh!)

Few snippets of life lately, outside of the strep throat that claimed 4 out of 5 of us in one week (Emily escaped!).

the kiddos spend the night at Meggie's new apartment for the first time!

what we were up to while they were gone!

Together Richardson's first "Diversity is Delicious" luncheon (where I was medicated on Tramadol and not feeling my best! but I was there!) and... finally trying the infamous grilled cheese donut! (It wasn't bad!)

FaceTime with Debbie and Aaron on a Saturday morning :) :) :)

Beth killing me slowly. 😍

Bee Tee from Target! BEE TEE.

After a successful evening with the Hafeles. :)

#true :)

baby eliam is here!

Baby Eliam took his sweet time getting here (texts with Dana below, haha!) and he is the cutest little nugget.

Now onto the family waiting... and waiting and waiting! 😂

Then, when he finally arrived, the family group text started! 

Richard's birthday :)

Four out of the five of us had step throat this week (way to be, Emily!), but we still managed to put together a little party on the day of Richard's actual birthday. :) Meghan came over and brought deviled eggs and we ordered take out from Frankie's. :) Meghan got him "Sing" on DVD and I was so so happy to show him the stone cookie sheet I bought him. Afterwards, Meg trimmed up his hair!

 

skip-diddy do da!

Thanks to the chaos of this year (#blessed) I built up a lot of pictures that I haven't had the time/energy to post and... I'm not going to post! Because I love myself and it doesn't really matter!

But for the sake of record keeping, here's what's on the hard-drive:
- our wedding anniversary
- Richard's brewing adventures
- trips to Home Depot
- my outfits (always)
- getting the upstairs ready for Sadie to move into
- pool party at Nancy/Nery's
- afternoon at Bob's
- School of Rock show for Caroline!
- Emmy's rainbow hair
- Gigi's 1st birthday party
- The first day of school and school pictures!
- The 2017 Eclipse
- Several bunny filters #sorrynotsorry
- R and I laughing watching Eddie Murphy's "Raw"
- Birthday brunch for Ceej
- Watching "Hello, Dolly!" with Emily
- R going go-cart racing (USING HIS CHRISTMAS PRESENT FINALLY)
- Emily and I being hilarious on Instagram stories
- Darrah's birthday (and a stellar picture Emily drew of her)
- R dying of adorableness while watching The Great British Baking Show
- Emily's melodica
- Another FEED THE CITY morning event
- Juju and Emily going to The Cottonwood Art Festival (and coming home with paintings they did!)
- Juju's infamous "melodicon?" video
- Trips to Sweet Firefly with the fam
- Taking R and S to Wendy's
- Emily and a "date" (?) going to see "It" with their dad's in lieu of going to homecoming...!
- A lovely (albeit sick) weekend to myself while R and Bob go to Charlie's
- Our Staycation!
- And a bunch of ish I also just got off my phone, haha