Category Archives: Friends

Thanksgiving 2011

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at our house this year. Bama, Papa, Matt & Lauren, Brian & Sabrina, Auntie, Ivan, and Matt’s friend Jason all joined us.

My little Turkeys

 

I was busy cooking most of the day so these are the only pictures I got with my camera. I will update this post with my dad’s pictures when h e gives them to me!! We had a busy day, with lots of good food & football…….UNTIL the Aggies lost to tu on a last second field goal. Ugh!

The only year that our Turkey will weigh more than Brendan!! Turkey: 24lbs, Brendan: 14 1/2 lbs!

 

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Blackberry Picking

This morning we decided to take advantage of the BEAUTIFUL weather and go blackberry picking with some friends! We met Kristy, Wesley & Audrey in Sherwood at a farm that has thornless blackberries. Thornless blackberries were obviously invented by the parents of 3 year olds!! The kids were falling into the bushes all the time and we were so glad to escape with no injuries! The kids wanted to eat most of the berries, but were very good about filling their bucket before eating a few!

REady to pick

Audrey was a great picker too!

There were a few blueberries left too!

In front of the corn

Molly with her blackberries

Wesley with his bucket!

Messy hands

Getting to eat a few!

That one was sour!

As you can see, Audrey ate a few too!

Lunch at the farm after picking

Brendan enjoyed the day too!

Molly the Flower Girl!!

Yesterday Molly was a flower girl for Al & Jordan’s wedding. She did such a great job! It was a long day and a late night for our dancing queen. I think the day went perfectly and I hope Allison & Jordan had the time of their lives!

Ready for the rehearsal!

A family photo before the wedding. What a gorgeous day!

3 generations

Last minute instructions!

Taking "Jero" by the hand!

She was loving it!

No Jero! You go this way!

They made it down the aisle!

The beautiful bride and her groom!

Our little dancing queen! She danced until her feet bled!

Molly made friends with the Jr. Bridesmaids

She was worn out but not ready to leave!

Matching Father & Son ties!

A very fun wedding!

Brendan Birth & first weeks

We are all home and doing well! Brendan is such a good baby. He is a very sleepy little guy. I have posted several photos from the past week and a half on Picasa, so you can view them here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/Karen.Hughart/BrendanBirthWeek1

Here are a few favorite shots:

8 Lbs 5 oz 20.75 inches

Father & Son!

Auntie Lo was there to witness the birth!

Baby Burrito

Mama's boy!

Big sister Molly meeting Brendan

We think he looks alot like his big sis!! Brendan on the left, Molly's birth photo on the iPad.

Uncle Scott meeting his "Birthday Buddy!"

Not to sure about Baby Brother, but loves her hot chocolate!

Going home!!

Welcome home Brendan!

Newborn pic

With cousin Sammie! 4 days apart!

With the Winchell cousins!! 4 cousins & 9 kids! Wow!

Now Baby Brother is getting some love from Big Sis!

Eyes open!! A rare event!!

Molly "helping" with Brendan's first bath!

The morning after a long night! Like Father, Like son!

A little smile!

Grammy & her grandkids!

Happy Birthday Bama!!

My Mom’s 60th Birthday was April 30th and we wanted to throw her a big party to celebrate!! To start off her birthday weekend, we all went to the beach!! We rented a house near Depot Bay and just enjoyed being together.

There was great food, lots of family fun, boat rides, beach time and even lots of SUN!! What a great way to spend Mom’s birthday!

Molly loved having all of her family around and she loved sleeping in a sleeping bag!! She was a happy camper all weekend.

There were so many fabulous pictures from the weekend, I thought I would put them in a slideshow. So enjoy!!

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When we got home from the beach on Sunday morning it was party time!! We rented out the church and invited many of mom’s family and friends to a dessert open house. So many amazing people stepped up to help us make the day special for mom. It was really a tribute to how great she is and how much she is appreciated by our community. Thanks to everyone who came and especially to those who helped out at the party.

Happy Birthday Bama!! We hope you had as much fun as we did!!

Halloween Weekend

We had a very busy Halloween weekend. It started off with Trick-Or-Treating Papa & Daddy’s office on Friday afternoon! Molly really enjoyed “practicing” for the big day & I think Papa & Daddy enjoyed having her come down.

After that, we all went down to Newberg to meet Baby Ila!! My cousin Amanda and her husband Mike had their first baby on Thursday: Beautiful Ila Bernadine! Molly loved Baby Ila and has been talking about her ever since!

Ila Bernadine Daigle

Molly taking a peek!

The proud parents!! Congrats Mike & Amanda!! Welcome Baby Ila!!

Saturday was another trip down to Corvallis for an Oregon State football game. Molly is quite a little football fan. She LOVES to go to the games. Auntie Lo bought Molly this adorable hat (and a matching one for herself!!) Molly was so cute that she even ended up on the JumboTron during a time out!! Thanks Auntie Lo!! (Oh, and the Beavs beat Cal!! Go Beavs!!)

Whew!! That would have been enough to fill up any weekend, but Sunday was Halloween!! So on Sunday morning we carved pumpkins. Molly LOVES pumpkin guts!! She did not mind getting dirty at all. Matt did a great job on his pumpkins as usual. He carved an Aggie one and a Beaver one. I made a face for Molly (I know, I am a terrible pumpkin carver!!) and Cassie got a paw print.

The artist at work!!

Then came Trick-or-Treating!! Molly had a great time this year. She really understood the concept and also understood the candy!! We started at Bama’s house and hit up a few of Bama’s neighbors before going around our own neighborhood. We ended up at home passing out candy & eating Dinner in a Pumpkin. Molly also loved passing out candy to the kids and seeing the costumes.

With Barb, a longtime friend & neighbor.

Molly & her best buddy, AJ! we love him even though he is a duck fan!

Happy Halloween!!