Fun With Ashley...and Lizzie

My best friend Ashley has come to Seattle alllll the way from Chicago!!! I have known Ashley since 6th grade. She lived across the street from me so we hung out all through middle school and high school, practically living at each others' houses. A couple days after my family moved in, Ashley came over to introduce herself and we were wearing the exact same teal, striped T-shirts. Ever since, we have been best friends! We don't live across the street from each other anymore but, despite the distance, we remain as close as ever.

We have been having too much fun at Pike Place, Bainbridge, etc. We walked around downtown, shopped in all the very "Seattlish" boutiques, and strolled the beaches.
Ashley was really worried about getting sea sick, but the ride turned out to be ok after all... no one got sick.

So far, we have been having a blast- its so great to have her here!

Ashley insisted on taking a pic of us because we were both wearing lime green.

Ashley was getting into taking pics of Elizabeth as much or more than I was so we ended up missing the ferry back to Seattle from Bainbridge! Whoops! It was a good excuse to walk around more and enjoy the marina.

LIZZIE Pulls Herself Up!

I have decided to officially change the spelling of Elizabeth's nickname from "Lizzy" to: "LIZZIE" I have found that I just like it spelled with an "ie" more than with a "y".

So check out this video to see her newest trick. My little 6 month old is getting to be such a big girl. She loves to pull herself up on furniture, people, boxes, everything.

Our Little Family

Jamie took some family pics for us since we hardly have ANY with all three of us. Its nice to have some kind of record of all three of us being together!

Cousin Katie

These two cute girls are so much fun! Cousin Katie loves little babies. So, of course she takes such good care of Lizzy.

Cousins

Lizzy and Allison were so adorable together. I can't wait to watch these two grow up together and become good friends.

They made it so easy for me to take cute pictures because they would look at each other, hold hands, and they even seemed to parallel each others movement at times. They acted more like twins than cousins!

Lizzy would get very concerned when Allison cried. So sweet.

Lizzy was just squealing with delight whenever she was laying next to Allison.

Allison didn't seem to mind having Lizzy around either. She was a very good sport about it, even when Lizzy would try to clobber her.

How many more matching outfits do they have? Trust me. This is only the beginning. There will be many more matching outfits for years to come!

These two tried to get their frog-loving Uncle's attention by dressing up in matching frog outfits!

Allison's Baby Blessing

I was so excited to be present for my little niece's baby blessing. She looked so beautiful in the dress and bonnet that my mom made. After the blessing, we went back to Adam and Lisa's home, and had fun playing with the babies.

Baby Allison has such a sweet, calm temperament. I hardly heard a peep out of her the whole time I was there.

She's still so young that she just sleeps any time, anywhere she pleases. I remember how nice that used to be when Lizzy was that small....

Adam and Lisa are such great parents. They have TWO kids now. Wow! Congrats you two!

Homemade Dresses

I am finally back home after 3 weeks of being in Lakewood with Dave's family and Chicago with my family! I had sooo much fun with both families, however, I was a slacker with my camera and did not take many pictures. I did find myself pulling the camera out for cute babies though!!
My mom and I sewed homemade dresses together. Check out the cute blue dress she made!

While my mom made the blue dress, I was busy making this little sun dress for Allison, my cute 2 month old niece!

It wasn't quite warm enough outside so she has a onesie and tights on, but she was able to wear it and it fit!!