March Birthday Wine Weekend

So I have several trips/activity pics I still need to post but figured I start with the most recent and add the others as I go....especially since I can at least remember the most recent much better :)

This weekend we celebrated our March birthdays.....Kathy (50), Penny (53), Bethany (30) and Bryce (30)...and since we had some big milestone ones we needed a big party!  Vans were rented and we set out for WINE COUNTRY!  Some of the non-wine drinking boys had an awesome golf/bowling day...sorry I don't have pics to post of that!  But here are a few from the wine-o's (there are a lot more...if interested, let me know and I'll send them out to you).

 The "older" van trying to do a Chinese fire drill...it took them 3+ minutes to get out of and back into the van...the "younger" van showed them how it was done....less than 20 seconds and piggy back to boot!

 group shot at the first winery

 group shot at the 2nd stop

3rd Stop...can you see just how nice the day was!

 Me, Pam and Declan (28 weeks)

 Brad and Kaia

Birthday girl and Jacob

 Bethany and Randy

Can't tell these two are related :)

 Kelly, Pam and Bethany

 

 Group shot at our 3rd and final stop

 

Sisters

 

Penny (birthday girl) and her girls, Kelly and Jill

The Cakes, designed and made by Krystal....you can see how amazing they are!

 

 if you don't get the gun reference...it is a 30/30 (I had to be told) since both Bethany and Bryce were turning 30....some people are just too clever :)

So that was the fastest I've gotten trip pics done in a long time...I will try and get some other recent trips up soon.

On the baby front...we have about 12 weeks to go.  Everything is looking and going great.  This little monkey moves a lot more than I remember Fiona doing at the same point.  Fiona is already talking to her baby brother and telling me what she will play with him and how she is going to help me out...we shall see :)  

Happy Spring everyone!

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Boy!  Declan Royce was not shy at all :)

Rsbg trip, x-mas and a couple random

 So as promised here are some photos from November and December.  In Nov. Fiona and I went down to Roseburg for a early Thanksgiving visit.  Driving and traffic is such a pain during the holidays that we decided to celebrate a little early. 



Miss Fiona loves Christmas almost as much as her birthday.  We let her open all the presents and give her the bad news that she wouldn't see Santa everyday :)  We did visit some reindeer though!

So here they are....stay tuned tomorrow to find out if Fiona will have a little brother or sister to love on :)

 Fiona got dressed up to go visit her Red Hat Aunties 

 Cousin Rylie came over to ride horses with Fiona

 We went out to brunch with some friends the weekend before Christmas

 Taking Christmas photos....my little ham :)  This is my favorite, Matt thinks she looks possessed!

 Visiting a local nursery that had a camel, mini donkey and reindeer

 Fiona isn't very shy...this may be a problem down the road.  She wanted up onto the hay bale to get a better look and needed a hand...and this nice gentleman that we don't know at all suddenly found a little girl holding his hand

 Fiona and Graecen in the sleigh

 Reindeer

 Meeting new friends

 They even had a Koi pond that had fish Fiona could "Pet"...it was tough getting her to leave!!

Christmas day party

Party at Randy and Kathy':

I have some other Christmas pictures and also some from a trip to Roseburg that I will post soon but I wanted to get these recent photos from the party at Uncle Randy and Aunt Kathy's place.  Fiona got to see all of her cousins, many aunt and uncles and even Santa!!  She is obsessed with Santa, she even lists him as one of her 4 "friends" (which switches almost daily depending on who we just visited).  Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!

 Cousin Rylie and Fiona

 So I have to explain her outfit.  This was a Hawaiian themed party and I had bought this little dress and bloomers when I was in Hawaii pregnant with Fiona.  It is a 6 month old outfit but she never wore it so I figured what better time :)  

 Aunt Bethany, cousin Tad, Suz and cousin Lincoln

 Uncle Bob, Aunt Kelsey and cousin Ryder

 Aunt Kathy (the hostess) and cousin Cash

 SANTA!!! aka uncle Bryce.  She was so happy to see him!

 Santa passing out presents

 Fiona, Santa and cousin Jared

 Trying to gather all the kids with Santa....what a trick!!

 Santa with brothers Ryder and Cash (like you couldn't tell they were related!)

 Santa with almost 3 month old Lincoln

 Yes Fiona wacked her chin right before Christmas...good thing I already had taken her "Christmas photos".

 The Merry party goers 

 The big kids and adults (same difference) had some fun with a white elephant exchange. If you don't know what that is, google it, there are lots of variations and rules but you'll get the idea.  For the first "gift", Jared picked a machete...there were a lot of sharp objects in this exchange.

 Aunt Penny holding Lincoln waiting for her turn

 Pam was so excited about her "Get lit lamp"

 But not as excited as Brad was about his whole canned chicken

 Fiona and Tad were watching the i-pad while we were playing...it was getting close to bedtime

 Tad isn't so sure about being kissed by his cousin :)

So how was the party?....well, I'll just leave you with this parting shot!

Will have Christmas photos and opening presents up soon....Happy New Year!!!