8 years ago today, Dan and I were getting ready for our wedding. It was a very hot day in Richmond VA, ask any of the groomsmen who were in wool tuxes *grin*. It has been a great 8 years so far, it is kind of weird to think I’ve been married that long, and now we have 2 shorts ones as well. It was a great wedding though. Both of them were nice actually, even if everyone was afraid we were going to be burned by the fire in the Hindu ceremony. Happy 8 year anniversary to me and Dan may we have at least 52 years more!

And my favorite picture from my wedding of my brother, he will make a wonderful bride someday!

So Eloise loves to get up on her hands and knees and then push her self forward. She can move her hands and knees to go forward too, but she tends to get up and then throw her whole body forward to move. Anyways here are some pictures of her on her hands and knees.

A story with pictures. Back in April 2007 I had a baby boy, Desmond.

He was a very cute baby, and very quickly started to move.

And work on crawling

Shortly after that he was off and running working on cruising

Then he figured out how to stand on his own and walk

Shortly after that he started to run

And was soon quite happy, running and playing and exploring all on his own

So I had one mover, who loved to climb and explore and started moving very quickly. I decided to have another baby though and had Eloise in March 2009.

I figured there was no way she would move as fast as her brother right? She won’t start crawling at 4 months, Desmond crawling at 5 months was early enough, there was no way she would be up on her hands and knees moving at 4 months. Shows what I know.

And yes the story was just an excuse to use cute old pictures of Desmond!

Here are some pictures from my in-law’s house this weekend. Eloise had fun crawling on hanging around in the family room.

I decided to update the look of the blog, since I last redid it in February, so it seemed like a good time to update it again. Enjoy the new look!

So my father in law is from India, and Dan and he are Hindi. So we occasionally do ceremonies to celebrate certain things when we visit my in-law’s house. Anyways Rakhi is when a sister asks her brother for his protection by tying a decorated string (rakhi) around his arm. He then gives her money or a gift to show that his sister is under his protection and he will watch out for her, or at least that is what I believe it is about. Anyways my in-laws had just received some Rakhi from India so when we were visiting on Saturday, Eloise tied one around Desmond’s arm and he gave her a dollar to show he will protect her (if you consider protecting her to mean he will jump over, not on her *grin*). Here are the pictures.

While we were in Atlanta we also went over to my sister’s in-law’s lake house, since they were up there visiting that weekend. We all had dinner and then went out on their boat. So here are some pictures of Desmond, Eloise, me, Dan and my Mom on their boat.

Here are a couple of pictures from when we were in Atlanta on my parent’s boat at the lake. You can see Desmond, Eloise and Dan. Eloise and Desmond look so cute in their life vests!

These are a couple of pictures of Eloise from 2 weekends ago at my in-laws. She was playing on Dan’s old ride on giraffe. She liked trying to eat it.

I still have some pictures to get up from our Atlanta trip. That being said I also have a bunch of new pictures from this weekend and a couple from a few weekends ago. Hopefully I’ll have a couple of videos to put up soon too after Dan downloads them off the camera. New pictures include Eloise getting ready to crawl, Desmond and Eloise in the blow up pool in my in-laws backyard and Eloise on a toy giraffe. Here are a few to keep people (Mom) happy!