Johnny's home!

Well, life is certainly better when Johnny is home... and Adeline isn't sick! For those of you who didn't know, our poor little gal was down with tonsilitis for almost the entire time Johnny was gone. She was running really high fevers (104-104.7!). I was pretty surprised though at how WELL she did! She was quite the trooper and in the end the only long term effect of her illness is that she tends to fake sick these days with hopes of sleeping in Mommy's bed. :)

We didn't do a whole lot while Johnny was gone since Addy was sick but we did go to my cousin's graduation party. She graduated from the University of Chicago and is off to New York City to make it big like her brother and sister already have! Congrats Linds!

Here are some pictures of the get together:



This is not Lindsey - its Ashley - Addy always clicks with her! (It might have something to do with Ashley's love of giving Addy sweets... :))



the happy graduate!


my lovely familia

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Funny story - my cousin (Ryan) had a blackberry he let John Michael play with... well Addy decided that she wanted the Blackberry so I told John Michael to share it and Ryan kindly got out a second cell phone for him to play with... but that little guy wanted nothing to do with it! He knew that Blackberry was way cooler than any old cell phone. I guess you can't blame him!

Here's Addy and Auntie Beth reading a story together.




The kids were thrilled to have their daddy back though! He was gone for Father's Day which was too bad but they welcomed him home with snuggles and giggles as soon as they saw him. I actually kept them up late the night he came home and took them all the way to the airport to see him.



Shortly after he arrived home Johnny had his 32nd birthday party. We had a breakfast party for him and a cookout at his parents house later that night. The kids loved the birthday party in the morning and wore their party hats the whole time.






Can't you tell what a great time John Michael is having!?






i don't look so good first thing in the morning. :)



Addy loves taking pictures these days. Here's one she took of Johnny & John Michael:



And here is her attempt at taking a picture of me at 29 weeks:



But here are a couple of more. People love to tell me how big I am... its really quite remarkable how they must think that I love hearing that I am the size of a house, asking me if I'm SURE I'm not having twins and assuring me that there is no way I'll make it all the way to my due date. :) Well, honestly, it doesn't bother me too much but I do feel unusually large and unnatractive at this point. It doesn't help that these pics are make-up free! I should've at least tried to edit them and make me look better! But, oh well... ) Without further ado - here are my 29 week pictures:





And one last picture of Addy & John Michael. These crack me up!





My poor emo boy takes after his mama!

Well, check out the MHP blog for a recent engagement session and stay tuned for a recap of our 4th of July week/weekend extravaganza with Sadie & Canon!

Sneak Peek at the engagement session: