Labor Day Weekend

Saturday of Labor Day weekend, Jim and I had the pleasure of helping Anne and Jaime celebrate their marriage. James got to hang out with Laura S. and Uncle Ed -- they did lots of playing and waving "good night" to all his animals. Above :: Anne, the bride, and her sister (and our dear, pregnant friend), Lynn, cutting up the dance floor (I didn't get any good pics of the bride and groom :-( sorry)

The favors from the wedding were hand painted pieces from Jaime's village in Mexico -- one of them was this beautiful bell, which was probably the first time James saw a bell -- it was a big hit, he loved the noise it made and was upset with me when I took it away from him to make sure he didn't break it.

On Sunday we went and played Frisbee Golf for the first time. James was our awesome caddy until we decided it probably wasn't the best idea to give him Frisbee's that had potentially touched poison ivy (our discs had a magnet for the trees where it was growing, but we all managed to stay poison ivy-free, probably because of the paranoid scrubbing that ensued when we got home). It was a fun way to spend the morning in the beautiful weather and James took a fantastic nap!

Above :: this tree had fallen down in the forest (there's gotta be a joke here somewhere, don't know if anyone heard it or not) and what you are looking at it the trunk of the tree -- it was HUGE! It looks like a bear's claw to me :-)

Below :: Our caddy cheesing it up

Suzi and Preston came out from the city on Sunday night :-) It was so fun to see them, it had been waaaaayyyyy too long (I mean, seriously, over a year and they're only like 35 minutes away). We had some yummy cheddar wurst and delicious appetizers...we were going to do S'mores but it was raining, so that went out the window and we enjoyed yummy canoli's instead.

James had a great time playing with Suzi...he really loved her phone :-)

I FINALLY got some video of James as a giraffe :-) LOVE IT -- he doesn't have his "tail" going here, but this is how he shows us how a giraffe munches on the leaves....he gets more and more cute every day.