Visitors

Our trip to Fishmonger’s last weekend.

Hiroe and Jeni

Dave and Larry

Henry with his new toy

Henry loves this hard plastic pacifier that Hiroe brought him.

Dave and Hiroe carved their pumpkins last Saturday. It was really gorgeous out, nice and sunny.

Larry and I supervised, beer in hand.

Finished!

Hiroe’s windowpane pumpkin

Dave’s happy pumpkin

Jeni’s creepy pumpkin

Granma’s coming to visit for a few short hours this Saturday, courtesy of her next-door neighbors. They’re driving down for the day to attend a wedding, and they’ll drive home afterwards. They’re carting her down here so she can play with Henry for a few hours.

Yay!! William and Joyce finally got to meet Henry. They’re like another set of grandparents. Ele’s post is here, more pictures here and a video here.

Henry and Finn are becoming fast friends

William and Joyce with Henry, Ele and Will with Finn

The doting granparents

Oh, and the screech owl that William and Joyce were nursing back to health. So cute!

The weekend before I started back to work we had our last houseful of visitors. Larry and Hiroe (newly wed!) came from Dallas and Grant and Michelle came from Austin.

We had just a spectacular time drinking, eating and hanging out. Michelle and Hiroe loved being with Henry. We went to Fishmonger’s for dinner on Friday night, and on Saturday we went to the Farmer’s Market and had lunch at the Flying Saucer.

Hiroe & Larry

Larry, Grant & Dave

Michelle was great with Henry

Hiroe loved snuggling with Henry

But Grant didn’t have the magic touch

The end result

And a surprise guest!

A week and a half later, Dave’s folks came to hang out with Henry for a week. It was SO awesome to have them around. I had lots of opportunity to go shopping and generally get some “me time.” It was AWESOME and I love his folks for taking such good care of us and Henry.

Anyway, here is their visit in pictures. All pictures available here.

The *adorable* outfit that Mary and Audrey brought for Henry.

We kept it pretty low-key.

We love tacos, and they’re even better with these cool taco holders!

Mom and Mom hanging out at Fishmongers.

Our usual dinner at Fishmongers.

Granpy LOVED hanging out with Henry.

Sweet baby.

The whole family.

After Jonathan, Dawn, their kids and Granma visited, Mary and Audrey came next. (The day everyone left, actually!) It was a very relaxing, low-key visit. They were both so good with Henry, it was lovely to have them around.

Here is our visit in pictures. All pictures here.

Audrey, Henry & Mary

A smile for mommy.

Audrey holds Henry

Audrey entertains Henry

Henry’s kangaroo pouch

Artsy pic by Audrey

Audrey and Billy

We had a big family visit last week. My brother, his awesome wife and their two kids came from Oregon to visit, and my granma drove down from Virginia Beach. And of course, my mom lives here so she didn’t have to travel to join in the festivities. As an added bonus, my great-uncle and aunt were also able to drop by for a visit.

We had an absolute blast with the kids and the family! I won’t bore you with details, but here are some favorite candid shots. For all of those who were here, you’ll receive a disc with all the photos from the weekend just as soon as we’re able.

Hah, I already have a post titled “Overwhelmed.”

My brother, his wife and their two kids arrive from Portland in two hours! Granma’s already made it in from Virginia Beach and is getting settled at her hotel. I am pooped from cleaning the house and rearranging things so that our place looks spectacular. J&D haven’t been to Raleigh since we got married so this will be the first time they see our house. I’m house proud so I want it to look great! They’re bringing their two boys, 4 and 2, who are going to see just how not-toddler-proof our house is. That will be exciting. We’re going to have a fun couple of days with them, granma and my mom.

To top off all this upcoming mayhem, my sister-in-law Mary and her daughter Audrey are coming on Saturday, right when Clan Q will be departing! I hope she doesn’t mind having to change her own sheets! I am going to be tired but am so glad to be able to spend time with all these folks!!

Yayayay and now I want to go to bed. Hahaha!

First, I can’t thank Monica enough for coming to visit while Dave was in Taiwan. It was awesome having an extra set of hands around. Especially hands that cook such tasty food!
Here’s the meatloaf she made at my request, along with carmelized root vegetables, spinach salad and blue cheese and bacon mashed potatoes.

She spent lots of time entertaining Henry.

As well as Billy.

Napping with Henry doesn’t get old.

It was also great to get a chance to catch up and have lots of girl talk. Thanks Monica!