1. Susan's daughter, Andrea, got married to Clint in August. We took a weekend trip to PA with Chris and Jenny for it. It was a beautiful wedding and a lot of fun; Jenny definitely had the most fun. ;) It was also a little extra emotional, as Susan had received her last chemo treatment just days before Andrea's wedding, and her ex had lovely things to say during his Father of the Bride speech. It was definitely a celebration!
2. In September, Timmy and Tyler both graduated to new bikes, Tyler to a two wheeler with training wheels, Timmy to getting his training wheels off! You can see Tim's original plan of action with Timmy involved holding onto him by the hoodie. After that he took the pedals off and just had Timmy push around until he figured out the balance. After that he got it pretty quickly! They were both very proud of themselves when they made their break throughs, but neither of them necessarily loves bike riding or asks to do it very often. Watching these, I can't believe that these videos are less then a year old! They've both grown up so much!
3. Ryan and Sami had baby Graham last October. A bunch of the girls took Sami to the Melting Pot a few weeks before to celebrate. I went to meet Graham in the hospital, and then Tim and the boys and I went to meet him soon after he got home. The boys were excited to have a new friend and they enjoy every time they get to see him. On top of just getting together with our friends who are now nieghbors, Timmy and Tyler have helped me babysit Graham, and Ryan and Sami have watched Tyler for us. It's good to have more friends with kids!
4. We celebrated Stella's birthday in November with a fun party at her house with Mr Knick Knack. Stella and her friends had a great time. There was lots of dancing and giggling. Timmy and Caleb thought that they were too cool for the party, there was lots of sighing and eye rolling from them. Everyone settled in for pizza and cake though! When it was time to leave, Tyler and Stella did some impromptu prom poses for the camera until Timmy, ever the photo-bomber, interfered. Poor Tyler needs to grow, but he is six months younger then Stella!
5. Nats Fest 2014 was in December. It was a fun afternoon, the highlight was the mystery player reading to the kids again. We got there early and got Timmy and Tyler seats right up front. The reader this year was Ryan Zimmerman. He read two books, the second one was a long, strange story about a child going to the grocery store alone during a snow storm. Multiple times Zimmerman said that kids should not try to do the things in the book. Timmy played paparazzi, and it must have been a new experience for Zimmerman, especially when Timmy put his foot up to take a picture. The video is of Timmy's turn to ask Zimmerman a question, it took a lot of encouragement to get him to ask him anything, but he was excited after he did.
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| These are actually from a game we went to, Tim's turned out best, Tyler refused to smile, I guess he had his game face on! |
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