We're back! - Part Three

Hello hello...gonna be a short update, with not a lot of text here, but pictures nonetheless of course.

We're getting pictures up from our visit to Grand Forks at the end of June tonight, along with a couple pictures of Claire in her little boots and a robe. I'm sure we're overloading with pictures of the little one, but then again, if you're here looking at the site, you probably don't mind.

As a quick text update though, moving further towards the end of July, we went to Mike and Laura's wedding on the 31st, which was a very enjoyable evening. Very short wedding (17 minutes long), good food, and since Robin was gracious enough to come over and babysit for us, Tanya and I both got to go out to the Doublewood bar for a couple drinks with Chris, DeAnn, Russ, Josh, and Libby. It was really nice to get out as a couple, especially since that hasn't happened in a while!

Claire and Great Grandpa Grove - she's giving him the weird eyes!

Claire with Great Great (I think that's right) Uncle Art

Claire with Auntie Vi

Cathy Prichard bought Claire some little cowgirl boots...much to my chagrin and Tanya's delight

Claire in her ducky robe after bath time. Good night all!

We're back! - Part Deux

Hello again folks. Continuing on with the updates...after the Red Lobster get-together on the 10th, we had a pretty standard next few days, until Tanya went back to work on the 15th and my new schedule began. So now I work at night and come home to watch the Squeaker until Tanya gets home from work, I catch some sleep then, and get up to repeat the process. Luckily most days I get to nap while Claire naps for an hour or two in the late morning/early afternoon.

Al came up on the 15th and stayed until Sunday, which was awesome. We had people over on Friday evening and I grilled up deer sausage and a beer can chicken. The sausage was good as usual, and the chicken turned out really really good (in my opinion anyway). It was fun to have everyone over and it was a good trio-celebration of birthdays for Erika, Al, and Jamie (Jamie is on the 19th).

On the 17th we went up to Fertile, Minnesota, for Scott's wedding and dressed the Claire bear up in her little white baptism dress. Unfortunately, she got her white dress dirty before we got any pictures that day with her, but we had her purple dress with too, so that turned out nicely. The reception was held down in Fargo, at the NDSU Alumni center, which was good because Claire started getting sleepy pretty quick after supper. Since Grandpa was at the wedding also, we were able to get a four-generation Grove picture, which is posted below.

Al went back down south on Sunday and life resumed normally (or as normal as it is) after that for the next few days anyway. The pictures below take us up to the 22nd, so we'll drop more of an update tomorrow or the next day. We'll also post pictures of our visit with Aunt Vi, Uncle Art, and Grandpa in the next post.

Hope everyone has had a good weekend.

This is Claire's contemplative pose when she gets tired

Claire in her purple dress at the reception

Four-generation picture of the Grove side

Mom playing with Claire in the living room

A tired Claire bear, or as Erika says, a tired smooshieface