The Photo Shoot

I love my beautiful family!

































































































































Thank you so much to Tim and Kim for taking such wonderful photos!


And we'll save the best for last... Eliana Renée Bacon. She wanted to be there for the family reunion so she decided to come early! Next time she'll be at the photo shoot!

Utah - Part One - THE JOURNEY!

The plan: all travel together, minimize trips to the airport, one up one down. This meant that Andrew, Ken, Kate and my Mom and Dad all piled into the minivan and drove to Detroit for a direct flight to Salt Lake City. We had beautiful weather. We left around 10 am and our flight was at 5 pm so plenty of time right? I'm not even sure why I'm writing about this but here goes.

We drove to Sarnia and then I begged to stop to go to the bathroom. This turned into a lunch break. When we got back on the road the line up to go over the boarder was a little long. I don't remember exactly what time we crossed the border but it was sometime after 3, we still had an hour drive to the airport and we were doing the park and fly thing. The park and fly was really well organized - thank goodness, so we were off to the airport pretty quickly. We arrived at the airport sometime after 4 and then things got hairy. Trying to figure out where to check in wasn't fun. We finally checked in, checked our baggage, went through security and then had to trek down the terminal. The terminal in Detroit is pretty much one long corridor. I had Kate in my arms and we took off ahead of the pack. I wasn't sure how my Dad was going to make it there and I figured if one of us got there they would have to hold the flight. Mom was next to arrive, then Ken and then Andrew and Dad. We were just about the last ones on the plane - but we made it!

The flight itself was uneventful. We watched "My Life in Ruins" which was fun - cheesy bad movie fun complete with a poopy joke. When we landed we collected all of our bags - yay and headed for the rental cars. Dad enjoyed being taken around the airport in style this time - no limping for him! We made it to the hotel and Jon came to meet us. We were all thoroughly exhausted but happy to have arrived safely in UTAH!!

Hanging out with the Jakobs

Thank you Jenn and Eric for a fun, relaxing long weekend in Ottawa.















Anders and Konrad poolside.
















Kate and Wendy soon to be poolside.
















Jennifer, Ezra, Kate and Wendy poolside.





















Eric's feet poolside.





















Ezra is a happy bouncy lark in his jolly jumper. This kid literally dances!

Kate is Seven Months Old

Where has the time gone?! I'm so enjoying my sweet baby girl!

Baseball

JULY 17 2009

The trip to Toronto was partly planned around the Boston-Toronto game. Isaac and Joey were very, very excited. There was a considerable amount of smack talk leading up to game night and even more talk on game day. When we went to the CN tower we were in a sea of Boston fans. It's amazing how many Americans come up to Toronto for baseball games.














After we left the restaurant, where the above photo was taken there was even more smack talk as Isaac was taunted by a twenty something year old Toronto fan?!






























Uncle Andrew and Uncle Ken took the two boys. Thank you to Uncle Andrew for buying the tickets!!












































I'm pretty sure the best part of the night (for Isaac and Joey) was watching the Red Sox defeat the Jays. However it might be trumped by the awesome hats Andrew bought for the boys!

The CN Tower

JULY 17 2009

Probably the quickest trip I've ever taken up and down the CN tower but hey, cute pictures!

Isaac



















Joey



















Thomas



















Anna



















Kate



















Isaac and Joey enjoying the glass floor. I still can't walk on it!



















Joey, Thomas, Isaac - they were just a little excited about going to see the Boston Red Sox play the Toronto Blue Jays.

























































Anna really started walking in Toronto. Next time we see her she'll probably be running.

A New Toy

I had heard briefly of taggie toys and a few months ago thought hmmm, Kate wouldn't like that, she never pays attention to the tag. These days I often find her sucking on or playing with the tags on her toys so I decided I would make her a taggie cloth. Ken and I had way too much fun picking out all of the ribbon.














Here is my smiley girl enjoying her new toy.



















And this definitely deserves a caption... so much expression in her little face! But what caption to choose?

Hanging out with cousins - part one

Kate and Anna enjoying the exer-saucer.














Hangin' in Tottenham... what's the most fun thing to do you ask?



















Go get ice cream!














Grandma and the ladies, before replacing the curtains...



















I'm thinking that the girls are looking so similar in age/size!



















Brothers! Can you feel the love?



















I feel like Kate is checking out Anna's dress thinking, hmm that will be nice to wear in a few months!