Flanagan Clan

This past weekend we went up to Edmonton, Alberta, to attend my friend, Margaret’s wedding. I’m not exactly sure how we managed to pull this trip off with two very active little boys… and I think many times along the way we quietly wondered why we were doing it, but things actually went pretty well. Here’s the highlights from our trip, with lots of pictures!!!

Sammy fussing. The first day was the worst and we couldn’t keep him happy for very long, but by the third day things got a lot better!

Andrew did all the driving, which was nice because a lot of it was winding mountain roads and I’m a nervous driver!

I spent the whole trip either in the front seat, or here in the middle seat, trying to keep the boys happy! Patrick sat in the back, so he wouldn’t bother Sammy. He enjoyed it!

There was so much beautiful scenery along the way

LOTS of beautiful scenery

View from our hotel window at the Fairmont MacDonald in Edmonton. This is the hotel where Margaret got married. I’m glad we stayed here… it was a beautiful hotel, and it was very convenient to make frequent trips up to our room to grab things for the boys during the reception!

Signing the registry. They got married in a beautiful little gazebo in the gardens of the hotel

Mr. and Mrs. Javier Lambrano! The ceremony was performed by Mr. Bryan Clarke, the RUF minister at the University of Alberta

Coming out from the ceremony

Patrick playing in the gardens

Andrew and Sammy enjoying the gardens

Andrew and the boys

The boys and I

The beautiful cake!

The beautiful bride and I!!!

The first dance

And we saw mountain goats and a moose along the road on the way home.

Almost 1,700 miles worth of driving over the course of three days, a car with two little boys, and a big pregnant belly. Was it worth it? DEFINITELY!!!

Congratulations, Margaret and Javier!!!

We arrived home last night around 2:40 AM after a whirlwind trip up to Edmonton, Alberta to attend my friend’s wedding. Considering that we spent 15 hours on the road yesterday, the boys held up remarkably well and are now very happy to be back home again. I’ll post pictures of the trip once we clean out the car and get things back to order at home!

This morning I finished crocheting my 9th burp cloth for Baby Boy #3. I made them each differently, so no two of them are the same. I’m happy to have them done… I organized a drawer in the nightstand in the nursery with all the little burp cloths, including several that I have left over from when Sammy was a baby. I’m excited for this baby to come!

This drawer is ready to go!

Here’s what they look like!

In other news, we had company all last week. We didn’t get a ton of pictures from all our fun-filled adventures (woops!), but here are a few:

While Joanna and I were busy at home taking care of boys and going on shopping trips, the boys were out exploring the Cascades!

Sammy, as always, was busy being cute

Bill and Joanna were busy enjoying their vacation

Patrick was always busy doing some sort of activity, which prevented him (at least in his mind) from having any time to take a cute picture with his brother in their matching outfits, even though Mommy thought there were several choice moments to take that previously mentioned picture.

And, most sadly, we lost Ooh Hoo, Patrick’s beloved stuffed monkey, on a trip to the park. We had allowed little Sammy to play with him in the stroller as we went on our walk, and somewhere along the way he was dropped. He was probably picked up by some little boy or girl, and hopefully will be much loved in his new home.

Ironically, the only pictures that we have of Ooh Hoo are with Sammy, the day before he went on to a (hopefully) better place. We all miss you, Ooh Hoo.

RICE!!!

CHEERIOS AND BABY FOOD!

Little Sammy was baptized, and it has taken us this long to post pictures of his baptism!!!

On Saturday I finally got around to getting them scanned into our computer, after dealing with them being lost in an unused diaper bag for several months, and then having Andrew file them away in the memorabilia folder for an even greater length of time, during which point I had forgotten what had become of them. So, to remember this very special day, I’m posting those pictures!!!

When he was baptised, we joked that he was doubly blessed because both of the ministers of our church, Pastor Rayburn and Pastor DeMass, were doing the baptism together, with Pastor Rayburn performing the actual baptism.

A big thanks to Mr. Bowdle, for taking these pictures for us. He also did our wedding pictures, which I absolutely love!

And, finally, a very big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my dad!!!