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August 8, 2006

Poythress Family Visit

Filed under: Friends,Pictures — Steph @ 6:27 pm

The Poythress Family: Danny, Amy, Brittany and Preston (~4 mos. old at the time) visited us a couple weekends ago. Mara had so much fun visiting with everyone. She particularly likes Brittany who will play with her a lot. Also she enjoyed trying to sit in Preston’s little green chair called the Bumbo Seat. She’s a bit too big so when she’d stand up it would often come with her. The picture of Mara with both hands in a bowl is when we went out to La Fiesta for lunch on Sunday and she was indulging in the sour cream bowl. Forget dipping chips, hands are delicious with sour cream!!

Although this wish is a little belated we still want to say Happy 16th Birthday to Brittany. Her birthday was July 31st. We are coming to visit you sometime soon to play some ping pong! Thanks for always entertaining Mara and being so kind as to babysit her for us so we can go out with your parents.

Rememeber to click on the picture below to view the album of all the pictures.

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June 29, 2006

Making Friends In The DR

Filed under: Friends,Pictures — Luke @ 8:09 pm

When Mara was on the plane to the Dominican Republic, she was a very social little girl. She made faces and played games with the couple that sat behind us on that leg. Of course when we got to customs and everything we parted ways. I don’t think we even introduced ourselves.

Then on the second night of our stay at the resort we were going to the restaurant Bambu. We recognized a couple standing outside the restaurant, but at that point I just thought it was a familiar face from the resort. Nope, it was the couple from the flight.

Well, we went on to introduce each other, and also saw much of each other coincidentally throughout the stay. Mara had some new friends at that point, Flavia and Marcio. Thanks for sending the picture! And thanks for spending time with Mara, she loved it!

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May 23, 2006

Zachary’s 2nd Birthday Party

Filed under: Friends,Pictures — Steph @ 7:38 am

Mara had a blast playing at the Bur-Mill playground for Zach’s birthday party. Later we all went to Zach’s house for cake and ice cream. Here are a few of the moments we caught on film! There are some great playground action shots so be sure to click on the picture below for the link to the entire album of shots!

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May 21, 2006

Mara’s buddies

Filed under: Friends,Pictures — Steph @ 12:11 pm

Well these pictures are atleast a few weeks old.  Mom & dad have been very busy.  We wanted you to see them anyway since they are so cute.  Here Mara is playing (if you call it that) with Parker Sowell (~18 mos. old) and Zachary Davis (just turned two).

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Remember to click on this picture so that you can view the entire album of pictures of the little gang!

p.s. Amy & Shannon if you want the full image of any of these or for me to upload them to shutterfly for you to purchase just let me know!

 

April 18, 2006

Trip to NY, April 06

Filed under: Friends,Pictures — Luke @ 8:00 pm

The weekend before Easter weekend the family traveled up to NY. It was a good chance to see everyone and Mara had to show off her skills. Click on the picture below to see the whole album.

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January 30, 2006

Wheels On The Wagon Go Round And Round

Filed under: Friends,Videos — Luke @ 11:55 pm

A couple of weeks ago Nana stopped in on the weekend to pay a visit to Mara. I don’t remember how it got started, but we decided to give Mara a ride in her little (not so little) red wagon that Grandma got her for Cristmas. She loves the wagon, and she loves Nana making a fuss over her too. There are other goodies in this one, like you get to see her say bye-bye. Things were going just fine until Dad inadvertently dropped the wagon handle on the little ones head. It sounds worse than it was, I promise. She was getting tired of the ride anyways…

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Mara And The Wagon Video

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January 14, 2006

Attack The One With Goldfish!

Filed under: Friends,Pictures — Steph @ 9:28 pm

Shannon and Parker came for a visit last week. Tuesday afternoon to be exact. Anyway it was getting close to mealtime for the little ones as you can see here. I think this is a real cute shot of the “piranhas” attacking Shannon for Goldfish. Breakout the goldfish and the kids come a runnin’!

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p.s. What a sweet smile, Parker! You actually let one out instead of that concealled grin you give sometimes!

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January 3, 2006

Looking Back At Xmas 05

Filed under: Friends,Pictures — Luke @ 9:00 pm

These are some random pictures from Christmas day that we took in addition to the video we already posted. We also have some pictures mixed in from Christmas Eve as well when Jen and Conan joined us for dinner. Mara enjoyed both days quite a lot.Xmas Eve 05 6

My favorite Auntie!

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Nana got me lots of books!

January 2, 2006

NY Xmas 05

Filed under: Friends,Pictures — Luke @ 3:35 pm

We got a chance to download some pictures off of our digital camera so we should have some posts of them for the next couple of days. This series is from our trip up to NY for an early Christmas. You will see the first meeting of Mara and her Uncle Bob. Also we have Abigail and Mara together for the first time. There are some nice shots here. Click on either of the pictures to go to the album.

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Ooooo… I love your hair.

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At least one of us is happy.

October 30, 2005

Emma’s First Year

Filed under: Friends,Pictures — Luke @ 11:59 pm

One year ago Emma was born on Halloween, so today we celebrated her birthday. Dad and her dad, Chris, work together. Mara had a fun time, although she has been bothered with a runny / stuffy nose this past week. We tried to keep isolation of toys and kids for the most part, but that is difficult. Mara was people watching again and had an all around great time.

Emma had a wonderful cake which you can see in some of the pictures. Its a pumpkin. Not sure if she ate very much of it though. Mara wasn’t scared of it by any means.

Click here to see the Emmas Bday 05 Album

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Mara with the bday girl.


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Pretty ladies.


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Dad is great… lets us eat chocolate cake.

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