- OY VEY! -

Since it's Septembahhhh...............

...in my classic style, I'm finally showing face to re-hash [only the very best highlights of] May! June! July! August!

OY VEY! Oyyyy oy oy.  

Staycations and holidays and parties and homecomings and reunions and...

This is awful!

But...

#letnothinggoundocumented

So let's go!

-- Staycation! Brian had a week-long work conference in St. Louie at the beginning of May, so Harper and I took full advantage of his free hotel room for a couple nights!

She was obsessed with the "huuuuuge tubbie"...

...and room view [complete with evening Cardinals game]...

...but the very best part was FREE ROOM SERVICE!!! We indulged real good!

This was one of her last few weeks with a pacifier, and I just can't believe how little and baby-ish she seems when looking back at the pictures now! :'( Stop growing so fast, sweet baby girl!!! #alwaysmommasbaby

So very conveniently, my dad was receiving an award that week from his work, and their business convention was being held at the same hotel! Harper helped Grammy and Papa prep for their dinner...

...and then everyone flitted off to their separate dinner events and Harper was stuck in the hotel room for the rest of the evening with her boring mom. 

9pm -- lights out!

Early morning pool time with Grammy and Papa was not the hit I anticipated it would be...

...but she did manage to dip one toe in before retreating back to the room for breakfast.  We finally met up with Brian when all his meetings were finished and headed home for the weekend!

-- Mother's Day!  Happy, happy day to the women we love so much! Harper has two grammies and two great-grammies, and I'm thrilled that she is growing up so close to all of them. [5w6d pregnant here, btw, but not sick yet and still successfully keeping it a secret!]

-- Bonifest! ...A little different this year that it has been in past years [mostly referring to the pre-child years that Brian and I manned the margarita tent and were given "all you can drink" privileges while working], but we had a great time in this capacity as well. The cheese fries and giant "Fun Slide" took the cake for Harper!

-- Family reunion!  We missed it this year due to Matt and Anna's wedding, but did receive several photo updates from the grandparents..... :)

-- Father's Day!  Yesssss, next came Father's Day, which was much more of a hit than Mother's Day. [Undecided if this secondary to moms always being behind the camera and therefore capturing more precious memories and/or moms going "all out" when it comes to throwing together a spread of food and/or both. I vote both and rest my case. #everydayisfathersday]  But HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to our favorite dads/grandpas who we love very much!

-- Elly's birthday!  Happy birthday, kiddo!

-- 4th of July!  ...And the annual family party + brothers' backyard firework display which didn't disappoint!

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh ugh ugh ok that's it; May, June, and the first week of July are totally enough for today!  We're headed full speed ahead into the holiday weekend and have a full calendar of BBQs to hit up, so I'mma bail for now.  Signing off and heading to Aldi for chips and watermelon! :)

...Maybe you'll hear about our Labor Day adventures in November...if you're lucky.

#wakemeupwhenseptemberends

Bye now.