The Petry wedding!!

On the 26th, we were both in Alisa and Larry's wedding. It was absolutely beautiful, and a great day! They had great weather, and the day was amazing! Here are a few pictures...

Us having fun at the wedding... looking superimposed

The Soon-to-be-Pasieka's

what an adorable couple!

The wedding party....

(Everyone thought Adam and Pete were brothers, and the photographer didn't believe them that they weren't! It was pretty funny...)

The bridal party, and beautiful Alisa!

Awh, the BEAUTIFUL couple, cuddling away!

catch up

Wow - it's been a long time! Life has been very busy these past few weeks here in Houghton. For everyone who doesn't know, we are relocating to Saint John, NB. Adam has accepted an assistant pastor position at Saint John First Wesleyan Church. We bought a house, so we will be moving from Houghton to Ottawa mid-June, and then to Saint John at the beginning of July.

We are very excited about this next step and the new opportunities that this experience will bring.

Ali and the Russell's cat

Ali really wanted to play with the cat, so she did it through the screen...

Ali, in Saint John, taking a nap in our king bed -- what a cutie!

Sleeping on daddy during the plane ride back.

Ali discovers nature with her daddy :)...

And then with Lindsey after her bridal shower!

My first Mothers day!

For our first Mothers Day, we went to Letchworth State Park for the afternoon. It was beautiful, and we all had a great time and got some awesome photos (even though the weather got a little colder this weekend)!

Ali fell asleep on the way there

Our growing girl

Just a couple action shots that I thought were too cute to ignore...

... crawling while chewing on her socks... she loves to try to crawl with things in her mouth, but gets very distracted because they always fall out!...
... pulling up to a stand on mommy's knee...

... and standing at a couch! (she actually cruised all the way down the couch right before this, but I didn't get the camera in time to get it! She'll be walking before we know it!)

Adam's Birthday!!!

Ali watches daddy open his birthday presents

some snuggle time with the birthday boy

Happy Birthday to you!!

Go Sens Go!

Ali and Daddy, ready to cheer the Sens on to beat the New Jersey Devils
Yeay! I love my jersey!

Go Sens Go!

Ali is 8 months old!!

Well, Ali is now 8 months old, and doing amazing. I'm starting to feel like she is way too old, since the college is in final exams and she was born the first day of classes!

She has done/experienced a lot of firsts this past week, which has been a LOT of fun.

She learned to crawl on Wednesday, as well as discovered how to pull herself up to standing on things! It was a big day. Mommy was so proud of her (but wasn't ready to babyproof this apartment!)

Ali has also learned how to say 'hi'. She's been saying it for a little while, but it has taken me this long to believe that she might actually be saying it on purpose. Thankfully she learned mama before these other words!

We hope you are all having a great week!

Our 'huge' little girl turns 8 months old! Wow - the time sure flies!

She is so adorable though :)
And learning to get into trouble... at least she's getting into trouble with books!
We took her out into the grass for the first time, and boy did she hate it! This was the only semi-decent picture! The rest were of her crying... We hope she gets rid of her dislike for grass so we can play outside more.
Ali saw her first kite being flown, and played with this wind spinner thing... she had a blast outside as long as we didn't set her down in the grass!

Ava picking flowers for everyone
Steph and Ali checking out Ava's flowers
We lowered her crib, and Ali was learning to stand up in her 'new' crib! How exciting for her!

And, she experienced bubbles for the first time too. Surprisingly, she wasn't all that impressed. I think she might have just been confused.

Some great weather and a new toy!

Here are some recent pics of Ali... I'll put more of an update in the next post... these are just cute pictures! :)

Ali wears her first little dress of the spring!
And enjoys the sunshine!
She gets a brand new toy to help her stand up tall!
And loves it!!

She's getting more and more adventurous - she loves riding on little cars!

And holding Pooh's hand

(we promise, we didn't set that picture up, Adam just noticed that she was sitting there holding his hand... how cute is that?!?!?)

What a beautiful, excited, little girl!

Hanging out - Pooh is good for everything!

And chewing on Emily's sweater.