Garynation

Today is Deidre’s 50th and I was enlisted by my sister-in-law Dawn to decorate her office with 50th garb. With the help of my sister-in-law Paige, I snuck into her office while she was at lunch with Jon and Jared and ransacked it with decorative “50” stuff! It was a success!! She was surprised – yet again, for her 50th birthday! She was surprised on Sunday with cake and ice cream at Jared and Paige’s house and some family from Lafayette travelled in. This post is mainly and easy way to share the photos with our family so they can see how it all went down.               Happy Birthday Deidre! I hope it’s a great one!!

Marielle’s first day was just after labor day, but I’ve been such a bad blogger I never posted anything about it. I hope to make time to blog more from now on!       The best part of the first day was when she came home and we were talking about her day. She is eating a snack and says, “Mom, they call me ‘Mar-rielle’ (as in ‘Mar’ rhyming with ‘far’), not Marielle (‘Mary-elle’ how we pronounce it).” I grabbed my phone and tried to make her say it again on video, but it wasn’t as good as the first time. Here is our re-enactment: also go here . The next school day, she did ask her teacher to pronounce it correctly. I was so proud of her going up to her teacher and correcting her. Mrs. Rachael put her in the car the next day and apologized for saying it wrong. I told her it was no big deal, I just wanted Marielle to tell her instead of me doing it for her. 2 points for Marielle!!

So my sister had her baby, and I am an Aunt! I couldn’t be more excited or proud to finally have that title, for a real nephew. I have been called Aunt KK for about 9 years now, but now it’s for real. I am a real nanny to the cutest little boy ever. I took some maternity pictures of Ally and Billy, but never posted them. I’ll show you a few now, then I’ll tell you more about baby Griffin.   Allison was the most beautiful pregnant woman ever. She was really radiant, and had a beautiful smile on her face all throughout her pregnancy.   The above pictures can finally be revealed!! They kept the baby’s name a secret until the birth, so no one has seen those last 2 pics. Cute nursery, right?! On October 25, Ally went in to have her little baby boy. It was a really long day for her, starting with being at the hospital at 3 am. She got her epidural at about 7:30, so by the time 6 pm came around and she wasn’t progressing very quickly, she and her doctor decided to go in and h...