Summer Party: Friends

To follow up on my post of details from our Summer Party, I thought I would share some photos of our guests enjoying the party:

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Meet Abby & Friends

Meet Abby:

Abby is the daughter of our friends Nikki and Robbie. She is also Isaiah's future wife. It was arranging before her birth. 

She recently had her first birthday party (with a super cute Dr. Suess theme), where Isaiah discovered his new love of balloons and tried to eat Abby's cake with her. 

Isaiah was very happy that his buddy Austin was back from Texas. However, we felt a little bad for him because Isaiah was chasing him around, trying to get the balloon that was tied to his foot.

Two weekends ago, Abby was dedicated at church. We decided to try to get a few pictures of the three kiddos and this is what happened:

Stage 1: All are finally sitting on the stage. Now to get them to all look up at the same time.

Stage 2: Isaiah decides to take his shoe off.

At the same time, Austin decided to make a move on Abby. Isaiah played it cooling, knowing that he holds Abby's heart.

Stage 3: Austin takes off to go play the drums. Cute picture of all three smiling not achieved.

Isaiah sees him take off and decides that he wants to go play the drums too. Abby was left looking pretty by herself.

Dear Abby: Hello. Love Isaiah.

We love San Diego

This weekend, we officially felt like San Diegans. We went to the big holiday event at Balboa Park with our good friends Jon and Jenetta . David's mom and Grandma came down to visit and got to spend some time with us there as well. It was so fun! I cannot believe that 300 thousand people go to this over two days. Crazy!

The organ pavilion was beautiful! We watched a cheesy choir performance while eating our crepes and french onion soup from the French tent.

I was so excited that Isaiah could wear his new cute little pea coat!

tired & overstimulated Isaiah:

Finishing off the night with gingerbread men and hot chocolate- one of my favorite parts of the night!

It definitely helped get us in the Christmas mood. I am sure we will make it a yearly tradition!

Speaking of Christmas, I recently started a series on my Joyful Weddings and Events blog highlighting some fun Christmas ideas and finds. Be sure to check it out!

Happy Christmas season!

Fun with friends!

So, this post is long overdue, but oh well. We are so blessed to have such amazing friends and we have had many opportunities to do some fun things in the past couple of months.

Holly and I had fun at the Counting Crows & Maroon 5 concert:

I snuck away for a weekend for our church's women's retreat. So fun! Shae & I highlighting the local attractions in Idyllwild.

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My sweet friends Julianne, Caitlyn & Bree came down from Orange County to visit. I showed them the highlights of Escondido: Lourdes & Dippin Dots :)    Come on down to Escondido, we'll show you a good time!

I miss my girls, so it is fun to get a night with them!

David and I decided last minute to go to the Switchfoot concert (Jars of Clay and Third Day were there too, but we missed Jars of Clay & left early in Third Day's set). They are one of our favorite bands and we have never seen them, so it was really fun.

We met up with my sis for a bit:

It has been a month of great concerts! We don't have pictures from these, but David got to go see Radiohead (his favorite band. I opted out because they were pit tickets, and being 5 feet tall, I would not have seen anything all night) & we went with our friends Jon & Jenetta to see Sigur Ros . It was one of the best concerts we have ever seen. They are incredible- definitely check them out!

One of the highlights of the past month was a mini-reunion with some of my high school friends at our beloved Gypsy Den . So fun!

Lots of love for the little guy:

Sweet michelle & Jonathan:

We got an extra special treat this week when Michelle came and stayed with us while working down here in San Diego. She and Isaiah are officially buds:

Isaiah has been getting some fun time with friends too:

Flirting with his wife :)

Stealing Samuel's juice:

Samuel trying to steal Isaiah's juice:

We are so thankful for our friends and the fun beginning of Fall we have been given!