Life with Bruce

He loves smoothies....can you tell?

eating his sister's head...
heaping affection on Ollie
rocking out on electric guitar (and "directing" his father and sister as to their musical parts)
enjoying the great outdoors
rocking the gamecube
he's a fun kid with LOTS of energy!

The wedding

The main part of our trip was the wedding of our good friend Lauren to his lovely bride
here we are at the beautiful church (we got there early since Luke had to practice one last time with the other musicians)

modeling daddy's hat




How to amuse your kids for an hour and a half before the wedding starts, and for most of the ceremony:
The modern approach- Bruce plays with the IPhone
The traditional: Lily "reads" through the hymnal

Too cute




Olie mostly slept in the sling


here comes the bride





ollie awake after the ceremony ends

they did remarkably well. at one point when it was really quiet Bruce said, "daddy I don't want to be quiet anymore" but thankfully he didn't say it very loudly. Lily loved the music.
also mentos are an excellent bribing candy because they take a while to eat ;)

The wedding reception

The happy couple making the rounds
We had a fun table:
our friends Carol and Dave
mama. lily and ollie
Alex and Ellie
Carol,Biju and Dave


Bruce tries on daddy's boutonniere


Dave tries to get daddy's boutonniere back on :)


mmmm ice tea
Studly, daddy and Ollie

Camden Aquarium

We wanted to take the kids somewhere fun since all their friends were very sick, so at john ad steph's suggestion we took them to the Camden Aquarium

the curious kids


observing some fish swim by

Lily was very brave and touched the rays in the touch tank. She couldn't get enough and sobbed when she had to be all done

getting wet is worth it when you get to touch the rays!


daddy and Brucie checking out some fish

the british rock star hair do

daddy lifting Lily up to see the turtles and fish. there was a lot of Luke lifting kids. I carried Ollie the whole time in the sling, needless to say we were tired afterwards!

Mama and Ollie at the aquarium. Since I had the camera the whole time there were no pictures of us until I got Luke to take one.

PA Visit

Went to PA last week. Started by visiting the PA Stevens

Logan and his funny face
instrument time


auntie and Gabriel

Tea time with mummi

Tea and cookies a little while back w/ mummi

Fun with friends

We went a-visiting to our friends house yesterday. Helena and Odessa's mommy took some nice pictures of us (mama slacked off, brought her camera and never used it!)

Odessa offering Ollie her water. he was pleased
Bruce and Helena, who got along swimmingly by the 2cd half of the visit
Odessa mimicking the older kids by playing with Lily's hat
Ollie eating...mom is used to helping us one handed
hee hee, these friends are fun!