Special Guests

Liddy and Mike Mike came into town for Cillian's first birthday and we had SO MUCH FUN! Mom and Dad even got to go out on TWO dates. TWO! I will let the photos do the talking for this post. Thank you so much for coming to visit us and have so many fun adventures! We love you so much!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the night of Cillian's party we had a surprise for James - we saved fireworks from the Fourth of July and we let him stay up late too. We thought he did a GREAT job at his brother's first birthday where the focus was entirely on someone else so we thought we'd give him a special night.  

 

 

Liddy and Mike Mike got to enjoy the fireworks too - they were not allowed to do this as children so they had so much fun throwing the poppers and playing with the sparklers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next day we went to the Botanic Gardens and it was freezing. No one was dressed appropriately. Especially not our newly one year old son. Everyone should have had on a sweatshirt and long sleeves. This was not typical July weather at all - I think it was only the upper 60s or something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little man fell sound asleep while we were walking around so Liddy and I walked with him while the boys went into the butterfly exhibit and saw really cool butterflies and moths.  

 

This one was "huge" as described by Doug and was from the Amazon.

This Giant Moth is another reason I will not plan on visiting the Amazon any time in the near future.

 

And then a cute little butterfly landed right on James!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

These two became fast friends on this visit :)

 

Big date night out! Diary Queen!!!! Doug double fisting a Mr. Misty and a chocolate dipped cone.

 

I was in Heaven.

 

It was such a great visit and we were all very sad when they had to leave.

We love you both so very much!