Babies and Turning 21

I took my final long summer weekend to visit Caroline & Jimmy Hartley in Columbia, SC. Their son, William, was born about a month ago. What a great baby! He was amazingly calm, cuddly, and super sweet. I spent two days hanging around with Caroline and William. Here are a few pictures:
Caroline, William & I:


William wearing the baby hat I knitted for him:


William and I hanging out:


I also went to Greenville, SC for one night to see another baby, the Bailey family baby. Tim turned 21! Hard to believe, but we took him out for pizza & beer at Barley's in downtown Greenville.


With Tim at a bar!


May be the best picture ever of these two:


Tim & Mum:


I have the BEST brothers ever:


A good picture of Mum & Me:


We had SO much fun. I am so thankful that I was able to visit Caroline, meet her son William and celebrate a big birthday with my baby brother. I am always thankful for the technology and ability to fly across the country in less than 5 hours. Planes are full of annoying people and bad food, but they are my necessary evil and I am grateful for them!

Jason was also traveling while I was gone. He had a meeting in Portland, Oregon and then left for Canada last Sunday. We intersected in the Phoenix Airport on Sunday for dinner at the Terminal 4 Chili's...how romantic. He was flying out at 8:00 and I flew back in at 5:00. Caroline's mom, Polly, called us a 'couple of jet-setters'!

As if anyone could forget, Jason turns 30 this Wednesday. Hard to believe my husband will be 30 years old -- makes us sound old -- haha! He has to be in Sedona for work, so I'll be driving down to Sedona this Wednesday night to spend his birthday with him. We have a few other celebratory events planned for labor day weekend.

I am working this weekend, Transfer Orientation today and walk-in advising tomorrow. Classes at NAU begin on Monday -- let the fun begin! This past week was a mad house; mini-vans and U-hauls full of parents, new students and lots of stuff moving into the dorms. Let's hope I can get a parking space:)

Last but certainly not least, we welcomed our 2nd niece, Juliette Skye Hemmer, into the world this past Tuesday, August 24th. She weighed 8 pounds 11 ounces at birth, and is 20.5 inches long. We are extremely excited to have this new addition to the Hemmer family. Apparently, our niece Emelie is also very excited to be a big sister! Jason will have a chance to meet Juliette in person at the end of September when he'll be in New England for a business trip. Congratulations to Erik and Cindy for becoming parents for the second time! We'll certainly have more pics of Juliette available in the comings weeks and months, but for now we have 2 pics hot off the presses posted below.

Juliette's Birth Announcement

From Drop Box

Juliette Napping

From Drop Box

XOXO

Random Happenings

As predicted I spent much of the weekend in a cleaning frenzy. Laundry, dusting, vacuuming...I even got Jason to help me clean out the filing cabinet. Of course, we did some conventionally fun things also...

My friend and co-worker, Melanie, is getting married Labor Day weekend. I attended her wedding shower on Saturday afternoon. Here is a picture with myself, the bride-to-be, and another co-worker, Lisa.


While I did secret girl things are the wedding shower Jason and his friend David went for a bike ride. Jason snapped this picture by Walnut Canyon.


We also went out for dinner at Oregano's on Saturday night with one of Jason's co-workers and his family. It was actually our 2nd time at Oregano's that week. On Tuesday nigh we met an old Clemson friend, Keenan, and his wife Nicole there for dinner on their drive through town. They are driving across country from Florida to California and made a pit-stop in Flagstaff.

Jason is going to Portland, Oregon for a meeting on Thursday and I am off to South Carolina on Wednesday to meet the newest Hartley, William, and see Tim on his 21st -- can't wait!!!

xoxo

The Family

My family came into town last Friday and stayed for a long weekend. We only had one rainy day out of four and spent our time doing what we do best: eating, talking and laughing. We also had time to visit Sunset Crater & Wupatki National Monument, catch a movie and aimlessly wander around town.

Sunset Crater:


Mum taking a little rest in the shade:


Brunch at Martanne's:




Arizona Cardinals come to NAU campus each summer for preseason. Richard & Tim watching practice last Friday afternoon:


Richard rented a Tahoe so we could all drive around together. I was designated driver; I felt like a soccer mom taking my kids to practice. Here are all the boys riding in back on our way to Sunset Crater:

I miss my family so much some days and it was awesome to have all four Baileys--Mum, Dad, Rich & Tim in town together.

We are in town this weekend catching up on laundry and deflating air mattresses -- Happy Friday to all!
XOXO