Michael's wedding

On August 8th, Mark's brother Michael got married in the Provo Temple to Angela Howard. I took no pictures at the wedding; I planned to steal them off of facebook and add them to my blog. But Michael and Angela never put them on facebook. Oh well. We went down to Provo on Thursday night. Mark's parents had rented a house and we had a blast fitting everyone in together. Stephen and Sara were already there. Peter and Becca had a miserable time getting to Utah. They ended up getting split onto two different flights, so Becca and the girls arrived late and went straight to bed with no luggage. Peter arrived in the middle of the night, and since the car rental was closed, someone had to drive up to get him. They ended up not having to rent a car at all, we managed to fit everyone into the cars we already had. 

The wedding was in the morning at everything went smoothly. Afterwards, we went back to the house to change into casual clothes. Then we had a picnic at Rock Canyon Park with the two families. The weather was perfect, and we had Provo's famous JDawgs for lunch. Then it was back to the house for some quick naps for the kids and off to the evening reception in the backyard of a family friend of Angela. The site was lovely, and we had a wonderful time. I originally didn't think we'd stay long with our kids, but they had such a fun time that we stayed the entire time. It was a beautiful day, and we're excited to welcome Angela to the family.

With my boys

Matthew and Jill

Hannah

Henry all dressed up

Christopher and Lindsay with Henry

John with Nicholas

Grandma and Grandpa Robison with Henry

Stephen, Sara, Matthew, Anna, Hannah and Mark

Matthew, Garrett and Amy

All the grandkids: Christopher, Lindsay, Nicholas, 

Hannah, Henry, Matthew, Garrett, Kate, Amy and Jill

Mark with Hannah and Matthew

Amy and Kate

Amy

Amy, Kate and Garrett

Jill and Peter

Kate

Kate and Matthew

Kate, Amy, Christopher, Garrett, Lindsay and Matthew

Christopher and Lindsay

Jill

Mark and Hannah

1 month old

I took a picture of Henry at one month old, and then it struck me later that I have the same picture of Hannah at that age. Same position and same outfit. So here's my comparison between Henry and Hannah at 1 month old. I think Henry looks a lot like Matthew did as a baby. 

Henry at 1 month

Hannah at 1 month

Anna's and Michael's brithday

Mark's siblings Michael and Anna share a birthday, so we had a birthday party and Mark's monthly family dinner. Present were Michael and his fiancee Angela, John and Brooke, and Mark's cousin Matt with his wife Kate and there three kids, Olivia, Robin and Teddy. We had a fun time passing around the three babies. Matthew and Olivia were so cute. They were bothered by the flies, and Matt taught them to "Boo" the flies away. The kids thought this was the best idea ever. Now two months later, my kids still "Boo" flies. Hannah ended up sleeping through the whole birthday party. 

Happy Birthday, Anna and Michael

Anna decided that they would be twins this year. 

Next year, Michael gets to be the older brother.

Kate and Robin

John and Brooke with Teddy

Teddy

Matthew

Olivia

Grandma's visit

My mom came to stay with me for basically a full month, and it was wonderful. She a week before my due date, and was a tremendous help with Matthew and Hannah while I suffered through those prolonged final days of pregnancy. And even though Mark's sister Anna had moved in with us, she was gone almost the entire time my mom was here - either in Germany or in Ohio. Mostly we just stayed home and hung out with newborn Henry. Near the end of her visit, we went to the zoo to celebrate my nephew Ayden's birthday. We had a fun time going around the zoo with Aaron and Benjamin's families, and the baby was perfect and slept the whole time. Mom's biggest accomplishment over the month was to get Hannah to call Matthew by his name. For some reason, she had started calling him "Hannah" and he would even respond to it. We were constantly playing the name-that-person game. But it worked.

Hannah and I

Grandma Pingel

Grandma Pingel

Grandma's tablet is always a hit

Feeding their babies

Grandma Pingel

Hannah feeding her baby

Hannah and Henry

Mark and Hannah

Katherine

Ayden's birthday cake

Ayden

Matthew and Ayden

4th of July

I had my sister-in-law Jess come over and to take newborn pictures of Henry. We were snapping pictures of Henry when Hannah came over and wanted her picture taken, too. Then I bribed Matthew to come down, and we ended up with some adorable photos. I love having a photographer in the family. Are they so cute?