Audrey Ellen!

We barely got to see Graham and Marie on this trip- bummer- but the time we did have was super! (As Steve would say)! Marie took her swimming at the hotel and she is quite a fish- she seemed very comfortable in the water- actually, I got to swim with Ryan the day before, but alas, no good pics. Both my niece and nephew seem to be very comfortable in the water.

We got Audrey a little Hawkeye bear while we were in Iowa City:

Audrey and Marie at the wedding- such a good picture!

We miss you guys!

Vacation Part 4

WEDDING!

We had 2 big reasons for going home when we did this summer-
1: The birth of our new nephew- we knew Wyatt was due at the end of June so we wanted to come in early July to make sure we were there to meet him.

2: Justin's cousin Noah was getting married on July 11th in Chicago and Justin and his brother Graham were asked to be ushers.

Soooo, Vacation Part 4 was WEDDING WEDDING WEDDING!

Graham, Marie and Audrey met up with us in Chicago and it was great to have all the Clark family together- especially seeing our niece (9months) and nephew (1 year) together! They hadn't seen each other since Christmas so they had changed a LOT.

Friday night we went to the rehearsal dinner at Philly G's and it was lovely- such a nice rehearsal dinner! Justin and his dad and Uncle Randy played guitar and sang and Justin and I sang a couple of songs together as well.

This picture is particularly funny to me b/c there were about 8 adults surrounding this table trying to get both kids to look at the camera at the same time. We drew a crowd that was wanting to see what all the flashing camera's were about! Oh, you know, just our darling niece and nephew!

Justin and I at the rehearsal

Me and two of my favorite punks

Audrey and Uncle Justin- isn't she beautiful??

Me, Ryan and Justin at the wedding reception

Justin and I at the reception (a rare good photo of the two of us!)

The fam

Vacation Part 3

After Iowa City we went to Davenport for 2 days and got to spend some quality time with Steve and Anita and Abby(Justin's sister), Kyle (her husband) and Ryan (our nephew). We celebrated Ryan's birthday early (since we won't be in town for his big shindig) at Happy Joe's, went and watched Kyle's baseball team play and basically hung out and relaxed with the fam. Here are some pics from our time in Davenport:

Ryan with Uncle Justin at the baseball game:

Ryan talking to his dad/the coach...put him in coach!!

Me, Ryan, Abby and Anita watching the game:

Ryan in his new car!

Sliding down the slide with Uncle Justin!

Playing at the Jungle Bungle at Happy Joe's!

Listening to Uncle Justin practice for the Wedding Rehearsal- Ryan LOVES it when Justin plays guitar!

I *think* he likes it...

We bought Ryan a car for his 1st birthday- see for yourself. I think he likes it...

Vacation Part 2- Iowa City and WYATT!

Pretty much the main event of the Iowa City trip was meeting my nephew- Aaron and Megan's new baby boy Wyatt! He is AWESOME. He is such a cute and sweet baby. Aaron and Megan were all out and about (he was only 3 days old when we arrived!) and doing an awesome job being new parents. It was so great to be in Iowa City- love a good midwest summer! But mostly, I love my family and I MISS them when we aren't together!

Here are some pictures of Iowa City- mostly my perfect baby nephew!

VACATION Part 1

Landed in Chicago on July 3rd, only to discover that my luggage did not make it on the flight from Houston to Midway (although strangely enough, Justin's luggage DID...) I channeled my friend Megan (who this happened to when she flew out to LA for a visit) and had a very good attitude about the whole thing....for the first 6 hours at least. Then Continental informed me that my luggage had been given to a private delivery service and would arrive at the hotel in the next hour... 2 hours later, still no luggage. ARGH. It ended up being delivered to our hotel at about 2 in the morning though, so it all ended well.

While we were in Chicago we met up with Amy and Charlie (good friends from our Michigan days) and went down to the Taste of Chicago. Super crazy, super fun. Then came back to the hotel for a swim (well, not me being that I didn't have my luggage) and some good quality hang-out time. Got up the next morning and had awesome breakfast at the Corner Bakery (soo good!) and then Justin and I drove our rental car to Moline where we met my folks.

Here are some pictures of our time with Amy and Charlie- the "Bean" was right down by the Taste so we went for a look- surprisingly I had never seen it before- it's pretty cool as you can see but I'm not sure about it's purpose...add it to Governor Blagojevich's list of mishaps I guess! Taxpayer money well spent?