Goodbye to Angi and Dante

Two of our friends, Angi and Dante, are leaving Oklahoma City and heading home to Ohio. We went to their lovely goodbye party. Of course, we took zero photos with them but a million photos with their daughter, Olivia. Story of our lives, Angi and Danta. Story of our lives. Here are some photos from the party, none of which include the two adults who are moving.

Chatting with Alison, probably talking about how appalled we are about something.

Leigh with Chad and Carrie Dean.

Thank you, Dawn, for taking this photo!

Julie and Mark's son, Samuel, is a doll! Look at this little man!

This was as good as it was going to get for getting all three kids in one photo. Olivia is busy with her milk.

Leigh with Mandy, Chad and Carrie Dean.

Bryan read to Mia.

Mia loved the decorations.

Here she is again, trying to steal them.

Kisses for Jenni! I love this.

Mia using her outdoor voice.

Mia and Many.

Mia drawing a picture.

Mia, Mandy, Jennifer and Samuel.



New Year's Eve

We celebrated New Year's Eve this year with so many wonderful friends. First we went to the Marks' house for a kind of kid-friendly pajama party. We put Mia in her PJs and let her run around with all the other kids. Our friends randomly snatched her up to snap some photos with her.

Then Jill was nice enough to let Mia stay the night so we could go out for a grown-up party! It was so fun. We danced and saw all of our friends we hadn't seen in a long time. It was such a great New Year's.

Three years ago today

It's been a busy, fantastic three years! Our wedding was such a wonderful day. :)

More from the Dean wedding

I snagged some photos from Deaner from his wedding day. Hooray!

When devil otters strike

So today we went to our favorite place ... the zoo. We especially enjoyed the otters.

Mia and Leigh wait for the otters.

Here they come!

Otters are so cute!

Look at how they frolic and swim! Adorable!


DEVIL OTTER!


Look, bears!

Not impressed. We just saw a devil otter. This is nothing.


We are briefly surrounded by a flock of peacocks, who were apparently in cahoots with the devil otter.

Justin was so frightened, he laid an egg.

We decide to go home. Mia pushes her own stroller.

S'more s'mores

We went to the best food party of the year: Soup and S'mores! Jenni and Ryan make all kinds of soups and then we make s'mores outside. Fantastic. Leigh gets quite excited about this. Why? Because South Africans don't have s'mores. They have lots of good things, but this isn't one of them. So sad. So we ate and ate and ate. Oh. And hung out with friends and stuff. That was nice, too.