Cousins

For my brother's birthday we had a family dinner and we finally got the new babies together. Here are a few of my favorites from the evening.

Katharine and I realizing that our brothers having babies at the same time was the best idea ever.

Nathan and Davon discussing the comtemporary moral problems facing America's youth.

Me holding Elizabeth who is holding her baby brother, Nathan.

Nathan, the chunk, on the left and Davon on the right. Yes, Nathan really is only about 20 hours older.

And top it off with breaking and entering

Last night, Jake and I went to pick up his dad from the airport. We're almost back to the house when his dad realizes that he doesn't have any house keys and the rest of his family is in Florida with the spare keys.
Crap.
So we walked around the house for a little while, checking each door and window as we passed trying to find something open.
No luck.
It's now midnight and the guys are deciding whether or not they want to call a locksmith, break a window, stay on our couch, and whatever other options may have come up.
Then Jake finds a door on the garage that he could open (keep in mind, it wasn't unlocked, it was just one he COULD open). After he jimmy opens the garage side door. We are now in the garage. But the door into the house from the garage is locked and dead bolted.
Crap.
Jake decides he's going to go up into the attic and try to find another opening from the attic into the house.
No luck.
But he does find a return air vent. Jake unscrews the top of the return air and kicks open the vent cover on the inside of the house. Then we found a tow strap in the attic which he wraps one end around a beam in the attic and repelled down the return air vent.
SUCCESS, we're in the house.
It's the moments like this that I can't help but wonder whether this kind of ingenuity is a good thing or a bad thing.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Last week, for our pom reunion, we kept up the tradition of going to see Harry Potter on opening night. So we met up and went to dinner at Chelino's in Bricktown (yay, Mexican food), then headed over to wait in the never ending line to get into the theater. There are 3 of us that have gone to, I think, every book and movie opening together and usually dress up for them. So The Half Blood Prince was no exception.

Then since we were hunting Bellatrix Lestrange, we were lucky to find her in our theater, so we had to tear her apart, naturally.

The exception that we had to this year was that we decided to bring our husbands/boyfriends with hopes that they could keep each other entertained while we reminisced, it may or may not have worked, we weren't exactly paying attention to them. Sorry guys, but thanks for being good sports anyway.

Then here's the rest of us, with the exception of the guys, who we were ignoring, but a special thanks to Jake for following us around and being our photographer.

Look! New babies!

I finally stopped slacking off and uploaded the pictures of the newest babies!
The older baby, by about 20 hours, is Nathan John Ferrell, son of John and Marisa, born on June 22, 2009. Coming in at 8lbs 15oz and 21 inches (I think):

Of course everytime Jake and I have gone to see Nathan, we've forgotten to bring the camera so this was taken on Jake's phone, so poor Nathan is all blurry.

The younger baby is Davon Michael Ferrell, son of Robert and Wendy, born on June 23, 2009. Coming in at 7lbs 5oz and 19 inches (I think, again):

This is Baby Davon, big brother Yorke, and Daddy. I just thought that was the cutest picture ever and couldn't resist.

So far all the big siblings are liking their little brothers, of course they don't have to get up with them at 3 am either. And these cousins have yet to meet each other, nor have Robert/Wendy or John/Marisa met the other baby yet, hopefully we'll have a little family reunion soon.

News 9 Spot

Every now and then I'll do a fashion spot on News Channel 9 First at Four with Anthony David of Anthony David Salons. This past Tuesday I did one for summer dresses with my sister in law, Heather. This one was definately not my finest work, at the time I was actually kind of embarrassed, but since I like to embrace my stupidity rather than hide it, I thought I'd show everyone so you all can get a good laugh about it too.




So we stand on that little platform for a good 10 minutes before they actually show us. We were standing there chatting and I turned my head and my giant earring flew off. So I debated for a second on whether I should pick it up or leave it. I decided to pick it up, so quick check on the monitor...not on us...locate earring...super quick bend down to get it....look up and hello world. As soon as the camera was off us, Heather and I turned to each other and silently made the "oh crap that was on live TV" face to each other. So for the rest of the spot, I was a little flustered and tried not to act like I was, but it made me forget simple things like "when the camera is on you, don't scratch your face". But looking back it wasn't as bad as it could be. I mean my dress did stay on and I didn't fall down or anything, and I thought I looked pretty good in the dress, so I'll count it as a success.

In other news....
My sisters in law, Wendy and Marisa, both gave birth to beautiful baby boys, Davon Michael and Nathan John, respectively, last week. But I've been super slow on uploading the pictures from my camera. As soon as I get those pictures, I will show our family's cutest new arrivals.