catch up

i took off work most of last week and we headed to temple for charlie's last week of his rotation there.  the trip was super busy....with something to get accomplished every day!  we spent the weekdays in temple, with trips back and forth to college station.  luna visited the vet school (clinic) down there as we are trying to find out the reason behind her chronic vomiting (yuck).  she has been doing this for a very long time and it has become worth the effort to try and find out what is going on.  the doctors there were wonderful, but after lots and lots of test, we still have no answer.  we may be taking her back down there in a couple of months if the medicine they gave us does not work.  charlie's mom (mema to smith) met us in temple and took good care of all of us!  she motivated smith enough to crawl for the first time.  we are glad we are FINALLY crawling...he was so ready...no more frustration when put in the floor :)

we went to waco one night while staying in temple to do some baylor reminiscing.  this also happens when not in the vicinity of baylor, by the way.  anyhow, it was the first night of welcome week and there were 'kids everywhere.  it looked so fun, and we decided we would like to go back, but with smith in tow.  i assume it would be a whole new ball game that way!  

after the end of charlie's rotation, which he got rave reviews for, we headed to dallas to see lots of new babies and old friends :)  we stayed with tara and isaac, who were amazing hosts!  smith was able to meet his new girlfriend, ellery, who he adores already.  she was such a good baby at only 8 weeks old AND sleeping through the night (i was envious to hear this)!

tara and isaac had a pool and this is what smith and charlie were up to:

while i was up to this:

meeting my roomie from college's sweet, sweet baby boy, aaron!

i also got to spend some quality time with another roomie from college, and her precious girl, caroline...who seems so grown up now and i love her to pieces...

my weekend was only made sweeter by the fun i had handing out some of my handmade goodies/gifts to their new owners.  there is nothing, nothing more exciting to gift than something you made especially for someone.  it was super rewarding for my new addictive sewing behavior :)

we had such a great mini vacation!!  smith and i are super happy to be back with charlie for 2 FULL MONTHS!!!  it seems too good to be true!