Becky & James Get Married!

On August 16th Becky and James got married in St. Paul's Church, Ivy. It was a beautiful wedding and we all had an amazing time - including Sophie and Lauren who were flowers girls.

The newlyweds!

While the rehearsal went as smooth as could be, on the real day Lauren decided that she would sprint down the isle - and Sophie didn't know what to do so she ran after her. 

Me, Becky & Mom

The girls hung with me up front for bit - although it was pretty boring for them, so they didn't last long.

No official pictures yet, so here's a very unofficial one of the whole wedding party. 

Lauren cutting a rug with Zoe at the reception. 

The Rainer Clan

The Coughlin Clan

Becky's Baby Shower

The family all came up this weekend to celebrate Becky's coming baby. I put together a shower at Figs, a restaurant just a block away from our house. Family from PA, NJ and NY all came. Despite the snowy weather, everyone came and had a great time catching up, eating and looking through all of the presents. 

Me, the mom-to-be and mom

 Becky and Yvonne, Jame's sister

 Becky and her loot

 The whole group

Family Visit

Last weekend the Coughlin clan was up for a visit and on Saturday aunts, uncles and cousins also came in for a quick hello. Lauren and Sophie loved the attention :) 

Becky & Lauren

Maithili is a natural...

Dan too

With Nana & Pap Pap

Quinn entertained us all with a reading of the Pout Pout Fish... in an English accent of course. 

A Week in Paradise

Last week we took a big family vacation to St. John. We rented a house on the Cruz Bay side, on the boarder of the national park. It was an amazing week of good food, snorkeling, swimming, hiking, and generally just unwinding. Sophie loved the sun, sand, water and all of the attention from grandparents, her aunt and cousin.

 Here's a shot of the house from the driveway. It was made up of three separate buildings, with a pool separating two of them, and a courtyard separating the other two.

 Bathing Beauty

The whole crew on our last day (sigh). 

Merry Christmas!

Dave and I flip flop families for Christmas, so this year we were down in Va. with my family. My cousins from Long Island, Brittany & Brandon, and my aunt Pam also came down. They used to come down years ago and it was good to spend the holiday with them again. Sophie got a lot more into it this year, but was a little overwhelmed with all of the presents. She was excited for about the first 3-4 and then started to lose it, and so Dave and I ended up opening up the rest of hers.

 Coming down the stairs to see if Santa came

Santa did indeed come! She raced toward the stack of presents under the tree. And loved the wooden rocking chair from her Great Grandma!

Brandon also helped open her presents.

With Brandon & Brittany later in the day

Reading with Brittany

The whole family!

An Early Christmas and The First Steps!

Nana, Pap Pap and Becky came up this weekend to celebrate an early Christmas. Sophie got everything that she asked Santa for (he can understand her language) as well as quite a few other things. She also took her first two steps! Aunt Becky is happy to say that they were toward her. Videos to follow.

She tasted each and every box. This one looks like it was especially good.

 Reading among the goods.

Sophie and Aunt Becky at Brad and Joan's annual tree decorating party.  Very color coordinated.

Thanksgiving 2010

We spent Thanksgiving down in Virginia. Mom and Dad had a house full and Dave cooked the ENTIRE dinner for 16 people all by himself (well, I checked on some things in the oven, but we won't count that). 

Here he is with the 22lb. turkey. Thanks to Catherine and Hannah for bringing the meat thermometer or we might have been waiting until midnight for that sucker to cook. 

 Becky and me with Quinn & Carley

 Sophie had some close encounters with Vahid the tortoise. Soon he'll be as big as she is. 

 On Thanksgiving morning we ran a 5K (Sophie cheered with mom from the sidelines). She probably worked off at least one piece of pie... maybe. 

 Sophie had her first taste of turkey.  From the looks of it she seems to like it. But we haven't actually found a food that she doesn't like. 

 We went for a hike on Friday. 

The Coughlin clan 

Memorial Day Weekend in Virginia

We went to Virginia for the weekend and Sophie finally met her Great Grandma. She cried the first few times she held her... but she finally got the hang of it and even gave a few smiles.


She also got to spend lots of time with her nana, papap and Aunt Becky



And of course, Benson got to spend a lot of time with his best cousin Merci

Nana & Aunt Becky come to visit

Mom and Becky came up this weekend for a quick visit. They hadn't seen Sophie since she was born. She got extra love all weekend!


Benson also enjoyed the extra attention...