God Bless Evangeline Elizabeth!

On March 20th, Evangeline Elizabeth was baptized into the Catholic Church.  To celebrate the occasion, Nanny, Papa, Allie and Lili all flew into town and we had an absolutely wonderful weekend celebrating Evie and our out-of-town guests.  We wish the rest of the Bird/Speier crew and Mr. Bowker could have been here, too.

Friday afternoon at UD.  Even Genny and Maggie Nelson came to hang out!!

 

 

The oldest grandchild with the youngest grandchild

Cousins greeting eachother...with some help from Lili

The three little hobbits

Fiona, very nicely sharing her whipped cream with Leah the moocher

 Saturday morning breakfast at the Old West Cafe - YUM!

Walking around Grapevine:

Saturday Evening:  Grilling at the Jon Birds

Papa!!

Aunt Chris and Uncle Bert made it up from Austin, too!

Sunday morning:  Evie gets some graces!

It was a beautiful, intimate baptism at the Chapel of the Incarnation on UD's Campus and there was a fantastic brunch celebration at Jon and Katie's afterward.

The proud and loving Godmother, Allie

Joe stood in for the Godfather, Luke

At least one of us is looking at the right camera

It was a great day.

Oops!

Well that's embarrassing!

And you thought toilet paper on your shoe was an awkward situation.

Lately...

I have been terrible at keeping up with this blog. It has been a lovely and busy spring and, thus, I have quite a bit of catching up to do. So, in order to bring this blog up to date before I wake up and find that it's July, I am going to recap the last couple months in this one post. In the words of Inigo Montoya, "Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up."

Please bear with me and do try to follow along.

In February, (yes, I am reaching back to February - but only for a very important and very adorable reason....) we welcomed Jon and Katie's little Evangeline Elizabeth into the world. It was so exciting to be living close by and get to run over to the hospital to see baby Evie just hours after her birth. I can't believe we get to have a tiny babe of our own in a couple months!

Soon after Evie was born, Nanny flew into town for a visit.  We got to go for some walks, feed the ducks with Fifi, and show off the new "purple puff" that Nanny got Leah.

In March, we celebrated Mardi Gras.  There was cajun music and a bit of balcony scandal:

Aunt Meg and Leah in their Mardi Gras masks!

We got to see Meg for a weekend during UD's spring break. We took a walk to the Grapevine Botanical Gardens. It was lovely.

Leah is obsessed with these fish!

I changed my mind.  I'm pretty sure this blog post is long enough and needs to end.  I'm not quite caught up, but I'm done for now.  Stay tuned for posts on:  Evie's baptism weekend, our trip to Wisconsin, Easter, and a few others about nothing in particular.