We just got back from a great weekend visiting some very good friends who live outside of Houston. Wade and Wendi Holmes have been best friends of ours for over 5 years now, with so many fun memories from college. After years of taking road trips to see each other, vacations to Mexico, guys trips to Chicago, girls trips to the Bahamas....all those have been trumped by visiting each other at home to welcome new precious babes to our families. We didn't have a very eventful weekend, but we loved every minute of our quality time with Wade and Wendi and their new little boy, Jake.
We drove in Friday early evening, and got there in time for Bryan to play softball with Wade's team for a missing player that night. 
Wendi and I did our best of getting there in time for the first game, but left halfway through the second to get these cute babes home to bed!
The four of us stayed up way too late Friday night talking (especially since Wade and Wendi are still having to get up during the night with their little man), so we chose to have a lazy Saturday morning. We let the kiddos play around the house, and we found time in between baby feedings, lunch, and naptime, to play a game ourselves. Brylee really enjoyed this rubber shark as a chew toy all weekend!
Jake was enjoying this piggy-back ride way more than Brylee was! Ha!
Brylee is so close to crawling, but still cant cover any real distance or get anywhere. But boy does she enjoy standing these days, and the Holmes had the perfect ottoman for her to cruise around all weekend.
As any friends would, Wendi and I thought it would be cute to bathe these babies together.
All in the hopes that one day these pictures can be used as cute embarrassment in a wedding slide show during their rehearsal dinner! (Hey, it can't hope to dream, right)
After bath time, they both got dressed in their Ranger's baseball gear! Sweet Brylee was born during the Ranger's playoffs last year and little Jake was conceived during the Ranger's playoffs. Ha! Destined to be Ranger's fanatics!
We thought it would be cute for Brylee to try to hold Jake, and we were all prepared with our cameras to shoot quickly because we didn't think the pose would last long before meltdown. To our surprise, they both just sat like this for several minutes watching us four make fools of ourselves jumping around and taking pictures. We had a good laugh!
I could tell Bryan was missing the itty bitty baby phase that Brylee has grown out of. It was too cute that he offered all weekend to rock Jake to sleep or cuddle and hold him whenever they needed. It was amazing to all of us how much difference there can be between babies who are just 7 months apart. It seems like so long ago that we were doing the things that Wendi and Wade had to do all weekend with a 2 month old.
On Saturday evening, we went over to Wendi's parents house before we went out for the night. How things have changed for our two families!
Butch and Melanie were so kind to keep our children that night while the four of us went childless on a double date.
We went to an improve comedy club, had a bunch of laughs, and ended the evening with ice cream and more laughing.
Sunday morning we went to church and out to lunch with the Holmes and the Blackburns. We didn't get to see much of Brittnie and Brandon while we were there, but had a good time at lunch. Brylee was a little leery of a bearded Brandon...until he gave her a bite of frozen yogurt, of course!
We had such a great weekend, that always feels way too short. It is a Godly blessing to have best friends who I will raise my children with. We love you guys!
Wendi and I did our best of getting there in time for the first game, but left halfway through the second to get these cute babes home to bed!
The four of us stayed up way too late Friday night talking (especially since Wade and Wendi are still having to get up during the night with their little man), so we chose to have a lazy Saturday morning. We let the kiddos play around the house, and we found time in between baby feedings, lunch, and naptime, to play a game ourselves. Brylee really enjoyed this rubber shark as a chew toy all weekend!
Jake was enjoying this piggy-back ride way more than Brylee was! Ha!
Brylee is so close to crawling, but still cant cover any real distance or get anywhere. But boy does she enjoy standing these days, and the Holmes had the perfect ottoman for her to cruise around all weekend.
As any friends would, Wendi and I thought it would be cute to bathe these babies together.
All in the hopes that one day these pictures can be used as cute embarrassment in a wedding slide show during their rehearsal dinner! (Hey, it can't hope to dream, right)
After bath time, they both got dressed in their Ranger's baseball gear! Sweet Brylee was born during the Ranger's playoffs last year and little Jake was conceived during the Ranger's playoffs. Ha! Destined to be Ranger's fanatics!
We thought it would be cute for Brylee to try to hold Jake, and we were all prepared with our cameras to shoot quickly because we didn't think the pose would last long before meltdown. To our surprise, they both just sat like this for several minutes watching us four make fools of ourselves jumping around and taking pictures. We had a good laugh!
I could tell Bryan was missing the itty bitty baby phase that Brylee has grown out of. It was too cute that he offered all weekend to rock Jake to sleep or cuddle and hold him whenever they needed. It was amazing to all of us how much difference there can be between babies who are just 7 months apart. It seems like so long ago that we were doing the things that Wendi and Wade had to do all weekend with a 2 month old.
On Saturday evening, we went over to Wendi's parents house before we went out for the night. How things have changed for our two families!
Butch and Melanie were so kind to keep our children that night while the four of us went childless on a double date.
We went to an improve comedy club, had a bunch of laughs, and ended the evening with ice cream and more laughing.
Sunday morning we went to church and out to lunch with the Holmes and the Blackburns. We didn't get to see much of Brittnie and Brandon while we were there, but had a good time at lunch. Brylee was a little leery of a bearded Brandon...until he gave her a bite of frozen yogurt, of course!
We had such a great weekend, that always feels way too short. It is a Godly blessing to have best friends who I will raise my children with. We love you guys!
We had a great time!! Thanks for coming and we will see you again soon. :) Brylee is precious!
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