Adventures in Faith

Daddy's Birthday! And he's HOME for it :)

There are again NO WORDS to express how very very excited + blessed we are to have Daddy HOME with us to celebrate his birthday.... 32 years ago on September 10, God brought into this world a Man who would forever change my life and make possible the lives of two amazingly wonderful other little people. THANK YOU, LORD for this Man, our Daddy. We love him, respect him, + honor him always.... xo

Happy Birthday!

A Monday kind of Tuesday

The only major "shake up" this week was going in to our clinic visit on Tuesday due to the Labor Day holiday. We will most happily take that kind of shake up! Beyond that, we had a great "incident-free" appointment, and even some fun - imagine that ;)

(a) We cannot believe how BIG they're getting! ...and (b) that they still like to all fit in ONE chair!

Trinity held Samuel's hand while Nurse Sarah accessed + drew blood

Happy to see our little friend Lily - and happier still that she had brought homemade cookies to share!

A Special Dinner

Since we were blessed to have Nonna with us - and VERY blessed by our amazing Uncle Michael + Aunt Zara to send us out for the evening - we decided to go to one of our favorite dinner spots, Cap City Diner. Yummms. It was also a very special weekend because we began the celebration of Daddy's BIRTHDAY! We are so grateful for such a precious time together...xo

Have we said "yay for Nonna!" yet? :)

Ice water w/ lemon, please. Too cute.

Yumms

Yep, that's creamer. Yep, she's drinking it. Pick your battles, right ;)

We're excited about Nonna!

An early birthday candle for the World's Greatest Dad.

NONNA!!!!

We got the most wonderful surprise visit last weekend! Our very very special Nonna was flown in from California + got to spend some much needed snuggle time with us! "Joy" doesn't even come close to what we all felt.

Yay for Nonna! xo

Playground fun

Their "ice cream" shoppe

Climbing the spider web...

Victory!

BFF's :)

Tire swing fun...

Tackling the climbing wall...

Victory again!

Family Reunion!

Over Labor Day weekend, Samuel + Trinity were able to enjoy the festivities of the First Annual Bass Family Reunion (Mawmaw's family). Needless to say, dancing + a dessert buffet were about as close to Heaven on earth as these two can get! GOOD TIMES had by all...

Mawmaw + Dad

Coooookies :)

Caaaake :)

More dancing...

Mawmaw + Mom :)

Cousin Heather, Mom + widdle cuz Benjamin

Morrrre dancing...

Cousin Sloane + Trinity = BFF's

Aunt Katy + Mom... probably laughing at the amount of cookies being consumed + break out dance sessions :)

A Trip for Trinity

This time we went to Children's for a little ultrasound on Trinity (she's 100% healthy, a little swollen lymph node). The kids were excited to have a brief adventure where Trinity got to have "pictures taken" with the "goopy stuff" instead of Samuel. Too funny. Since her appointment was not until 1:30 pm, she wasn't able to eat or drink basically all day (not funny). As a reward for being so good about it, they were treated to gum balls + milkshakes. We're sure if you asked them, they'd do it all over again just for that!

All smiles, brave warrior princess.

Pretty cool kid set up

Not a care in the world...

Big girl gets her pick of stickers!

Mmm...oh yeah. First one ever as a matter of fact!

Her badge of honor :)

One Last Dip

We had to take advantage of the hot summer sun one last time before autumn really sets in. We'll swim all winter, but the indoor pool just isn't ever quite the same :)