Noah rolled over by himself for the first time today!
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Catching up with the Campbell's
If there ever was a family I would want to get adopted by it would be the Campbell's. If I had two words to decribe them it would be fun and genuine. I met April Campbell my sophomore year at Penn State when she rushed Gamma Phi Beta. April possesses a wonderful smile and cheery disposition...being around April is never a downer. Her brother Matt also went to Penn State and besides also having the great Campbell disposition he possessed good looking friends. April's parents Ron and Phylis both had graduated from Penn State and came up often for games and to see their kids. They were always fun to be around. One spring break we road tripped to the Campbell compound in Atlanta and not only did they play beer pong, Phylis made the BEST breakfast casserole. I still dream about it...it was that good.
Many years have passed since those treasured years at Penn State, but the Campbells have stayed present in our lives. April lived with me in Hilton Head the summer I met Mark. She then moved out to the Pacific Northwest and met an equally wonderful person in Tim Slinger. April stood next to me the day I got married and Phylis sends us an anniversary card every year. Mark and I carry a special place in our hearts for the Campbell clan.
So with that said you can imagine our excitement when we discovered that Ron would be attending a conference in August at the Hyatt Grand Cypress where Mark works! As excited as Mark and I were...Joshua was over the moon...he had met Phylis in February when we went to visit her on the Palm Coast. She has those wonderful grandmother instincts and Joshua loved her instantly. He's always asking "When is Aunty Phylis going to come play with my toys?"
Without family nearby it was really refreshing to catch up with Ron and Phylis who feel like family.
Here is Phylis at the Hyatt pool with Joshua.
Here
she is with Noah at our house.
Many years have passed since those treasured years at Penn State, but the Campbells have stayed present in our lives. April lived with me in Hilton Head the summer I met Mark. She then moved out to the Pacific Northwest and met an equally wonderful person in Tim Slinger. April stood next to me the day I got married and Phylis sends us an anniversary card every year. Mark and I carry a special place in our hearts for the Campbell clan.
So with that said you can imagine our excitement when we discovered that Ron would be attending a conference in August at the Hyatt Grand Cypress where Mark works! As excited as Mark and I were...Joshua was over the moon...he had met Phylis in February when we went to visit her on the Palm Coast. She has those wonderful grandmother instincts and Joshua loved her instantly. He's always asking "When is Aunty Phylis going to come play with my toys?"
Without family nearby it was really refreshing to catch up with Ron and Phylis who feel like family.
Here is Phylis at the Hyatt pool with Joshua.
Here
she is with Noah at our house.
The Best Surprises Come When Least Expected
It's funny the best moments in life are sometimes those that you least expect, and those surprises usually come just when you need them....Take in point another wonderful person showing up at the Bedford household. Mark informed me last weekend that he would be cooking dinner Tuesday night. Okay that is odd considering he barely gets home in time to tuck the two munchkins in bed...let alone in time for him to cook and eat dinner. Mmmmm somethings fishy...then he came slightly clean and said that there was a surprise "family" coming over for dinner on Tuesday night. He was sworn not to even tell me that anyone was coming...however if you saw what my house sometimes looks like at around 6pm some days...you'd give me the heads up too.
So I racked my brain for a good 48 hours pondering who this "family" could be. I was filled with excitement as I anxiously awaited this mystery guest coming Tuesday evening. Mark said he would be arriving with the said "mystery guests" at 7pm...and of course at 6:50pm Joshua sees his neighbor friend Mariah on the wooden bridge near our house and demands to go look for fish in the lake near us. Try telling a two year old to wait in the house when a playmate is outside...okay most likely they will be late. However right on time...so I missed the grand entrance but came home to see our dear friend Brigitte Brown on our front porch. She was up in Orlando for a meeting and decided to surprise me! I was sooooo happy to see B2. We had asked her to be Noah's Godmother and were wondering when we were going to get to Grand Cayman to have the two meet.
Here is a picture of the two of them sharing their first cuddle. This is the happy part...the sad part is that I set both of our cameras on the arm of the couch which soon got kicked by Noah and down went our cameras onto the concrete porch. Yeah, my camera now works if you hold it together and not sure about Brigitte's, but it didn't look promising.
Anyway broken cameras aside it was a great night catching up with B2. She is really fun, sophisticated, and a true gem of a person. I love that she can still maintain a sense of style amidst the chemo. We think of her often and pray that this 2nd round of chemo kicks the cancer.
So I racked my brain for a good 48 hours pondering who this "family" could be. I was filled with excitement as I anxiously awaited this mystery guest coming Tuesday evening. Mark said he would be arriving with the said "mystery guests" at 7pm...and of course at 6:50pm Joshua sees his neighbor friend Mariah on the wooden bridge near our house and demands to go look for fish in the lake near us. Try telling a two year old to wait in the house when a playmate is outside...okay most likely they will be late. However right on time...so I missed the grand entrance but came home to see our dear friend Brigitte Brown on our front porch. She was up in Orlando for a meeting and decided to surprise me! I was sooooo happy to see B2. We had asked her to be Noah's Godmother and were wondering when we were going to get to Grand Cayman to have the two meet.
Here is a picture of the two of them sharing their first cuddle. This is the happy part...the sad part is that I set both of our cameras on the arm of the couch which soon got kicked by Noah and down went our cameras onto the concrete porch. Yeah, my camera now works if you hold it together and not sure about Brigitte's, but it didn't look promising.
Anyway broken cameras aside it was a great night catching up with B2. She is really fun, sophisticated, and a true gem of a person. I love that she can still maintain a sense of style amidst the chemo. We think of her often and pray that this 2nd round of chemo kicks the cancer.
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