It Rained & It Poured

Check this out! If you've been to our house, you know what our pond normally looks like. We've never seen it like this before. That's a good part of our lawn under water. It doesn't look like it, but the water is still a long ways from our basement. We're thankful for that, and we're very lucky.

If you live in West Michigan, you know we were hammered with rain, and if you don't, chances are you heard about it on the news. Our weather made national news today.

The grass is sure green around here, but we're all hoping for some dry-out days in the forecast.

Four Generations

Brighton James is one lucky guy. He has four grandparents and eight great grandparents, and he has met all of them.

Here is Bright with the Walcott men in a four generation picture.

Can't leave out the girls! Here is Bright with four generations on my side.

We are so blessed!

No Lite Bright

We had Brighton's two week doctor's appointment this week. We could really sense that he was putting on weight, so we were surprised when the nurse said he only put on 3 ounces bringing him to 8 lbs. 13 oz. The doctor was surprised too, but also concerned. He decided to weigh him again after he recalibrated the scale. Bright all of sudden weighed 10 lbs. 5 oz. - big difference huh? The funny thing is they have him at a different height too. Only different by a half an inch, but we're choosing to go by what the hospital said when he was born - 22 inches. Brighton is is the 75th percentile for weight, height, and head circumference.

His face is really filling out, and he even has a cute little double chin. I'll try to get some pics of our little chunker (oxymoron...sorry - English teacher, couldn't help it) up this weekend. It's supposed to be beautiful around here. We can't wait. We have stuff planned with both families. Jon says Brighton is a rock star when it comes to our families and friends (right now anyway), and we are his roadies. Pretty accurate analogy I would say, and I wouldn't want to carry gear, support, follow, and absolutely adore anyone else.

Have a great weekend!

BIG Weekend

The Walcotts had quite the weekend. Friday was our 5 year anniversary. We share that anniversary with several friends of ours. Hope you had a great day VZs. We also now share the date with Kim & Aaron. We attended their wedding at the Amway on Friday night. It was our first outing outside of an appointment at the pediatrician last week.

Kim & Aaron's wedding was beautiful. We had a great time, and I was so thankful that I was able to attend. We were able to visit and meet a lot of people including Aaron's family from Philadelphia. Kim & Aaron will be moving to State College, Pennsylvania after a two week honeymoon in Italy. We are ecstatic for them.

We were able to visit with lots of friends including Angela (my college roommate) and her husband Jon.

Dan & Jordan babysat Bright upstairs in our room while we were at the wedding and the reception. Kim told the Amway that we were celebrating our five year anniversary, so because we had celebrated our wedding at the Amway five years earlier they upgraded us to a beautiful suite.

Following our time at the Amway, we headed to the Raterink Cottage for the rest of the weekend. We hadn't been there in quite some time, and we missed Memorial Day Weekend because I was still in the hospital. We know Bright will grow to love this place as much as we do.

Jon got to finally wakeboard for the first time this year too.

We hope you had a great weekend just like we did.

Lindsay