7 and 8 month photos...and a summer update

I think the fact that I haven't posted for most of the summer means it has been an awesome few months! We have been busy traveling, being in the sun, having play and lunch dates, and just enjoying the time as a family. It is hard to believe that the new school year begins tomorrow. It will be my 10th year teaching, which is also very hard to believe. I have definitely come a long way from that first day of Feehan as I cried in my car on the way to school :)

Brenna is doing awesome! She is crawling everywhere, pulling herself to standing on anything she can find, laughs a ton, and continues to be a pretty laid back baby. Her new school, La Escuelita, has been a good fit so far and we all really like her teachers.

We celebrated her (boy)friend's birthday--Nolan--this weekend. The morning he was born Pat and I went over to their house to watch Ali, Nolan's sister and our Goddaughter, while Ryan and Christen headed to the hospital. It was my first day of school and I was looking more and more pregnant. We have all definitely come a long way since Nolan's birth! I really cannot believe she will be 9 months old in a few weeks.

Here are her month updates and a few other fun pictures from the summer.

swimming at Grandma Ann and Grandpa Bill's 

Brenna loves when Pat plays guitar!

happy baby

Three generations at Ocean Shores 

family pic at the beach

first time in the Pacific Ocean

At the Curt Cobain bridge park in Aberdeen 

Ready for the Seahawk's preseason game

lunch in West Virginia 

checking out the White House

Loving the air conditioning on those hot DC days

off to Congress!

at the Capital...it was really sunny :)

Here is one video of Brenna on her first morning she crawled...she turned 8 months old that day!