A week for some friends

Before I get into the update - take a look at two more "sneak peeks" from our photo shoot last week.  We LOVE them both, aren't they adorable?  Now we really can't wait to see the rest!

It was a nice week in the Baranko routine.  On Wednesday night I had a few of my girlfriends from work over for dinner, including Patrice and little Miss Morgan Frederick - born just 2 days before Luke.  We hadn't seen her since they were only a few weeks old!  Kate and Kristin came over too.  Kristin is due with her little girl in a little less than 2 months, she looks fab.

 

On Saturday we had the pleasure of attending Connie and Sal's wedding in Chicago.  I work with both Connie and Sal at Walgreens, and there were tons of Walgreens friends at the wedding.  It is fun to meet everyone's spouses and relax outside of work.  The wedding was beautiful and there was tons of food!  My first true Italian wedding - 10 courses of amazing food.  Next time remind me to wear my elastic pants to that sort of thing!

Kate and Terry

On Sunday we had grand plans to have a picnic in the gorgeous Chicago Botanic Garden with Kathryn, Madeline, Valerie, Scott, Nathan, Ben and Luis, and had we had the beautiful day that Connie and Sal had the day before it would have been perfect.  Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate.  We had rain all day, and after a valiant effort of actually meeting at the garden, we had to scrap the idea and go back to our house to have an indoor picnic.  We still had lots of fun catching up with everyone, and the guys liked that they could watch the Bears game instead of walking in gardens.  I still want to get back to the Botanic Gardens though.  I can't believe I've never been there - after almost 10 years of living in Chicago!

Luis and Luke

Madeline

Luke and Nathan

Nothing too special to report on the Luke front.  He said "Ma Ma"  for the first time this week, but it is still said few and far between his other noises.  He also is getting another tooth up on top, so the drooling has no end in sight.  As the weather has gotten a little cooler he has started wearing different clothes and he is really looking like such a toddler.  He even wore big boy 2-piece pajamas.  We got another load of clothes and toys from Nathan and Ben Sosne (thanks guys!) and it has been really fun seeing him grow into all these cute new outfits.  

Line of trucks in their parking lot.

Nice look!