Bottling Day

It's bottling day at Cellar de Block (our as yet unnamed winery in the cellar below our garage).  We are in the midst of bottling about 300 bottles of Chardonnay and 600 bottles of Cabernet. 
How very Walla Walla of us right?



The Chard

Haydn rocking the Cab

Me manning the syringe station (taking out excess from each filled bottle to get it ready for the corking station (Pete) behind me

 

I'd say that I totally can't wait to drink this wine -- but wait, I already am!

My 9 month old, today

I get these BabyCenter.com emails that tells me what my "9 month old, today" is up to.  Well, I'll tell you what he's up to.  He's making his mom & dad and everyone around him smile from ear to ear constantly.  He is a barrel of laughs, he follows his sister all over the house from dusk til dawn, he sleeps like an angel, he eats like a horse, and he is by far, the sweetest and most adorable 9 month old that has ever lived
(except for his sis of course). 
I'm going to show him this post when he's 15 and I'm ready to strangle him!
Jameson Coen Andrew Block - we love you!!!

Simpatico

I like to call this one:  Mothers of the High Energy Child unite!

Thank you two for coming all this way to celebrate with us.  You are the BEST!

The Party {to end all parties}

This weekend we celebrated, big time.  I've mentioned "my Stacy's" before, the ones that have girls born in February 2009.  We all put together, along with Stacey's sister Avril (who's little girl, Emma, was born 2/6/09) a four way 2 year old birthday party.   And we had a freaking blast!  All in all we think there were about 60 adults and 20 kids at the party. On top of it all, on Friday night before the party Andy left to go pick up some Thai for dinner while I cleaned....and he came back with my MOM!!  They got me good, and I am not easy to surprise!  I am so happy she was here!!!  Angela & Deven also came over from Seattle and as always, we had so much fun with them.  We are so blessed with wonderful friends and family and feel so fortunate to have made so many great friends since moving to Walla Walla...Thanks everyone for making this such a special day!

Celebrating Sofia (2.3.09), Emma, (2.6.09), Hadley (2.12.09) and Junie (2.25.09)

The bouncy house!

So happy with Gramma

Grandma Vicki & Jameson

Twins :)

Deliciousness

The spread

Not only gorgeous, but delicious

Amazing!

Avril and her girls Emma & Alina & Auntie Stacey

Bouncy!

Me & the Staceys

Hads goofing off with Daddy

Peter & Evie (3 months)

Junie's awesome "cheese" face!

All of us with our girls!

Hads, me, Stac, Sofia

Ange & Dev came from Seattle to help celebrate and eat cake :)

 

Sam & Eli helping with the pinata

Tall Girl?!

Hadley had her 2 yr appointment and to the Dr's surprise (and total hapiness) Hadley weighed in at 24.2 lbs -- which is in the 25th %!  She gave me big kudos for the gluten free diet, since obviously it's working.  Our girl went from the 5th % to the 25th % in the last 5 months!  Amazing!

She also checked in at 33.5 inches...which is 2 ft 9 in or something....they say if you double your kid's height at the age of 2 that that will be their height as an adult...what's that like 5'6''?!  (Forgive my math, I don't have my ten-key handy) What the heck right?  So weird coming from such a long line of short women :)