Leslie's trip to Alabama

A couple of weeks ago I (Leslie) flew down to Gadsden, AL to visit my family and for the birth of my sister's second baby girl. Wes had to stay home to work, so I got to stay a whole week and a day! I had a wonderful time with everyone and I'm extremely thankful I got to be there for my niece's birth! My sister had a scheduled c-section on Monday the 18th, so it was really easy for me to plan to be there. Of course I took a lot of pictures, so here we go.

Here is my cute little preggo sister:

On Saturday I was so thrilled to be able to go to one of Rylie's t-ball games! (Rylie is my sister's 4 year old daughter, and just about the cutest thing you've ever seen.)

She is the only girl on her team, and she has a hot pink batting helmet and glove.

My dad, Ashley, Rylie, and me in the dugout before the game - Go Braves!

Early Monday morning we all headed out to the hospital. Here I am with Ashley right before the c-section.

Ashley and her husband Josh:

Here is Josh coming out with Bailey Kate! Look at Rylie's face as she sees her little sister for the first time! Can't get much more precious than that.

Me and my Ryles:

And the beautiful Bailey Kate:

Here is Rylie right before her very first time to hold Bailey - she is so excited!

Precious sisters:

Here are just a few of my faves:

Rylie LOVES to be silly! And okay, so do I.

Like here when I made my little sister wear this "I love my big sister" bib.

I can hardly handle how sweet this is:

Love my nieces!

Bailey is wearing her "I love my aunt" bib.

It was a blessing of a trip, and I cannot wait until August when I get to see them all again!

May 23rd was Wes's birthday, and this is what he did with all his birthday money:

Never thought I'd be married to a boy with tattoos, but that's who he is and I love him! It actually looks pretty sweet. You'll have to check out his arm next time you see him!

Spring in our city

We are finally seeing signs of beautiful spring here in Buffalo! After so many months of snow, freezing weather, and no green in sight, I cannot even express how wonderful it is to see green grass, leaves growing on trees, and flowers! I've been taking lots of pictures around our house because it's so exciting.

This is the tree right in front of our house (the pics are taken from our balcony). Up until about a week or two ago, it was completely dead with no leaves at all, and then all of a sudden green started appearing!

And then this pic was taken just a few days after the above one!

Here is one of our street also taken from our balcony:

These flowers are in our front yard:

And this is our backyard. We had no idea all these beautiful flowers were underneath all that snow!

Then I took this one just days after the above one... You can see how many more flowers there are and how the ivy on the wall has grown.

We let Boston run around the backyard, and sometimes the downstairs neighbors come out with their dog, Luna, and they play together. It's so cute.

Here we are in our backyard:

So YAY for spring!!

This past weekend we had a Restoration Church hang out night at Melissa's coffeehouse, and Wes played. We had lots of folks come out, and it was a really fun night. Here are a few shots from that: