Lizzie's first MESSY picture. She really enjoyed the lasagna until it got in her eyes. Poor thing! Straight to the bathtub!So, it's a big year for the Merkle family! We had Lizzie, Kristen and Chris got engaged, Scott and Laura found out they're expecting their first baby, and on New Year's Eve, Mr. Don proposed to Kimmy! Wow! Talk about your big years! (not to mention a ton of other milestones along the way) Our family is expanding and we couldn't be happier about the new additions and additions-to-be!
Here is Chris and Kristen:
And Mr. Don and Kimmy
"Mr. Bean" (Chris Nelson) and Kristen are engaged to be married Aug 22nd. They were visiting from Nashville, so lots of wedding plans were going on over the visit, including a bridal fair at the University of Delaware, dress shopping, photographer meetings, etc. Kimmy and Don are planning a possible March 2010 wedding, so they're just starting the planning process. It was great to spend the weekend with all of them!
We got them each a little engagement gift: wine glasses and a bottle of "Two Brothers" wine. Andy wrote a cute little note inside the card (well, Kimmy and Don's anyway :-), Kristen's just said, "see Kimmy's" )anyway, he wrote about the two brothers (Toe and Andy) who will be there standing up for their sisters, so you better be good to them and also that he was excited to have two new brothers join the family. It was typical Andy...witty and "tough guy-ish", yet sweet and sincere.
Thanks for a fun weekend, guys and congratulations to you all. We couldn't be happier for you. Oh, upon hearing the news that Kimmy and Mr. Don were engaged, the boys cheered and said, "Yeah, now we can call him Uncle Don and he can finally be part of our family!" I thought that was cute...and apparently, Don did, too. He keeps having Kimmy tell the story over and over to all their friends :-)
Cute picture of Jake reading to Lizzie.
2 comments:
Congratulations to the Merkle family! I think the plan is to stay in SA until they can both get jobs in Georgia and then we'll reunite there. We would love that! Your kids are getting so big! Why does it have to go by so fast????? Lizzie looks like she is going to keep that dark hair. What a beauty!
Look at all that hair on Lizzie! It's amazing how much she has changed in the few short months we have been gone. Yeah for all the exciting stuff in the Merkle family...I'm just wondering what your surprise will be for the year?????? :-) Hugs to everyone!
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