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Monday, May 25, 2009
Bethany and Ben's love nest is invaded by me and my "chubby wonder"

Ok so I know that it's been way too long and I'm really lame. I mean, it's almost been a month since I got home! Sheesh. Oh well. Here are the pics I took while I was there. Well mom took some of them.

The two mothers on the couch

Bert turning a pertly nose in my direction.

Owen snoozin with his dainty bethany hands and wrists.

A yucky one of me, but we had to do the cuddly wrap shot. This was preceding country walk that barely made it to the end of the drive way and back because of Bethany's stomach being squished by Owen. At the end of the driveway two dogs annoyingly came from up the road. We had to walk them back, even though Bethany felt sick to her stomach. This creepy guy came out with long scraggly hair and was bewildered about the whole ordeal, insisting he didn't know how they got out. Maybe because there's no fence? Bethany had to chase one of the dogs around to get him by the leash all the while, Owen was still strapped tightly to her body. And that is what happened with that.

Turns out Sloan looks quite handsome in brown. A brun tetard of his very own.

Owen doing some serious stretching.

A tummy tubberoo. A nicely scrubbed bean baby.

peaking up at me thinking "I like this Aunt"

I took some pics of the cabin, for all those who were as curious as I. Here's her kitchen. Kitchen a la bean.

The table and eating area. That's the baby chair's home. It doesn't leave the top of the table unless it's to go in the car. Want to eat at the table? Shove something over and make room.

What may be considered the living room. That is the very couch Bethany reigns supreme from.

The hall way leading to the mudroom. I forgot to take a picture of the mudroom, though, which is a pity because there's a shower in there, and that's not your average mudroom. The room off of the mudroom is the baby's room and that is where I slept.
Thus ends the tour of Bethany's house.

Cuteness

A floppy newborn. That stage never lasts long for me. Sloan fought with all his might to be able to hold his head up right away.

Ok, so there was this time where we were all going to venture out for a country walk. Ben was going to take Owen in the cuddle wrap. So he started putting it on with Bethany telling him what to do from the couch. I believe she was nursing which is why she couldn't just do it for him. She made him redo it several times because it wasn't tight enough. Finally I came over and gave it a few of my "snowwhite" yanks and helped him get it really tight. Then we squished Owen in sideways and the result of it being so tight was that he sat high on Ben's chest. Ben had boobs. We had a good chuckle but we couldn't show our full amusement at the sight of him because he'd threaten not to come on the walk.

Grandma holding Owen in his blessing outfit. A sailboat sweater vest ensemble. Very handsome, and I don't know why but for some reason he seems like a British baby to me.

Bethany raked in the goods at her shower. We played a few games. One was baby trivia and one was name the food that's in the diaper. Bethany and I kicked butt on both of them. (we answered together) The only diaper one we got wrong was the chocolate one. Who woulda thought? Personally I had been hoping they'd all be chocolate ones, because together with Bethany we'd have a fighting chance, but they were all random foods like mince meat and dijon mustard. The very last one was a chocolate one which I was looking forward to. Turned out we didn't know it at all. Turned out it was some random brindge mix chocolate bar. Who knew there was a chocolate bar a fub didn't know about? Yes there were times Ben got us chocolate. There was one time inparticular that Bethany wanted solid pure chocolate, and the places Ben went to didn't have any. So he bought a whole bunch of other stuff. Keep in mind that Ben had to drive 20 mins to get to the nearest store. I know I'm on a chocolate tangent right now. There was also a time when we went to get Bethany's hair colour, when we were faced with tempting things from the bakery (it just so happened to be giving out samples- how could we refuse??) and it was also bad timing because we were hungry for lunch. We caved and got the turtle cheesecake. However, in our defense, we didn't even eat any until way later that day. We have some self control. And actually we were a little disappointed at the fact that there was no trace of chocolate in the cheesecake. What kind of "turtle" anything comes without chocolate?! When I left, there was still cheesecake left. We'd each only had one piece. I don't know WHY I'm going on and on about this.

a cute white bundle on the houdstooth pilla. It's Bethany's "The pillow" I had one with Adriel and I would bring it to church and everything. Bethany teased me about it. Then she acted all betrayed when I didn't use it for Sloan. The "The pillow" for Sloan is a different one. He gets his own, and I'm not as attatched as I was with Adriel's. I even brought his to Colorado with me. Rambling- I know no one cares about the "The pillow" history.

Gail changed him at the shower. I thought I'd take a shot. I love babies in onesies. Basically Owen and Sloan both got passed around a lot at the shower.

A lovely mamma Bean in front of her nicely decorated cake.

It was a carriage.

These are the outside pics I took of the cabin on my last day.

The homestead with the pond in front of it. I liked this view, but it was hard to capture on film what I saw in person.

Much to my delight Ben and Bethany decided to travel down about a job Ben was looking into so I didn't have to take the dreaded bus!!!! I was so glad, and we had a fun roadtrip time, other than the times we continually had to pull over for Owen and Sloan. If it wasnt one, it was the other. I'm not going to get into the dog poo incident, but it was gross. SO GROSS!!! I got to drive the last stretch while Ben and the babies slept in the back. Bethany and I played that game that she shared in her blog. It was fun, and we had some good laughs. Bethany thought of all the good ones. Mine were dumb, and it did help pass the final time away with amusement. We were getting tired of the whole traveling thing at that point. This is my shot of a cute Owen in the back seat with me.

And one of Sloan and his frowny face- he's not actually frowning, he's concentrating.

All in all, I'm soooo glad that I got to go, and share such a special time with Bethany. It was rewarding and fun to watch her adjust to becoming a new mom. I was glad to see Ben treating her so nicely- as a father ought to when a new baby has been born. There was a special feeling of love and peace in their little cabin home and I felt lucky to be there and be a part of it. It was so fun to have such a lax schedule and to do what we wanted when we wanted. Bethany was worried that I would be bored, but being with her was all I wanted to do, and we had a lot of fun doing it together. I remember when I was pregnant with Adriel and i went to visit the twins in Victoria the month before I was due, Bethany later wrote that it was one of those special gifts from heavenly father- it was a last special sister time. Well this was a special gift to me, to be able to go and visit and have a special baby time with Bethany. I don't know if we'll ever be able to do anything like that again, so I drank it all in. Really, that's how I feel about all my sisters. They are all so special to me and the time I spend with them are times that I treasure. I have the best sisters ever. I was sad to leave her lovely little cabin and go back to reality, but I had this ache in my heart that I'd never experienced to that extent before, for Adriel. I have never been apart from him for that long, and it was hard. I really missed him a lot. So being reunited with Kyle and Adriel made leaving made leaving not as sad as it could have been for me.

That about sums up my visit. I guess I can get back to my normal life now.

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