Saturday, August 11, 2007

One week ago today, David and Haley were married. It's hard to believe that all the boys now are grown and gone. Life just flies by. Someone took this shot of us and the boys. I don't have one yet of us and the boys and our "girls", but will post one soon.

This is right before the wedding. Daniel and Darin played the prelude music. The wedding started at 7 p.m., but at 6:30, a rainstorm came up. It lasted about 10-15 minutes and cooled the air up beautifully.


Darin, Jody and Caily....Caily did so well the whole trip. She slept and ate. Jody seemed to take it all in stride without missing a beat. I was so amazed at how calm she seemed with the baby and just seemed to sense if the baby was hungry or just tired. She and Darin are doing a great job and little Caily seems so content. She makes these little sighs of contentment that are so cute.

Daniel and Renee...I tried to get a lighter picture, but this is the best one I could get of them. Renee looked so pretty in her cranberry colored bridesmaid dress. Daniel did a good job of helping with the music.

Here we are with the bride and groom....a precious couple. Haley was so calm and collected the whole time...and David was too. When the rain started before the wedding, I just pleaded with the Lord to stop it so the wedding could go as planned. And in His timing, He sent just enough to cool it down and the wedding proceeded without a hitch. I'll post more pictures later.

Friday, August 10, 2007

This is another birthday picture with Darin, Jody, and Caily.

We started to WV for the wedding festivities on Thursday. David wanted us to see their apartment. Haley was in class, so she couldn't be there, but David showed us around their apartment. It's really cute, with three bedrooms and a bath upstairs, and a living room, kitchen, and bath downstairs. Haley had made pillows and a shower curtain. It looked cozy. Here David is "meeting" his new little niece, and Darin is showing him how to "hold" her properly!


This is within about 2 minutes of when Cort Walker Miles met his cousin, Caily Joelle Miles. He thought she was something special. So, we have a Cort and a Caily. Precious children!


This is the day of the rehearsal and Great Grandpa and Grandma Miles are meeting Caily for the first time.
This is the day of the rehearsal. Haley's Uncle Dale and Aunt "Bee" made a scrumptious meal. Everyone commented on how great the food tasted. They hosted the rehearsal meal on the lawn of their lovely home. Here David and Haley went inside and came out with the wedding party's presents decked out in the outfits that Haley's parents wore over 30 years ago when they eloped at age 16 and 17. They looked pretty snazzy! Well, I'll post some more tomorrow, I hope. I just figured out how to get to my pictures once I "uploaded" them. Thank you, Doris, for your helpful comments!

July 31st....we went to the airport to pick up Darin, Jody and Caily. This is Donnie "loving" on Caily before putting her in the carseat (thanks, Garrett, for use of all the "baby" things while Darin and Jody were here.)
We stopped on the way home at a McDonald's and Caily "met" her Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Haas.
This picture is not supposed to be in here at this point, but I couldn't figure out how to turn it upright nor how to take it out. Sooo, if you turn sideways, you can see a shot of Darin and Jody and Caily at the wedding, but wait...I'm getting ahead of myself. Can't you tell I'm an inexperienced blogger???


Darin and Jody flew to SC on his birthday, so we celebrated the next day (Wednesday). I love this picture of Darin and Jody. I'm going to try to post a few more pictures now.