A Week of Weddings, Friends and Family

This week was a great week, but very busy. I'm very thankful that my energy levels have returned (mostly). Monday was Phil and Katie's wedding. Phil and Katie both traveled all the way to LA last year for our wedding so we were really glad to have made it to Ireland to celebrate theirs this year. We aren't allowed to post wedding photos online, so I'll put up a photo of myself and Andrew and picture with a friend who's also pregnant (there were several pregnant people at this wedding actually)

Tuesday we went to visit Stephen and Siobhain and finally got to meet Levi. He's such a cutie. Sara, their 2 year old, is also a one woman show. She's hilarious, she talks so much and is extremely bright. Unfortunately we forgot our camera, so no photos.

Wednesday was spent with the whole family visiting Garnish Island to celebrate Dad's 60th birthday. It was a beautiful day, the weather was perfect and the scenery glorious. We ended the day with a birthday meal at the Poacher's Inn in Bandon. Great Fish pie!

The whole family: Back from left: John, Mum, Dad

Middle from left: Daithi, Dara, Sandra, Andrew

Front from left: Marcas, Sinead, Naomi, Me

Thursday we traveled to Limerick to see Garret and Jacqueline and their new baby girl Grace Hannah. It was so nice to see Jesse and Samuel again and to meet their sweet little sister. Grace was only 10 days old and very tiny. I've seen and held smaller babies than her, however, it felt a little closer to home this time. I must say it was a bit nerve wracking to think that we'd be having a tiny little one like this in our home soon! Again, we forgot our camera...

Friday was wedding number two. Our dear friends Fons and Beatrice De Wit's daughter Kelly married Brian O'Mahony. These two are a really lovely couple and I really enjoyed seeing them get married. Beatrice made a beautiful wedding cake and I really loved the South African (Beatrice is South African) touches in the wedding, in particular the protea in the bride's bouquet and on the cake.

Dad, Mum, Andrew, Me, Kelly, Brian, Marcas, Sinead

Brendan, Kelly, Beatrice, Fons

Beautiful Proteas

Brian and Kelly

Back Home

We're in Ireland for a couple of weeks right now. Wish it was more like a couple of months! I love this place, even though so far I've been just sitting at home suffering from melatonin free jet lag. It hasn't been too bad though, and this morning I slept until 8am, so I'm getting there. Hopefully I'll get through the day today without having to nap. Phil and Katie's wedding is tomorrow so not needing to nap during that would be very helpful :D

We totally forgot cameras which is really quite a bummer, I mean, not only are we in Ireland for two weeks, but we're going to to two weddings! Cameras are needed! For the weddings I brought a dress and shoes and am stealing all accessories from my mother. Saves a lot of money!! Anyway, I think I'll manage this dress for the next two weddings but I'll probably need yet another one for the Eng wedding in August. This, getting bigger every week, is really not helpful when one has weddings throughout the summer...

Soakers

I have gone knitting crazy this past week. My friend Guinevere has got me hooked!

Since I've decided that I'm going to use reusable nappies for the baby I've been getting lots of advice from a friend from Arizona, Abby Green, who is a very practical mum who has been using them for her little guy, Ezra, for the past year. Along with all the very cool different kinds of nappies that you can use she highly recommended wool soakers as a nappy cover. These soakers are breathable and when soaked in lanolin they are also water resistant and can be used quite a often before they need to be washed. So I decided to get to work and start knitting some soakers for Baby Fung. I went a bit crazy, I have now knitted the best part of 4 soakers. I'm waiting on some wool to finish soaker #2 and soaker #4 should be done today. Unfortunately soaker #3 won't be functional as a soaker because I stupidly knitted with cotton yarn which is not water resistant. Oh well, it's still cute and I can just use it as a pants, over another soaker :D

Soaker #1

Soaker #2

Soaker #3

Soaker #4

Andrew and I spent his day off yesterday exploring Pasadena. It's a nice town but it was way too hot, as it generally is in LA these days. We're heading to Ireland next week-I cannot wait! I'm especially going to enjoy the cooler weather. I have two appointments this week, may get to see the baby on u/s tomorrow, and one appointment next week before we fly off. I don't know what they're going to do without seeing me for a whole two weeks. UCLA medical centre just won't be the same!

Anyway, I should get some lunch now and get some work done today, including my Chinese homework-ugh!