What's up with Elisabeth & George?: Regin's Birthday Photos

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Regin's Birthday Photos

Here are the shots that Teddi put up on Facebook. There are more and if you want to see the rest, I'll have those soon and you can check them out. If you want to order prints or get the high-res copies, you can as soon as I get the disk from Teddi. In the meantime, you can check out album 1 and album 2 on Facebook, and Highlights below:

Birthday boy!

I made a table covering for our airplane-themed birthday party by drawing airplanes with colored pencils on brown package paper.

Cheesy-bread airplanes

Little airplanes hanging between balloon "clouds"

Pretty much everyone was put to work. Which was fine since it turned out to be mostly family that came.

Omma gave a hand-knitted airplane she made, Granddad gave an airplane book.

Omma would be mad if I didn't show off the airplane she made a bit more. Pretty awesome, right?

Granddad also made an airplane. Which, as it turned out, was NOT what Regin wanted.

But it turned out to be HUGE fun for the big kids among us!

Some portraits.

Happy Birthday to youuuuuu! (Regin has been singing that ever since).

We'd been practicing getting him to blow out candles earlier that day, but we made such a huge chear when he actually managed it, that it scared him and he refused to blow them out again!

David Family portrait.

Yay! Turns out the real kids (other than Regin) really liked the airplane too. Anthony and Alexandra took turns putting it on over and over and over...

1 comment:

team woelfel said...: so cute! really sorry we missed it, will require much better planning in the future. . .; 4/20/2009 2:23 PM

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How we're doing right now.

April 6th, 2009
Oh man, moving back home has been quite a transition! For Regin especially. It has taken him three months to return to being fully, or almost fully, potty trained. But we're home and happy to be with friends and in an environment where things are easier.

But of course, not everything is easier. George's first day back to work he learned that the company was exiting the business and he and all the other people that work on that product (including all those people he trained in Penang) were told to look for other jobs.

His last day was March 31st. No time for that cozy little 'sabbatical' though; after he finished his last day of work, his family called and told us they are coming (from Florida) for a visit on the 10th! This would be no big deal (other than being terribly exciting) if we were fully moved back in, but of course, until now, we've had VERY little motivation to fully unpack! So now we're preparing the house at warp speed!

You know, I do miss Penang. Hard to say what I miss exactly, because I know it's more than our friends there, but I feel a certain pang. And all the time we were there, other than missing family, friends, easy living, and snow, I never once actually missed 'Colorado.'

When we got back to Colorado, I expected to have a new and complete love for the place. I do appreciate some things a lot more, especially visual things. I see beauty where I didn't before. But it hasn't been the feeling of home that I expected, and I still have some of the same issues with the place. But what I do love IMMENSELY and will always love IMMENSELY is the people we have here. And it's been absolutely amazing to see how Regin has picked right back up where he left off with his loved ones here. There's no doubt in my mind that he somehow remembers them.