Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Happy Times!

It's a great time in the Shook fam right now with so much happy news!
Mom and Dad finished their pool!
Mom is turning 50!
Jonas and Erin are engaged!
Margaret and Nora are due in 3 months!
Ava is really cute and sweet!
Marc is turning 30!

At the beginning of August we all convened at the pool for the weekend to celebrate Mom's upcoming birthday and enjoy all of the good news we've been enjoying lately.

The bride to be showing off that bling.

We spent the whole weekend the beautiful new pool! Where else would you want to be during August in the midwest?

Looking out of the pool you can see wildlife down the hill toward the lake. Dad has been enjoying watching these two little fawns grow up and eat pears right off the tree. He has named them Heckle and Jeckle.


Lovely pool right on the edge of the woods.

View from the pool down to the lake. The weather has to cool down before grass can be planted at the top of the retaining wall and around the end.


Mom didn't want a big surprise for her birthday, but we wanted to do something fun! We ended up having her favorite Mexican restaurant cater and we set up a fiesta (in one hour while Dad had her out of the house).

She was surprised and excited, and glad there weren't 100 people there waiting to surprise her. Dad got in on the birthday gifts too since they were in Europe for his bday. Here he is receiving a gift.

Proud new pool owners, orally fixated baby, Marc not smiling.


Baby swimsuit model.







5 comments:

Lisa Cotter said...

Ava in that bikini is just too much! I love it! And can we please plan a trip next summer to your parent's house? I want to sit by that pool!

Drew Mayes said...

That pool in the woods look amazing! And also, my word verification to post this comment is "duckbagy." Also amazing.

Tim, Lisa and Edan said...

Their pool looks amazing, what a great view! Ava looks famous in her bikini, I love it!

Mom said...

Come on over to the pool! I'll even buy that sweet baby a new itsy bitsy teeny bikini for the occasion!

Gina & Brian said...

OMG that bikini is so freakin cute! And your captions are hilarious.