Wonderful

One of the things I've enjoyed most about blogging for the past five years and tweeting for the last three (I think) has been making friends with some amazing people. Some of them I've met in person and some I haven't, but it's been a wonderful experience.

While we were in Dallas, for Cohen's birthday, our family joined a few others for lunch! It was my first time to meet Hopsy & Kathryn, but I had meet Becky & Brittany before.

Brittany and I have actually spent time together on several occasions and she also brought us dinner in the hospital while Cohen was there :) Brittany makes beautiful babies. Her girls are so pretty. I always get excited when she tweets a picture of them. Audrey was just a baby the first time I met her, in 2009.

Brent and I had lunch with Becky and her boys in 2010 over Thanksgiving. Becky is so sweet! We email back and forth some and talk on gchat every now and then. I think she and her family are adorable. Mr. Connor is a doll and I just love his curls. Becky is a great blogger and the woman thinks of everything! Seriously, she is good at designing and finding all the best odds, ends, jewelry, etc..

Kathryn is one of the co-owners of Two Little Lovelies, the jewels behind the Lovin' Cohen Headband! Her and her partner are so so awesome. I loved meeting Kat and her sweet baby, Harper! Her little girl, Mady, is a doll, too. You can see her on the two little lovelies site :) Kat is definitely a talented, working mama!

As for the beautiful Hopsy, I have been reading her blog for a while, but she has decided to bring it to an end.She wrote a wonderful goodbye post with some great blogging advice. She is just as sweet as I imagined she would be! She said she really felt like she knew me and our family. We chatted for a about how after following a blog and someone's twitter, you really do get a large glimpse into their lives. So true.

{Thanks to Becky for all the pictures from lunch!}

Beck and I with Knox & Sloane :)

Here are Brittany, Audrey & Sloane :)

Loving on Sloane :)

Nora is about two months younger than Sloane and I just want to eat her up! So sweet.

Becky & Knox. He loved her necklace!

The other guys were in a picture, but this one ended up being the best! I knew Brent would ask how he ended up being the only one, haha.

Hopsy gifted me with these adorable, and yummy, goodies!

loves....

Audrey didn't want to be in the picture, and the babies didn't want to look, but it's still pretty cute :)

Becky designed this sweet design on Cohen's birthday last week. I kind of wanted to cry when I saw it <3

I have a few birthday posts I'm working on. I still have a few pictures and videos coming in from the iPod donation to organize before posting.