Bekah's B&B

Us Burkharts have had quite the last few weeks with lots of sweet friends staying with us, it's like the Burkhart Bed and Breakfast around here, and I have simply loved every moment of it!

To start up all the fun last weekend, Bekah and I went to my good friend Charlotte's Sprinkle for her 2nd baby, a baby boy! Bekah was soo excited about finally meeting Charlotte's oldest little girl, Evey, who she had heard so much about. Here they are playing at the shower. Bekah is letting Evey use her new "play phone" that looks alot like her mommy's that she wants to grab and eat all the time : )

Evey got a little baby doll, a baby boy appropriately, a the shower. Already, you can see what a great big sister she will be!

Charlotte opening up presents with the hostess, Cassie:

Bekah requested a pic with her friend to put up on her friend bulletin board. They live all the way up in Virginia, so it sure was wonderful to see these girls:

Isn't she gorgeous?

Price Baby #2 sure is one blessed little boy to be entering such a wonderful family!

And so, after the shower, Vaughanie, Mikey, Ava and Macy ( who drove in for Char's shower) decided to stay the night with us, so our girls could get some much needed girl time! And of course, so their daddies could get in some "jam time" in the "Zacktivities room" and us girls could as always, talk about everything baby/mommy and crafting! Spending time with that sweet Seamans family always leaves us feeling happy and so grateful that they are in our lives : ).

Here is Ava working on starting to crawl, she was sooooo close! Any day now! I am so proud of her! She was showing Bekah a thing or two!

The girls took a moment to "catch up on their reading" and we even found them recommending a title or two to one another, just as their mommies do!

"Ava, I enjoyed the way the author developed the characters in this one, plus, the board book pages are delicious!"

Being serious book lovers, Mikey even took a moment to grace us with his famous "story hour!" It was sooo cute and I just love that we can do things like this together! 5 years ago, we were going to concerts in Dallas, and now, look at us, all sitting around listening to Mikey read a children's book!
Bekah was loving all of Vaughanie's sweetness : )

And I was especially grateful to Vaughanie when she helped me to notice that Bekah got yet another tooth! She got 3 a few weeks ago, but just then, we noticed she got her 4th one up top, making it a total of 6 teeth in all!

Bekah and Ava were showing off their dancing skills, that they got from their Lancer Dancer mommies of course! Lately, when Bekah is happy, she dances, it's so cute!

Even Charlie got to "play host" to his friend Macy! By the end of their stay, they really were having fun together and I think Charlie had gotten over her large "horse like" stature that may have scared his little puny weiner self at first!

Ava really is the sweetest, prettiest thing, always concerned about her friends:

After a little "pep talk" Bekah was trying to feel better. She surely was thinking about how her best friend would have to leave the next day : (.

And so, the next day, before they left, Rob and Sari and Witt ( our good friends from Med school that moved up to Minnesota for residency) were able to come over in time to meet Ava and for Ava to meet Witt!


They enjoyed the typical circle time where everyone grabs a toy, eats it for awhile, then kindly sets it down for their friends to eat next! So funny!
Tearfully, Bekah said goodbye to Ava, but then felt better when she realized that her B&B would instantly be filled up with her good friends, Witt, Sari and Rob, for they would be staying for 3 whole nights with us!

The babies played at the park . . .

and Zacktivities were up and running again, this time with Rob:
And then, guess what happend the next day?? The McAdams' came to stay with us too! Can I just say how much I LOVE having a full house once again?? It was so much fun!

As soon as they got in, we had a nice surprise of Aunt Sarah volunteering to sit for Bekah and Brinley while the "parents" went out to dinner!

Here is Aunt Sarah with the baby monitors, for we made sure they were sleeping before we left her with two babies! It was so wonderful to spend some "grown up" time with our dear friends and we are so grateful to Sarah for letting us do this!

Throughout their stay, the boys did their thing, like hang out on their IPhones, play golf. . .

cook and eat. . . . ( Rob makes the BEST breakfast tacos by the way! I love it, I buy the ingredients and he blesses us with his talent!)

Us girls played with our babies, my new favorite thing to do with my friends:

(Here, Brinley is playing hide and go seek with Bekah.)

Bekah is sharing her new toy with her friends Witt and Brinley.

And playing with your baby always involves a photo shoot of some kind, so here is our attempt to take diaper pics!

First we set up the "youngins" in each corner and when they started grabbing their feet, we thought that the "foot book" would complete the cute pic:

Look at that gorgeous Miss Brinley!

Then we threw Bekah into the mix, where Amy declared that she looked like a conductor of an orchestra! Teehee, she does have music in her genes, who knows!

Witt was so perfectly chill the whole time, I love his personality!

We also went to the park again, where we had to take even more pics of this cute little trio!

Where Bekah was overwhelmed with love for her friend Witt!

Poor little guy, having all these girls around him, dotting over him! Teehee! We are going to have to work on not being so "forward" Bekah!

Bekah swang with her best friend Brinely:

The picture speaks for itself!I just had to steal this pic from Amy's blog of Witt swinging, isn't it adorable???And then, she decided to show Brinley just how much she cares by giving her lots of lovin! Times like these I LOVE how I have one of those camera's that takes pic after pic, I took full advantage, as you can see I just clicked away, it was just so cute!

It's like they are saying, "Hey, where'd your cute bow?"

About to fall over . .

recovering . .

Mary Pat and Evie even came to hang out! Thanks for taking pictures too Mary Pat!

She actually took one of my new favorite pictures of us! We are all looking at the camera, imagine that!

We love our med school friends SOOOO

much and I can't thank God enough for putting them into our lives so we can support one another in all of these exciting times that we share. We sure missed those Louis' and Warminskis though! Oh, and one more thing, we celebrated Amy's birthday and look what happend when it was time to blow out the candles!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, that is her HAIR ON FIRE!!!!!! Props to Rob for his amazingly quick reflexes to stiffle that fire with his bare hands!

And can you believe that only 2 days later, my sweet roomies from college Brandi and Megha, came to visit us? The fun never ends! : )
Here we are shopping, something we are all very good at and share a love for : ). We are trying to teach Bekah the ways, but she surprised us in not being a fan of wonderful places like Anthropologie and Banana!

I love Brandi and Megha, they are two of the sweetest and most positive girls! Being with them reminded me how lucky I was to live with them, I hope Bekah finds some sweet roomies like I did when she goes off to UT, I mean, college : ).

And to top it off, my parents were in town that weekend, helping Jeff and Rani move into their beautiful new home! Of course, the Burkhart B&B was full, so they stayed with them : ).

Whew! What a fun whirlwind of a week! Can't wait for our next set of visitors for Thanksgiving!