Hannah and Martin get MARRIED!!!

Fair warning - this post will be longer.  But if any posts deserves to be long, this is it.  We had such an incredible time celebrating Hannah and Martin!

The party officially began as the O'Connell extended family arrived in town.  It was only appropriate that this crew gathered at Chris and Ginnie's to watch tennis...it's just in the blood.

It was especially fun to see our triplet girl cousins all grown up - they were the flower girls in our wedding on their 3rd birthday.  Will was quite smitten.

They took our boys on in soccer.

A very fun rehearsal dinner - catching up in a booth at Clydes.

Grandpa Jerry giving a toast.

Kaleigh, Emmy, Audrey, Hunter, Tessa, Margaret, and Aunt Susan.

 The big day arrived!!

My dapper boys with their gorgeous Tia.

The outdoor ceremony was moved inside at the last moment.

Beautiful place cards done by Joanne Chu.  She's amazing.

The bride and groom with all their nephews and nieces

The OC fam!

Moving indoors turned out to be perfect - it felt intimate and sweet.

And these sweet ones got to line up on the stairs like the Von Trapp children.

Exchanging vows.

Monie rocking her exit.

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Love these shots of Dave and Chris walking Monie out.

Cocktail hour on the patio.

Gorgeous tables - Shawn (bee hive events) worked her magic.

The rain cleared enough for yard games.

Andrew was all about playing goalie.

And this is what they looked like by dinner.

Gorgeous table.

Love them.  So incredibly thankful Martin joined our family!

Cutting the cake.

First dance.

This boy had fun.

Father-daughter dance.

And then is was time to party.

They're cute.

And so are they.

AND SO ARE THEY.

What an incredible night.  We loved every second.

One last gathering the next afternoon.

All the O'Connell girl cousins.

OC ladies.

A super fun geo caching adventure with the cousins.

We were so thankful for this wonderful time to re-connect with family before we headed West.

Soaking up DC community and SUMMER

Early Summer brought the realization that we were leaving soon, and had a LOT to do, and even more people we wanted to spend time with.  We couldn't have gotten through this move without our amazing community out there.

Soaking up a pizza movie night with Tia and Martin.

These amazing YCF friends (Erika, Christy, and Mike especially) ran a yard sale for us!  The crazy part is that we weren't even home - we were at Rik and Jessica's wedding (which sadly I have no pictures of).

This was the greatest gift EVER.  They even hauled stuff to donation centers after.  I don't even have the words to express how grateful I was for this.  

Caden and Andrew made this Fairy house in Grandma Dee Dee's backyard.

One last hang out time with Melody, who give us the incredible gift of watching our boys while we had date nights.

One last dinner out with the Chois - our foodie friends who were always faithful to get us out on the town.

Can't even begin to express how much we love these friends.

Swim team was a big part of our Summer!  We finally got into our neighborhood pool after waiting for 7 years ;).

I tried to take a few pics of our home before we started packing:

The hallway to our basement, lined with our kids art work.

Our living room.

Living room/entry.

Living/Dining room.

Dining Room, door leading into our back/family room.

Entry into our hallway, Will just outside his room.

The only pic I have of Will's room.

A pic Andrew snuck through our basement peep hole.  We had many meals like this around our dining room table.

Yummy lunch with Devan at the newly opened Paul in Bethesda.

Taking in an afternoon at the Choi's pool.

Synchronized diving board jumps.

Just the O'Choi kids up to their usual crazy.

Jake and Jen made the drive from way out in VA for one last dinner.

On July 1st, we celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary!

We started with dinner at Rose's Luxury, which was out of this world amazing.

I think hands down my favorite meal ever.

The coolest part - the sioux chef was one of Dave's old youth group kids, and he was AT OUR WEDDING 15 YEARS AGO!!  He surprised us and hand delivered our dessert.  Seriously awesome.

A dear sweet friend hooked us up royally, and gifted us with an out of this world amazing night at the Ritz Carlton in DC.

Champaign, chocolate covered strawberries, and roses on the bed.  Amidst the stress of all that was before us, this night away was such an incredible gift.

We popped over to Baked and Wired in Georgetown for coffee and breakfast goodies.

I do miss that place.

Swim team at our local pool!  This was such a fun way for our boys to have easy built in time with their school/neighborhood friends, and it was 2 minutes from our house.  Andrew even did a few weeks of tennis camp.  So thankful for this!

Will playing with our head coach after his swim lessons were over.  He got the doggie paddle down, but still doesn't love putting his face in the water.