first airplane ride

in mid-august noah had his first airplane ride--to west virginia for mike and jessie's wedding. he did great on the plane, mostly sleeping, nursing and flirting with the flight attendants. we flew to pittsburgh and drove south from there to west virginia. our first night we camped at chestnut ridge with my dear friend rachel, who drove five hours from callaway, virginia just to see us. we had a great night and a really relaxing day hanging around the campground with rachel, eating great food, taking a hike and learning all about revolutionary community seed banks. aaron and rachel also brainstormed about custom bandstra-designed wedding rings sometime in the future for her and her husband andrew.




camping baby and his dad

from there we drove to terra alta, where jessie's family lives and where the wedding was. aaron delivered the wedding rings he'd made for mike and jessie, which they really loved (even though they'd been pretty skeptical of the prototype!). the rings are silver with colored glass enamel etchings of a vine. the design is a little hard to make out in the picture, but they're really beautiful.


the rings


mike and jessie with the rings at the rehearsal dinner

the wedding was also a chance to catch up with our friends heather and greg, and to meet their daughter simone (five months older than noah?). they camped with us on jessie's family's property, and they braved the huge rainstorm on the second night. we didn't. we escaped our leaky tent and slept in the house.


heather, greg and little simone