As you figured out from my previous post, Olivia and I took a trip down to So Cal to visit the fam, see friends, and get some sunshine in since apparently we are still have a bit of time to go until summer here in Washington. In an attempt to compensate for previous trips in which I took no photos, I ended up taking over 400. And although I have tried to narrow them down, this post still has a fair number of pics! So here's a few shots of the happenings in the OC...
My mom saved a bunch of my childhood toys, and what survived after the great termite extermination toy meltdown (long story) now belongs to Olivia. She took a liking to My Little Pony and the Fisher Price Radio (both of which, coincidentally, are "back" in the stores. This makes me feel old).
We took a trip over to my friend Erin's house to visit her and her kiddos. Dylan was born just a few weeks after O, so it was pretty funny to watch the two of them interact.
This is the two of them last July.
Here's Dylan now. He's such a doll!
Poor Dylan isn't crawling yet, and was therefore unable to fend off the advances of my overly-aggressive daughter.
Sorry about that, D. I think she likes you.
We also, of course, took a few trips to the park.
The parks in Irvine have sand, which is one of Olivia's favorite things. She's deprived of sand here because all of the parks have wood chips (Don't even get me started about how much I hate wood chips! Splinters. Choking. Just plain gross.).
Obviously, this child is starving.
I know that this isn't 'technically' the best picture, but I like it anyway.
We had some good fun at the various outdoor malls... and filled up on as much pinkberry as we could.
Jealous, Doug?
This is how O rolls. Feet up.
We tried out the carousel at The Spectrum (if you're from OC you know exactly what I'm referring to :)
The Spectrum also has one of those awesome fountains that spit water up from the ground for kids to play in. Olivia, being the water baby that she is, thought that it was pretty fantastic!
One happy kiddo!
Hanging with the grandparents. Hand in mouth, of course!
O also spent a lot of time with her Uncle Craig.
"Aunt" Amy and "Uncle" Geoff stopped by for a visit as well!
Something about that picture reminds me of an awkward family photo, but since it's the only one that I have of the 4 of us I'm posting it anyway.
Geoff obviously thinks she's being cute. What he doesn't realize is that she's actually trying to capture his sunglasses.
I will leave you all with this awesome picture. It's one of the worst pictures I've seen of O, but it makes me laugh!
My mom saved a bunch of my childhood toys, and what survived after the great termite extermination toy meltdown (long story) now belongs to Olivia. She took a liking to My Little Pony and the Fisher Price Radio (both of which, coincidentally, are "back" in the stores. This makes me feel old).
We took a trip over to my friend Erin's house to visit her and her kiddos. Dylan was born just a few weeks after O, so it was pretty funny to watch the two of them interact.
This is the two of them last July.
Here's Dylan now. He's such a doll!
Poor Dylan isn't crawling yet, and was therefore unable to fend off the advances of my overly-aggressive daughter.
Sorry about that, D. I think she likes you.
We also, of course, took a few trips to the park.
The parks in Irvine have sand, which is one of Olivia's favorite things. She's deprived of sand here because all of the parks have wood chips (Don't even get me started about how much I hate wood chips! Splinters. Choking. Just plain gross.).
Obviously, this child is starving.
I know that this isn't 'technically' the best picture, but I like it anyway.
We had some good fun at the various outdoor malls... and filled up on as much pinkberry as we could.
Jealous, Doug?
This is how O rolls. Feet up.
We tried out the carousel at The Spectrum (if you're from OC you know exactly what I'm referring to :)
The Spectrum also has one of those awesome fountains that spit water up from the ground for kids to play in. Olivia, being the water baby that she is, thought that it was pretty fantastic!
One happy kiddo!
Hanging with the grandparents. Hand in mouth, of course!
O also spent a lot of time with her Uncle Craig.
"Aunt" Amy and "Uncle" Geoff stopped by for a visit as well!
Something about that picture reminds me of an awkward family photo, but since it's the only one that I have of the 4 of us I'm posting it anyway.
Geoff obviously thinks she's being cute. What he doesn't realize is that she's actually trying to capture his sunglasses.
I will leave you all with this awesome picture. It's one of the worst pictures I've seen of O, but it makes me laugh!
