Beach Date

Olivia and her buddy Carter had themselves a little beach date yesterday...





Carter is the cutest!


One happy girl.

Family

We headed out to Pennsylvania last weekend to introduce Doug and Olivia to my grandparents and see the extended family from my mom's side. It meant so much to me for them all to spend time together, and we had a great time hanging out, eating, and catching up. I hadn't been back east in years and it was fabulous to see the Sherer clan! Olivia actually did surprisingly well with the cross-country trip, and even survived a 5 hour unplanned layover on the way home. She's such the little traveler!

O and her great grandparents. I think that she definitely had them wrapped around her little finger :)




4 generations. Pretty amazing!




Pittsburgh has an amazing children's museum that O has a great time exploring!


These next two pictures will only to make sense to PA people...




Fun at a local farm/petting zoo.




Hanging out on the porch... makes me want a porch here in WA!


DP and the ladies.


Our little monkey. The kid was obsessed with bananas the whole trip!


Thanks for a great weekend, everyone!

Piggies

Someone finally has enough hair for tiny pigtails!

Pretty much the cutest thing I've ever seen.

Sunday

O got all fancied up to listen to grandma give a fantastic talk at church yesterday :)


She's becoming quite the stander! No walking yet, but she's getting pretty close.


This is a video of her new very favorite activity. We do it ALL day long.

Cookie Monster

Look who managed to get her hands on a cookie last night at the M's game!



This was followed by popcorn, a super pretzel, frozen yogurt, fruit, and a sip of grandpa's soda. Awesome.

No wonder Olivia loves Mariner's games!

Bend 7.10

Doug, Olivia and I headed down to Bend for a few weeks with some of our favorite people: his parents, my parents, and the wonderful Haedrich family. Most of the pictures we took were of the kids (of course!). Here's some shots from the trip...

Strolling around the Bite of Bend.


Bathtime with Parker.

He wanted to wash her hair :)


Post-bath snuggle time with Budge.


Trucks and dirt!


4th of July fun!










Our kitchen visitor. Can you see him? We were going crazy trying to figure out where the chirping was coming from!

Captured!


Amazing views.










A HUGE thanks to Wayne & Chris for opening their wonderful home to us... we had the BEST time!!!

We're Back...

We spent the last few weeks in beautiful Bend, Oregon. I'm still downloading photos from our various cameras, but since it's been a few weeks since a blog update I wanted to post a new pic!