Finleigh's 1st Birthday

The following day we headed north to Finleigh's first birthday party!  It was a book theme and we were given a book plate to fill out and put into a book we loved for exchange.  At the end of the party the books were handed out and each child got to open it along with a super duper cute book mark from Finleigh's Momma.

Elle bouncing around on a Rody. 

Elle mingling with Colby's coworker Dan and his wife Jess.

Circling up for cake time!

Getting ready to sing.

Elle loved the cake and enjoyed playing with new friends.  Finleigh had on a big sister shirt and we are very excited to meet the new little one in October.  Which means our little one will have a playmate close in age!

Visitors

We had visitors two weekends ago (see getting closer to caught up).  Christy, Parker, and Delaney came up from Vancouver, Liz and Madelyn came from Seattle, Brooke came drown from Bothell, and Holly, Brian, and Tanner from Sammamish for a mini WSU reunion! 

The kids had so much fun playing together!

Miss M is growing up so quickly so is a super quick crawler on the verge of walking!

Christy brought the girls matching yellow outfits!  So stinking cute!

Delaney and Elle

Miss M "What"?

Playing around while Parker played music.

Sunday morning!  Elle was sad to see her little buddy go!

FLASHBACK! Visit from Corrie and McGruber

Our camera  keeps taking pictures but forgets to upload to blogger ;)  We were lucky enough to have Corrie and McGruber stop over for a visit way back in January. (Hence, the snow on the ground)

Apple Cup

The Apple Cup party this year was much more exciting as we had two little cheerleaders!  Elle was quite proud of her abilities to get the crowd motivated.



Get ready for it!

Cougs!

Go Cougs!  However, Elle's EWU eagle was nipping her on the leg.  Probably because the EWU Eagles had pulled out a victory earlier in the day which made her daddy very happy!

See Momma, I am a proud cougar!

Katelyn had her Dawg sign as well so began the great sign off that latest most of the game.

End the end the Cougars lost but a strong cheerleader friendship was formed!

Pumpkin Patch

This year we headed to the local pumpkin patch with Liz, Myron, and Madelyn.  The girls wore their Halloween costumes to get into the spirit!  Can you guess what Elle was?

Yip a Holstein-Friesian cattle!  I am sure that is what you all guessed :)

We really enjoy this local farm and all the fun activities they provide!

Growing like a weed!  Must be all the milk :)

Madelyn was a lady bug!

Elle loved the ride down to the patch.

Starting the great pumpkin hunt!

Elle didn't really want to share her ride.

P-U-M-P-K-I-N-S!!

Elle working hard pushing the wheelbarrow back to the car!

She tried to push it but decided a ride was a better option!

Oh, look Momma!!

Take me out to the ball game!

Friday night Lana and Drew took Colby and I to a M's game!  The view from the seats was amazing, right down the first base line!



The sunsets are amazing from Safeco!

It turned out to be a very chilly evening!

Hello Kitty eyes!  Thanks Lana and Drew for taking us!!

Elleanor's 1st birthday party

Oh Momma, did I just hear the doorbell??



The guest arrived and Daddy and Uncle Donny began to BBQ.

All of my cousins came to help me celebrate my very 1st birthday!

Daddy was very careful to not blow out my candle.  However, Mommy had a different opinion about it!  She says since it was her 32nd birthday she was allowed to help!

I really enjoyed having my very own little cake.

I still can't believe I am turning one on the 29th of June! 

Mommy and my friends all helped open my presents!  Wow, I can't wait to play with them all!

I was sad when the party came to an end.

I am looking forward to next year and want to send out a big kiss to everyone who came and helped me celebrate. I wasn't sure what to expect as this is the oldest I have ever been!

Pacific City

May was a jam packed month for us!  We had double plans every weekend!  The weekend of May 22nd was no different! Elle and I headed to Rainier, where I grew up, for a baby shower for a very close family friend.  Colby had the camera as he was going to meet us at the shower so we could continue on our way to the Oregon Coast for vacation.  I kicked myself when I realized we didn't have any pictures of Megan's shower.  The trip from Rainier to the coast was very quick as we were traveling in the evening.

We headed to the beach the very next morning for some tide pool watching.

 

I think Elle liked the view from Daddy's shoulders.

We joined Nick, Deidra, Marcus, and Holly in Pacific City.  Nick's friend let us stay at his beach house for the week. 

Marcus loved the water even in the rain!

Nick, Deidra, and Marcus playing in the waves.

We headed into Tillamook to tour the cheese factory and to get some much loved ice cream.  Elle sure enjoyed her first taste of huckleberry ice cream!  Not sure who the naughty ice cream sharer was... Okay fine it was me!  I swore I won't let Elle have any sweets until her first birthday but seriously, Tillamook ice cream is the best!  How could I deny her that?

This picture really sums up Marcus's feeling about sharing his bath time with Elle.  Elle has no personal bubble and wanted to sit as close to Marcus as possible as well as play with all his toys.  Marcus was not amused, especially when she started splashing about...