Friday night Social

We stayed with Corrie who I rowed with and she is now an assistant coach for WSU rowing.  Elle loves her Auntie as well as McGruebor!



Friday night there was a social at the new Tom and Barbara Wilson Rowing Center.  It was amazing!! I would have been a much better rower if this would have been around 10 years ago!  There were poster boards around the tank with pictures of each class.  It was fun to get catch up with everyone and check out the new digs! 

I forgot the camera so Colby took this one with his iphone.  Here you can see Christy and Holly trying out the tank.
 Roger, my old coach's husband, ran the bar.  Each time you went up to get a drink he would tell a story about you.  It was amazing what he remembered.  Needless to say I only had two drinks so Colby didn't get too much dirt on me!

Rollin to Pullman

April 30th we headed over to WSU for the 20th anniversary of women's rowing as a university sponsored program.



The drive to Pullman is long and a bit desolate.  The rolling wheat fields were green and vivid along the way.

Roughly half way to God's country you past this potato shed :)

I was getting excited and slightly bored with the drive.

Colby was not amused as you can tell.

Miss Elleanor slept the entire way.  I think she enjoyed the sunshine and a few of her new toys from the Purple Pelican!

We finally saw signs of life as we approached Colfax!  Almost there!!

Goodbye Purple Pelican

On our way to Pullman we stopped off in Ellensburg to have lunch with Grami and stop by the Purple Pelican toy store for the last time.  I am sad they are closing their doors but we got a ton of great toys for upcoming birthdays.



Elle enjoyed checking out all the unique toys at the toy bar.

Monster Mash, 9 months

Crawling has officially begun! Elle is a very cautious baby when it comes to any sort of flooring change. This makes the kitchen floor a cattle gate of sorts! She crawls to the edge and screams! If the invisible string between Momma or Daddy seems too long, Elle puts her head down and cries as she doesn't have the endurance or attention span to make it across the house.

Still not too happy to sit in one place too long as she has places to go and people to see!

and she is off...

Elle loves to walk with assistance. She squeaks and giggles the whole time. The stiff legs remind me of the Monster Mash!

9 months:

- I am crawling cautiously

- I can sit up on my own

-I have two teeth now on the top

-I am starting to eat more solids and feed myself

- I love beans, puffs, teething biters, bananas, mangos, and green beans

- I went swimming with my Daddy for the first time in Port Townsend

- I love my singing cow, especially when I first wake up from a nap. Mommy sings along which sometimes scares the cow I think...

A movin' and a shakin'

8 months past so quickly I don't remember even blinking! It is getting harder each month to get Elle to sit still long enough for a picture on the quilt.


Enough hair to actually warrant a headband!

Oh...shoes!

If you could see her feet you would see Elle is now missing said shoes!

Shark attack! She kept inching her way closer to the camera until she was breathing on it!

8 month milestones:

- I am working on sitting up on my own

- I can pick up small objects with my hands, which I actually own!

- I can roll front to back

- I am not a fan of shoes but do love the taste of socks!

- Daddy and Momma took my on my first vacation to the Oregon Coast! I did great traveling in the back seat with Mommy and Grami.

7 months came and went

We are really good at taking Elle's monthly picture on the quilt but not so much on posting. I plan to retro this back to February so it is in order for prosperity's sake!




This outfit happens to be one of my beary favorites and just so happens we were given it in 3mths and 6mths sizes. I went ahead and bought it in 9mths and 12mths figuring why the heck not! Someday we will do an entire post on this outfit over the year!

At 7mths:
- I grew more hair
- My second tooth on bottom came in
- I can sit up for as long as I want
- I love my rattle, the noise it makes is awesome!
- I haven't met a fruit or veggie I do not like
- During the day I get to hang out with Lucky the puppy and I squeal when I see any puppy now
- Momma and Daddy love to take me bowling, yet I still haven't managed to stay awake through the whole night

For your enjoyment: A little bit of Lemon juice

Happy 1st Birthday Giavanna!

In the mean while...

As the cousin Monkey's were sleeping prior to the party, my little monkey was just too darn excited to take a nap! Instead she found this ball of Ceci's and quite enjoyed it!

I am pretty sure she said it tasted like strawberry's!

Party prep for Gia's 1st Birthday

Long time no blog. Sorry for the long delay in posting! Now that Elle is crawling like mad it has become difficult to breakaway and blog. It seems every time you walk out of the room even for a nanosecond Elle finds something to gnaw on and lately it has been the furniture!


A few weeks back Elle and I headed up to Birch Bay with Grami to help Gia celebrate her first birthday! Tracy did an amazing job with the decorations!



Pictures of Gia for the cupcakes as well as to hang up around the room.

All dressed for the party!

The sweetest Gia cupcakes ever!

The dessert table was all set up and ready to go well before the guest begun to arrive.

Trip two to the Zoo

Our second trip to the zoo was a success!  It didn't rain the entire time we were there!  All the animals came out to meet Miss Elleanor!



I love Woodland Park zoo as it is more of a wildlife reserve in the sense that all animals are together that would be in nature.  Well, except the mean ones, they are seperate.  I guess no one wants to see a lion take down a zebra as it would be a hard one to explain to the kiddos.  Note the Monkey in the tree, ducks on the left, and part of the Zebra's tail.  Hippos were also in this same exhibit.

Don't you just want to cuddle up with this leopard?? So pretty and mellow!

This is what I think would have happened if  Bad Goat bred with a deer... Ah, bad goat, I really don't miss you at all!

Elle checking everything out!