Vegas Vacation and Tidbits

DJ took Olive to the park to play in the swing for the first time since she seemed to like it so much (see the video at the end of the last post). He made her a daisy chain while they were out - isn't that the sweetest thing?!


Olive rolls/scoots EVERYWHERE now and it's hard to contain her in a space. This is her rolling into her pile of toys and doing crunches trying to see what's under her.


It's sort of hard to tell, but this is me trying to show you the little hairs that get caught on her ears that I'm constantly putting back behind her ears... I just think it's cute.


VEGAS!!! Our first out of town trip without Olive - it was hard, but good. She did great, we did fine, the Grandparents loved having her.


Yes, they let you take alcohol everywhere in Vegas. This is the river pool at the MGM Grand where Meghan and Jonathan stayed. DJ enjoying a pina colada.


Meghan, Jonathan, and finally DJ's toes drying off.


This was one of our favorite food stops on the trip. It's called Diego's, and our waiter Leo was the BEST. If I ever go back to Vegas I'll definitely hit this place up again.


We just thought this was hilarious.


The ducks who got the last bits of our pastries from Paris.


And finally the fountains at Bellagio. DJ and I decided this would be a good retirement job for us - the computer programmer and the artistic designer. ;)

6 Months!!!!!! (and more)

On Olive's 6 month Bday we celebrated by taking advantage of our new membership to the Seattle Aquarium with Olive's friend Anna and her mom Laura (ok, so it's our friend Laura and her daughter Anna, but we hope the girls will end up friends).





Olive and Bible Study friend Kate.


Moving the Obergs (they just bought their first house)!



Church babies!


The Geelhoods watch Olive while we go on a date.


My parents came to give us a weekend "away" (we stayed in a hotel 12 blocks away), and here is just a bit of us walkin' the Sculpture Park before we handed her off.





Grandma feeds Olive peas at Red Robin after one of her Tuesdays with us (a weekly thing now - so awesome).



Olive on her perch at the Eidson home (it's just her size).


Visiting the crazy folks at the UW HUB - mine and DJ's old haunt.


What's awesome about this video is when I put her in the swing it was quite stationary.

Easter 09 in PDX

SO it's been a month since the holiday actually happened - give a girl a break...

Morning at Aunt Magic's



I buzzed my head and now we all match (in fact, Olive and I have the same shirt that says "I do all my own stunts")!


Papa Bates and his grandkids.


The cousins.


Cuddlin' with Uncle Mikey.


Monster baby!


Shots from the Portland Japanese Garden.



Baby Bear Henri.


The family that flies together..?


Learning to bang on things (like we really had to teach her that - psh).


Bunny Butt! (Henri's)


Oh the days when Olive did this...


Playin' with Auntie Pepper.


The Easter table - oh so scrumptious.

More Videos Finally!

Hanging with the Grandparents in the Tri-Cities.


"Performing" for the assembled guests at Gretchen and Dave's place. ;)


Meeting Gretchen and Jonathan at the Ram for lunch.


Easter at my sister's house in Portland, OR.