Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Chelan

This past weekend (labor day weekend) we went to Chelan to stay with John's grandparents at their condo in Chelan. The weather was absolutely perfect and the water in the lake was so clear! We had a wonderful time with grammy and grampy as Olivia calls them! Olivia was crazy about them. If either would walk out of the room- she would ask "where grammy go?" or vise versa. It was pretty cute!


The minute we got there, Audrey got some stickers out to put on the glass. Olivia loved "helping" put them on the glass!
The guys deep in conversation.
Pretty view from their condo.

Olivia playing with some ice a little while later.


After visiting for a few minutes, we decided to put on our swim suits and head down to the lake! Olivia liked the sand an the little waves! She also really liked the few ducks that were down there.








After a little while on the beach, we decided to go to the pool, where Olivia could really practice her swimming!


She just loves the pool!






While Olivia napped, the guys headed down to the lake for a little swimming and relaxing.



They stayed down there for quite a lot time talking! I'm glad they had some alone time to hang out.

Once Olivia woke up from her nap, there was only one place she wanted to be!


After dinner that night, we took Olivia to the condo area playground. It wasn't particularly made for her age kids, but she still liked it! Climbed everything in sight!
Olivia flying high, looking at the moon!






Family picture, sort of.


There we are!


Such a startled look!


Hanging out on the jungle gym with daddy.


Grampy doing "fly away peter, fly away Paul" Olivia was pretty entertained by this trick!


Helping grammy zip up her sweatshirt.


Excited to be wearing grammy's visor. Going for a walk Sunday morning.
I told Olivia we were going to the park the entire time we were on our walk, so I had to find a park to take her to so I wasn't a liar! We went to the elementary school and she was happy to play there for a little while! She is such a big girl climbing up the big wall!



Sunday afternoon we played a game while Olivia napped and then did some more swimming! John and I also took Olivia out for ice cream after swimming which was fun. Monday morning we had a nice breakfast together and Grampy showed Olivia how to suction cup a glass to her face. She didn't quite get it yet!



Then we headed to the park one last time before heading home. Olivia found a water bottle and was absolutely obsessed with filling it with rocks. She did use her shoe to fill it which we thought was quite inventive. No one showed her how, she just did it!
Grammy and Olivia swinging.
The guys went on a drive to look at a golf course while the girls stayed back. Olivia got a couple last popsicles eaten before we had to hit the road. She liked being "cozy" in her towel with grammy.

We had such a nice weekend I wish we could have stayed longer! Maybe next year... Olivia continues to say grammy and grampy are at the "lake". I know Olivia would like to go there more often and visit!

Seatle-Vashon 2011 FRIDAY

I am going to break up these posts because there are so may pictures I want to share of our 4 day trip to Seattle and Vashon a couple weeks ago! We had a lot of fun spending time with family and chasing Olivia around wherever we went! All of these pictures are from Friday. We arrived to town late Thursday so we could have the full day visiting relatives Friday. Ava came over before we left Friday morning and Olivia loved her!



Olivia of course also loved running up and down the street smelling flowers and looking at the pinwheels in gardens. She did stop for a little while to hold her farfar's hand!


Then we stopped at John's grandparents (grammy and grampy to Olivia) house on our way up to Marie's new house. This was the best shot I could get, Olivia is a bit too busy to stop for pictures!

She briefly rested on the swinging bench.


and held grammys hand for a walk on the deck.

But this was her most of the time we were there! Running, running, running.

Then we drove up to Marie's house in Lake Stevens. Olivia did some more running at her house! Running around the yard!


Marie and Olivia.


We spent a couple hours with Marie and Mike having lunch and then walking around their mall. On the way home to Ballard we stopped at the beach. It has changed a lot with a new play area and of course about 10 times more people than when we lived there! Olivia loved the beach most of all! Here she is trying to take her clothes off to get in the water.


and throwing sand.

Me and my girl.


After that, we met up with Julie and the kids for dinner, and then I took Madeline to the Glee movie. We had a lot of fun, but such a busy day!! Tomorrow we head to Vashon.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Easter weekend

I am so behind- I came on here to post some more pictures of the last couple weeks and realized today is Olivia's 19 month birthday! I am going to try very hard to get pictures of her later! I can't believe how quickly she is growing up. These are pictures from our Easter weekend. We took Olivia to her first easter egg hunt on Saturday where they divided everyone up into age groups, so she didn't have older kids running in front of her. :) She got the idea before we even put her on the ground- yelling "Egg!" She quickly knew to put them into her basket! After she got a couple though she was more interested in looking at all the other little kids. It was over in literallly seconds even though there were thousands of eggs on the ground. Thats ok though, she had fun!




Her very first egg:

Sitting with her basket of eggs:

Family picture after the hunt:



The next day on Easter at Dads house, Olivia is in her pretty Easter dress I bought last year!





Outfit change for playing and easter egg hunting (and also flying with daddy)


Another family picture. She didn't take off the ears surprisingly!


Checking out her special elmo egg.