OREGON or bust!

so, we are moving back to OREGON!!! yep you read it right! monday brian starts a new job in oregon, so in the meantime there are LOTS of details to work out. we won't be able to get back into our b'ville house until the end of may and allie can't wait to do hot laps in the back yard again! :)

this weekend is the start of our BUSY summer. i think we have 5 weddings, 2 bachelor/bachelorette parties, 3 birthday parties, a 9 day trip to alaska with the douglas fam, and our little sweet pea turns one! all before the end of july! WOW, did you get all that??!! although it will be busy we can't wait to celebrate with all our favorite friends and family in the summer sun! a move is always bittersweet, you leave a few things you love and then there are always a few things you won't miss. all in all we are excited to be back in oregon. i told brian that he just likes to keep me on the move...i don't think we have stayed in one place for longer then two years since we have been together. i guess thats what keeps life exciting! :)

pics from the last few weekends...

last weekend sarah and dj came down to visit and we made a trek out to see the ape caves in the gifford pinchot national forest. the ape caves are hollow tubes underground that lava once flowed in thousands of years ago. it is completely dark in them so you have to were headlamps and use lanterns to see.

enjoying the sunshine outside of the ape caves...

the start of the first ape cave...i think it was 1.5 miles long

a great view of mt. st. helens covered in snow...

enjoying the sun in the lava fields...

our next stop was brian's secret water fall...I had been there once before, but it is worth another visit.

you cross the river on this tree. it has lots of small trees growing out of...pretty cool!

the falls and the sequence of sarah walking out on the log...

almost there...

yep...she made it!

know how do you get back???!!!!

yummy mossyness...

a few weekend ago paul and tony came up to squeeze on the misses a bit...they were missing the silly tiger. it was a gorgeous sunny day while they were here, so we ventured down to mcmenamins edgefield in portland for a yummy lunch in the sun.

walking with dad and grandpa...

i would have to agree with miss evie's shirt...her daddy does ROCK!

XOXOXOXO

our dancing diva!

our neighbors let us borrow this music table and it has been making miss evie get her groove on...

a little more dancing and some walking...

so far it looks like she has three moves; the hip shake, head bob, and foot stomp...she sure keeps us laughing around here! :)

11 months today!!!

WOW are we really only a month a way from our little sweet pea turning one??!! i have to say it has been one of the funnest years i can remember...she has brought so much fun and laughter to our little family!

here are a few of her latest and greatest accomplishments:

-she has been crawling for a few months, but over that last month stated pulling herself up on everything, she just learned how to climb the first step of the stairs and has attempted to climb the book shelve!

-walking with her walker...i think she will be walking with no help by her birthday!

-she still just has two little teeth poking through on the bottom

-evie eats pretty much whatever we eat, but when the girl is hungry, she wants to eat NOW! she must get that from her mama. :) broccoli is one of her favorites, if fact the other night she got upset because i had to steam it, she saw me cutting it up and wanted it now! hummus, cheese, apples, pears, noodles, and cereal soaked in milk are a few of her other favorites.

-i think she would stay outside all day if i would let her. she recently started playing ball with allie, maybe the old pooch will start to like her now. :) allie seems to make her belly laugh all the time, which so fun to hear!

-and i think our favorite thing at this stage is her incredible dancing moves!!! i catch myself cracking up all the time watching her move her hips and head, the only problem is she can't do them both at the same time yet! :) i'm wondering if maybe she learned her moves from her dad, if i remember right i think thats how brian dances!!!

look at my two little toothers...

sillyness!

she wants to walk everywhere...

chasing allie, she can't catch her yet...you just wait poochie!

xoxoxoxoxo

ahhh...the weekends!

we have been loving the spring weekends lately. in fact last weekend we actually stayed home and i think we spent most of our time outdoors working on projects. we got the yard and patio de-winterized (is that a word??), and started painting the exterior of the basement windows. the windows are one of our last projects on the house, it was just hard to get the motivation to start on a house project again. :)

miss evie loves being out side in the sunshine, her favorite things to play with our the dog food bowls, the dog leash, and the dirt in my pots! :)

we ventured our to the columbia river beach for a little picnic last sunday. i think evelyn had the best seat in the house...she couldn't stop laughing at allie swimming in the river.

standing...

being a rug-rat in the backyard with allie...

this weekend i have another soccer game on saturday and then i'm running a 10k race on sunday in portland with some of my soccer friends...looks like its going to be another sunny spring weekend!!!

easily entertained...

happy weekend!!!

~libby

Easter Fun!

we celebrated easter at grandma sherry's over the weekend. she put on an amazing brunch and had lots of fun goodies for the kiddos. they had so much fun on the easter egg hunt that we had to hide them again! :)

the following two pictures are our attempts at getting a picture of the cousins together...

miss evie checking out her easter basket from gwynn and payton...

she had lots of fun stuff in her basket from grandma...

even a sucker...

oh payton, he is such a CUTE boy...he is just so busy that its hard to get pictures of him!

i loved his spicy easter shirt!

one of my mom's many awesome dishes she made for the brunch...this one was super yummy!!!

looking silly...

the easter egg hunt...looks like evie found her first egg!

yes...a green one!

more eggs...i was actually surprised at how into the egg hunt she was. she has recently been really into putting things into buckets at home, so i guess the egg hunt was good timing.

so proud of her eggs!

look at my pink egg...

checking our her find...some of the eggs were real and some were plastic with candy in them. i didn't realize some of them were real until she decided to squeeze them in her hands...whoops!

gwynnie sharing her eggs with evelyn...

the fam..

hmmm...i think i will look for more eggs!

the cutie macdonald family...

this was evelyn, easter morning opening up her easter basket (i mean tote!) from us.

i love the silly smile she is making!

reading her new books...

she also got a surprise package in the mail from her macdonald granparents...we love getting treats in the mail!

thank you grammy and papa eddie!

i hope you all had fun celebrating easter with family and friends! it does seem like the holidays get more and more fun with little tykes! :)

ps-we also got a really sweet dress in the mail from grandma tony...there is a story behind it, so stay tunned. :)

oh deer...

deer is evelyn's lovie. when is comes time to cuddle or sleep deer has to be with her. i remember her really liking deer back when she was 3 months old and its funny that she still likes the silly guy. now that she is crawling she like to pack deer around in her month...i guess maybe she learned that from allie! :) brian likes to call deer buck, which it does have horns, i'm just worried that "buck" might come out sounding like something else when she starts talking. :) i think we will stick with "deer" for right now, or until she can name him herself. :)

a couple cute videos of evie walking and dancing. she can even walk and dance at the same time! :)