Bounce House Party!

Cousin Markus turned 5, so a party was in order! Here he is looking cool on his new bike!


Snack break in the bounce house.


Look, I can crawl in here!


Looking handsome as ever.


This is fantastic, Mom!


Playing with Cousin Katherine.

Noah and Nutmeg...nothing but trouble

Noah and the mouse

Yes, our son plays with cat toys. This particular one was so special, he had to nap with it, too.

Random fun

Look who found a pen

He's a crawler!

Saturday--Just figuring out how to consistently move forward.



Sunday--Master of the one-armed army crawl.



Friday--The inchworm method.

Vacation Part 7--The Final Installment

Ummm...I think the green and brown hat is officially too small! Click Here for some other pictures in it.


Noah's first time swimming (don't ask me why when we have a pool about 100 steps from our back door). Our hotel in Spokane had a pool which was too cold, so we hung out in the spa. He loved when we turned the jets on!

Vacation Part 6

Sitting on the Monastery front lawn overlooking the Camas Prairie.


"What the..."


I love it here!


"What? These?"
"They're for you!"

Vacation Part 5

Bath time in a makeshift bathtub.


Waiting for Grandma before lunch (which they call dinner).


Noah loves Grandma Miriam!


Mommy and Noah hanging out on the lawn.


A beautiful shot Victor took of a hawk.

Vacation Part 4

Vacation Part 3

The main purpose of our trip was to celebrate with Olivia's mom as she made Perpetual Monastic Profession. She lives at the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, ID. You can read all about it at http://stgertrudes.org/jubilees.htm.

Vacation Part 2

Sleeping in his makeshift crib


Smiling at daddy.


Look! Grass!!


Glowing ears baby!

Vacation Photos Part 1

We took a ton of pictures on our week long vacation to visit Grandma Miriam in Idaho. Pictures will be coming in installments all this week.

Sleeping on the plane. He fell asleep before we even took off and woke up about 10 minutes before we landed. People around us were very relieved that he was so well behaved. On a side note, anyone know why Southwest covered the notice on the seat back in front of you that used to say you could use your cushion as a flotation device? It now just has the oddly placed purple sticker you see above Noah's head. Do the seats no longer float? Should we be concerned?


Surveying the land on the way to Grandma's. This is the view from Lewiston Hill and is a view of Lewiston, ID. The other side of the river (where you can't quite see) is Clarkston, WA.


When we finally got to Grandma's, Noah wanted to show off his crawling skills. Unfortunately at this point he only knew how to go backwards and got stuck under the chair. He didn't seem too bothered by it, though!