I think this might be the longest I have gone without blogging.  Honestly, I just haven't felt like doing it.  There has been a lot going on so I am doing one big jumbalya of a post and calling it good, then I can move on.  We love our new house, we love our neighborhood, we love Auburn, and we love being so close to family.  On the day we moved I drove our car up with Max, Jason and Ollie drove the moving truck.  All along the 2 1/2 drive from Campbell to Auburn, I was super emotional.  I just felt really sad to leave the bay area.  We LOVED it there.  Then I got about 20 mins from our new house and I saw the Subway I worked at when I was home from college, I saw the community college I took classes from in high school, I saw a sign for the Griffith Rock Quarry where Jason took me on a picnic when we were first dating and I got really excited.  We were coming home.  We feel very blessed.  Anyway, here are some pictures from the last few weeks.

My very first friend in Campbell.  Carlie came to visit me when we had just moved to the area and I was hugely pregnant and just waiting (not so patiently) for Ollie to come.  She wasn't going to be able to make it to our farewell party and I happened to be in her neighborhood so I stopped by for a visit.

Evie was one of Ollie's best friends too since Carlie watched him since he was a baby. 

The boys "helping" me pack.  I realize I use air quotes around the word helping a lot around here.

Moving Day.  Jason backed the truck right up to the front door.

He then proceeded to boss everyone around :)  He is so authoritative.

When I pulled up to the house lots of my family members where there waiting to help us.  It was so nice of everyone to help us out, and it went really quickly.

My cousin Stephanie and Matt came and helped

Chrissy and her friend Jamie.  My cute Grandpa (in the back) even came to help.

I felt pretty useless.  I just bossed everyone around.

Max and Owen, I think they are going to have a lot of fun together.

Jan brought food for everyone which was SO nice and delicious.  Max was pretty happy about it.

Ashley and Alicia enjoying the smorgasbord.

 Ok, the move is over and now onto our life lately.

While unloading the kitchen I found Max playing with the pans, he is SO busy these days.

Ollie getting ready for trick or treating.  I realized that day that I didn't have a cute halloween bag for him to use, so Jason's bike to work bag it was. I have remedied the situation for next year.

Batman and Robin.  We left pretty early because we wanted to meet some of our new neighbors in the daytime.  Also we had been warned that we get 250-300 kids trick or treating and we wanted to get back to hand out candy.
  At this point in my kids life I feel like trick or treating is something we do just to get some cute pictures.  I really don't want my kids getting a lifetime supply of candy, so we kept it pretty short and only visited 10-15 houses (we did get two whole candy bars, those were always the best houses to find as a kid).

Our neighborhood gets pretty into halloween, it was fun to see all the decorations.  

The boys with Ollie's loot.  Ollie dumped a thing of nerds on the ground and Max was in heaven. 

Ollie enjoyed spending the rest of the evening handing out candy, it was really cute.

Ollie channeling his Superman even while sleeping.

I think Ollie is pretty close to being done with naps.  He doesn't take one unless we are driving around, or in this case he fell asleep while watching a movie.

Max is finally walking (starting at about 13 1/2 months).  This day he brought his shoes over to me to put on him.  It was so cute.

Ollie will actually pose and smile for pictures nowadays which is fun.

Here I go with the air quotes again.  Max "helping" Dad with a plumbing leak.  He is into EVERYTHING these days.

Well that is it.  Now I can focus on the now :)  We had our first visitors last weekend and it was a blast. I will steal the pictures from my friend and update soon.

Farewell

Last weekend we had a little pizza party with friends so we could say goodbye (the funny thing is we saw most of these friends again after the party, oh well).  We ordered WAY TOO MUCH pizza from Jason's favorite place in Palo Alto.  It was fun to get together with our friends who we are going to miss sooo much.

Of course we had to send everyone home with Miller's honey.

Thanks for coming everyone!

 I only had to work a half day on Monday so we were able to meet friends at a little pumpkin patch with bounce houses and what not.  It was a lot of fun even though Ollie was being weird and wouldn't bounce in a bounce house unless he was the only person in it.

Max loved crawling (yes crawling because the little stinker STILL isn't walking) around the pumpkins.

Ollie and his vacant bounce house.

All the kids.

I was surprised that Ollie could pull his friends around in this wagon.  

Impossible to get a pic of these two both looking at the camera.

He is looking so grown up to me lately, it is a little sad.

Well our house is totally packed and we are ready to go.  I know I said this last time but I really think this will be my last blog post from our little house in Campbell...sad.

Halloween 2011

Although we plan on taking the kids trick-or-treating next week, I don't know when I will have a chance to blog about it, so I will blog halloween now. We are moving this weekend and things are CRAZY, but we did manage to have some fun this past weekend.  Our friends Paul and Amy threw their second annual Halloween/Birthday party.  It was so fun and their decorations and food were AWESOME!  They did such a great job.  Paul got some pictures of our families costumes.  Ollie is Batman and Max is Robin.  They were so cute.  A cape makes everything so much cuter.

Batman, looking so courageous.

Preparing for take off.

Flying.

Nailed the landing.

Jason and I were cat burglars.  Here we are with our super heroes.  Max was scared because Paul was dressed as the big bad wolf.

I can not get enough of that face.

He stayed quite entertained with the beverage bucket.

Robin's not nearly as manly with a pink binky (seriously why do they sell two packs with one pink and one blue??? How often do you need one of each gender color?)

Batman kept climbing this pole and getting his foot stuck, it was so funny.

It takes batman a few times of getting stuck to figure out not to do that.

 We will definitely have to make a trip down next year for the party again.  We are really going to miss the Nashes :(  This will probably be my last post from Campbell.  We leave in 3 days.  I can't believe it.  We are really going to miss this area and all our wonderful friends, but look forward to our new adventure...

Roaring Camp Railroad

  This past weekend we took the boys to Roaring Camp Railroad.  This has been on our "bay area bucket list" for sometime, so I am glad we finally did it.  There are two train rides to choose from, the redwood forest steam train (1 hour 15 mins) or the Santa Cruz beach ride (3 hours), obviously we did the redwood train :)  We met up with our friends the Nolls.  A cool morning turned into a beautiful afternoon, which was nice since the train carts are open.  The scenery was beautiful and we had a lot of fun learning about the train and the area.

Family pic in front of the steam engine.

The whole group.

On the train.  Jason was having a horrendous hair day.

Brotherly love.

Max max and his old man face. 

The train used something like 600 gallons of water on our trip.  Here is the steam being released.

And getting filled back up for the next ride.

Another family pic.

Afterward we walked around the little railroad town and fed the ducks.  It was a really fun little outing.