Our Weekend

We had a great weekend. Friday evening Ollie and I met Jason at Apple for the "Beer Bash". Apple throws one of these once or twice a month. They have food and drinks and mingling. The theme was earth day so they were driving people around in these cool Aptera electric cars. Jason and Ollie just HAD to have their picture by one. After that we joined some friends on the Los Gatos trail for a nice evening walk. I'll explain the rest of the weekend with the pictures below.

Jason and Ollie with the cool electric car.

Jason and I were laying in bed Saturday afternoon listening to Ollie not sleep (through the monitor). Jason said "Man, I'm so tired, I wish I could go lay down in there with him, then maybe he would go to sleep AND I could get a nap". I told him to do it, so he did! It was so funny. They slept for 40 minutes like that.

Ollie has a little girlfriend Loden, although I have heard from a reliable source (her mother) that she has been flirting with other guys, but Ollie really cares for her so he let it go :-) Anyway, they decided to take their relationship to the next level by having the parents meet. So here we are at Mimi's having dinner.

Now onto the saddest part of the weekend. We sold Jason's motorcycle :-( We just never use it anymore, since we have a baby we can't just take off whenever we want. Here we are saying goodbye. Jason kept asking me if I was going to cry...I mean loved the thing, but come on, I'm not that sentimental!

Alaska

We're going to Alaska!!

Our friends Andy and Marissa were kind enough to invite us along on their Alaska trip this summer. They have be a few times and they are in LOVE with Alaska and assure us that we will feel the same way. We are excited for them to take us around. We leave on Ollie's 1st birthday (sad I know) and will be gone for 11 days. I'm a little nervous about leaving the baby for that long, but he will be with our parents so it should be fine. We fly into Anchorage, then we will be heading up to Denali National Park where we will see lots of wildlife and do some hiking. From there it is down to Ninilchik, a tiny town, where we will be staying in a cabin and king salmon and halibut fishing etc. We can't wait. And hopefully Ollie will forgive us for leaving him on his birthday. :)

Santa Cruz

Yesterday our friends invited us to a bonfire in Santa Cruz. We carpooled up with our friends John, Carolyn and Alexander (who is 5 weeks younger than Ollie). It was a gorgeous day, and we had a great time. Carolyn and I decided we need to make weekly trips to the beach since it is less than 30 mins away.

The boys asleep on the way to the BBQ

Our little family (Ollie loves sand, especially eating it)

Once we put Ollie's pacifier in he couldn't eat sand and rocks, so his second favorite thing was standing up against this tiki torch.

Holding it tight, and dancing around. His moves convinced us that if all else fails he could have a successful career as a pole dancer.

John, Carolyn and Alexander (not looking)

The boys sleeping on the way home.

The other day Ollie fell asleep with his head between his legs, it was so funny

Oliver is getting so big! He loves to feed himself, so we are moving on to lots of finger foods. If anyone has good, healthy suggestions for us that would be great. We have done Cheerios, bananas, whole wheat bread, Gerber puffs, freeze dried fruit, etc.

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Well I couldn't come up with a good title for this post because it is a compilation of everything we have done over the past few weeks.

A few months ago I did a blog post of me making baby food from scratch. Well Jason thinks he came up with a much better solution. Those huge Costco jars of beens and peaches cost about $3 each and make over 10 jars of baby food a piece. I must admit his idea does have some merit (like only taking 10 minutes to from start to finish) my baby food has more love in each jar :-)

Ollie loves going on runs/walks so I just had to snap a shot of his sweet little face.

It is hard to tell from the small picture but Jason was fixing something on his bike and Ollie grabbed one of the wrenches and began mimicking what Jason was doing, like father like son.

However he quickly decided that wrenches are best used as chew toys.

Ollie and I hung out by the pool the other day. I filled up his little bucket and let him splash around, he loved it.

Ollie has figured out how to open/close drawers and cupboards which has led to more than a few messes and ouches. Here he is caught in the act.

I think this one is so cute, I kept trying to get him to smile and every time the flash would go off he would blink, so cute!

We went up to our parents houses for Easter weekend and while there we had breakfast with our friends Scott, Amanda and Simon.

Simon is about 2 months older than Ollie. They were so cute together. I love this "oh" face Simon makes!

The real reason for going home this weekend was that I got my sister Letty and I tickets to see Britney Spears (for Letty's birthday). Our night was plagued with a few issues, but the concert was fun, and very entertaining.

Letty and I

Jason and Ollie on Easter

We went to my Aunt and Uncle's house for Easter. It was so fun to be with family.

We had a rousing game of volleyball

Ollie loved being outside and watching the game.

On Sunday I hadn't been feeling very well, but didn't think much of it. Just before we left, I threw up and then twice more on the trip home, as in, in the car, in a barf bag...it SUCKED! I think it was just a stomach flu, so I have been resting today and I pretty much feel better.

Sisters Rock

My sister and Alyssa came to visit us again, and this time they brought my other sister Letty. It was so fun. I love my sisters, and my niece. We have so much fun together. On Wednesday they met us at our church's park day, which Alyssa loved because she loves to play. Wednesday was Chrissy's birthday so I decorated our apartment, made her a cake, and we took her to dinner. Thursday Letty and I went running, then we went shopping and to the park by our house. That night we tried some recipes that Chrissy wanted to learn to make (mushroom crab melts and asparagus roll ups). Now that she is married, she can't wait to be all domestic. Friday we ran a few errands and then laid out by the pool at our complex. It was SOOO nice. Have I mentioned how much I love CA? Forget the fact that we had an earthquake on Monday ;-) Friday night Chrissy and Letty watched Ollie so Jason and I went to the Oakland temple together, it was so nice.

Anyway, my sister and her family are officially moving April 9th, I'm so sad. It was great to get to hang out one more time and I can't wait to go visit them really soon. Here are some pics of Alyssa and Ollie (cause honestly they are the only ones we took pics of). I should mention that each night while we were playing, Jason was setting up Chrissy's new computer, and replacing her brakes. He is seriously such a stud, I'm a lucky girl.

Best friends/cousins

We let Lys feed Ollie one night, she did a great job...

Ok maybe not but they had fun

Ollie was tuckered out after a day of shopping

Happy boy at the pool

Camping at Big Basin

This weekend we went camping with our friends Andy and Marissa at Big Basin State Park. It was Ollie's first camping trip, and I think he had a lot of fun (he didn't exactly say so but I know he did). We left Friday after everyone got off work, and after I got back from Pinkberry with a friend (I know, my life is so hard). We got up there around 7:15 pm, set up our tents, drank hot chocolate, played a card game and then headed to bed. In the morning we made a delicious breakfast of pancakes and eggs with no bacon (Jason left the bacon in the fridge which almost ruined the trip). We lounged around and then packed up our stuff and explored the park for a bit. We had planned to spend the afternoon hiking but it started raining, which was why we didn't stay another night. It was really fun, minus sharing a sleeping bag with Ollie, he is a wild sleeper. We really love camping and we can't wait to go again.

Jason and me

All of us (except Ollie) before bed

Ollie loved the tent, he was so excited when he woke up he just crawled around forever, squealing and having fun

Ollie and Marissa

The guys preparing breakfast

Inside one of the huge redwoods

Fletcher (our car) did not let us down, we packed him so full. Can you believe all the stuff for one night?

And here are some pictures of Oliver. He is just such a busy kid, seriously, he is a NON-STOP mover. We love him so much. He is tons of fun and brings us so much joy every single day! I have been working a day or two a week starting a couple weeks ago, and although I am glad to be practicing, I seriously miss him so much on the days I work. He is my little buddy.

The dishwasher is pretty much the coolest thing he has ever seen, he LOVES it!

I call this one "Patiently Waiting", the second he hears the water running he bolts to the bathroom and waits. I LOVE his cute little bum and chunky legs.

This picture cracks me up. I had just gotten him dressed and usually the second I am done (or while I am dressing him) he turns over and crawls off, well this day he just laid there. This is so rare for him that I left the room to get the camera and when I peaked back he was in the same position. Funny boy.

Lets Be Honest

I was talking to a friend the other day about how perfect peoples lives seem on their blogs. Kids are cute and happy, houses are clean, fun is being had etc. I can totally see how it happens, we only blog about the noteworthy events and moments that happen in our lives. Well I'm going to try something different today, because today is one of those days I would NEVER blog about.

Here is my house RIGHT now:

Here is my baby RIGHT now:
And yesterday:
And the day before:
I would take a picture of me right now at 1:04 pm, not showered, greasy hair, unshaven legs, dirty shirt, but I will spare you (and me the embarrassment). So there you have it. Not everyday in my life is fun, and totally awesome, but I still love it!

Sisters

My sister and her family are moving to North Carolina soon (so sad), but she has had some free time lately so she and Alyssa came to visit. It was so fun to have them here, we loved it. I was able to get some things done that I couldn't do with the baby, and it was just nice to have people to hang out with all day. Unfortunately, it was rainy most of the time so we didn't get to spend as much time outside as we wanted, but we did find a few hours of sunshine one day. Our friend Stacie came down the last night they were here and hung out and stayed the night. It was so fun, here are some pics.

Ollie got in the cupboard and dumped out the oatmeal. It looks like the is saying "Is there a problem"?

Swinging at the park

I love that face Ollie is making

I love these kids

Me and Lys by the ducks

Peekaboo

Ollie was cuddling with Chrissy and Lys

Ollie hardly ever spits up anymore, but Chrissy plays hard so he usually gets her

The day Chris and Lys left, we flew out to Salt Lake for Jason's sister Michelle's wedding. It was such a nice weekend, and a beautiful wedding. We are so happy for Eric and Michelle.

Ollie and Grandma. Eric's mom made the cute bow tie and cumberbund (which you can't see, but it was so cute)

Doesn't Michelle look gorgeous? I loved her dress!

Ollie with Jason's grammy, she was so cute with him

Me and Jason

Me and my cousin Chelsea, she and Michelle have been BFFs forever!

While in Utah I arranged a mini school reunion, here is a pic of most of us who were able to go, it was so good to see everyone, it felt like we had never been apart

After lunch Shelley and I went to visit our friend Annelise who just had an adorable baby boy, Landon. He was so TINY!! I forgot how little they are at first!

Then we went and visited our friend Jared, Shannon and Jamison. Jason and Jared grew up together and are cycling buddies

All of us

Oh my goodness, I can hardly stand the cuteness!!! I got Ollie this little suit, isn't it adorable?!?

"Seriously Mom, more pics"?

My cute boys (not the best shot of Jason)

Also while we were in UT Ollie got his first haircut by his Aunt Jen, his hair was just getting so long

I held him down, Jen cut his hair, and Grandpa John squirted water in his mouth to keep him occupied

He did great! It was such a fun weekend. We really miss being close to Jason's siblings :-( Hopefully someday we will end up closer to each other.