Monday, April 19, 2010

8 months and counting...or Annie plays with seed packets

OK I know the masses are screaming for more Annie pictures and I am trying. For whatever reason our internet connection randomly allows us to load pictures and then randomly (mostly when I, Steve, am trying to do so) will not load any. So all you get for now is this image from our last set of monthly pictures. There are more coming...but this gives you an idea of what we we thinking for eight months...and nine months will be taken soon and posted in 2011 (just kidding!)






ok this one is strangely colored and frequently this is how some our oictures load on blogger...no idea why. But this one looked kinda cool so since I could not get it to load normally you get this one...let's just chalk it up to being artsy.


Thursday, April 8, 2010

Trails, Books, Apples

A couple of weekends ago we took a little vacation to the Seattle area (Renton, to be exact). It's a long story about how we ended up in this exact location, but despite questions from friends like, " Renton? Why are you going there?", we had a really wonderful time. We had just a few things we wanted to do - go on a hike, go swimming in the hotel pool, and go to the beach. All three (as well as just spending time together) were a lot of fun, though this post will only include pictures of the hike. (Maybe we'll do another post with some swimming and beach pictures.)

The area we hiked was called Cougar Mountain, and here's a snapshot of what much of the hike looked like.

Annie seemed to enjoy examining the flora...



...while Steve and I enjoyed our little Snuggle Bug. (Note the new wrinkly-nose look which Annie developed on this trip and has been perfecting ever since!)

And this was what our Snuggle Bug looked like for half of the hike - conked out!

(And yes, Steve carried her the entire 5+ mile hike. Thanks, Honey!)


Back home, Annie enjoyed sharing an apple and some reading time with her daddy...