Summer Fun

More swimming pictures at Grandma and Grandpa's pool. We sure will miss it once summer ends, and always look forward to the next summer for more pool fun!

Olivia's 1st Mariners Game. She had a much better time flipping up and down the seats, and climbing on and off of them!

CABIN

Since this weekend officially marked the last of summer, I figured I should post a few pictures of the last few weeks. Noah starts preschool tomorrow, which I have mixed emotions about. We had a fantastic summer and enjoyed many weekends at the cabin, Grandpa and Grandma's pool and many other fun activities!

Professional Pictures

We had professional pictures taken in July, and have finally got them back and posted! It was quite the experience. Olivia really did not want to have her picture taken that day and decided it would be best to be herself! Although the pictures were not all I had hoped they would be, they did capture where our family is at with a 3 year old and 1 year old! The photographer did an amazing job at capturing the kids true selves!

Olivia swimming

Ooops, so I forgot to post the pictures of Olivia swimming! You can just see the excitement in her face, can't you?!?!?!?

Swimming!!!

In the last few weeks Noah has become more and more brave about swimming on his own (with his life jacket!) It is so much fun to watch him swim and see the proud look on his face as he exclaims "I'm like a fish", "I'm swimming!" Noah has the kicking part down of swimming, but has not quite coordinated that he needs to move his arms as well to help keep him afloat. Olivia also decided to give swimming with a life jacket a shot. She's not so sure she's ready yet. We have really enjoyed the summer and swimming and all of this nice weather, and hope for more!

Livvy girl

Olivia has several nicknames, Livvy, Liv, Livvy girl, bulldozer, and tornado. The latter two, because she is constantly bulldozing through everything and tornado, well, because our house is a tornado after she is done with it. There are so many names we can give to her with her many different personalities. She is such a character and constantly coming up with crazy things to do. These pictures were taken about a month ago. We have been putting Olivia in a onesie at night, so that she does not take off her diaper, but when she has a onesie on, it is a great place to stuff her shirt! She continues to want to fill her shirt with toys, food, really anything she can get in there.

My "pizza" tower

Noah has just watched for the first time Little Einsteins. He is totally in to it, but we only have one DVD of a few episodes. One of the episodes there is the leaning tower of pisa, which to Noah (and I am sure many other kids) the tower of pizza. This morning Noah was building with his legos and said "look Mommy, I built a tower of pizza!!" I just thought it was too cute!

4th of July

For the 4th of July weekend, we went up to our cabin on Camano Island. During the day on the 4th, the neighborhood put on a little parade for families. Everyone dressed in red, white and blue, and decorated bikes and wagons! The day ended with some amazing fireworks, all over the island. Noah was not so sure at first what he thought of the loud sounds, but liked staying up late and watching the "big fireworks". We had such a great time celebrating with friends and family and enjoyed our time together!