Summer time...and we moved!

Once again my mom informed me that my pictures are sadly out of day. I tried to update them a few days ago but after trying to log in about 50 times because my e-mail address has changed and I couldn't remember my password, I gave up. I tried again today and finally figured it out.

We did move. We are living in Cottage Grove at the moment and are hoping to stay in the Eugene area. Jacob and I are both looking for work...so we will see where that takes us.

Charlie had his birthday right after we moved. This is one of him presents. He had a lot of fun opening everything up and eating his blizzard birthday cake later that day.

Here he is on the 4th of July. He really liked to watch the big fireworks that someone was lighting off nearby, and we purchased a ton of pop-its, which he threw everywhere for days after the 4th.

This is one of the presents my parents sent him for his birthday. He really liked playing with it.

We took Charlie to a parade in Cottage Grove which he loved. It only took him about one minute to figure out that they were throwing all of the candy for him to get. He was fearless running around to pick up the candy.

We also went to the beach. It was soooooooo windy down at the coast that Charlie would not play in the water...when you stood on the beach you got sandblasted...so we got a few quick pictures and then left so that he would stop complaining.

We did find a cliff that protected us from much of the wind. He was able to play in the sand for a bit and climb the rocks.
We went camping for a few days with Jesse, Nanell, Reese, and Valerie. Chalie loved this. He would play in the water as long as it was not too deep. He seemed to be afraid of the water when is was really deep even if Jacob or I was carrying him. We will have to work on that.We went to the zoo just this last weekend. They were having a dinosaur display that Charlie loved.

We took him on the train at the zoo as well. This was really fun for all of us. Jacob and I had a lot of fun at the zoo, and Charlie loved all of the animals.

So I think that is enough for now. Once again I will try to do better at updating. We did go to a family dinner while we were in Portland but I don't have the pictures for that yet...maybe I will do that before Christmas!

easter

Today, easter sunday, it was is the low 60's at noon, by 2:30 is was snowing...this spring has been crazy!
Charlie with his easter basket. Being as I only have one child I figured I would spoil him...all of his candy came from see's (his favorite candy shop).

coloring eggs on easter morning.

On a climbing rock at a park on the day before easter...I have to catch him as he jumps off.

Going down the fire man pole at the same park...this is his favorite thing to do here.

Charlie went on an easter egg hunt on Saturday.

Here he is searching for eggs with the basket that I made him!

Snow

We had snow when we woke up today...at the end of March. I was sure that we were not going to get any snow pictures this year so I was really excited. Some of the pictures are from the morning time as I did not expect it to last the day so I did some in the morning...but then some was here when we came home from work so I got a few more.

He loves throwing snowballs at me!

This is the morning time...he really liked his footprints!

Just him and me being silly a couple of days ago.

And this is two or three days ago...this weather is just not making sense this year...I guess it is spring time in oregon!

Quick Update

So, it has been forever. I got a full time job in October, and I just never have time anymore. In fact today I finally got the photos of Christmas off of my camera and onto my computer. So here is a quick update. It is spring break for us so I have a little time. I finished a quilt today. There is an upclose view so you can see the stitching and then the overall quilt. I have done this quilt one other time but this time it turned out a lot better.

Charlie taking a bath in the sink. I am sure he is too old for this but he is cute so when he askes to do it I usually let him.

Charlie at Christmas time. I went a little overboard on the Christmas presents this year. But in fairness my inlaws came down and they had a ton of presents for eachother, and we did have presents for Charlie that came from people other than us. I realized just how overboard I went when Charlie didn't want to open up any more presents!

And this is how he helped me with the Christmas candy making.

Wildlife Safari

So...we went to Wildlife Safari on Labor day weekend. Charlie loved it. On of the best things we saw was the bears playing. We watched them for several minutes. There were a lot of buffalo around and Charlie kept saying, "That's massive" whenever we would stop to look at one.
Here we are looking at an elk which he also liked.

After we went through the park we went to the petting zoo area.

And he found a playground to play at for awhile!

Jacob and Charlie having fun together

Jacob also wanted to take Charlie on a camel ride. It was really expensive and did not last very long...but Charlie really liked it...and so did Jacob.

We went on a train ride which Charlie loved. The went on a small loop through part of the park.

After spending time running around Charlie wanted to go and see the animals again. When you pay you actually get two tickets to go through on the same day...so we used the second one. This time through these two giraffs came about 3 feet from our car...it was neat.

Just before we finished the second time through Charlie finally got sleepy. He slept the rest of the way home!

At the Park

Charlie really likes to go to the park. I try to take him once or twice a week. This time I brought the camera. His favorite thing to play on are slides. Sometimes he jumps from the top step here...it always scares me but he has yet to hurt himself.

After the slide this is his favorite part of this play system.

This park also has a fun water area for him to play in. He runs around the outside of the water like a crazy man until he decides just what part of the water he wants to play in.

And this is usually the part of the water he likes the best. They do have water guns that work on a swivel...which he really likes, but there were a lot of kids there this day and he did not like to stand in line waiting for the water guns.

Charlie & Jacob

Here is a video of Charlie and Jacob playing with Shadow. It is in the morning so Charlie is still in his pajamas. In this video Charlie is perfectly happy and good...however maybe next time I will post one of him crying and having a fit...I think that happens just as often!