4th of July & Ann's Birthday Weekend

We had a fun 4th of July weekend this year. Since it was on a Friday both Greg and I had a three day weekend. We couldn't find anyone to watch Scooby, so we weren't able to make it to Salem, OR for the festivies, but on Saturday we got up early and drove down there. Greg's sister's (Ann) 40th birthday was on July 5th, so we were happy to be able to pack up and make it down there to celebrate with her.

As for 4th of July, we bought Abby a fun 4th of July dress but it turned out that the weather was a little cold and the dress "shrunk" :), so we used it as a long shirt. Abby slept through the entire fireworks show in our cul de sac, which was huge. We had no idea how seriously our neighbors took 4th of July and the amount of fireworks that went off all night long was amazing...next year we will definitely consider having everyone over to see the show.

Ann seemed to have a great birthday. Mom Robl made sure we had plenty of snacks to nosh on all day long and then had a great dinner of pasta and other comfort foods later that day. Abby was hesitant, but excited to see her cousins, Poppy, Uncle Artie and Aunt Ann. Below are pictures of everyone taking their turn posing with Abby - and Ann showing off her new purse!!









On Sunday Greg drove home early in the morning to work on the bathroom (he's doing a huge remodel project right now) and the rest of us went to get pictures taken with the grandparents.

Afterwards we took off for home, but traffic wasn't all that great so we had to take a quick stop in the McDonald's parking lot in Olympia to change Abby into pajamas and feed her dinner. It was a good thing we did because she was out like a light by the time we got home and she went straight to bed!

Cousin Lizzie's Beautiful Poem

Cousin Lizzie from Oregon wrote Abby a poem that we just had to share.

"There are many ways I love my cosin abby, she is a babby and I love her she is beautful girl you can't dought that! You look into her eyes and you say it is a mericle because even know she lives in washington we stil stay is touch and it fells good to knowyou have someone to talk to even know she can't talk. Her hands feel like a tiny bird fether. when I see a drop of tears rolling down her eyes it makes me feel like I have been searching for her for days,and it makes me sad not seeing her smileing face of wisdome.i know I will see her smileing face once again in one month of hope."

Lizzie Wright, June 2008

Happy 1st Father's Day, Daddy!

We love you, daddy.

What do I do now?

We've had a pretty busy weekend and I can't believe it's already over - back to work tomorrow! The funny thing is that I actually like my job and things are going pretty well right now at work, but every Monday I think of all the 'other' things I could be getting done if I didn't have to go into the office. Of course, working ensures we continue to get to do the other things...so it's a double-edged sword really :) I hope all of you had a good weekend as well - here's hoping that the weather gets nicer very soon!

Abby has been working on her leg muscles for a while and she's starting to stand by herself up against the couch. She doesn't show any interest in getting up to a standing position on her own, but once you put her up there she does really well. It's the getting down part that is the challenge.

We were at the North Bend outlet malls this weekend and it got so cold I had to buy Abby a new hat...look what 25 cents at an outlet mall will buy you!!!