Rainy Day Photos

Connor was very sad this morning to wake up to the rain! We had a playdate planned with moms from BAM and there was going to be a professional photographer there to take pictures of the babies! We fretted all morning thinking it would have been rained out, but the sun prevailed at the last minute! Of course about five minutes before the pictures began, Connor spit up apples all over his top! That is about par for the course with this little guy! There were only 3 boys and 7 girls in the baby play group today! It was so cute to see the boys amongst all the gals with their huge bows! I will post some of the professional ones when they are done!

Go Pilots!

Saturday was the season opener for the Portland Pilots girls soccer. Thanks to our great friends the Piacitellis, we had some great tickets. Pre-Connor Don and I would always get to the games on time, even early. We would walk through campus, stop in the Cove at the bookstore or get something to eat and drink, then mozy on over to the game. Post-Connor is a little different...
530 pm Sherwood - Connor is being fed by Amy while Don wrestles around with Murphy. 540pm - Connor is handed off to dad for burping and changing while Amy frantickly packs diaper bag, changes her outfit and attempts to do something with her hair. 550pm - Connor is handed back to Amy for last minute grooming. Oh no, needs another diaper change...Don runs to change his shoes and put on his Pilot hat and is still wrestling with Murphy...605 pm - Don to Amy - we need to leave in ten minutes at the latest.... Amy to Don - no problem... 620 - Amy, crap, I need to pack a bottle for Connor! I forgot. Don to Amy - does he have a change of clothes and sweatshirt packed? Amy to Don, Crap! No! Don then runs to grab the forgotten items while Amy makes bottle and loads Connor in car seat. 622 - Amy to Don - Are you going to put Murphy outside or what? 625 pm - Don - whose car are we taking? 630 pm Amy, crap,where is his binky and toy links????? Don to Amy, dang... almost forgot the tickets! 638pm - finally leaving Sherwood for a 700pm game! 0720 Arrive 20 minutes late to a packed house! Pilots already scored a goal. No room to sit in our seats so we make a beeline to the Pilot Tent, grab some beers and finally relax!
Connor sported his pilots onesie and was quite the hit in the pilot tent! We saw the Pilots score the second goal and I forgot that I was wearing Connor in the Bjorn and jumped up to cheer with the rest of the stadium! Connor started to cry loudly in fear, and all the cheering people in the tent soon turned their attention to Connor as their excited shouts turned to "ohhhhhh, poor little guy!" He better get use to the cheering as Don and I plan to attend several more games this season to support our Alma Mater - hopefully we will be on time....

Out with the Eynards!

Last night we made the trek into town from the burbs to meet our friends the Eynards! Annie and James are just back from their awesome simbatical. They have spent the last 5 weeks traveling between Idaho, Montana and Colorado! We missed them. We met down at Jamison Square Park in the Pearl to let the kids play, however, we got sidetracked by the beer and wine at Sip and Kranz. We made it up to the kids with ice cream from Moon Ice Cream on the corner! As you can see Quinn is a man after my own heart!

The First Blog

So I am boldly stepping into the blogging world! Not so sure how much we will keep up with this but it should be a fun way to keep in touch with our friends around the world! It is already August of 2008 and our little man is 7 months old! It seems like I was just prego with him and now he is 15.5 lbs of little boy babbling up a storm! Don and I think we have a perfect little family - complete with Murphy the dog of course! Living way out in the suburbs of Sherwood Oregon, life is pretty darn good to us!