Summer Happenings

I had plans of blogging more as summer came and I wasn't working as much. But (as I'm sure you can tell) that hasn't happened. So I thought I would do one big post of what our summer has looked like so far...

I've been watching Michael 1-2 days a week. 

We went to the bounce house on a grey/rainy day back in June. Blake was unsure of the big bouncy things at first but soon figured out how fun they are and then didn't want to leave.

It finally warmed up and we were able to break out the whale (or wheele as Blake calls it) sprinkler and Michael came to our house for a change!

Blake decided to start calling his Grandma Lori, Papa Lori. He refuses to say Grandma.

He's spent sometime practicing his dance moves.

We ate some yummy food and stayed up way to late watching fireworks on the 4th of July.

 We went over to Bend with our friends the Hammagrens like we did last summer.

The dads reading some night time stories.

 Date night in Bend! (30 weeks pregnant)

Playing at a park before we headed home from another wonderful weekend in Bend.

 Blake being goofy!

Playing at the splash park in Downtown Corvallis.

First lesson in shaving.

 Toddler art.

Blueberry picking! Blake loves blueberries (or ba-berries as he calls them). I think he would live on blueberries if I let him. That day we picked 10lbs. We froze a gallon size bag and then ate the rest in a week- that's how much he likes them. He probably ate a pound while we were picking. Good thing we live in a good place to pick them!

We checked out the Linn County Fair. Blake was afraid of the cows. He didn't even want to stop to so I could take a picture, that's why he's pointing out the door in the picture above. It was a nice little fair. We even had some curly fries and an elephant ear- a must at the fair!

 I found a nice little resting place for my coffee.

We went to the splash park again!

My best friend threw me a sweet shower for little Lily and had the yummiest cake (of course from Market of Choice).

I had my last day at Noah's (last Friday). Such a bittersweet. I will miss my coworkers and the kids so much, but looking forward to being a stay-at-home-mom again. 

 Someone figured out how to climb onto his changing table. And I think he could spend hours playing with his wipes... who needs toys!?

 We said good-bye to some sweet friends who moved to Arkansas. We have know the Jensens since college and were in the same House Church as them this last year. This is Blake with Teddy their youngest boy who is around Blake's age. Blake loved Teddy and talked about him frequently. We will miss them!

 This brings us to yesterday. We went blueberry picking (yes again) with Luke and Becca! I think he's getting more the hang of picking them and putting them in his bucket and not just eating them. But as we were walking up to pay he stopped and shoveled the 5 or so he had in his bucket into his mouth... I think he didn't realize he could take them with us! Maybe next time he'll understand. 

At 4:15pm today I become a stay-at-home-mom, until further notice! Tomorrow we head to Medford for the weekend. We have our 10 year high school reunion and my mom and sister are throwing me a baby shower. Then from there we head over to Black Butte for a week! Then once we get home it'll almost be time for Lily to be born! 

Wow! Where did the summer go?!

Hope you are enjoying yours!