Swinging at Wallowa Lake

First Annual Wallowa Lake Trip

The weekend before Addi's 2nd birthday (in June) we went to Wallowa Lake with my parents and Sandy's parents. We stayed in an amazing "cabin". There were three bedrooms and three floors, so we each got a floor to ourselves. The highlights were fishing, the car show, the quilt show, playing the park, minature golf and really being able to spend time together for the first time since the California reception in 2004. Addi had a blast playing with all of her grandparents.

The first stop was at a restaurant that had

a Koi pond out front. Addi was so happy to be out

of the car...and to be chasing fish.

Where'd the fish go?
The fearless fishermen (not afraid of 5:00 in the morning while
on vacation) and their amazing catch.

Ok, so while the guys went to the car show (no photos)

the ladies went to an amazing quilt show. I know...I know

can quilt shows be amazing? Yes, yes they can. Here are

a few of the best. The first one was made about 100 years

ago all by hand. I wish this picture did the intricacy justice

(I wish I knew how to spell..intricacy?)

Whoa..color explosion...I like it.

I mean..what?!

The featured artist at this quilt show was a woman

whose name, I'm sorry, I don't remember, but she was

an absolute artist. All of her work is done by hand (without

sewing machine) and this one was particularly amazing.

Each state is made out that statet's flower.

Yes, that's an eagle coming out of that quilt...

In the Hawaiian style of cut-outs. I can't

begin to imagine how she did all that without a machine.

The next few pictures are of Addi playing in the park

with her Nana and her Grammy. She had soooo much fun.

Swinging

Addi: "I be an Addi dragon...Roar."

She looks all cute here, but really, Addi likes to

throw her body weight forward in these swings, so

it looks like she's about to do a header onto the ground.

Cute, but nerve racking.....Nana is cute too :-)

Playing swing-high-ten with Grammy.

Grammy, Adalie, Nana

Poor kid. Her parents made her sit on

the big chair to take a picture...

Miniature golfing. The highlight for Addi was

her first piece of gum.....don't tell the

pediatrician.

Us :-)

The whole fam

The cabin with most of us in front of it.

This is back home in Walla Walla. We took Nana to Andy's

Market and showed her the great shopping carts.

Adalie and Pops playing with her new Birthday toys.

She loves her "monkey pack" and enjoys wearing it

(as long as it's empty)

Birthday Morning - out to breakfast.

This one sounded fun..whoa, she loved having

whipped cream and chocolate chips for breakfast.

Addi and her 2nd birthday presesnt from the Miller clan.

Thank you so much

Pops, Addi, Nana, Mama, Papa

Summer Silliness

One of Adalie's favorite games is "Run around the Rosie" which

means - run around the kitchen table. We put music on and run around

the table. The longest the grown-ups have participated is 30 minutes

but we're pretty sure that she could go longer. She likes to run "fra-gether" (together)

and "by self" which we finally figured out means that she wants us to run too,

but not too closely. :-) Ah, two year olds - so fun.

Yeah, so these tank tops don't work for us so well.

Ooops, Mama caught her in a cupboard

that she's not suppose to be in...

In mama's bag -

Nana and Pappy come to visit

The first weekend of June my (Nicole's) Nana and Pappy came to visit. They had a blast with Adalie and told us several times how smart she is...(of course she is). She was in a major "cooking" stage and spent over an hour cooking food for them. They just laughed and laughed as she brought them food. My favorite part was watching them be such good sports and pretend to eat for that whole time.

Trip to the Park

After church last week, Sandy, Addi and I went to the park. We played for a bit on the swings, and then went and looked at the birds. Pioneer park has a neat little aviary with a handful of really noise peacocks!

Addi was trying to hide from Papa taking the picture

Trip to Wallowa

A few weeks ago, we took the weekend and went to Wallowa Lake. Originally the idea was to go fishing for the Kokanee that are rumored to be in the Lake...big fat lie :-) We had a great time in spite of only watching the fish swim under our boat. Addi got to drive, which she liked a lot. Her favorite part by far was playing on the beach (big suprise). There are a couple of creeks that flow into the lake. One the campground end of things, there's a mini-delta where the water runs into the lake. She just sat right down and played for about two hours. She sat right in the water until I saw her and propped her up on a rock. She couldn't have cared less.

Hunting for rocks

"Look, mama, a stick."