Playing with clay

We have a membership to the children's museum so we've been there many many times. We went to play this morning & Ella went into the clay room for the first time. She had fun pounding, cutting & man handling the clay.

Cannon Beach

We took a mini vacation to Cannon Beach over Memorial Day weekend. We had a wonderful time and even got some beach time between rain showers. Ella loved building and destroying sand castles and running wild in the sand.

Family Photos

A few new photos of our girl and our family of 3...before it becomes our family of 4. :)

Belly Pics

Here are a couple belly pics, I've had a few requests for them. They aren't the greatest but I've been playing with posting blogs from my phone & these were photos I had on my phone. I'm 37 weeks and 5 days today. Things are trucking right along. At my last midwife appointment I was 4cm dilated, so at least changes are happening. We'll see when our little man decides to make his grand entrance!

Wagon Ride

Making Pizza

Ella helping make Pizza!

Forgive my lack of blogging, it's just been busy - I have no excuse beyond that. I'm going to post a bunch of photos that we have piled up, over the next few days - sorry for the limited text, I'm just trying to get something up before we REALLY have no time with a newborn here!

New Grass

Getting ready for grass....Jason rototilled about 6 inches down and then spread lime on the soil before laying the sod

Patio and raised beds before the sod was laid

One of the last big projects left to be done in our backyard re-do was to put in new grass in the big mud-pit in the back half of the yard. We didn't want to have to wait the 6 or more weeks to be able to walk or play on newly seeded grass, and we want Ella to be able to run and play back there a lot this summer, so we decided to sod the rest of the yard. It was much less expensive than we thought it would be, $0.32 a square foot, so we went for it. Jason got the ground all prepped and Dale helped him lay the sod. It was a day of torrential down pours, so certainly not ideal working conditions, but they were troopers and got the job done. It'll be a couple of weeks before Ella can really run wild on the new grass, but it will be SO nice to have done. The new grass may not match the old stuff perfectly, but we figure neither would seed we laid, and who's to judge right? :) So what if we have a dividing line down half the yard....it's in preparation for future red-rover or bad mitten games! Hooray for a yard that is finally looking complete and feeling like it's our own!

Laying the final pieces

Jason and Dale were a muddy mess! The weather was terrible to work in, but nice and wet out which is good for the sod. Almost finished - nice work guys!