Jared Sleeping

We just thought we had better take a picture of the way Jared sometimes sleeps, he sure does look relaxed though doesn't he?

Labor Day Weekend

This was a great Labor Day weekend! On Saturday we drove out to Girabaldi, Oregon which is about five miles north of Tillamook on the Oregon Coast. Girabaldi is a little town situated right on Tillamook bay and they have a public crabbing dock. Ronald really wanted to go crabbing for some dungeness crab! We got there around 11am and finally left around 4pm, and only caught two crabs over the 5 3/4 inch minimum width. Don't get me wrong, Ronald pulled up tons of crabs, and about four female crabs each over 6 inches, but it is illegal to keep female crabs. So we threw tons of them back into the water, but at least it was lots of fun...for Ronald :-) The crabs were really tasty when we got home though!!!

On Sunday we went out to Shady Dell park out close to Mollala, Oregon. Its a little private park ran by a train club. They have the cutest little trains and since my brother Paul Jones and his family is down here for the week from Montana we all wanted to go out there so Wyatt my nephew could ride the rails! It rained a bit but it was still fun, we forgot our camera but we went not too long ago when my sister Karrie was visiting from Colorado. Good times.

On Monday we went across the bridge to Vancouver and worked our way up the Columbia River Gorge on the Washington side to Bonneville Dam. The Washington side of the Dam has a cool fish ladder and since the Chinook and Silvers are running (the Chinook run on Sunday was over 13,000 fish) we wanted to take a look (read Ronald there). It was cool and there were some really big fish going by. We took the Bridge of the Gods back over to the Oregon side and had lunch in Cascade Locks at a place called Char Burger. It wasn't half bad, plus it had an awesome view of the Columbia River right outside the windows.

Overall we enjoyed our Labor Day weekend, and Ronald can't wait to go crabbing again. Shout out to Brother Ditty who hooked Ronald up with a couple of crab rings so we didn't have to rent anything.

Picnic at Cook Park

The last week of August was a sunny week with highs only in the mid 70's, so it was a perfect time for a picnic in the park. Ronald hurried home from work and we just went down the street to this really big city park. They have a couple of play structures and swings for babies and toddlers so it was perfect for Jared. We roasted up some Cheddarwurst and had a good time! The fresh Northwest peaches were tasty, Jared loved them!!!

Jared's First Bike Ride

For the holiday we went to Sunriver, Oregon where my parents have a house. The weather was great and it was fun to relax and enjoy being in the outdoors. Jared went on his first bike ride which he really enjoyed, except he wasn't a huge fan of the helmet he wore that was about as big as he was! We made him really comfortable with pillows and he slept half of the time in the bike trailer. We also enjoyed feeding the ducks and geese, going on walks, and sitting outside on the patio reading.

4th of July

Pictures feeding the ducks, or Jared feeding himself instead! A view of the Deschuttes River, and some of the fireworks we watched.

At last...

Well now that we are in our new place and we finally have our internet hooked up it was about time to update our blog. Its only been 3 months. So we've gone to Utah for Michele's Graduation, then to Hawaii for a couple weeks to see Grandma and Grandpa Elia on Molokai. We came home on Friday and started signing paperwork for our townhouse. Also during the last three months Jared has started doing a ton of things. He started rolling over around 4months, but while we were in Hawaii he started going back to stomach and even sleeping on his stomach which he never did until he could flip over and do it on his own. He got his first tooth when he was 6 months old, he actually got both of his front bottom ones at the same time and never even cried or acted like he was teething.

Oh well thats it for now, we know you'd rather just have pictures of the little guy.

Happy Easter

Jared's first Easter...his first Easter basket...his first Easter egg...and his first Easter outfit to go to Church in. I know you can see Laura's hand but his smile was just to cute in this picture. As mentioned previously Jared had his 4 month shots on Wednesday and he is feeling a ton better, back to his usual chipper self. He has been waking up at night but only to eat. He has been taking any where from 6 to 8 oz before going to sleep but its not holding him over until morning. He takes about another 4 oz and usually goes back to sleep. Those darn shots messed everything up...he was sleeping from 8:30pm to 7:30am for a couple of weeks and then the shots set him back to waking up at night. Oh well. Lately Jared has taken to 'singing' or 'talking', which ever one you want to go with. He just lays or sits there and lets you know what he is thinking etc... Its way cute except for the high pitch squeals every once in awhile, those in the ear I could do without!) Other than that we are just doing fine and dandy, we are starting to look for houses and all the fun that goes with that. So hopefully we find something to move in to by June or so.