Hannah's new friend

I made a little friend for Hannah today. You can make a friend here.

Trip to Oregon

We had a fun trip to Oregon over Spring Break to see my sisters. Hannah spent time with her cousins, we went to a tulip festival, stayed inside on the rainy days, and enjoyed our time with family.

In case you missed the olympics....

Where have the last 2 months gone?

I feel like the past 2 months have gone by super fast. So I'm playing major catch-up right now..... We had a great Christmas- my sisters came over from Oregon and Hannah had fun playing with her cousins. Here they are in front of the tree wearing the new pajamas Aunt Heidi made for them.

Here's an obligatory photo of me- I have no idea what's wrong with my eye here. But I figured this blog is so full of Hannah shots that I better put one in of me, even if it's post waking up early on Christmas morning.

Hannah wearing her new "Corinne" costume (Barbie & the 3 Musketeers) and opening her first Easy Bake oven. What a lucky mom I am to have a daughter who loves to cook and even likes watching Barefoot Contessa. If you ask her if Barefoot uses butter in her recipes she will say "Yeah, a lot of butter!"

Hannah sick at the doctor's office

I finally learned how to make a delicious crusty bread. Thank you Le Creuset.

Hannah demonstrating her new Easy Bake Oven Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Frosting. She'll soon be taking orders.

angel in the snow

She kept saying "Mom, I'm hungry" and then eating tons of snow.

if only every day could be this much fun ......

Our recent travels took us to Colorado, California, and Oregon.....all in a few weeks. Our highlights included Sea World, Disneyland, the Oregon Coast, visiting with friends, New Moon, eating some turkey (even Hannah the vegetarian), and seeing family. It was a great trip.

with Kailey

Hannah with her striped shirt and the tiger sharks


holding a starfish

drinking some delicious chocolate milk at the dairy

looking for sharks

new friend- she sleeps with it every night

getting ready for the Shamu show

Shamu

at the end of her first ride on The Matterhorn

Hannah loves the teacups

with Sabrina on "It's a Small World"

scary

Hannah and Zach had fun chasing seagulls away from their picnic

the Oregon Coast- we saw a seal that day

meeting Santa in Salem- he made a great entrance by arriving on a train

Halloween Recap

For Halloween this year Hannah was Annie from The Little Einsteins. They don't sell these costumes anywhere so this is my handiwork. (I even painted the shoes bright blue!)

For trunk or treat I dressed up as a TV playing an episode of The Little Einsteins. One kid came up to me and asked me if I was a robot or an alien. Hmmm.....guess he's never seen a tv antennae before. That reminds me of something Hannah said the other day. We were talking to my sister on the webcam and I asked her if she took any pictures of her Halloween costume. Hannah said "you should put a picture of it on your blog." Technology. I remember when I first heard about the internet. Hannah listens to an ipod, runs her own DVD player.......what's next?

the spoils

we went to the Philharmonsters and the had an "instrument petting zoo"

Hannah tried out the violin

and the trumpet

Happy Halloween!

lovely fall weather

We've been enjoying lots of fun fall activities this month. Last weekend we went to a party at the local YMCA where Hannah got to go swimming and decorate Halloween cookies. They had a little haunted house which she didn't like at all. Before you went in they asked you what level of "spookiness" you wanted from 1-10. I went with 1 since this was Hannah's first time. So we went into the room and all of the people were saying "Happy Halloween" and smiling at us. It was still a little spooky with all of the creepy decorations- but Hannah was liking it. Just as we headed for the exit a guy dressed as Jason came running after us and screaming. This pretty much set Hannah over the edge and we made a quick exit. She said "I don't ever want to go into that place again!" Thanks a lot, Jason! Afterwards we headed over to my old high school to watch a performance by the marching band. Their show featured music from "Carmen". Hannah was really excited because she knew one of the songs because it's on The Little Einsteins. (Stay tuned for pictures of her dressed as Annie from the show....) During the performance she kept saying "Where's the Bizet music?" It was pretty funny. At the end, the color guard team was lying on the ground and Hannah shouted "They look like they're dead!" They did.

Grandpa has been making Hannah lots of balloon animals to play with