Oliver's first summit

So we have these night light "glow slugs" for Oliver and one was on our nightstand. We left the room for a few minutes and Oliver decided to figure out a way to climb the mountain and get his hands on that glow slug. He pushed the shopping cart over to the bench, climbed onto the cart, and then onto the bench (base camp). I'm sure he took a 15 second break on the bench to get acclimated. Once feeling comfortable - he tackled the bed and crossed the long and treacherous trip to the summit of the pillows. Congrats for reaching the summit Oliver!

More October Fun!

More balls mean more fun!


Friday night we celebrated Grammy's Birthday with a fabulous dinner at the Holzemer's house.


Pam's BEAUTIFUL apple cake...Oliver's helping Grammy blow out the candle.


Saturday morning we went back to Mike's old college stomping ground for the Huskies Homecoming Game with a brunch at TKE. Here Hayden, Gavin and Oliver at the TKE house.

Oliver the Monkey and Kendall the Bumblebee at the Zoo's Pumpkin Prowl.

The little Monkey and his mommy!

Checking out all of the pumpkins.

Miss Maria the Bunny (and her chaufer, Tony).

The moms, Erica, Jill and Kelly, with their little Trick-or-Treaters.

Oliver and his ladies, Maria and Kendall.

Go Dawgs!

Here is a second straight post that mentions the Washington Huskies...big game this weekend vs the U of O Ducks! Check out the bridge below - this bridge is in downtown Portland. How about that for some Purple and Gold! A few guys from college put this together. You can read about it by clicking the links below.




http://www.oregonlive..com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2009/10/canzano_bridge_stunt_puts_oreg.html

http://www.ducksportsnews.com/blog/2009/10/dsn-lighting-portland-bridges-purple-gold-what/

Huskies Win!

Oliver, Kelly and I went to the Husky Tailgate before the game last weekend. Oliver enjoyed all the festivities. Here he is wearing Chris' hat and hanging out with Jolene. Kelly and Oliver went home before the game started and I went to the game, sat in the Arizona section, and lost my voice in a victory.


Just for fun - here is a picture of Oliver in the shower having a blast!

puddles...

With the rain comes puddles. With puddles comes boots. With boots comes playing in puddles...





After a long day in the rain...sometimes you go to the mall. Not that the mall is very much fun, but I thought this was a cool photo of Oliver between two large rugs hanging on the racks.

Pumpkin Patch

Over the weekend, we hit up the South 47 Farm Pumpkin patch with the Kruses.


Oliver checking out the mini-pumpkins.


And a MUCH larger pumpkin! Show us those muscles, Oliver!


Hayden and Shana taking a stoll through the pumpkin patch!

Riding a saddle on a hay bail....yeehaw!

Lounging with the pumpkins.

Running just as fast as he can...

The boys in a wheelbarrow...not so sure about this one.

The family.

O and his pops!

PEPS year anniversary get together

Here are the 6 cute kiddos from our PEPS group today. Much harder to keep the kids still this time. Oliver had a blast playing with his buddies today. He was exhausted after running around all afternoon!

Here are the kids last Christmas. What a difference 10 months make!!

Daughter's Guild Auction

Yesterday our Daughter's Guild for Children's Hospital held our 3rd Annual "Touchdown for Tots" auction. We raised $8,500 for uncompensated care for kids at Children's Hospital. Go Team!