Oliver goes SKIING!

This weekend we headed up to Crystal Mountain to the Swantek's cabin to introduce Oliver to the fine sport of skiing. As you will see below he was a star on those plastic skis....and he LOVED it!


Mommy and Nancy strapping Oliver in.


So far so good!

The first "run" down the slope with Auntie Nancy!

He's having fun now....look how fast he was going!

Checking out the big hill that he just conquered.

On to the big hill with Mommy...Ok, he actually didn't go up the chair lift....maybe next time.

True to the New Years resolution....here is a video of Oliver's first time on skis.

And a video of the first "run."

Tea parties and brick towers

Oliver and his bear, monkey and Santa mouse are having a little tea party.

Uncle Steve and Oliver having fun with the play bricks.

Dare-Devil Oliver!

The little guy is almost as tall as Uncle Steve! Check out that HUGE smile!

Annual French Dinner

Good friends Libby and Alexis were visiting from Paris over the holidays and invited us to their annual French feast. They cooked up a fabulous HUGE, delicious authentic french meal. Yum!

The cooks in their new aprons.

Oliver and Nathan sharing their dinner...and there is Grammy with them!

Nathan was all ready to provide the dinner music...

..but the kids had to jump into their PJs and hit the hay before the real fun began.

The first course...

The main dish (the vegetarian version....there was a pork roast for the meat-eaters).

The fabulous slow roasted tomatoes

The lucky diners- all of the Holzemers, of course, the Todds, Boyesons and us.


The cheese course

And dessert. Beautiful! Great work Libby!

A few more New Years pics

Out at the park....Oliver refused to wear his hat, so his hair is all wet from the drizzling rain.


Kelly reading to Oliver and Hayden.


Smiley kiddo.

Hiking to the beach with all the kids.

Happy New Year 2010!

To ring in 2010, we headed down to Seabrook, WA (near Ocean Shores) over the long weekend. We were joined by the Kruses, the Leptichs, the Browns and friend Sally.
Oliver had SO much fun playing with all of the kids!


Mr. Oliver muching on some oaties.


The bathtub duck was the favorite toy of Oliver and Hayden.


Oliver eating dinner with Gavin and Hayden. They are at a safe distance because they were worried that Oliver might steal their dinner. :)


Cutie-patootie Ella Brown.

Let sushi night begin!

Haley showing her rollin' skills!

Yummmm......

Wall-o-monitors.

Quite the sushi and sake spread.

Tyler and Ella.

Oliver in his snowman jammies.

Gavin was babysitting Hayden and Oliver. :)

Rambo

Bathtub time.

How many kids can you fit in one tub!

Oliver getting ready to head to the beach.

Hayden and Brett are ready too.

Flying Oliver.

Time to get dirty.

What a mess!!

Searching for rocks and shells.

Chasing waves with Dad.

All the kiddos at the beach...Ella and Avery in backpacks.

The kids and their pappas.

Mike carrying home the two sandy boys.

The boys walking down the streets of Seabrooke.

Hayden was NOT digging the oysters that Tamayo was trying to give him.

We had a quest appearance from Mike and Gemma Tamayo on Saturday night. Of course, Mike was there to teach Oliver and Hayden all about the latest and greatest iPhone apps.