March - July

Since there are quite a few months to catch up on, here are the highlights from each month. (I again don't know why the spacing is off between the photos and the text. I've tried to fix it numerous times but with no luck.)

March:
Someone's ready for St. Patrick's Day!


April:

Ben and Gretchen being silly.


Gretchen enjoys blowing bubbles. She's getting good at it except it's hard keeping the bubble bottle upright!

Gretchen is eating a banana while making silly faces for the camera.

The next eight photos are of Easter Day. Here Gretchen is opening her Easter basket.

Our family at Easter dinner.

Poppy and Nana with three grandkids: Fin, Gretchen & Clara.

Gretchen has her bunny ears.

Fin didn't want to wear his ears so Poppy joined Gretchen in being a bunny.

Egg hunt time!

May:

Loki is great with Gretchen and she likes snuggling up with him. By the way, she's done with the pacifier now since she was getting way too old for it.

Gretchen learned how to ride her tricycle and loves chasing Ben around.

Gretchen got purple fingernail polish as a treat and she wanted to put it on by herself.

June:
We went to the pond to feed the ducks.

How cute are these two nappers?

During the end of June and beginning of July, we visited Ben's parents in Portland. While we were there, our sister-in-law Jamie and our college friend Teresa threw us a fantastic baby shower. Here are just a few photos. To see more photos of the shower go to: https://picasaweb.google.com/BeaverBri/JuliaSBabyShower?feat=email

The cake pops were a hit!

Seeing a sea lion at the Portland zoo.

July:
Family photos.

Silly goose!

Gretchen with her cousin Eli.

She got him to smile! They enjoy each other's company.