Ya-Ya comes to Salem!

Vienne's Ya-Ya paid us a visit in mid-August, staying through Vienne's birthday on August 20th.  During Ya-Ya's visit, we did lots of fun stuff, including a day trip to Mt. St. Helens. We had an absolute blast and Vienne loves her Ya-Ya so much (as we all do!) Earlier in August, before Ya-Ya arrived, we went to Newport and went through the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum and the Wax Works museum. We even "met" Johnny Depp. Hmmmm..maybe the quotes should have been around Johnny Depp and not the word met. Either way, it was fun and it smelled a little like crab.

4th of July!

We had a grand ole time for the Fourth of July at Grandpa and Grandma's house!  This was the first year that Vienne actively participated in the festivities. In previous years, she just gawked in amazement at the fireworks (and maybe was a little scared of them), but in 2013, she held a sparkler and helped her Papa set up the fireworks in the street. It was a good opportunity to teach our little Peanut about fire safety.  In July, I also took a cute video of Vienne counting and reading.

Vienne's World is back folks!!

Sorry for the extended hiatus. So much has happened since my last post (well, not really), but I'll be posting some highlights from June 2013 till now. And I promise to do a better job at keeping this blog up-to-date.

Without further ado, let's start with June! We moved from Eugene to Salem for Poppa's new job at Willamette University and we found a lovely (and very affordable!) house, with a great backyard and fire pit, for rent in Salem. Vienne loved to run around in the backyard all summer. Also, in June, Vienne's aunt, Arianne, paid us a visit!  We went to the beach and visited the Oregon tradition that is The Enchanted Forest!