Visit to Longview

Lauren and Mommy decided to ride along with Daddy on Wednesday to view a timber sale outside St. Helens and then we ventured across the border to see our friends Brian, Libby and Evelyn in Longview. They were kind enough to let us stay the night while Daddy went to a public forum that evening for work.

Here's Lauren's photography skills at work. She likes to press the button and see the picture pop up on the screen!

Allie looking out the window waiting for her master to come home! It was raining that day so she didn't want to go to work with him! And since the weather didn't cooperate for a walk, we ended up playing inside the afternoon.

Here's Lauren and Evelyn playing. Evie had just got up from a nap. Lauren thought it was funny to put the coasters in her mouth and have Evie pull them out. But then Evie wanted to put them in her mouth and her mommy didn't think that was very fun.

Here Lauren is sharing the coasters....one of the only things she did share. We definitely need to work on that. She had a BAD habit of taking what Evie had....and Evie didn't appreciate that very much. Nor was she able to run or even crawl after her to get it back!

Here Lauren is faking Evie out pretending to share. I think this was right before she bonked Evie in the head with the maraca. I really don't think she understood that Evie was a "baby baby" not a person her size and age!

I took a lot of pictures of Miss Evelyn. Here she is being silly.

And even sillier!


Trying to climb up my pants! She's working very hard at being mobile. Evie's only almost 9 months....but it's only a matter of time!

She does a lot of "all-fours" rocking.....she'll get there before we all know it!

Playing with her book.....

It was great to see everyone and be able to spend some time with them even though it seemed soooo short. We so appreciated being able to spend the night.

The next morning we ran up the road an hour and did some house hunting. We found one we really liked (even Lauren approved!), but it went pending the same day. Our home still hasn't sold so we can't be toooooo serious about looking right now any way! It just wasn't meant to be....or at least that's what everyone keeps telling us even though I planned every room's decor on the ride home. Oh well.