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Obviously it's been more than a little while since I've written a post on my blog. I figure that since I'm stuck on the couch for a few hours each evening, I may as well keep this thing better updated. Why the recent friendliness with the couch, you ask? Well we are due with baby #2 this November and this nausea has started hanging around every night. Morning sickness is not really an accurate term for me since I'm okay for most of the day, but starting around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, things start to go downhill for me. Blech. I've had to pass already on some fun activities because I'm just feeling steamrolled and like I'm going to have to go puke any second. But enough about that!

We are truly excited to be welcoming a new addition to our family later this year! We've started talking about names, discussing adjustments we will need to make to accommodate another little person in our household, David is working frantically to finish the remodel project in our basement, and we're introducing Oliver to the idea. I'm pretty sure he doesn't really understand much yet (he'll be 2 next month!) but we tell him there's a baby in mommy's tummy that will be at our house in a little while. Sometimes Oliver pats my tummy and says "baby" but a lot of the time he likes to pretend HE is a baby and does this super fakey cry until I hold him and rock him. This lasts about 3 seconds and then he is off running to more of his big-boy adventures like climbing, throwing, torturing Tucker, yelling, breaking things, etc. :)

Since it's been many months since a post, I will recap with a few pictures of events since my last update...

Annual Wilson family camping trip 2010 - this time to Salmonberry Campground.



David's mission trip to Mexico, August 2010.



Helping at our church's annual Vestal School cleanup service project.



Basement window well project - this was a big one and took about 3 months to complete! Since we are adding 2 bedrooms in our basement, we had to install egress windows. This meant cutting through our concrete driveway and foundation, digging the wells to allow enough room for the crank windows to open, building frames and pouring concrete to make the new structures and installing the new windows. My dad and Ben came to help with part of it and a couple of other friends helped us remove all the debris afterwards.









We attended a few Halloween parties as cave people with our pet dinosaur.



November 2010 family photo shoot.





Quick trip to Coeur d'Alene, ID for Great Grandma Teen's funeral.



David frames walls for the basement rooms.



We celebrated Christmas 2010.



We flew to Dallas, TX for New Year's to celebrate Ben and Haley's wedding and see our Rude family.



We waited in line for a couple/few hours in downtown Portland to take our "No Pity" Timbers family portrait.



David redid all the electrical for our house including installing a whole new breaker panel and main. (This guy is amazing.)



David and I celebrated our birthdays in February 2011 with a weekend trip to Yachats.



Stay tuned, more adventures are sure to come! :)

A Midsummer Night's Post

I can't believe July is almost over now and it's been FOREVER since I wrote a post on my blog. David's on his way to Mexico, Oliver and Tucker are sound asleep, and I've already done the dishes, so I guess I can take a moment to load a few photos. :)

Oh drat. I guess I forgot how to load these properly so they are in backward order. It's like our summer in reverse. Fun. :)


Enjoying a bonfire before the teen camping trip.


David makes a new doorway to our basement (and a big mess).


Oliver eats Cheerios with a fork.


David tears out walls in the basement.


Oliver obsesses about shoes.


Enjoying Challenge Camp at Yamhill.


Baby pool time.


Installing all new plumbing at our house.


4th of July Party.


Church camping trip.


Cleaning up our back yard.


Happy Father's Day!


A little date with Edward Cullen.


One of David's crazy hair stages.


Karaoke date night.


Oliver and his girlfriend in Sunday School.


I have high hopes for updating in greater frequency!

More Oli Adventures

Helping in the yard.

Loves to "vacuum"

Hugs for Tuck Tuck.

Geocaching with Jamie.





Most of my pictures of Oli look like this...

...or this.

Brothers.

Yes, that is a toilet plunger. No, it has not been used in a toilet.

He also likes to show his love by ripping our faces off. :)



That's our Little Rude at 13+ months. :)

1 Couple, 6 Years, Lotsa' Fun!

David and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary earlier this month. My mom came up for the weekend and watched Oliver for us so we had Friday night and all day on Saturday baby-free! We borrowed a motorcycle from a friend at church and took a drive on the Historic Columbia River Highway through the gorge on a beautiful, sunny day. We stopped at Crown Point and toured the Vista House before making our way to Multnomah Falls. We had a relaxing lunch at the foot of the falls and then took a short hike to the bridge. (Yeah, we were too lazy to go to the top that day.) We cruised back to Troutdale and spent the afternoon browsing the little shops in the downtown area. It was then time for a sushi dinner and YoCream for dessert before strolling through Ikea and picking up a couple little items for the house. All in all, it was a very enjoyable day and it was very nice to spend some quality time together. Here are a few photo highlights from the day: