The Highlights

Hello!  Sorry about my long hiatus from blogging!  We're back, with tons of pictures to share!

Here are some of the highlights from our trip to Arizona!  Looking back at these pictures, I wish we'd gotten some with our families in them!  Every single one is of Violet, occasionally with Glenn or I in the background.  Can you tell we think she is cute??

There was a lot of playing in the water in Grandma and Grandpa's backyard (sometimes in the buff):

Violet swam everyday in at Glenn's parents' house, but we never took any pictures!  Here is an after swimming shot:

Violet took swim lessons! She cried the whole time every day, but she learned the things she was supposed to!  Please don't, but IF you threw her over the edge of a swimming pool, she could turn around and find the wall and pull her head above water!

I made dinner for everyone one night! From front to back: naan, Indian Butter chicken, spiced lentils, and cute Violet. :)

And just a few more random pictures for good measure:

It was a great trip, but we are glad to be back! 

(I would be gladder if there wasn't another mouse in our house.  But there is.)

Violet is a star!

My brother-law-law is starting a really cool company, and took some pictures of Violet for the website! Check it out!

http://babiesofhope.com/

(p.s.  Is it horribly politically incorrect to say this?  I am afraid people are going to think Violet is one of the poor babies because she is so skinny.)

First Hair cut!

Violet got her first hair cut on the first day of our trip here to Arizona!  She did not like it much, but she looks like much less of a hooligan now!

(before ^)

(during)

This is the best after shot we have!  I don't know why we didn't take a real "after" shot, but her hair looks pretty much the same, just less shaggy.

We are out of here!

We are headed to Arizona for a couple of weeks, and we leave this afternoon!  So excited to see everyone!

p.s.  I am extra excited to get away from this apartment right now because there is a RAT in here with me.  It was been here for three days and the management hasn't done anything about it.  It has been back and forth between the kitchen and the storage room and I have still been doing the dishes back there.  Feel free to commend me on my bravery.

The very disappointing thing that happened to me recently

A while ago, I booked a photographer I know to take our family pictures on the beach on August 3rd, which was last Friday.  It was perfect, because Glenn had Friday off school.  If you have coordinated family pictures before, you know there is some planning involved.  I ordered a dress online (and rushed the shipping so it would be here on time) and hemmed it myself (which was quite a risk considering the extent of my sewing skills!) during Violet's nap on Friday.  We did our laundry in the morning instead of in the afternoon, rearranged Violet's nap schedule, and Glenn got his hair cut.  About an hour before we were going to leave for the pictures, Glenn went into the bathroom to shave and I looked at my phone.  And I had a text from the photographer canceling the photo shoot.  

So I changed back into sweats, and told Glenn he didn't have to finish shaving if he didn't want to.

Anyway, we went to the park instead.  It was fun and I met a mom who was really nice, and Violet had a great time.

I just wish I had family pictures to show you instead of these ones!

2 more pictures

Sorry family, I have not been keeping up with my goal of posting every day lately!  However, I did find two more pictures we took during the family reunion!  On Thursday, we went to the California Science Center.  We have been once before, but this time was way more fun!  We had the whole family there, which was great, but also Violet could walk around and really appreciate some of the exhibits.  Here were two of her favorites:

The baby chicks!  We were hoping to see one hatch, but we had to settle for watching the the older ones.

The gift shop.  Her dad easily enjoyed this one as much as she did. :)

Just us again

Well, the family is gone, and it is just Glenn, Violet, and I here again!  We will be in Arizona in a week and a half though, so we won't miss our family for too long.

We had such a good time with Glenn's family.  On Friday, we finally made it to the beach with everyone!  Everyone else went several times during the week, but Glenn had school until Friday.  Can you believe we only took ONE picture the whole time?  Here it is:

Violet is sure going to miss her grandma!  As soon as Terri would walk into the room, Violet would run to her with her arms in the air!  If Terri wasn't holding Benson, she was holding Violet.  And as you can see, sometimes she was holding both of them.

The highlight of the reunion for me was having all of Violet's cousins around.  She had so much fun!  Even though most of them are a lot bigger than her, she loved running around after them!  Now it is time for her to sleep a little more though, which is something she didn't do much of while everyone was here :)