We made it!

We had a wonderful trip to Oregon! We have been home 2 days and I am happy to say that I have unpacked, laundered, grocery shopped, sorted through the mail, paid bills, cleaned the car, and now I'm ready to blog about our trip :)
Dave was the official driver and I was the official child entertainer.

I was usually pretty good at my job and Milan was a pretty happy camper for most of the trip (To be honest, there were a lot of Oreos involved)! On our last day of driving, she kept pulling at her car seat, and saying "done?"
Our first day in Florence was sunny and beautiful. The sun is rare on the Oregon coast so we decided to take advantage of the opportunity for Milan's first beach trip.....not a big hit this time.

We visited with my friend Dawn and her little family. It was great to see them and Milan especially loved visiting their farm and petting all the animals.

We also got to visit with my friend Cindy......Dave and I met at her son's first birthday party 8 years ago :). We were able to see a lot of our friends and we loved catching up!


We stayed with Dave's parents and took advantage of some babysitting while we were there.....Dave and I enjoyed some dates and I took a couple of days for shopping (since I'm deprived here in Wyoming.) Milan caught on and wouldn't let me out of her sight while I was home with her. She had a lot of fun with her grandparents (thanks again for the hospitality!).
Milan got excited every time she saw her pop-pa! (Even if we all walked in the house together, she ignored Dave and I for her pop-pa!)

Walking with grand-ma.

Family Picture

The kids (and kids-in-laws)

Our little family

Here we are playing with the miniature horse....Milan was too scared to touch him, but liked to pet him vicariously through me :)

Milan decided she needed to change dad's diaper. After she made him lay down on the floor, she lost interest and left to play with her babies.


All in all a good trip.....of course it is always nice to be home :)

Oregon

I just wanted to do a quick post from Florence, Oregon. Dave accepted a new job (still a diesel mechanic in Rock Springs, just a better job with a better company) that starts on the 16th. When he told his old company, they asked him to turn in his service truck and take his last 2 weeks as paid vacation. We were pretty excited about that....we decided to head to Oregon to visit friends and family. We pretty much figured that the drive here would be 14 continuous hours of screaming, but Milan was awesome. She refused to take a nap in the car so most of the time she looked out the window with a dazed look on her face :). Here we are taking an kheam (ice cream) break in Bend, Oregon.
We are having a great time with everyone in Oregon and Milan is having even more fun than us! She likes to see all the horses, cows, cats, chickens, and rabbits and absolutely loves to see her Pop-pa (grandpa Bill.)

Mmmmm......mmmmmm

Today Milan had her 18 month checkup (1 1/2 months late) and after being sick, her weight has fallen from the 6th percentile to the 1.18th percentile.....skinny little girl.
Last night, Milan tried to fix her little weight problem by eating butter. Yep, we're awesome parents! I was making cookies while Milan was sitting in her chair....she found half a stick of butter, unwrapped it, and ate to her heart's desire. We thought it was too funny to stop her so we just took pictures instead.

The "after" picture


A random sidenote.....Look at her phone attitude....I wonder where she gets that :)

Yea!

Hooray, my little goofball is feeling better! The Scott Family is now healthy :)

Sickies

There are lots of good things about our friends the Sorensens. The bad thing is the colds we all caught at Chistmastime. It could have been from Milan stealing Anna&JP's sippies or from Milan&JP's hugs.

The worst thing about Milan's Bronchitis was that she was such a sad little girl. The good thing is that she was super cuddly.


The other bad thing about Bronchitis is that we were pretty much housebound all week (except for playing with our equally-ill friends the Sorensens :). It was a good excuse to expand our Disney movie collection (relying on PBS and 4 DVDs wasn't exactly thrilling) and Dave is now super excited about Monsters Inc :)

I now have cold #2 and it pretty much sucks. The good thing is that Dave and Milan have been having a lot of fun hanging out. Here they are playing around last night.

Smiles

Milan is getting really great about having her picture taken. She loves to say "cheeeese". Here are some cute smiles we have seen over the past couple of days.
Cute piggies

Saturday morning muffins with dad

Hanging out with mom

Styling outfit

Happy Two Thousand Nine!!!

We hope everyone had a fun New Year!! We had an awesome time with friends last night. We ate lots of yummy food, played games, and visited all night long. Milan stayed up until 12:30 (just like last year)....she had a fun night playing with her friends, but she was definitely grateful for her crib at the end of the night. Have a great 2009!!