Dahlia Festival

Labor Day we headed down to Canby, OR for the Swan Island Dahlia Festival.

It was beautiful!

I love dahlias and this was the first time I was able to go to the festival. Oh my, soooo many to pretty flowers to chose from. Hopefully next year George and I will have our own yard to plant some it! If not, I'm sure my mom would love it if I planted her's again! This year we only have about 100 plants in the ground because the tubers didn't winter over well. Last year we had over 300! It was great to see some of the varieties in person. I decided I really liked some of them that didn't look so good to me in the catalog. I'm excited to pick some new ones for next year.

The view was amazing, they have over 40 acres planted.

Norah did very well relaxing in her stroller for most of the trip. We did let her walk around a little and she went right for the flowers.

George tried holding hands for a while...

But it was easier to just carry her!

1st Ear Infection

Poor Baby! She's better now, but that was a yucky ear infection. Norah had her 1 year shots on Monday 8/30 right after we got back from VA. That Wednesday she spiked a fever which we thought was a reaction to the shots. She was sleeping horribly and by Thursday night the fever hit 104. We took her back to the doc on Friday and they determined that the fever was not from shots, but an ear infection. Poor thing! She was pretty much a lump for several days until the meds started helping.

Her right ear was so swollen it stuck out from her head!

A few days after she started feeling better, we saw a big white thing in her mouth, she had been cutting her first molar too, ouchie!

She's still been having a hard time sleeping, last night was the first night she slept all the way through since before we went to VA...so almost a month. Hopefully tonight will go well!

More VA fun in the cabin

Nana with her granddaughters

Norah enjoying Nana's hat

George and Sarah extreme marshmallow roasting in the rain

Fun with mini golf

Elaine and Emily (with baby on board)

Sarah and Evoly (who called it pokepoke golf)

George and his awesome Daddy/golf skills

Virginia!

On 8/20 we flew to VA for our niece's baptism and to visit family. We had so much fun while we were there! We went to DC for a day, then stayed at an awesome cabin resort, went to Williamsburg, went crabing, and got to hang out with family we haven't seen in a while! Here's a few pictures of family and DC. Blogger must hate me because it is taking forever to load pictures, seriously, I've been working on this post for a few days because the pics won't load.

Party 8/19/10

The Birthday Girl playing with her favorite toy, a kazoo!

Lots of people came over to celebrate with us!

We had a yummy dinner! Norah enjoyed Purple Mashed Potatoes (No Food Coloring!) and a variety of other veggies.

After dinner we opened presents! Norah received a lot of wonderful gifts.

Then it was time for Cupcakes!

Norah really enjoyed her cupcake!