A Year of Memories...

Thought I would put my video editing skills to good use....and there is no better use than when looking at photos of Ella...enjoy.

Discovering Fun at the Discovery Museum

After a random chain of events (Elanor gets a new bookcase for Christmas, rearranging Ella's room to fit the bookcase, relocated books onto bookcase, finding a "Kids Golden Gate" book, thumbing through book) we decided to visit the Bay Area Discovery Museum located at Fort Baker.  Oh my gosh, did we have fun.

This is basically a giant playground for kids aged 1-10.  They even have a specific toddler only area where we pretty much spent all our time.  It was a blast.  Check out some pics....

Elanor had the best time ever...we only had one incident which resulting in less than 5 minutes of crying.  I'll take it, and we will be back soon!

Merry Christmas

Happy Holidays!   Please click here to see the Blomquist Family Christmas Card 2011

Bumble Bees and Christmas Trees...

The past few months have been filled with travel, food, trees, toys and more.   Elanor has made a few more friends, experienced her first Halloween and Thanksgiving (OK not her first), and has now picked out her first Christmas tree (that one actually is a first).  

For Halloween, Elanor really wanted to be a bumble bee (I guess she was inspired by the fantastic cake and cupcakes at her birthday party).  I heard many neighbor's and trick-or-treaters exclaiming that she was the cutest bumble bee ever!  I agree!

Thanksgiving was a blast.  We spent the weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's.  Thanksgiving dinner was actually at Great Grandma and Grandpa's and we got to see pretty much all of local fam (plus an added bonus that Sara and Tim were in town from San Diego!).  It was tiring for little Ella...

Elanor did find a new use for her Mozart block...it makes a great seat!

Great Aunt Carol celebrated a birthday this past month, and Elanor met a new friend named Kiley.  Friends Brenna, Scott, Jaxon & Kiley came all the way from Minnesota to spend the week with Carol.  Thank you so much to Jaxon for sharing the Mickey Mouse CD player with her and especially for leaving it for her as a gift! She absolutely loves the music...it's so funny to watch her dance around with it on her shoulder like it is 1985 and she just got a new boombox.

After wandering and circling and taking a small trip in a sleigh full of presents...

Elanor found a Christmas tree she liked.  We took it home, decorated it, and took off put on all the ornaments.  It was a blast and it's the best looking tree i have ever seen...

Even though the weather has not been so nice (although you wouldn't know that this weekend with it being 75 degrees yesterday) we still find time to take walks, go to the park and just play.  Lots of playing.

Hope everyone else is having a great holiday season.

Elanor's First Birthday

Ella is 1!!  Can you believe it.  We had a fun filled weekend.  First we had a birthday party to kick off the celebration, then it was off to the pumpkin patch and then the aquarium.  Here are some photos from the weekend.  Thanks to all those who helped celebrate and make the weekend so special.

September Fun

We have really had a lot of fun lately.  Here are a few memories of our recent events...

Elanor is 11 months old! (And walking!)

Trying on dresses on Ella's 11 month birthday

Elanor opens her first birthday gift (a little early)

Learning to play the drums

Meeting friends at the San Francisco playground 

Riding the carousel in Golden Gate Park

More carousel riding

At Oktoberfest in Nicasio

Dancing and singing to the Polka

Labor Day

Some updates on the events of the Blomquist household...

Last weekend we went to Nicasio Ranch with friends Cindy, Burt and Donna to see Uncle Willie K.  Willie K is a hawaiian musician, and the show opened with some hawaiian dancers.  It was a great show, and a great time.

Labor day weekend was PACKED full of events.  First was dinner at Great Grandma and Grandpa's to see cousins Amy and Tom who were in town from Pennsylvania.  Next, was building shelves in the garage with Great Grandpa and Great Uncle Greg.  Then was the Morningside block party.

There were also a few trips to the park in there as well.

Here are some pictures from the past few weekends...

Wine Tasting

Dan's company had a wine tasting event in Calistoga last weekend at an actual castle.  We all went, and had a blast.  We took a short tour and then had wine tasting and lunch in the great hall.  Here are some pics.

The weekend prior, Elanor and I went to South Lake Tahoe to attend my friend Michelle's baby shower.  Michelle is due in October, almost 1 year after Ella's birthday.  She is going to have a girl and her name will be Corinne.  Here is a picture of Elanor with Michelle and Michelle's mom, Donna.

The baby shower was really fun, and it was great to see Michelle.  I hadn't been to Tahoe in a while, it really is a beautiful place.

Here are some more pictures over the past few weeks.  Elanor tried beets...she LOVED them!

Bath time at Grandma Marg's and Grandpa Bob's.

Playing with Isla at Daycare, already making friends.

Pics

Here are some more pictures and videos of Elanor over the past couple of weeks.  The ones where she is in the purple dress were taken on her 9 month birthday!  So basically, Elanor is "crawling" and starting to cruise a bit...keeps us entertained...and BUSY!

Bubbles from leslie blomquist on Vimeo.

Bear Crawl from leslie blomquist on Vimeo.