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...