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Reece 0-6 Months
If I was trying to put this up on Reece’s 6 month birthday I only missed it by about 2 1/2 years… Anyway, some pictures!
Averie Jean
Averie Jean Aldrich
She was born at 8:19 weighing in at 9lbs 12.3oz and measuring 23 1/4″ (although there are some conflicting numbers between the hospital and the first doctor visit).
Her first name is something we’ve liked for a long time (although spelled a bit different than originally) but her middle name comes from Rachel’s mother’s middle name.
Some pics from her first few days of life:
Delilah 6-12 Months
Delilah is a year old now. Well, really a year and 17 days, but with a one year old comes delays…
It’s been a blast, the last few months she’s really become mobile which is tiring but loads of fun.
They really do grow up way too fast and we have no idea where the last year has gone, but we look forward to many hectic years to come.
Delilah 0-6 Months
Friday was Delilah’s 6 month birthday. Man oh Man. The past 6 months have been a blur. Delilah’s had lots of milestones, smiles, babbling, standing, grabbing, sitting & just recently, rolling over. Looking back through these pictures made me smile so many times…
NOTE: If you cannot see the slideshow above please view the original post.
The next 6 months will be just as exciting with even more milestones, but will probably fly by even faster.
Hope we can keep up.
Falling Brook – Moving In
Wow! Last weekend was an insanely hectic few days.� Not only was our daughter Delilah born but we also moved into a new house.� We’re finally settling back into normalcy, well… as normal as it can be with a 1week old baby and a new house.
Even though we had to move the closing date due to little miss Lilah’s early arrival we were fortunate enough to get the sellers to agree to an early possession.� 7am last Saturday I left Rachel and her mother at the hospital so I could get the move underway and so we could be all set by discharge time (which I convinced the nurses to do LATE in the day).
I did the final walk-through at 8am, picked up the 26′ U-Haul truck at 9 (no I’ve never driven something that big before) and we had the move under way by 10am.� At the new house a little after noon with the truck and my father’s snowmobile trailer fully loaded.� Completely unloaded by 1:30pm.� Not too shabby.
Couldn’t have possibly done it without all the help.� Thanks George, Dale, Brian, Ryan, Mike,Cory, Bill, Chris, Eric.
During the whole process I made the following time-lapse.� There are big gaps because well… I was busy.
Oregon Coast to Seaside
Tuesday was relaxing. We got up and had the continental breakfast (we made it a point to eat itevery day, no sense spending money on a meal that was included with your hotel). We took our time checking out and headed to do laundry. Since we’re here for 3 weeks we intentionally only packed enough for 1 to lighten the load. This only took us a little over an hour (thank you 45lb dryers!) which was just about perfect since right then we got a call to meet at Fudruckers for lunch. “Sounds good!” we said and headed over.
After lunch (Michael at a 1lb burger…) with the family (George, Stacie, Mom, Dad, Michael, Michelle, Rachel and myself) everyone took a leisurely drive through the countryside to get a good view of Mt hood. We stopped outside a ranch of some sort where we could see it pretty clearly.
Here, we said our goodbyes (I think Rachel and Michelle were the most saddened) and struck out for the coast. We had already been to Cannon beach and south to Tullamook but we hadn’t made it to Ecola State Park and we figured, since we had the time, what better way to get to Seattle than to take the coast the whole way.
Sunset at Ecola was amazing. However; since we started out so late we only made it as far as Seaside, which turned out to be a very cute town but extremely touristy. There we stayed at the Sandy Cove Inn which was adorable. It was family owned and apparently had been purchased and renovated by the current owners about 2 years ago. It was one of those theme places, where every room has a theme.
Thus ended our first real night on the road.
George & Stacie Heath
Congratulations to both of you! What a great wedding!
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Rehearsal and Dinner at Portland City Grill
The rehearsal went off without a hitch at the beautiful Aerie at Eagle Landing. Because Smitty wasn’t flying in until Saturday morning, I acted as a stand-in groomsmen, which was a first but fun.
After the rehearsal always comes the good part… the dinner. For this particular event we ate at the Portland City Grill on the 30th floor of the US Bancorp building. The view was incredible, and we were blessed with a gorgeous sunset way up over the west hills. Pictures can’t do it justice, and since I only brought my 50mm portrait lens (without a polarized filter through glass at night) my pictures of the city and the skyline were all but useless. Since it was also Michael’s birthday George and Stacie had a cake for him which was absolutely delicious!
You’ll just have to trust me, the view from the Portland City Grill is well worth the cost of a meal, it truly is spectacular.
Surprise!
My father-in-law George just turned 50 on sunday (August 3rd). It’s kind of a big deal. To celebrate the occasion my mother-in-law and the rest of the family had been planning a surprise birthday party for months. To add to the fun George Jr flew in, unknown to George Sr, from Portland Oregon and stepped out from behind everyone just as dad thought he’d said hello to everyone. You can just see the rush of emotion in his face as the realization hits him that his son is here.
As plans do, everything to keep George out of the house fell through so Rachel and I made a last minute ditch effort to fix it. We managed to get him out of the house for a few hours by bribing him with lunch and a movie (Dark Knight).
Randy Aldrich 