Sunday, July 26, 2009

going to france!



One of the games Eloise likes to play these days is to climb into the laundry basket and declare that she's in a boat going to France. Then she makes me tell her a story about all the things she does in France (eat baguettes, eat pommes frites, eat some fromage, see the Eiffel Tower, ride the train, go fast on the autoroute, etc.)
Yesterday we were out shopping and we saw a poster of the Eiffel Tower. I pointed it out to her. She got really excited and started yelling "The EIFFEL TOWER!!! Like Eloise go to in FRANCE!!!!"

Also - thanks to everyone who has given us name suggesions so far (160 and counting). For those of you who are curious, here's what we've got so far: Adam, Adam, Adamson, Agustus, Alexander, Aloysius, Andrew, Andrew, Angelo, Angus, Anthony, Archibald (Archie), Ashby, August, Avery, Ayden, Barbly, Barnaby, Barnaby, Barnaby, Baxter, Beau, Beau (Bo), Ben, Benjamin, Bernie, Bert, Bob, Bobby, Boone, Booth, Booth, Boris, Bruce, Caleb, Caligula, Cecil, Christopher, Claude, Claudius, Clive, Cochran, Cody, Connor, Cornelius, Cruz, Cyril, David, Desmond, Dorian, Edmund, Eli, Elias, Elijah, Ender, Ethan, Ethan, Ethan, Ethan, Evan, Evan, Ezra, Felix, Finnegan, Gabe, Garrett, George, Gerrard, Griffith (Grif), Gus, Hamish, Hank, Harlan, Harper, Heath, Hector, Henry, Henry, Henry, hhhhhorrrrrsid, Hugo, Hugo, Humphrey, Ian, Igor, Jack, Jack, Jackson, Jacque, Jake, Jake, Jasper, Jayden, Jem, Jerome, Joaquin, Joe Schmoe, Johnny Cake, Jude, Jules, Jules, Julian, Julius, kaiser, Kaleb, Keven, Leroy, Ludwig, Luis, Malcolm, Mangus, Max, Max, Max, Maxwell, Mister Pizza Man, Moby, Mohinder, Moses, Mozart, mylonas, Nathan, Nials, Nielson, Nolan, Oliver, Oscar, Otis, Otis, Owen, Pablo, Perry, Peter, Phineas, Pierre, Pim, Quinten, Randolph, Randolph, Reed, Reice, Rhys, Rodderick, Roman, Rory, Rowan, Samson (Sam), San Pablo, Saul, Scotch, Shattuck, Sid, Syd, Teriyaki, Thor, Toby, Trevor (Trev), Vladmir, Weice, Wes, Zach, and Zachariah.

You can always add some more to the list by going HERE. Keep 'em coming people!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

suuuuuper relaxing vacation



We all chilled out over the past two weeks. Here's Eloise in the tent during the camping portion of our vacation. We camped in a few spots up the California and Oregon coast. One of the coolest things we saw were the amazing tidepools at Cape Perpetua.




After camping, we spent a week at Mana and Pata's house in Estacada. Eloise got a beauty makeover compliments of Mana.




While we were there, we also had a tie dye party, fed the fish in the fish pond, visited Cisco and Brenna on their house boat, and visited cousins Ingrid & Pierre (and their parents Josh & Christie).




All in all, it was a top-notch vacation!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

what the heck?



This has been happening more often than you would think around here .... Matt and Eloise suddenly appear wearing these funny moustachios. What do they think they are? Evil magicians?