Thanksgiving

First we went to Texas to visit Jared, Marcie, Sophia and Micah (which was their first time meeting Lucy), and then we headed to Arizona to spend Thanksgiving with my family.  Here are some pictures from our two week vacation.  

Getting ready to board the plane.  Lucy did pretty well on the flights, all 5 of them.

Lucy meeting her cousins Sophia and Micah for the first time :)

Sophia, Ashleigh, Richard, me, Lucy, Micah, Marcie and Jared

Sweet cousin picture

 Now on to AZ!

Lucy with her Uncle Jonny and Uncle Jesse :)

Playing at the park with Uncle Jesse

First Thanksgiving.  She thought it was yummy!

Four generations!

Even my dad wore an OSU shirt!

Celebrating her birthday early with the AZ family.

She loved baby Belle

Happy birthday ice cream, she thought it was cold but yummy!

 

Pumpkin Patch

We went to a pumpkin patch last weekend and even though Lucy is a little young to understand, it was still a fun memory she can look back on. We walked through the fields and picked the perfect pumpkins and then took a bumpy hayride through the patch.  The weather was perfect, sunny and warm! 

Aunt Randee and Lucy :)

Little smiles :)

"what is this orange thing?"

Happy Fall!!

Lucy's 6-9 month video

Lucy's 6-9 month video

The rest of summer

This summer has gone by fast!  We have had beautiful weather and have been trying to take advantage of it as much as we can; it will be gone soon.  Lucy is getting so big!  Sitting up, crawling, balancing on her knees, pulling herself up.  She is such a curious little girl, and so smart too!  She can figure almost anything out.  

Richard and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary by staying in a cabin on Mt. Hood in Oregon.  Since it's summer, there wasn't any snow on the ground, it was actually pretty warm, but it was still nice to get away.
 

On the ski slope they had lots of "summer" activities.  We just watched :)

Richard and Lucy on a walk

These next few pictures are just random ones from our daily life at the Doe house.

I love her little ears

She's finally big enough for her jumper.

Playing with water in the back yard

Pulling herself up

She loves looking through her diaper bag :)

Such a good crawler now, and really fast!

Lucy supporting the Diamondbacks

We went to a lake with the youth group earlier this summer and Lucy came along.  She got to hang out with everyone and try out her new bathing suit in the cold lake.  She didn't stay in for long :)

Playing her in pack-n-play

Checking out the water

And she's had enough

Sweet girl

Crawling video

Here's Lucy's latest video.  Her latest accomplishments: sitting up and crawling!!!

Sitting and crawling video 

Grandma CC came to visit

My mom came up to visit us a few weeks ago when Richard was gone at youth camp.  It was really great having her here to help and spend time with Lucy.  Lucy really loved spending time with her grandma too!  We were able to do a lot of fun Vancouver/Portland stuff since the weather was so beautiful.

Lucy and her Grandma CC at the Vancouver Farmer's Market

Me, Lucy and mom in our pretty hotel room at The Nines in downtown Portland

Hanging out at the park on a beautiful day

Lori (Grandma Doe), mom (Grandma CC), Lucy and me at the Rose Gardens in Portland

Lucy smelling the roses :)

Thanks mom for coming to visit!  We miss you and the rest of the Arizona family a lot!

4th of July and water fun

This summer is going by quickly!  We have had a lot of nice weather here in Washington, actually pretty hot weather, which is very nice.  Here are some pictures of Lucy's first 4th of July.  She spent the night sleeping away in her bed while extremely loud, booming fireworks went off all around her.  I can't believe she slept through all the noise!  I was kind of looking forward to her reaction to fireworks.  I guess we'll have to wait until next year.

Me and Lucy at a concert in the park on the 4th of July

Since it has been pretty warm, I've tried to think of fun things Lucy can do with water outside.  Here's her playing in her highchair filled with water.  She thought it was pretty cool for about 5 minutes :)

Splashing