August already?

Here's what we've been up to:

We celebrated Dad's 35th birthday

Steve and I went to a wedding in Seattle, so Granny & Big A came up to watch Berit Bean.  They had a great time-- and Auntie M was able to hang out and help a lot too.  We are very greatful for all their help while we were gone.  Berit had a blast!!!

Shopping with Granny

Nekkid at the frozen yogurt shop

Changed into my swimsuit

Silly Girls

Some Seattle pics-- we had a very nice time just being together.

Pike's Market

Fun Ferris Wheel in background- wish we had time to ride it!

Steve the Groomsman

Beautiful wedding at UW

Us after the wedding

Also, Berit is proud to be sporting pig tails these days.

Finally, we celebrated our ninth anniversary (crazy!), and Berit has started gymnastics.  Perfect timing because we can watch gymnastics on the Olympics and she can see what she has to work towards (kidding!).  She is taking it with Luca, Elena & Noah and it's fun to watch!

New stuff

Berit is such a fun kid.  She says the funniest things.

• Always asking to go to Costco.
• Loves to say 'oh boy'
• Will out of the blue start calling us by our first names.  
• Loves playing with the neighbors outside after dinner
• Carries anything with a strap on it and calls it a purse.  She says 'i buy something.'
• Always asking 'what's that?'
• Loves to get frozen yogurt
• When she hears a car honking the horn she says 'no honk honk.
• Insists on wearing tutus everyday if possible
• Has perfected the ABC's and counting 1-10.  Pretty good at going up to 20, but will sometimes skip numbers and get things out of order. 
• Loves my 'freckle family' I have on my leg