More Easter Fun

We spent Easter at Mt Hood Meadows. The Cascade Mountains have been getting pummeled this spring- 6 feet in the last 10 days! Grammy Pam was in town to help out and babysit so off we raced to Mt Hood.

Powder! Powder! Powder! And more powder! The mountain was epic. We bumped into friends on the Shooting Star Chair and did laps until ski patrol finished avalanche bombing Lower Heather Canyon. We missed the opening by a few minutes but we still had fresh tracks down the canyon. Such good snow! Good times...

The line was stupid huge on the Heather Chair getting out of the canyon so we rode all the way down to the Hood River Meadows parking lot, lodge and chair. There was nobody on the HRM Chair so I thought it would be smart to check out Fright Trees. If the tree run was good we could lap it and not fight the crowds. Turns out Fright Trees lived up to the name. Bad times...

We made it. Sara is a trooper. We worked our way back to the lodge. After a quick snack we suited up Eli and took her outside to play in a sled. Eli really enjoyed being pulled around in the sled. More good times...

More sledding action...

Fun in the snow on Easter. Good times (mostly).

Easter

Eliana loved her Easter baskets from Nana in Maine and Grammy here. She wasn't a huge fan of the dress because it limited her high-speed crawling efforts.

Reading

Eliana loves to look at books. This book combines several of her favorite things: reading, playing peekaboo and spending time with Greg. It's a win, win, win.

Baby Loves Broccoli

It's possible that you are all getting tired of watching Eli eat. However, we continue to think it is really silly. Here she is with broccoli - her new new favorite food. This weekend she also discovered roasted red peppers.

Hooray for Baby Mangan

This weekend we also celebrated the upcoming arrival of Baby Mangan. The little man should be making his arrival sometime in April and I can't wait! The party was really fun and we lucked out with beautiful weather. While I was at the shower I kept thinking that a year ago a bunch of women surrounded me to shower me with wishes for a healthy baby. Knowing the joy that Eliana has brought into my life makes me even more happy and excited for Kristin.

Kristin and her mom, Dottie

Kristin and Darcy - due only a few weeks apart. Kristin's having a boy and Darcy is waiting to find out. I'll call it now - I think it's a girl. However, I was certain that Eliana was a boy and so I really don't know anything about anything.

The group commonly known as "The girls" - Me, Alexis, Kristin, Darcy and Sarah

My mom was able to join us for the celebration, too. Alexis got this shot of us.

Ten Months

On Sunday the 7th of March, Eliana celebrated her ten month birthday by going on an outing to the Japanese Gardens. Spring was in full bloom and it was spectacular. As always, Eli enjoyed cruising around in the Ergo and taking in the sights.

Here are a few of my favorite shots from our day.

Ms. Independent

Eliana has recently decided that eating baby food is for, well, babies. She now only likes to eat things that she can pick up by herself and put in her mouth by herself. No exceptions. Here are two of her favorites:

Eli "Seaweed Lover" Stiles

She is also a huge fan of pears and flaxseed

Standing and walking are also in our near future. She's super mobile and it's really amazing to watch her figure out how to move around and check things out.