Audriana's Big Speech

Grandma and Grandpa Anderson are in town for spring break.  Audriana delivered a big speech to share with her adoring grandparents :)

Happy Birthday, Grandpa!

On March 14th, Grandpa Te celebrated his birthday in Minnesota.  We were sorry that we couldn't be there to help cheer on the party, but we were definitely thinking about him on our drive down to Seattle on Saturday!  Happy Birthday...we love you!

Audriana laughing at her daddy...

To satisfy all of Audriana's fans, here is a bonus footage of her giggling at her daddy's skiing story. Warning: Her giggles are contagious...

Giggly, Happy Baby....

Bjorn came home from a day of skiing at Steven's Pass today and shared some skiing stories with his baby girl.  As you can tell from the video, Audriana was very tickled by her daddy's story-telling.  Enjoy!

St. Patrick's Day Weekend in Seattle!

(From top to bottom:  Audriana enjoying her hotel room on the Seattle Waterfront; Audriana and Daddy at the Seattle Aquarium; Audriana and Daddy at Pike's Market on our way to the Crumpet Shop; Audriana on the way home...tuckered out!)

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day Weekend, Bjorn's Squadron had a overnight social function in Seattle.  We decided it would be a great opportunity to introduce Audriana to city life in the great Pacific NW.  We took her to the Seattle Aquarium.  I am still not sure who was more fascinated with the exhibits...baby or daddy.  In the evening,  in true Anderson form, we introduced her to yet another beer drinking establishment.  On Sunday morning, we took her to see Pike's Market to try some tasty treats at the Crumpet Shop and at Piroshky's.  As you can see in the last picture,  she was a tired little puppy by the end of the weekend!

Audriana the Ardvark!

Ever since Audriana was days old, she and her daddy would play anteater.  Bjorn would have her straddle his arm and they would go "hunting" for ants in our house (we really don't have ants in our house)...with Scout running scared silly from them.  The last time she did this with her daddy, she fell asleep in his arms.  So much for the hunt...

Wanna buy a house, anyone??

We are selling our house!  It looks like a storm ripped through our neighborhood, but really it was the all due to the handy work of Bjorn, with the assistance of Audriana and myself, of course.  We are getting ready to put our house on the market.  So we thought that it might be good idea to start pruning our yard a bit.  As you can see, it got a little out of hand.  But at least the yard looks decent!  

Audriana meets her friends...

Since Audriana was 7 weeks old, we have been getting together for a playgroup with two other new moms.  However, we always keep our babies either in their car seats, carrier or joggers when we are out and none of the girls have actually "met" each other.  So we thought that it would be a good idea for the babies to actually meet.  We put them on their stomachs and poof! all three babies were like over-turned turtles :)  From the top view, I will let you surmise which is Audriana....

Our trip to Whistler, BC

For Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, we decided to take our first family trip abroad (sans Scout)...to Canada!  

As some of you may know, Bjorn is an avid Cross-Country skier and well, I can pretty much go along with that because its pretty slow (as in, there is no skiing down a massive hill and breaking any bones).  But because this was our first time at Whistler, we decided to try our hand at snow-shoeing.  So we rented snow-shoes here in town and brought the necessary apparel to bundle Audriana up underneath Bjorn's jacket.  It was suppose to be a fun-take-it-easy-enjoy-the-scenary trip around A trail.  Unfortunately, it did not turn out that way. 

Snow-shoeing was a blast...for the first 2 hours.  It was after hour 3 that I decided Bjorn tricked me into going snow-shoeing.  Because we (he) were in such a hurry to get on the snow-shoe trail, we (me) did not get the opportunity to look at a map to check out what the different trails were.  As it turns out, my husband took us on a 3.5 -hour, 7k death march.  We got lost because Bjorn thought that the orange trail would be the "easy" trail.  It was not.  In fact, it was the LONGEST trail.  

At anyrate, it makes for a great story and we hope to take another trip soon!  

Bath time!

Here are some recent pictures that I took.  The bath time, I had Bjorn snap because Audriana was looking so cute!

From Week One to Week Eight!

New Grandparents.