Virginia.

We took a trip to Virginia for Thanksgiving & we had a fabulous time. We spent time with Jonathan's parents, his sister Emily, and her husband Mathew. It was so much fun! We ate, relaxed, went to the movies, ate some more,  went to the local farm, etc.

then Thanksgiving night came....

I went into preterm labor (I was only 20 weeks), which caused me & Jonathan to make a lovely trip to the ER on Thanksgiving night - not exactly how we had hoped to spend our holiday! We were able to come home that night, only to have to go back the following night...not fun. I was sent home again with some medication and was ordered to bed rest. They told us that we couldn't fly home on our scheduled flight, and that they weren't even sure when or if I would be able to fly home...yikes! So back we went to the house, and enjoyed a few more days with family. After another doctors visit without the okay to fly, we finally got the go ahead to fly several days later. So what initally was a 5 day trip, turned into a two week trip! Thanks so much to Jonathan's parents Kathy & Hal for taking care of us and for making us feel so comfortable during our long stay!

I am happy to report that Oliver & I are doing fine. I am on medication to stop my contractions & am ordered to bed rest for the remainder of my pregnancy...18 more weeks...but who's counting?! I am hoping to read lots of books, learn to knit, catch up on movies, and pretty much anything else to pass the time!! If you have any suggestions on things I can do, please leave them in a comment for me:)

Thank you for all of your prayers, & to all of our family & friends who have brought us meals and helped with Claire! We appreciate it more than you know:)

Now that the whole story is out of the way, here are some photos of Claire playing in leaves & at the local public Farm in Fairfax. She loved the animals & was so excited to see all of them. She even let them lick her hands....silly girl!

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See??

I see a family looking at me. 

Well it is true. We were looking at him. All seven of us. But that was because my 80 year old grandma opened the door of the condo in Tahoe, to find him eating our trash (I know...our mistake by putting it out there in the first place). It was definitely an exciting event. Here are some of the highlights...

- Once my grandma saw the bear she came back in & told us like it was no big deal. So we all rushed out into the hall to see him. 

-In not exactly my most proud parenting moment, I told my mom to bring Claire outside to see the bear...as if she would even know or remember. Claire did laugh at him though.  

- After I took the second photo he ran toward us & we all freaked out and made it inside with the door shut..well all of us but my stepdad...sorry Jim.  

- The bear passed him & went to the stairs next to our door to go back to the forest area. 

-We watched him from our balcony since he was right below us (that's where I took the first photo).Jonathan felt bad for him since he had just woken up from hibernation & all, so he decided to feed him lunch meat like he does with our dog Gus. Not his finest moment. 

-So thanks to Jonathan, the bear came back to the door two other times that day looking for food & eventually the police had to come. 

- In the end, we had to admit that we had trash out in the hall, but we forgot to tell the part about Jonathan feeding him turkey...OOPS! 

As for the rest of our trip to Tahoe.... I will post those photos tomorrow! 

dear lake tahoe,

thank you for a fabulous trip. it was so nice to relax, eat, snowboard, play in the snow, take way too many photos of claire (it was her first time to the snow) & eat some more.

we miss you already.

when can we come back again?? soon we hope, because little miss loves the snow!

love, us