The events started with Fritz and Susanne's layover in Portland the weekend of Sept 7th (four weekends ago already?!?). They left CA via train to Portland and had a couple days with us before catching the train east to Wisconsin. We picked them up from the Portland downtown train station on Saturday afternoon:
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| Train station arrival. First time we get to see them over the next few weeks! |
We got home, settled in, cooked dinner and went out for ice cream at Salt and Straw - an ice cream place by our house that has had lots of visits from us lately. : )
Sunday we opened the goodies box they brought - a box of adorable baby books and other items, and of course the cradle, which Fritz had shipped in advance and arrived at our house in two boxes via mail the week before.
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| Ashley and Fritz pulling the parts of the cradle from the boxes |
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| Starting to assemble the pieces |
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| Fritz used 30 year old wild walnut from two of Baby O's great great grandparent's farms to make the cradle |
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| Putting the blades on |
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| Right side up and putting the mattress in! |
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| Carmen takes it for a test drive |
As long as they were at work on baby stuff, I asked the guys to glue a rocker the neighbors gave us that had wobbly arms. I could have dug projects up for them to do all week : )
It was such a beautiful day, we headed to Sauvie Island that afternoon to soak in some sun and let Carmen swim.
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| One of the few photos I have of the three of us plus baby bump. We need to get better at these family photo things. |
For dinner we headed to Sen Yai near our house - a new noodle restaurant by the owners of Pok Pok, and then went for ice cream at Salt and Straw again afterwards : )
Monday, Ashley and I headed to work and Fritz and Susanne headed to Broder, packed up and hopped on their train to Wisconsin!
More photos from the rest of the following weeks to come.....
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