August 2012.

August was a busy month for us and I have more posts on that later, but this post will be just a bunch of cute pictures of Elna being her funny little self.

Knocking on the glass- she is a great little knocker.

Elna loves exploring our backyard jungle.

Woah, how’d that get in there?!

Sometimes we just let Elna loose in a diaper. I love this picture—balancing on a log and peering through a space in the fence.

Her face is covered in dirt and garden tomatoes she picked and ate. This girl LOVES tomatoes!            

Last week I went to get Elna in the morning and she and her crib were covered in throw up.  She was a sick girl!  I stuck her in the bath, and despite being sick she managed to do some pretty cute things.

In all of these pictures she is singing “row row row” over and over again.  It’s one of my favorite things she does—her little “r” is just adorable and she concentrates so hard on it.

And then I got her out of the bathtub and she had a fever the rest of the day and a runny nose the rest of the week.  No fun!

Angels Camp.

The third week of July we spent in Angels Camp, CA with Brian’s family.   

Elna had tons of fun with her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

        Sharing Grandma’s arms with her cousin Callie at Costco                                                        Helping Grandma make enchiladas with Callie & Jace

Eating spaghetti from Grandpa’s plate.  I love how she’s standing on his feet.

On one of our first days there we visited a museum and panned for gold:

Elna seemed to love it

Another day we went to a nearby lake:

Wednesday morning we played t-ball.  This was also the morning Brian got really sick.  That put a damper on his next few days.   

While Brian stayed home sick, we all went to another museum to see a big piece of gold.  I wish I remember more about it.  I spent most of my time chasing Elna around.  Having a toddler doesn’t lend very well to learning much at museums. 

I love this picture of Barbara and three of her boys.  She loves her boys so much and is such a great mom to them.

On Thursday we went to Mercer Caverns.  The adults (minus DeWin & Barbara who watched our children) took a tour of these amazing caves.  I would say this was the highlight of what we saw at Angels Camp.  The cavern is completely under ground, so we climbed down some narrow and steep stairs 160 feet (16 stories).  It was pretty cold (55 degrees), but felt so nice since it was so hot outside. 

And on Friday we spent some time in an old western town:

Grandpa sharing his licorice rope with Elna.

A Harris tradition is to take these old western photographs.  I think Elna was confused.

The Harris boys.

Waiting for our stagecoach ride.

We spent time in the pool as much as possible.  Elna loved it!

We had a great time!  I married into the best family!