Summer Vacation

To all you faithful blog readers...sorry for the delay. We blame it on summer vacation. These past few months during most of Adam's days off we have either been visiting people, or they have been visiting us. It has been wonderful to see so many friends and family over the past few months. So below is a picture catalog of what we have been up to. Oh, and thank you to everyone who has made the long trek up to see us....and anyone else is always welcome! We love visitors.


My good friend Brooke and I at the Arcata farmer's market.

Brooke is one of my oldest (long-term I mean) friends...going back to kindergarten. Brooke and her husband Ty came up to visit us, and we had a great time, unfortunately this was when Adam was away at the fires...but Ty was a great sport and hung out with all of us girls. Oh, and Brooke took some amazing pictures of Noelle while she was here... For example...the sleeping baby above, and I really like this one of the two of us below.

Our friends Jared & Leah at Samoa Beach with us. They are good friends of ours from college, and we were all room-mates (Leah w/ Ali, and Jared w/ Adam). We have some great memories, so it is always great to get together with them. Oh, and above is Leah holding Noelle with the hat she knitted her.


We love to take walks on the beach, so that is generally part of every visit that is made to Eureka.








Here we are with Mark & Laura, more friends from college. And Laura and I have actually been friends since birth. And Adam and Mark were roomies. So, we love our time with them, and it is fun to have all of the history to share with Laura. I feel so blessed that we have stayed friends all of these years, and then to have married boys that are friends too!! God is good.












Here is Laura with Noelle, and next door is one of my favorites of Noey.












Ann, Doug & Lauren came up to see us, and this is us girls downtown. We had a great few days together. Then a few weeks later Lauren & Julia came up to visit. We took a great little hike in the woods above Humboldt
State Univ. , played boccie ball, and just had a great time hanging out. And to the left is Lauren trying to recruit another volleyball player for UCSD.












My parents & grandparents came to visit. We went to the Sequoia Park Zoo..which is a great place for our family since we all love animals...and it is free! We BBQ'd in the back-yard, played boccie ball, and Adam and my dad replaced a window pane I broke (yes me, Ali) playing catch with Adam. Apparently I have a wild throw. And below is Gigi holding Noelle.












Here we are at the cabin for my dad's birthday. Below is Tyler, Noelle's cousin. And on the right is Natalie & Dave with our little families.













Here is the birthday boy blowing out his candles. This trip was great because we go to see family & friends, some who had not met Noey yet.

Below is our 10 day vacation in which we made a giant u-turn in the State of CA. Our stops included SLO, Valencia, Simi Valley, Los Angeles, Temecula, San Diego, Costa Mesa, and San Fran...and a few others along the way. It was a nice trip and we got to hang out with family and few friends.

Mimi (Ann) with Noelle on her birthday.













We also went camping in San Clemente. Here we are at the Beach. All of our immediate Bradley family were able to come down to hang out with us as well as some friends. This was a great day. The boys had fun surfing and playing football.









Here is Auntie Amy meeting Noelle for the first time. We also went cosmic bowling on for Amy's birthday (above).












We had a great time hanging with the Greene's in SLO, along with a bunch of our other friends that came over for a surprise BD party for Adam. Below are the Greene kids Jonathan & Evelyn playing with Izzy. And we also had an amazing dinner party hosted by Jared & Leah in San Fran, and were surprised by some great college friends Jesse & Shannon. Leah made this incredible gourmet meal...I am still thinking about it....yum.













And now we are home and are looking forward to the next adventure. :-)

For Amy B

To our faithful readers, who have been genuinely disappointed in our blogging frequency; here are some new pictures for you:

Some pictures from the fire I was on in Chico a few weeks ago:

































And right after I got back, we left for Florence, OR with the Davidsons. We had an awesome and relaxing couple of days on the lake / golf course / fire-working ... etc.


Noelle took her first swim and loved it:













Here's Amy D looking really good on a single:









And Andy zipping by the shoreline:








Right before this:













And Mrs. D with Noelle:













4th of July back in Eureka in our backyard. Note the sparkler burning my hand as the picture is being taken.













MORE TO COME, I PROMISE!!!

Smile...

The girl now smiles. This has been so much fun for us. It was difficult at first to catch this on camera, but now we have a few pics to share.

Adam was having fun with Noelle in this one. He loves to make her laugh and smile.

This one is for the bonnet loving moms (or Grandma's shall I say).

Curly Top ?

l think my dreams gave come true....but for my child. I think she may have curly hair! Whenever I bathe her, her wet hair is curly, so we shall see once it gets a bit longer. Thank you Bradley genes for this opportunity! She just might be lucky enough to have inherited Auntie Lauren's lovely locks!

Tim & Beth's Pics

Our cousins Tim and Beth came to visit us this past weekend and we had a great time. They took me out to breakfast at a delicious creperie in Arcata....I think it's my new favorite. Here are a few pictures they took while they were up here. Beth....we think you could be a professional photographer....these pics are great!

Like Crackers

I've gotten several complaints that more pictures are needed of Noelle. So this post is like crackers before dinner to tide you over until I can post some more.

You had logs?

Our attempt at a classic Eureka photo shoot. It was a crazy log broo-ha-ha.