Moving day and fun in the park

It has been a while since an update, but we've been having fun taking pictures in the meantime! We're not the only ones having fun with pictures either......Gretta is so popular here that a group of girls from Hong Kong had to get their picture taken with her by the pool this week, the girls at the front desk took her picture on their phones and a little boy at the place where Josh gets his haircut was in awe and was also taking pictures of her with his phone! Seriously, it is like she is a celebrity and we are her bodyguards or agents. We get stopped wherever we go because everyone has to look at her, make faces at her, talk to her and usually touch her. She is going to be so shocked to go home and find out people will not always give her so much attention in the grocery store or on the street! She also has made good friends with the housekeeping staff and they can't get enough of her.

Then again...who could resist this face??

Mom, you're freaking hilarious.

Turtle in the park

Family in the park

Lizard in the park!

We spent Sunday afternoon walking around Limpini Park. It is a pretty large park for being in the middle of the city and its nice to get out and walk around while people and animal watching!

I'm so done dealing with the paparazzi.

We are moving back to Emporium Suites today, our old place that we stayed at the last 2 years we've been here. The things Josh and I are most looking forward to at our old place are having more pots and pans to cook with, a toaster, having the grocery store in the same building, (which they also sell sushi at, so Josh looks forward to that, I am excited for Au Bon Pain), the sky train is connected to the building, they have a park across the street and they also have many restaurants in the mall. So overall it will just be really nice to have all those things close and easily accessible. Even more so now that we have a stroller and/or have to carry a baby! It will be nice to go for walks either in the mall that is connected to our place or at the park across the street hopefully fairly often, because we won't have to worry about packing a bunch of stuff for Gretta since they are both close to our apartment! We'll let you know how we all settle in and post more pictures of our adventures when we arrive.

The week goes on....slowly

Josh is gone this week in Bangladesh and its been going a little slow....but Gretta and I have been having fun reading, playing and dancing. Can't wait for him to be home on Friday though!

The lost rattle.

Gretta has discovered the game of throwing things and making us play "fetch."

The view from the pool.

High and dry!

After a quick dip to cool off.

The last baby food grinder in Bangkok....we searched many stores and finally found it on a random shelf and there were no others to be seen. It must have been meant for us.

Congratulations to our friends Beau and Jess on their new addition Devin Isaac, born on September 11th, quite a little stud!

And the baby sleeps.....

Gretta has been sleeping a lot better this week and is even on somewhat of a schedule, but shhhh....don't tell her, we wouldn't want to jinx it. So needless to say this week, we are ALL much happier!

She has been demonstrating some new tricks this week such as sitting up on her own.....

Banging on the table in Bangkok

And you thought she wouldn't be walking soon?? Yep, she will stand and hold on to the ottoman all by herself once we stand her there that is, she doesn't actually pull herself up there! She may be advanced, but not that advanced!

After a couple of weeks at our new place we have weighed the pros and cons and although it is very nice and was fun to try some place new, we have decided we'll be going back to our old place here in Bangkok where we lived for the past couple of years. It is a lot more conveinent to things and it is more familiar to us. The kitchen is better stocked, the couch is more comfortable and we just like the neighborhood and everything overall at the old place better. So at the end of the month we'll be packing up to go over there. Josh's work is going well, he'll be in Bangladesh this coming week. Other than that, not too much else going on!

Jet lag and babies don't mix

Well it was a bit of a rough first week dealing with jet lag ourselves and Gretta also trying to cope with it. Although, with her we're not sure if its the teething, new place, jet lag or just being a baby that has made her so fussy lately, mostly at night. Probably all of the above! We had a good weekend and bought her a stroller and took her out on the town which of course she enjoyed, seeing all the people and things around Bangkok. We get stopped a lot wherever we go. People really stare at her, also they like to try and talk to her. She always has a big smile and that makes everyone happy! We thought we were biased thinking she was so cute, but it could also be her big blue eyes and pale skin.....its a little exotic over here!

All ready for bed in "The Cat's Pajama's" from Great-Aunt Barb!

We are a little late in posting this, but she turned 5 months old the other day so we took some pictures of course!

Relaxing and playing with her rattle....

Thailand, here we are and lots of other stuff to catch up on...

Here is a little run down of some things we were able to do before we left. We decided Gretta might like to try some rice cereal as she was so interested in us when we were eating, she ate well and LOVED it!

We made it to the State Fair before leaving for Thailand and Gretta got her first tattoo....it matches her Uncle Seth!

We also had Angelie and Jeff in town for a week from Colorado, they were here for Joel and Meghan’s wedding. We visited the beach with them and it was finally a warm enough day that Gretta had her first lake experience, she seemed to enjoy that, splashed herself and even tried to eat some sand of course.

Our last activity before we left was Joel and Meghan’s wedding, which was our last one of the year! It was so fun and everything turned out perfectly beautiful! Congratulations little brother and new sister-in-law!

We made it to Thailand and everything is going well so far! We decided to try out a new place to stay so we’ll see how it goes. Gretta was pretty great on the plane considering we were flying and in airports for 27 hours.

On our first day in Thailand here she is showing off her skills in the gymnastics field and showing the smile that has been making everyone love her over here! Pretty sure there is no chance that she will be a shy one, she will probably only grow more into her social butterfly personality while we're here!

Winding down....

Good thing we didn't take the GPS literally and go into the lake, which is where it would have taken us!

Gretta at the helm for the first time, think she likes being in control!?

Family picture at the cabin.

All dressed up and ready to party, see she's even dancing....

At Briana and Andy's wedding

We are on the brink of our last wedding of the summer! Joel and Meghan will say "I do" next Saturday the 30th and they are the cherry on top of what we would like to say is a huge ice cream sundae of weddings! :)

We are also on the brink of going back to Thailand, we head out on September 1st for the other side of the world! Although it will be sad to leave everyone for these next few months and Gretta will surely grow fast while we're gone, we will enjoy getting to slow down life a little while living over there. These last few weeks have, of course, been flying by. We were up north for Josh's family reunion last week and we also had Jess's cousin Briana's wedding to Andy which was a beautiful event, congratulations to you two!

Time will surely continue to fly as we lead up to us leaving. There will be a lot to pack and lot of goodbyes to be said! So we might be a little behind on the blog for a week or two. Although that is kind of the way its been all summer anyway!

We're not the only ones a little tired after all this activity!

4 months old and summer's almost over

Where did the summer go? Can't believe it's already August. We had 4 weddings in a row so we now only have 2 of our 7 weddings left. No offense to all our friends and family getting married this summer because they really have all been beautiful weddings and we've had a lot of fun going to and being a part of them, but we are ready for a little break! Our next one isn't for a couple weeks, but we'll be keeping busy with other things for sure. This past weekend we had was our friends Sara and Brian's wedding here in town and everything turned out gorgeous, thanks for letting us be a part of your day!

She loves her fingers and hands

And she gets tired of having a camera in her face.....

The little model exhausted after the photo shoot.

CONGRATS to Sara and Brian!