A short trip for mom & dad!

Last weekend Eric and I got to take a short trip, without our little one. We were blessed to have my cousin Michelle and her husband Paul watched Owen for us. To read about Owen's weekend you can link to her blog here.

Eric and I had a wonderful trip to Charleston, SC. Our goal was to just get away and have a fun care free weekend together. Friday night when we got to SC we went to Folly Beach for a short walk at sunset. It was great to dip our toes in the water, hold hands and talk!

After our walk on the beach Eric and I went to Taco Boy's for dinner. It was SO GOOD. We had some amazing fish tacos...the good kind, with cabbage and a yogurt sauce on it! If you have never had fish tacos you must try them some time!

Saturday morning we toured an old garden and plantation, Magnolia Plantation. The garden was beautiful. We enjoyed walking the paths around the old historic plantation on the banks of the Ashley River. Here are a few shots of the gardens.
After the garden we went to down town Charleston to the Market. We walked though and looked at all the vendors, but didn't find anything we wanted. Down town had tons of amazing old houses with shutters, window boxes, and tiny little streets. I truly don't know how someone would want to live in a new house when they could live in a house like one of these.
After walking down town we made our way to Sullivan's Island to see Fort Moultrie. While we were there we were able to see the Blue Angles preform. We had such a great view from the fort!
Next Eric and I went to Isle of Palms to walk the beach there. We walked barefoot, in the waves, for several miles picking up sea shells along the way. It reminded me of our honeymoon. As we turned around to walk back to our car we could see something off in the distance. We couldn't make out at that time it was just the fishing pier of it it was a bunch of people standing by the pier. As we got closer we could tell it was a huge crowd of people. Once we got to the crowd we found out that they were releasing a sea turtle back into the wild. We decided to go get the camera and stick around to see the turtle make her way back to sea.
We finished up our night with a great meal and some shopping back downtown. It was a great weekend away and I can't wait to do something like it again. We were so luck to have my cousin and her family watch Owen!

Crazy Boy

So today has been of to a great start for Owen. He has been into everything today so far. Of course there is the normal little things like trying to throw away his toys, climb on the kitchen table, stand on his rocking moose and all that...

But today he has added a few new items to his list of things to get into...

I was in my room making the bed when I heard Owen say "ma ma, ma ma" so I went to look where he was. The bathroom. Hands on the floor of the tub, belly on the side of the tub and feet kicking in the air. He had the biggest smile on his face. He has learned to open doors now too. Not good.

He also decided to do a little furniture rearranging today too. New places for his chair.

And just after I got him dressed for the day we went to visit dad downstairs. Eric and I had to check something so Owen went over to Eric's desk, grabbed Eric's coffee and poured it all over the floor. I heard this turned around just to see Owen slip and do one of those TV falls with the feet in the air and all. My little boy, in a white shirt, was now covered in coffee.

Ahh, great times with my little one. Luckily he is down for a nap, so I should get a chance to get a few things checked off my to do list now.

Okay, so I haven't been on here in a long time. From what my family tells me, way to long. Lots has happend since I last posted. Owen had his first birthday, we had Christmas, went on a really long trip, and the biggest thing is our move. We have moved to Onalaska, WI to be part of a church plant here that our church from Eau Claire is starting.

We love our new place. I'm making it feel like home more and more each day. We are blessed to find a place with a large basement for all of Owen's larger toys and my craft things. It has an office space for Eric too. It has a large deck for Owen to play on and a nice yard too. I have a few things I need to get in order here but as soon as I do I will post some photos of our new place.

We have been busy exploring the area around La Crosse too. Saturday we went on a long car ride up and down the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.

We also went to a nice park last week on French Island. You can see the planes landing and taking off from this park so I have hopes of Owen and I going to the park to watch one of Eric's flights land some day and then going to pick him up afterwards.

Here are a few of my favorite photos from that day in the park:

Okay, so really I will try to this more often....

new kicks

One of the many great things about me staying home with Owen now is my "free time" that I can use during his naps if all my to-dos are done. I have been able to get a lot of craft projects done and have really been enjoying all of the creativity! My newest project that I have been working on was making baby booties. I had really been wanting to make some but I had to first find some suede for the bottom-which was hard. I finally found a old ugly coat at Good Will that was $4. I used some scrap fabric I had and this is what I came up with. They are just a first draft and are not made that well...but I will just have to work at perfecting them.

Owen is starting to take steps more and more now (will try to post a video soon). He will walk for 2-4 feet and then start to crawl. Its so amazing to watch his development!

This weekend packed up and went home to Portage to spend time with the family. We spent Haloween night at the Crammond's handing out candy and enjoying the down time. Grandma and Grandpa got some balloons for Owen!

He loves when they give him balloons!

I have also started to let Owen drink from a cup some on his own-it is defiantly a learning experience. He is really good about holding the cup and getting the water into his mouth-he just seems to spit out the water once it is there...but he did the same when he started drinking out of a sippy cup too. Here are a few photos from tonight.

One of Owen's favorite things is when Eric tosses him up in the air. Tonight in the midst of getting ready for bed Eric decided to have some fun with him. I just love the expression on Owen's face!

A Random Trip...

Not much is new here at the Crammond Household. A lot of the same-old-same-old. Owen is taking a few steps here and there, but not getting much closer to walking-which I am perfect content with that.

Yesterday after a morning full of meeting, shopping, and a family trip to the library Eric said "Lets go the the North Shore" so we did. At 2:30 we got to our house, changed Owen's clothes, grabbed the camera, got some food for the road and for Owen and took off. It was a nice ride up to Superior/Duluth.

Our initial plan was to stop in Superior at some little park to take Owen's "10 Month" photos. Well, after looking at the GPS and picking out a really cool park to go to we realized that we would have to go to MN and then come back to WI to get to the park...so we decided to just drive up north a little more to Two Harbors. We took the scenic way and it was beautifully refreshing!

When we got to Two Harbors we found this little park and were able to snap some cute photos with Owen by a huge Anchor. These are just a few of my favorites that I took.

Then Eric said, "Can we take some without that stupid hat?"

So I did that too (although I must say I liked the hat a lot!)

After we explored that area a little more we drove just down the road to a lighthouse area. We were able to go down by the rock beach and get some cute shots of Owen too. He loved [to chew on] all of the rocks.

We finished up our day by stopping by a little gift store. We talked to the shop owner and he suggested a little local restaurant about 10 miles north, so we headed there and had a great meal. They had some of the best fish Eric and I had ever had. It was a great day but it did leave us both exaused as we didnt get home until after 11:30.

Ready, Set, Go!

Okay, so as you can tell I had a little extra time today...hence the three posts today.

I wasn't planing on doing one tonight but we just had to share this!

Enjoying the Week

It has been a busy week here for us Crammond’s. I picked up two extra shifts at the Kid’s Korner (the drop off childcare at the YMCA) and I watched an ex-coworker’s 11 month little girl three days this week. Owen had a lot of fun playing with her. It was so cute to watch them crawl around our living, get into the toys, and just have fun together. One of the days I got out our pool and some ball pit balls and let the little ones play in them. Here are just a few shots of the little ones enjoying the balls.

Owen also discovered how to take his pants off by sanding on the legs and kicking them down…it was cute so I grabbed my camera...

He had a few long days and he was so tired that he was almost falling asleep in the jumper.

I'm sure the next few weeks will bring more adventures!