The Bolton Blog

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Trip to Munich

Blog for our trip to Munich coming soon!

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Father's Day

On Sunday, we celebrated Jeff's first Father's Day! Ellen gave her daddy a card and a picture of her and Daddy (on the shelf behind them).

You can see how much Ellen loves her daddy in this picture. She is always captivated by him when he walks in the room, and he gets more smiles than Mommy. This was taken on May 28th right before bedtime.

I baked my husband a chocolate Oreo cake... yeah, it was good... really good.

Here's a link to the recipe...'cause I know you want to make it.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Play Mat Fun

Here is Ellen having fun on her play mat on 14th June at 11 weeks old

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Just Before Midnight

Ellen has been waking around 11:30 almost every night recently. After I feed her, she contently falls back asleep. I just had to take some pictures of our little contented baby last night.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Ellen Watches Bug Rattle

Yesterday was a big day in the Bolton household - we learned how to record a video on our camera AND we learned how to upload it onto YouTube, so now we'll be able to post videos on our blog!

In this video, Ellen is laying on my legs while I dangle a bug rattle over her. Now that she is beginning to control her hands she loves to scruntch her shirt in her hands and put it in her mouth.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Pam's Visit over Jubilee Weekend

So many fun and exciting things happened over the weekend. Primarily, though, my very close friend from Columbus, Pam Sabo, came to visit and got to meet Ellen. We met 13 years ago while living in the dorms at OSU. Pam, married with two boys, Dominic (9) and Ethan (7), was able to give advice to us new parents and offer support by holding Ellen when nothing else would do. She arrived on Friday, 1st June and flew home yesterday morning... it was a fab 5 days together.

On Friday after unpacking and giving me wonderful presents from her family to mine, we went into town, had lunch at Poppy's Tea Room and walked to The Quarry, the park along the river.

On Saturday, Giovanna turned 1 year old! We were invited over to the Marshall's to celebrate with a BBQ with their family.

Ross, Adriana and Giovanna Marshall

Gio's birthday cake that Adriana baked

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend started on Saturday, so on Monday we had a group from our church over for afternoon tea. Luckily the weather was nice enough we could all sit outside.

Lots of typical tea party foods - cucumber sandwiches, biscuits, scones with clotted cream and jam, various cakes and snacks. I provided strawberry and blueberry shortcakes for a red, white and blue theme.

The group

Pam holding a sleeping baby

On Tuesday, we drove to Chirk Castle in Wales. "Completed in 1310, Chirk is the last Welsh castle from the reign of Edward I that's still lived in today. Features from its 700 years include the medieval tower and dungeon, 17th-century Long Gallery, grand 18th-century state apartments, servants' hall and historic laundry."