We survived our first vacation on a plane! We got new shoes for the occasion so that we could run around a lot!  Here is a video of us wearing shoes for the first time.

We had lots of fun in Portland and Seattle.  Here is a picture of us being good at the airport.

This was before Avery’s minor meltdown.  Mommy and daddy had to pick him up, but he was having so much fun running around the airport.  Apparently he wanted to let all of Sky Harbor know that his parents ruined his life 😉 We did great on the plane.  Such good babies!  We stayed at a wonderful airb&b in Portland.  The people we stayed with also had babies, so we even got to play with some of their toys!

Mommy and daddy took us to a local farmer’s market down the street.  We bought some really great blueberries, raspberries, cherries, bread and goat cheese for dinner.

We went to see Multomah Falls, which was gorgeous.  We hiked all the way to the top!

Portland was full of great parks for us.  We visited them a lot and got to run around – our favorite thing now!  We even made some new friends!

Shots captured mid-fall.

Aurelia got a new hat!  She looks so much like her great grandma, Pauline!  A Callahan through and through!  Avery looks a lot like daddy, but with mommies eyes 🙂

We were very interested in our new little friend!

We went for a hike in Washington Park.  Beautiful!

Downtown Portland!

We enjoyed visiting the famous Powell’s Books!  We did not, however, wait in the 20 minute line to get a famous Voodoo Doughnut.

More park fun! (On the video you can hear Avery make his monkey noise…which apparently he is confusing for the same noise crows make).

Some shopping in our neighborhood.  It had some great restaurants- good sandwiches at Lardo’s, and great pizza!  We also passed out so mom and dad could eat their ice cream 🙂  We found a store that sells chocolate and salt- mom’s favorite!  We did come away with a PBJ chocolate bar..

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More park fun, and a video of Aurelia’s nemesis… the stick!

We headed up to Seattle to see Kye.  Washington is beautiful!  It was nice to see Kye, and we got to go to the zoo!  We pet some goats, too

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Aurelia is still very much a momma’s girl.  She even says Momma now all the time!  Which is the cutest! Avery just loves the ladies in general 😉  Of course they both love their daddy!

On our final day we went to the aquarium, and we loved looking at the fish.  We went to the famous Pike’s Market, and then played some more in the park by the zoo!

We were good on the trip home, too.  Luckily, the guy sitting next to mommy was very nice and patient and let both babies stick post-its and bandaids all over him 🙂 Our next adventures include San Diego, Disneyland, New York, and London, so stay tuned!

We are 13 months!  Here we are in our outfits all the way from Myanmar!  It’s good to have international friends before you’re even out of daipers 🙂

As you can see, it just gets more and more difficult to get good pictures of both of us.  We are wiggle worms!  And we are walking now!

Aurelia walked first, but Avery saw her and all the attention she was getting, and two days later he was practically running circles around everyone.  We love to practice walking!  It’s our new favorite thing!

In a few days we are going on our first plane ride.  Wish mommy and daddy luck!!!  We’ll be back soon to tell you all about our trip!

Here are the long-awaited pictures from our 1 year photo shoot!

Our handsome little guy.

And our sweet beautiful girl.

Pointing at the fan!

Let the fun begin!

These pictures pretty perfectly capture their personalities.  Aurelia is always going going going.  Avery is just happy to be sitting there eating his cake 🙂

Last man standing (well, sitting, in cake).

So far our second summer ever has been a blast!  First we got to celebrate a fun Father’s day with daddy and papa.  We went for a hike, and of course yogurt afterwards.  All the boys were very happy!

We have lots of fun at Omi and Papa’s house.  They spoil us lots and lots.  Every time we go over there we have a new toy- we love it so much!

Here we are having fun with auntie Denise and our cousins.  Aurelia is carrying around our packet of pickle juice, one of our favorite toys at auntie’s house (and the pocket has to be put to good use!)

Aurelia finally fell asleep after crying because mommy left… but then she got so comfy!

This is Avery’s favorite book. He asks for it over and over and over… so we have been reading a lot about Thumper this summer…

We are coloring now, too!  It’s lots of fun.  Aurelia does try to eat the crayons but other than that we get the idea.

We went to Jacob’s first birthday party!  It was monster-themed, so we dressed up as little Stitches 🙂  We had to stare at each other for awhile because each one of us thought the other one looked pretty darn funny!

Jacob’s mommy made all sorts of fun decorations!  We had lots of fun at the party.

We love Kelly!  Sometimes she is the only one we will go to at a party!

Having fun relaxing at home.

This year we got to have some fun for the 4th of July!  We went to the kiddie parade.  We somehow ended up walking in it with the Lutheran Church, but who cares?  It was fun and we got to see Papa handing out ice cream and we also saw our buddy Jacob!

Credits to Mary Ann for taking the picture, and to our friend Vincent in Germany for adding some flare.

We now like to play peek-a-boo.  All you have to do is say “Where’s Avery?” or “Where’s Aurelia?” and let the game begin 😉

We also had a nice visit from Heather, who came all the way from Oman!  Avery seems to have a bit of a crush!

Celebrating the 4th on Omi and Papa’s porch.

Then to a BBQ to visit our good buddy Nico!  Once again Avery was off having fun with Kelly.  Aurelia even let her hold her.  I think we are going to adopt her as another grandma 🙂

We have also started walking, but don’t have a lot of confidence yet, so we are tentative.  Mommy is okay with us taking our time and being careful.  Better than falling on our faces!  More pictures and videos of walking to come!