July 29-August 5

So far I have ZERO entries for the contest.  Lots of people have mentioned it to me, and I've even seen a few attempt the face, but none have been brave enough to email me a picture.  It's not too late!  You have until Friday to get entries in.  As added incentive, I'll give 2 points for every submission.  Here are some samples/motivation:

Photos by Josef

Photos by Jillian

We spent the weekend visiting my parents and a van full of people and stuff left early Monday morning for the 13 hour drive to the Aufdy family campout in Nebraska.  Poor James and Jillian were wedged in around Olivia's carseat in the back, but they didn't complain too much.  They spent the whole trip entertaining Olivia and feeding her grapes and Cheerios.  All in all, the trip there was pleasant (except for the whole 13 hour thing).  As is standard for long car trips since 2010, we kept a log.  The pages are at my parents' house for those interested in reading it.

Camp was fun.  Three days and four nights of roughing it in air-conditioned cabins with cable TV.  We don't have it that good at home.  :)  There was a pool and a mini-golf course on the campsite, so we weren't hard pressed to find things to do.  The weather was hot, but not as wet as I remember camp being, and the bugs were obnoxious but not inclined to bite.  Bryan's determination to make a camp gift only increased during the gift exchange.  He already has ideas.

Olivia spent a lot of her time in the car pulling out her hair, so she's balder than she used to be.  We think she does it when she's tired, bored, or hot.  In retrospect, we should have expected a bald baby after two 13 hour car rides with a hot, sticky, sandy campout between them.

Friday was Olivia's birthday.  She is now one whole year old!  Unfortunately for her, she spent her whole birthday in the car on the way back from Nebraska.  Saturday we had a mini celebration for her at my parents' house.  She was uninterested in opening her present and disgusted by the messiness of her cake.  She did, however, eat cake when I fed it to her.

Photo by Jillian

Saturday evening we began the trip back home.  One of us is worse at sleeping in the car since discovering the joys of stomach sleeping.  I'll let you guess who that is.  I'll even give 5 points to the person who guesses correctly first.  As a result of the lack of sleeping, we decided to stop at Bryan's parents' house on the way home and stayed overnight there.  Then we were up bright and early Sunday morning to make it home in time for church.

Sunday afternoon was Olivia's birthday party.  The cake-smashing was not as exciting as advertised, but Grandma helped by sticking Olivia's hand in the cake.  Already full from dinner and a few forkfuls of frosting, Olivia was mostly uninterested in eating the cake, but she happily fed Grandma the entire piece.  At least someone got messy.

I unwrapped presents for Olivia, who was stymied by the tissue paper in the bags.  It's hard to figure out.  She got some excitingly noisy things from her Grandma and a toy cell phone that she particularly appreciates from a great-aunt.  Sometime this next week I'll take pictures of her gifts (including the ones she got at campout) so that I can put them up in next week's post.  For now, here are a few more pictures of Olivia:

Photo by Josef

Photo by Josef

Photo by Josef

More Pictures:Olivia eating cake (pictures by Jillian):