8 years down eternity to go...

 This day we celebrated our 8th anniversary. It is hard to believe that this picture was taken 8 years ago. Things sure have changed for us since that day and I wouldn't change a thing. 

I'm so grateful to have this man in my life! He truly completes me and I'm grateful for how much he loves me.

 This year we got a baby sitter the Friday before our anniversary and went to out to dinner. It was nice to have some us time and eat some good food.

Happy anniversary Sean and to many more years ahead! 

BYU football

Here in the Dahlin house hold, we bleed blue and try to watch every BYU football game. Since we don't have cable or a flat screen TV many games were spent like this:

I made Maia a BYU shirt and she sported it every game (not that she had much choice).

(Excuse the OSU shirt on a BYU game day. We went to an OSU football game that day but I promptly changed when I got home)

Snoozing and cruzing

This is one of those rare moments where Maia actually fell asleep in Sean's arms. I had to snap a couple pictures of the two of them snuggling and napping.

Maia has become quite the cruzer and gets pretty much where ever she wants to go.

Here she used Sean as a step to crawl onto the couch.

Frozen Strawberries and how to eat a banana

I don't particularly care for messes, like most people, and when I can avoid or control the mess I shoot for that option. It was a hot day and Maia was teething so I decided to give her a frozen strawberry in this little mesh bag thing, designed for chewing on. She loved it but as you can tell from the pictures it made a bit of a mess. 

This is one of those messes that I could have avoided but she was exploring and learning about bananas, so I decided not to take it away. I had been feeding her a banana that had been put in the fridge, (hence the color of the peel), and had put it down on the table when I went into the kitchen to grab something. I came back and this is what I found.

I did try teaching her the right way to eat the banana but every time I would try to flip it around she would get upset and flip it back over. She learned quickly that the black part of the banana doesn't taste very good.

She was pretty happy with herself when she finally got to the meat of the banana.

Thank goodness for bibs and washcloths!

OSU Football game

On September 7th we were given tickets to go watch an OSU Football game. This stadium is HUGE!

This stadium hold 106,000 people and it is quite the atmosphere.

We were very lucky to be able to sit in the shade the whole time because it was a hot day!

I think the half time show was the best I have ever seen! This game was OSU alumni band day they had so many people on the field it was quite amazing.

They did a game show theme half time show and it was against Buckeye fans and Michigan fans. 

For those of you who don't know Michigan is disliked greatly by OSU.

The famous scripting of Ohio.

A little selfy.

Maia and reading

I often find Maia reading her books. It will be quite and I'll walk in to see what she is doing and most of the time it is this:

I hope she never grows out of this!

Here come the Dahlins!

Sunday night Grandma and Grandpa (Mom and Dad) Dahlin, came in from Indian, where Terry had been attending a conference there.

Maia loved her reading time with Grandpa and...

...her bath time with Grandma.

Sunday night we had quite the house full but on Monday Mel and Grandma G. headed back home. Terry and Kathy were kind enough to take them back to the airport. When they got back on Monday, we had a pretty chill rest of the day.

On Tuesday while Sean was at school, Maia and I took Grandma and grandpa to the Zoo.

Brown Bears

I'm not quite sure what they are looking at but we walked a lot that day.

Pure Grandparent Pride!

Pride of the jungle...

Our little monkey

Maia wasn't the biggest fan of being on Grandpa's shoulders but it was fun/cute while it lasted.

It was fun for Maia because she got lots of Grandpa time and Grandpa loved reading with her.

The next day we took a tour of the campus and of course we had to check out the library. OSU's library is quite big and has 11 stories.

Maia loved looking out of window and hitting the glass with her head.

 

Family picture outside the Library.

The student union with Grandma, Grandpa, Maia and Brutus the buckeye. 

We later went to watch the Columbus clippers baseball game. It was really a nice night and Maia seamed to enjoy the game.

At this point in Maia life, we were having some serious issues with her cloth diapers. They weren't fitting her right because of how she was growing and it caused many leaks. So after she leaked through one to many diapers she was out of dry pants and had to go pant less for while.

Once the pants dries enough we put them back on so she didn't look so naked.

Snuggle time with Grandma.

The next night Terry and Kathy spent the night in a hotel and Maia and I went over to visit and swim in the pool. It was so warm in the pool room Terry and Kathy sat outside while we swam. Maia loves swimming and it was fun to show off her swimming skills.

In the hotel room there was a picture of this red spear and Maia loved it! She kept pointing at it and trying to get it.

The last night they were here we went out to Danotos pizza and found out that they have really good gluten free pizza there.

Maia loved reading the menu with Grandpa and ...

...playing with his phone.

The next day they came over to say goodbye. They missed Sean since he had already left for the day but I was glad they came to say goodbye. We were so glad that they came to visit and braved our hot house, the craziness that was our lives at the time and for all they did for us while they were here. It is so very wonderful to see Maia interacting with her grandparents and to see that relationship grow. Can't wait till we get to see them again!