Eva turns 1!

 Our baby girl turned one year old on September 15. Wow, this year sure flew by. And by her first birthday she certainly didn't feel like a baby girl any more, running all over the place and becoming a master climber.

 She was intrigued by the present-opening.

 Her new car; who could have known how difficult it would be to keep Jonas off of it....

 And she had mixed feelings about her cake experience. It started out okay...

 Then definitely NOT okay

 Then okay...

 Really NOT okay again...

 Maybe okay?

 NO!

 The one part she did not have mixed feelings about was eating the cake!

We sure love this little miss!

Vancouver

And 5 weeks later it was time to go back home to Switzerland. We stopped at Miner's, a burger joint in Yakima, on our way back up to Vancouver.

We spent a little bit of time in Vancouver before we left. We had to visit the Vancouver aquarium.

Then we relaxed in Stanley Park for awhile.

Then headed to the airport

Back home-a moment of jet-lagged brotherly love.

Spokane

Next we visted my sister Tracey where near Spokane.

We spent one day in Coeur d'Alene.

Another day we went to Riverfront Park

My little walking girl. Though she had taken her first steps about a month earlier, it was really during this trip where she officially transitioned to a bipedal hominid. A 10 months!

Saying goodbye

One last baseball game

Jonas loves his uncle Rick

And of course no trip to the U.S. is complete without a boat trip! Jaxon even got up on skis for the first time!