From Amber to Taryn

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Happy Halloween

For Halloween, Sandi's family has a tradition of chili and cornbread for dinner. The past Halloweens we have gone over to their place for dinner and a movie. This time Amber joined us!

Amber was supposed to be a pumpkin for Halloween this year. We bought a pumpkin at a nearby farm and I carved it out with 'Amber 2015'. Unfortunately, we made the mistake of keeping it in our house the week prior and it literally disintegrated on our kitchen table. So much for that idea.

Grandma had a family trip to Kansas over the weekend so Amber slept on Grandpa the entire time.

notice the cute cat on her bum

Amber's top says "Daddy's under my spell" so true.

We watched an episode of 'Sherlock.' That's a perfect Halloween movie!

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Palau Baby Shower

Friends at work wanted to throw Amber a baby shower. It was originally scheduled before she was born but things came up.

Finally, before I left the company, we were able to have the shower.

I requested a simple ice cream social. It turned out to be a very classy ice cream social. The CFO gave a very nice little devotional on being good parents. The team prayed for us as a family and we were able to show Amber off.

Sandi talking to Melissa, a good friend from the festival department

Scott and Tracy from the Business Department

Everyone was very generous with their gifts

Valerie worked hard to plan this

It was a great way to celebrate and begin the goodbyes

Our family with Andrew Palau

We really appreciated everyone making it a great event. Everyone appreciated meeting Amber. This is a good group of people to work with.

First Trip to Seattle

It's official: Amber is part of our family!

Amber had a great first trip to Seattle. She got to hang out with Aunt Julie while we took a walk to the store. Aunt Denise came over and nibbled on her ears. We had a wonderful taco dinner while Amber slept.

Amber loved meeting her aunts and uncles

on a walk with Grandma and Grandpa

On Sunday, we took a late morning walk around the neighborhood and Amber got a sense for where Grandma and Grandpa live.

All of the cousins

Amber can't wait to start playing with all of her fun cousins.

Girls unite!

Look at Grandma go!

a beautiful afternoon before we leave

plotting the gift exchange

Amber is looking forward to Thanksgiving when she can visit everyone again!

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Blood Moon

Since the Blood Moon is a historical event, I thought I would try my hand at capturing it as a photo. It was about 8:40 pm and the moon is starting to come out of the eclipse. I am in the back yard looking east.

Obviously this doesn't even qualify for amateur status but it is a far cry better than I could have done with my old point and shoot.

Oh, since this blog is 'All About Amber', I should include a couple photos about Amber. These were taken last week at a local park.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Cute photos

Amber continues to steal our hearts. Here are some of my favorite pictures of her.

Finishing her spa treatment

Lunch

sleeping on mama

Monday, September 7, 2015

Sleeping

I've heard you should never wake a sleeping baby.

I got up this morning to find Amber sound asleep. Sandi told me Amber was agitated earlier this morning and basically giving her mom a rough time. What!! Impossible. How could this perfect angel cause any trouble?

Unfortunately I had to wake her up so she could have breakfast. I was hard to disturb such peace.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Our Baby Girl

Amber took no time making her way into our family, our home and our hearts. We are still trying to figure out this whole parenting thing, but Amber is gracious and we have plenty of help. We are not great photographers partly because the camera isn't very good capturing daily life and partly because raising Amber is not the same thing as hiking a trail (where most of our pictures originate). Below is a smattering of pictures from her first two weeks of life.