Steven and Chrystal Tandberg Family: University of Virginia

June 22, 2008

University of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson was the founder and the architect of the University of Virginia. It is a beautiful campus.

So, I guess we are raising a tree hugger. Mariah loves trees and isn't afraid to show it.

This picture is for my Mom. She wanted to see a picture of a Magnolia tree in bloom. I think the large flowers on the beautiful large trees are so pretty.

Mariah needed to take a rest, it was a long day.

4 comments:

Gabby said...: How fun, Chrystal!! You guys seem to have a lot of fun in Virginia!! I miss the East, I miss the old mansions with beautiful architecture that I would so routinely find on my way to the hospitals in northern Jersey... They have so much character, don't they? Sometimes I would drive and run the risk of getting into an accident because those old houses would really get my attention :) It's nice to see you guys enjoying Virginia so much!!!

Thanks for posting so many pics, it is really nice to catch up with you guys!! Mariah is so big!!!! She sure is growing fast!!

Btw, the Happy Father's message was really cute. Happy belated Father's day to Steve!!!

Hope all continues to go well,

Gabby; June 22, 2008 at 9:29 PM
Jessie said...: That building is simply beautiful. I would love to claim that campus. The old style architecture is so detailed and grand.
How neat!; June 22, 2008 at 10:59 PM
lindsey said...: hi. our new address is lindseyandjohn.blogspot.com; June 27, 2008 at 12:14 PM
julie Tandberg said...: Mariah, I love trees too. Love Grama T; June 28, 2008 at 6:35 PM

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Mariah says the darndest things...

Mariah certainly has interesting designations for things. Today she asked me for clean milk. I was getting Lylah some of her rice milk and evidently Maraih didn't want it. She pointed to the regular 1% milk and said that was clean milk. I asked her why it was clean, she told me, "because I said it was!" I really don't know where she got that!

At dinner Mariah told me she wanted dry water. I asked her what dry water was (after I could stop chuckling behind my hands) and she said water that came from our glass pitcher was dry water. I never quite figured out why that was dry water, although we do usually put ice cubes in it when we use the pitcher. hmmm... dry water...

The other day Mariah asked me for kid beans. At first I thought she wanted green beans because she loves them and could eat a whole can by herself. But she didn't want those. I eventually found out that she wanted kidney beans. Lylah likes to eat kidney beans, straight from the can and Mariah was jealous and wanted some.

We use sliced cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches, now Mariah calls that cheese "girl cheese."

One of my favorite things Mariah said was about a year ago. She came to me with a very concerned look on her face, "Mommy why doesn't the table have clothes on?" I had taken the tablecloth off and hadn't put another one on yet and she was worried about it.

When Lylah was a couple months old she got a hold of Mariah's hand and tried to put it in her mouth. Mariah laughed and said, "Mommy, Lylah is trying to eat the elbows on my hand!" Now if that is not a good way to descibe knuckles, I don't know what is!

Steven was trying to help Mariah learn how to catch the ball. He would throw the ball and she would look at him and miss it. He told her to keep her eye on the ball. She gave Steven a funny look and literally put her eye on the ball. Needless to say, we both started laughing.

We went hiking last week on Steven's day off. We were just getting going up a hill into the trees when Mariah turned to Steven and said, "Daddy I want the car." I didn't realize we were raising such a city girl. Looks like we need to get back out west soon!