The Skogen Family

Multnomah Falls

2011-06-01T09:25:00.000-07:00

Crazy Uncle Lee!

Picnic lunch at the bottom of the falls

Alestair, Emerson and James

Before our hike began...

Aunt Maki and Uncle Lee arrive!

2011-05-31T09:19:00.000-07:00

Lee and Maki arrived - yay!! We spent the day tooling around town, then the family joined us for dinner, presents and playtime late into the evening. So happy they are here!!

Krispy Kreme - more than just a donut...

2011-05-27T20:49:00.001-07:00

We ended our day with Emily at Krispy Kreme - after all my efforts for healthy lunch and dinner. :-) They had so much fun watching the donuts rolling by. Emerson was SURE they were coating the donuts with yogurt.

Tea Party

2011-05-27T20:49:00.000-07:00

Norah's friend, Emily, spent the day with us - we enjoyed dress up and a tea party, along with Cousin Josie. Sweet girls!

Aunt Nelle's Birthday

2011-05-26T20:47:00.000-07:00

Happy birthday, Aunt Dannelle!

The kiddos celebrated by running around in circles... :-)

This pic reminds me of Misty Rose...

Bike Riders!

2011-05-23T20:34:00.000-07:00

N&E became two wheel bike riders within a couple of days of each other!

A couple of days after watching Norah ride her back, Emerson decided he was going to give it a try as well. After about 20 minutes, he had it! He has no fear and his "tricks" he is already trying scare the bejeebers out of me. Hello, Emergency Room... :-)

I spent about 10 minutes with Norah, giving her tips and pushing her along. She then told me she was going to try and do it herself - and she did! I could hear her talking to herself, whispering "sit up straight, keep your eyes on the road, keep pedalling, keep pedalling, you can do it, Norah..."

Kona and Grandpa!!

2011-05-22T20:45:00.000-07:00

Grandpa spent the weekend with us, helping Ryan out with some garage projects. N&E were loving the extratime with Grandpa's puppy, Kona. The poor dog may have needed a vacay after all the attention she received.

Grandpa was able to attend Norah's ballet as well - although Kona stayed at home for that.

H&G Family

2011-05-21T20:44:00.000-07:00

Great Grandpa came along with Eileen and Charles - Norah was so excited about her rose from them!

Aunt Dannelle, Josie, Miss Wendy and McKenzie

And all of her cousins on Gramma Joyce's side of the fam! And N was showered with more beautiful flowers. :-)

Hansel and Gretel Ballet

2011-05-21T20:42:00.000-07:00

Norah performed in her first ballet today - Hansel and Gretel - as a Village Maiden. She had such a wonderful time!

Mother's Day

2011-05-08T20:40:00.000-07:00

It was a flower craft mothers day this year!

Flower buttons, flower clips, flower button clips and paper flower wreaths!

Norah made all of these!

Shake Senora - MOVE Dance Competition

2011-05-07T20:37:00.000-07:00

Norah's Tiny Stars dance company competed in their first dance competition this weekend. They jazzed it out to teh carribean beat song, Shake Senora. The girls did a great job!!

Yay - they won a big trophy!

Royal Wedding Party

2011-04-29T20:53:00.000-07:00

We celebrated the royal wedding in style...

Soccer Star

2011-04-25T20:51:00.000-07:00

Emerson recently began indoor soccer at a club here in Vancouver - and LOVES it! He has been bumped up twice now and goes full throttle the entire time he is on the field.

Disneyland - Day Five

2011-02-27T21:02:00.000-08:00

Disneyland - Day Four

2011-02-26T21:00:00.000-08:00

Disneyland - Day Three

2011-02-25T20:58:00.000-08:00

Disneyland - Day Two

2011-02-24T20:56:00.000-08:00

California Family

2011-02-23T21:09:00.000-08:00

Fun with cousins - what a big group!

Uncle Jeff took us all on a tour of his Fire Station - lots of fun for everyone

Visiting Great Grandma in Glendale

Disneyland - Day One

2011-02-22T20:54:00.000-08:00

Andersons Split Pea Soup

2011-02-21T09:06:00.000-08:00

Another family tradition for Ryan - a stop off for Andersens Split Pea Soup!

Have to say...I won't be sad not to eat this regularly... ;-)

Avila Bay

2011-02-20T21:12:00.000-08:00

We spent a beautiful, sunny afternoon with Grandma and Grandpa at Avila Bay - it was so relaxing and N&E loved playing at the beach!

Gnomeo and Juliet and G&G

2011-02-20T09:58:00.000-08:00

N&E love seeing movies with G&G, so we enjoyed a showing of the 3D Gnomeo and Juliet!

Olive Pit

2011-02-19T21:13:00.000-08:00

Ryan's family has a tradition of stopping at the Olive Pit during their road trips between CA and OR, so on our first day of vacay, we made a Pit Stop (hahahaha) there as well.

Stickering Great Grandpa

2011-01-17T16:27:00.000-08:00

Great Grandpa always saves stickers that come in the mail for Norah and Emerson...as well as a fridge stocked with apples and a cupboard with Oreos!

Grandpa and Grandma's wedding photo and wedding cake topper, as well as a teenage photo of Grandma.

It takes a pretty great grandpa to come up with sticker earrings...

Friendship Celebration

2011-01-17T16:19:00.000-08:00

Our friends hosted a Friendship Celebration in honor of MLK day - it was one of our favorite playdates!

Everyone colored a cutout of themselves, then we displayed them together.

Our hosts also had each child bring an ingedient to mix into the Friendship Snack - all of the children loved this part of the morning!

We also had storytime, reading books about all the different kinds of people in our world.

You can see how excited Emerson was about storytime...he wanted to get back to Alex's train table!

Norah's Milestone

2011-01-11T11:12:00.000-08:00

After a month of being wiggly, Norah finally lost her first tooth! She was breathless and giddy with excitement - it was very dear. She danced around the room, saying she felt like a new person, much older. :-) Her adult tooth has already popped out, so we'll miss the gaping hole for this one, but are looking forward to that for the rest!

This is it?

2011-01-11T11:08:00.000-08:00

After all the dire warnings about the big snow storm that was coming...this is all we ended up with. Needless to say, the kids were disappointed!

Yep, that is all the snow that visited our home!

Brrrr...time for scarves!

2011-01-10T10:31:00.000-08:00

I found a fun website that had some great ideas for scarves - so we made them our own!

I love this genius idea - sew an oversized buttonhole to pull the scarf through, keeping it from falling off all the time. Perfect for my little guy!

Emerson really loves the secret pocket in the back - he currently has a couple of stickers from the Dr office and a Lightening McQueen stuffed in there.

I found a great new fabric line - they produce several of their prints in cotton AND flannel. Woohoo! This is so snuggly and soft, I want one for myself.

And a few felt flowers to boot.

Corvallis Traditions

2011-01-02T10:37:00.000-08:00

It was such a beautiful, sunny day for our trip down to Corvallis! We stopped at a couple of our favorite Corvallis places - including the American Dream for lunch.

Norah's first plate

Working hard!

Emerson's first plate

And a coffee stop at the Beanery!

Welcome, Kona!

2011-01-02T10:32:00.000-08:00

Grandpa and Gramma adopted a little shanuzer/poodle puppy they named Kona. She is a bundle of puppy activity! We really enjoyed playing with her and admiring her puppy skills. She is so spunky and silly!

It was so chilly, Grandpa's pond was frozen over.

Norah loved Kona most of all! She couldn't get enough of her - and Kona played right along.

to Hair or not to Hair

2011-01-01T10:28:00.000-08:00

After cutting my poor baby's hair all off, all I could selfishly think of was - thank goodness we waited till after his birthday pics, and thank goodness it will be grown out by the time we have our trip to Disneyland pics...LOL

Birthday Dinner

2010-12-30T22:15:00.000-08:00

Although much of today was planned around Emerson's fun, Ryan enjoyed it all as well. :-) We are pretty lucky to have 2 great fellas sharing a birthday!!

We celebrated the boys birthday with dinner at The Rock pizza, our fave local pizza place.

I just noticed the shirt Emerson choice - lol, appropriate!

Emerson Theodore, Ryan Theodore and Grandpa Theodore

Watching the pizza dough fly!

Emerson's birthday party!

2010-12-30T19:04:00.000-08:00

This year was Emerson's first party with friends and family - in the past its just been his family celebrating. He has been looking forward to the party FOREVER and had the best time when it finally arrived. Yay for our little guy!

We met at a local bouncy house playland and children and adult alike jumped like maniacs...

Then headed into their party room for some cake and more fun.

While Emerson opened presents from his very thoughtful and generous guests, Norah helped entertain with a face painting station. She offered hearts or lightening bolts - with sparkles, of course.

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Emerson's 4th Birthday! (and Ryan's 38th...)

2010-12-30T18:36:00.000-08:00

Emerson was so excited to wake up on his birthday morning! As per Ryan's birthday wish, they both headed out to pick up breakfast at McDonalds (hmmm...what does that say about my cooking??), while Norah and I prepared their gifts.

I think Emerson's gifts this year were just as much presents for Ryan. E is finally at an age where his toys are fun for daddy, too. :-) Ryan really wanted Emerson to have plastic, green army guys...and Emerson has enjoyed playing with them. I guess Ryan was right!

Remote control things - oh, so fun!

And a pillow pet! Emerson has wanted one of these since Norah received one for her birthday. He has officially named him Froggy Dog. Yep.

Chilly Ticket to Ride

2010-12-29T18:27:00.000-08:00

Emerson's buddy Tyler received a bike for his birthday and I promised E if he left Tyler's bike alone, I'd let him ride his when we got home. Unfortunatly, he didn't forget...so although it was 30ish degrees, we went on a ride!

Norah was so chilly, she was trying to ride with her hands stuffed in her coat pockets. Yes, she is wearing a pettiskirt and sparkly shoes for the activity.

My crazy boy!! Love him SOOO much.

Emerson and Tyler

2010-12-29T18:11:00.000-08:00

Emerson was invited to his first boys only birthday party - he was pretty excited to drop Norah off at Aunt Dannelle's, with promises that he would tell her all about it.

Tyler is very in to Handy Manny and construction, so that was the theme of the party. His mom and dad had such fun decorations and an adorable cake!

It was VERY hard for Emerson to watch and not touch while Tyler opened his presents, but for an almost 4 year old, he did a good job!

Christmas Dinner

2010-12-25T17:56:00.000-08:00

Delish dinner with the O'Briens and Rose families

Kaye and me

Norah and Emerson were big enough to sit unattended at the kids table - they loved running around after all the big boys this year.

And more fun presents!!!

Norah's Christmas Morning

2010-12-25T17:47:00.000-08:00

Norah is an avid crafter and is very creative - she loves to help me when I am sewing. This year we gave her a great beginner's sewing machine, and I'm hoping this will last her till she hits her teens. She also recieved fabric and many accessories and couldn't wait to get started sewing!

One of Norah's fave toys is her doll, Rebecca. Thanks to her Grandmas, she has a new wardrobe/chest and several new accessories for Rebecca.

Norah asked Santa for a face painting kit, and he brought her one!

Emerson's Christmas Morning

2010-12-25T17:41:00.000-08:00

Emerson was so excited to open every gift - and was so appreciative for them all! It was a very fun Christmas - he is a fabulous age! He recieved many fun trains and train accessories, as well as cars, trucks, planes - well, anything that moves. He asked Santa for a plane and a race track.

Here he opens his James the Train toy - he really, really want this!

Twas the Night Before Christmas...

2010-12-24T17:37:00.000-08:00

Santa Claus Ornaments

2010-12-24T17:05:00.000-08:00

Every year on Christmas Eve we pull our individual ornaments (which are a surprise) out of a santa cookie jar. This is a tradition began by my great grandma many decades ago. Although she is no longer here, her great-great grandchildren still enjoy this tradition! Grandma Katie's santa jar was a paper mache-like santa - my parents bought one of their own when they had children and he is a roly poly santa in a rocking chair - and now Ryan and I have this one of our own.

Every year I find ornaments that are somehow representative of the children's interests for the year.

This year Norah was fascinated with water faeries...

...and Emerson was obsessed with Batman. hehehe The first couple of years I tried to find ornaments that were very elegant and timeless...but then I realized that the kids actually will enjoy the memories of these much, much more. So we've added to their Thomas Tank and Tink ornaments from last year. :-)

The Butler family still does the Santa ornament tradition as well and although we weren't all together this year, we still all received ornaments commemorating the year. This year I volunteered (with some motivation from my SIL Dannelle) and I made many variations of these and mailed them out to everyone. Grandma Katie used to hand make all of her ornaments, so thats what we try to continue - we each take turns. I kept my least favorite for us, but maybe one of my fab relatives will send me a pic of theirs... Whew - I made 21 ornaments!!

Yule-Nissen

2010-12-24T16:57:00.000-08:00

Every year the Yule-Nissen, a Norwegian Christmas elf, brings pjs to Norah and Emerson on Christmas Eve. We spent the cozy day at home, playing games, watching a movie, listening to holiday music...and keeping an eye out for the Yule-Nissen!! They are very hard to spot...

We took Jones out for a family walk around the neighborhood to look at lights...and when we returned the Yule-Nissen had come and gone. I can't believe we missed him. Maybe next year! :-)

Emerson insisted on wearing his sun glasses on our walk - and also for pics in his pjs.

Our Christmas ballerina

Christmas is coming...

2010-12-23T16:51:00.000-08:00

Presents are wrapped...

I couldn't find our tree topper anywhere, so Ryan and the kids handcrafted this one especially for Greenie (what the kids name the tree). Cardboard, sequins, sparkles, glitter and paint! Such a treasure, I'll keep it for next year.

Nor could I find the stocking hangers for the mantle, so we hung ours from the window. Yeah, thats how we roll.

Two little elves nestled in with the presents, making sure there weren't any sneaky hands picking through them. Santa has eyes everywhere!!

Holiday exchange with the Kellys

2010-12-22T16:45:00.000-08:00

We met at the Kellys for a fun holiday exchange and playtime during Christmas week. We opened gifts, decorated ornaments and enjoyed yummy treats that Wendy prepared. mmmmm...

Emerson and Delaney, playing with a super cool aircraft carrier

McKenzie was serious about her ornament decorating. She even dressed in a fancy, fancy dress for the occasion.

After decorating ornaments, Norah decorated Delaney and her own hair.

Zoo Lights 2010

2010-12-22T08:38:00.000-08:00

Our first trip to zoo lights this year!

We managed to stay warm and enjoy the evening. Norah was wearing tights, leggings, jeans PLUS her skirt - and four shirts under her jacket. Emerson had on two shirts, two sheatshirts, plus his jacket. I was so worried they would be cold!

Norah - Santa's Reindeer

2010-12-20T09:10:00.000-08:00

This year Norah joined a dance company - the youngest of the performing group are called Tiny Stars. For their holiday performances, the Tiny Stars danced as Santa's Reindeer. Norah had lots of fun performing and we really enjoyed watching her!

Providence Festival of Trees

Danceworks Holiday Open House

Retirement Community

Santa

2010-12-18T09:19:00.000-08:00

Kindergarten Holiday Party

2010-12-16T11:38:00.000-08:00

Special placemat Norah made for me!

Helping a friend

Emerson!

2010-12-16T10:28:00.000-08:00

My Sweet Emerson - spirited and adventurous!

Emerson and Strider, Grandpa's dog

Emerson and Jonesy

Hot Chocolate and Katie

2010-12-15T11:52:00.000-08:00

We had an opportunity to meet up with Katie Allen, a sweet and sassy Pi Phi I met when she was a superstar collegian at OSU. She was such a sport with Norah and Emerson, we all really enjoyed visiting with her!

PDX with the Kellys

2010-12-15T11:49:00.000-08:00

The MAX, Macys, Santa and lunch with our Kelly friends!

I love these three girls!! This pic cracks me up.

Yep, we saw TWO santas while out and about. The kids all has such a fun time and were so sweet with each other. I hope this will be an annual tradition.

Thorntons Tree Farm

2010-12-15T09:31:00.000-08:00

Where is our tree??

AHa!

Emerson will catch it :-)

OKOK...

2010-12-13T11:18:00.000-08:00

I'm back.

Christmas Sweater Party

2010-12-11T13:56:00.000-08:00

Ericca and Jen at the Kelly's Ugly Christmas Sweater game night

Jericca Holiday Fun

2010-12-10T14:00:00.000-08:00

Pioneer Square - Portland, OR

Norah and Emerson did a bit of street performaning - Norah sang Christmas carols and Emerson boogied!

Christmas Carolling

2010-12-08T13:52:00.000-08:00

We joined Aunt Dannelle's scout troup for some Christmas carolling at a local retirement community. Emerson, Josie and James were SO wiggly, but it was a success nonetheless. :-)

Family Fun

2010-12-07T16:21:00.000-08:00

On Misty's last day visiting, we headed downtown to visit Santa and look at the big Christmas tree at Pioneer Square.

After dropping Misty off at the airport, we all headed over to Norah and Emerson's hippity hop class. Their teacher let Josie join them at the end of the class.

Aunt Kaye's 50th

2010-12-04T14:34:00.000-08:00

Dinner at Mothers Bistro

Shopping at Pioneer Square

Norah's Tangled Birthday

2010-11-26T14:27:00.000-08:00

This year Norah invited a few friends to the movies for her birthday. The new Disney Rapunzel movie just opened, so she donned her princess outfit and away we went! The theatre gave us a behind the scenes tour, then we had cupcakes and gifts - then into the movie.

Norah's Kindergarten Photo

2010-11-15T18:10:00.000-08:00

Great Grandpa's Halloween Party

2010-10-29T14:22:00.000-07:00

Every year Great Grandpa has a huge Halloween party we attend - once again, it was so much fun! Pumpkin painting, cookie decorating, not-so-scary movies, trick-or-treating and a costume contest!

Preschool Halloween

2010-10-28T14:18:00.000-07:00

James, Josie and Emerson

Fierce Batman pose

Sleeping Beauty Ballet

2010-10-16T13:36:00.000-07:00

Norah's first trip to the Oregon Ballet Theatre - with friends Paige and Hailey. She was glued to the entire performance and even asked a question at the end of the show, during a visit with the ballerinas. She asked if their costumes were scratchy...

Go Beavs!

2010-09-26T13:20:00.000-07:00

Clark County Harvest Festival

2010-09-25T13:16:00.000-07:00

Ft. Vancouver with the Foremans

2010-09-19T13:11:00.000-07:00

Mr. AJ explains how a beaver trap catches a beaver...

Very silly kids!

Craft Day

2010-09-18T13:08:00.000-07:00

Emerson and Dad build a car model and Norah and Mom sew a skirt for Norah's doll.

Jericca

2010-09-17T13:00:00.000-07:00

Farewell dinner at the Heathman (their home away from home) with our friends Ericca and Jennifer. We can't wait for them to return!

First day of Kindergarten

2010-09-09T10:38:00.000-07:00

Norah's first day of Kindergarten - she couldn't wait to leave the house!

On our way to the bus stop

Waiting with friend and neighbor kindergartener, Emily

So fast to hop on the bus, without a goodbye!

Mom and Dad followed her to school - when she saw us she asked what we were doing there... :-)

Geocaching

2010-09-08T13:46:00.000-07:00

Our first geocaching adventure!

Emerson reaches into the brambles for the cache...

success!

McKenzie's Birthday

2010-08-18T13:33:00.000-07:00

A Build-A-Bear extravaganza with her friends!

Paradise Creek part two

2010-08-15T13:29:00.000-07:00

sitting in the creek, fishing... :-)

Paradise Creek, WA - camping

2010-08-14T13:24:00.000-07:00

Our trip in June was such fun, we decided to camp with the Kellys and Foremans again! This time at the base of Mt St Helens. It was warm and dry - and fabulous!

Evenings by the campfire - charades, silly songs and s'mores!

We are pretty much the definition of camping hot.

Clark County Fair

2010-08-06T14:11:00.000-07:00

Norah's rainbow trout and Emerson's Starry Night

Lemonade Stand

2010-07-22T12:56:00.000-07:00

Norah's first lemonade stand - 50 cents a cup.

4th of July

2010-07-04T11:27:00.000-07:00

4th of July with the Blinns!

Indian Henry, OR Camping

2010-06-20T11:15:00.000-07:00

It was drizzly and periodically chilly - but these diehard campers made it fun!

A hike around the campground

mmmm...first s'mores of the season

Crazy trip to the restroom in the dark. Even camping (especially camping) a girl needs friends to go to the restroom with!

We were even able to celebrate Anwyn's birthday, camping style!!

Showcase 2010 - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

2010-06-18T11:08:00.000-07:00

This was Norah's 3rd showcase with Danceworks, so she was all ready to go come showtime! Her little class was so cute and I was once again very proud of her.
Grandma and Grandpa

Aunt Dannelle and Josie

Even Great-Grandpa came! (Thanks to Aunt Eileen for bringing him!)

Aunt Lynne - great pals :-)

Norah's Public Service

2010-06-15T12:07:00.000-07:00

Norah and I attending a public hearing about the development of a green space near our home. Norah spoke very eloquently about why she would like to see responsible development of the space. Yay!

Preschool Graduation

2010-06-07T11:02:00.000-07:00

With much pomp and circumstance (well, of a preschool variety) Norah graduated from preschool today. She has spent the last two years at Columbia River Preschool and will miss all her friends there!

The Smurfs

2010-05-15T12:04:00.000-07:00

Norah and Emerson's first viewing of the Smurfs!!

Lewisville Park

2010-05-13T13:40:00.000-07:00

Grammie always has fun park toys in her trunk!

Poor Emerson, ran into a BBQ - here he shows us where the injury occured.

Emerson is show and tell

2010-05-11T10:54:00.000-07:00

Norah brought Emerosn to show and tell today...Emerson thought he was going to be able to stay and they both tried to get me to leave them at school together.

Norah's ears are pierced!

2010-05-09T10:57:00.000-07:00

Norah has been begging for a long time to get her ears pierced. We finally let her! She was nervous but excited - and after the piercing her eyes welled up until they put a mirror in front of her, then all was well.

Columbia River Walk with Grammie

2010-05-09T10:46:00.000-07:00

Grammie loves to walk along the riverfront and enjoy a mocha, so we spent the morning with her there, before she left for Utah.

Lilac Gardens

2010-04-17T11:22:00.000-07:00

Summer begins

2009-05-30T13:24:00.000-07:00

Our first popsicle of the summer!
Norah signed up for her 3rd year of ballet today . Her studio had a big open house, complete with facepainting and bouncy houses.

April

2009-04-01T14:50:00.000-07:00

Easter Festival Norah as Mary

Craft time and dress up with Grammie

Norah and Jesus

Emerson make angels in the wheat tent

A.C. Gilbert Museum with Gramma and Grandpa, Salem, OR

Watching the trains

Isabelle's Fairy Birthday (this was actually May!_

Norah's first Leikarringen of 2009

in her new bunad

A playdate at Lewisville park

Ashlynn, Emerson and Josie

Alestair

Alestair and James

Salem playdate with Ian and Addy

More April

2009-04-01T13:17:00.000-07:00

Water Resource Center with our cousins Rose Gardens with the Kelly fam

Delaney!

McKenzie

Easter egg hunt!

An Easter lesson from Aunt Nelle

March

2009-03-01T15:27:00.000-08:00

Visit with Aunt Kayeand then to the Zoo!

Norah Lisa

Pi Beta Phi Day of Service - Borders Books and First Book!

Grandpa and I met Michelle at OMSI for the daVinci exhibit

Norah and Emerson, accosting the Easter Bunny at Clackamas Towne Center

Norah and Emerson's first race! Ft Vancouver Fun Run

They took the race part very seriously. :-)

Recieving an award and medal

Streeeetching out

Fancy Norah

2009-02-22T11:12:00.000-08:00

We picked up a second-hand set up china for Norah, for all her fancy tea-party needs. She was very excited because I let her have breakfast using it this morning. :-) Milk mustache from her tea cup! She is looking forward to a tea party with her BFF tomorrow.

Mom's Night In

2009-02-21T11:08:00.000-08:00

Many thanks to Lynn for hosting us - what a fun get together!

Cousin playdate

2009-02-20T10:57:00.000-08:00

Sunny days with N&E's cousins

Our 3rd home

2009-02-19T10:40:00.000-08:00

Zoo trip with Tenievial and fam - we lost Wendy and her girls, they were wandering the zoo without us...

Wyatt, Norah, Emerson and Cordelia...this is before N&E went in to cranky pants mode!

Duck watching

I s hould compile all of the pics we've taken on this tractor!

Emerson watched how Wyatt played with the gears, then he had to have a turn by "self" (we hear that word so many times a day) to practice.

Cordelia, watching a giant crocodile

The grumpy walk back to the car - both N&E were not happy to leave. I couldn't wait to get out of there, with how grumpy they were. :-)

Norah's little friend.

Our 2nd home

2009-02-17T10:33:00.000-08:00

Emerson and Grammie's tradition purple chair at the library photo.

After the library we scooted over to Fred Meyer where the MOST WONDERFUL thing in the world occured. Emerson and Norah were both old enough to play in the kids area, while I gorcery shopped without them. Aaaaaah!

Lewisville Park

2009-02-16T10:17:00.000-08:00

Our first visit of the year to Lewisville Park - it was a cool but sunny day. We hiked around the park and brought a picnic lunch. Grammie even made a fire.Josie and Emerson, although surrounded by grass and trees, were obsessed with playing in gravel.

We'll miss you!

2009-02-15T10:09:00.000-08:00

Grandpa and Gramma are turning into Snowbirds - we are going to miss them while they are gone! We had a goodbye breakfast this morning with Ryan's sister and fam as well. Today Ryan's dad asked me if I ever had enough photos...hahahahahahahahahahaha...NEVER!

Happy Valentines Day!

2009-02-14T09:54:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines Day!!

After opening Valentines baskets from Dad, we had a yummy breakfast of homemade cinnamond rolls!

This was my first time with the bread recipe my mom gave me. The rolls were yummy, but the loaf of bread was strange...I need to keep practicing.

OMSI with Gramma and Grandpa

2009-02-13T09:39:00.000-08:00

Norah had a special afternoon with Grandpa and Gramma at OMSI. There is a new Da Vinci exhibit to enjoy - Norah did great in all the adult areas - in fact she really enjoyed the paintings and inventions. Her fave - a 360 degree mirrored room where she could watch herself dance from all angles.

Important experiments

Building a bridge

Norah Lisa

Joyca Lisa

Heathera Lisa

Baking

2009-02-12T09:29:00.000-08:00

Mom taught me how to bake homemade bread this afternoon. What I made under her supervision was really good...but I am sure its going to take lots of practice to get it right by myself!

N&E, watching Grammie with the mixer