Christmas Eve service

With grandma and grandpa before church. Pretty much a preview of the next hour.

Going bananas

Toddlers. They like to fill their water glasses with food.

Merry Christmas Eve!

Pioneer Place Santa

After we got the book started, I snuck away. But haircut boy quickly caught on. I want mama! He did give Santa a high-five, though.

First haircut

On Papa's lap...

Handsome boy...
(Mama got a little teary during the transformation. We saved some baby curls in an envelope. Auggie Bear did great, although he did get a little fidgety and repeated, "it's frustrating." A dino book was a good distraction)

And now, a toy
(a dino, of course)

I love my job

Boom!

October 26 was an amazing day.

Like my hard hat?



And my story about another amazing river is in the latest issue of Wend Magazine.

Counting tomatoes

Happy fall! Since I last posted, the big boy turned TWO! And John's birthday is tomorrow. October is all about birthday and Halloween decorations around here.

Speaking of Halloween, I got A. a Winnie the Pooh costume ($10 at our great little kids consignment shop) but then I changed my mind, thinking it was lame. At the same time, A. decided he wanted to be "tiger tom cat - Yeow, yeow!" from the Margaret Wise Brown book "The Big Red Barn." So, we'll see if we can make something. A cat should be pretty easy, right? Not that I'm very crafty at all...

Here's a video I took yesterday - A. and I went for a little walk around the block. We checked to see if the door of the fire station was open (bummer, it wasn't), then kept going. Had fun walking through the fallen leaves, and encountered some tomato plants.

He's wearing my pink and gray winter running hat.

Fun on the OR coast