Beach trip with friends

Beautiful view on the drive there.

It was a long trip... then we put a dvd in. Wonderful invention!!

Cheese factory

This poor seagull didn't know what to do. It just sat on our porch looking at all the snow. The kids thought it was awesome though!

Brandon bird hunting

Classic tough guy hunting pose.


The kill count

Getting the Christmas tree

So I really wanted to get a tree from our 'farm' this year. Well, there wasn't exactly 'Christmas trees.' But I told Brandon I didn't care I just wanted something, and it would be free. So we picked the nastiest day to go out and get a tree. It was pouring down rain, but I wanted the experience...what was I thinking!! We ended up finding a blue spruce that was only the under stock which meant it was green. Great I thought...turns out there is a big difference in a noble and a blue spruce. Like one has soft needles and one is nasty pokey!! The spruce sat on our porch until one day Brandon brought home a beautiful pre-cut noble from the corner for $20 bucks! Seriously never trying to get a free try again, it is so not worth the pain!! Here's the day.


Huge tantrum!!


Helping dad!

Owl?!?

We had a random owl fly into our front window. I wasn't home, but Brandon and Julia had so much fun checking it out. Brandon said after it hit the window it just sat on our front porch for about 20 minutes before it was recuperated enough to fly away.

The Grotto

We went to the grotto the other night. They put up all kinds of great Christmas lights, and other Christmas things. The kids loved it. We watched a puppet show that I still don't understand what the story was about but Julia clapped and cheered once it was done. The kids were a little bundled up to say the least! Oh, and the petting zoo was a hit!!

Annual Christmas party

Our first stitches

So I'm finally posting. I should be cleaning right now, but today has been a little different than normal to say the least.

We had our day planned, Brandon was getting Julia ready and going to take her shopping with my mom. And I was going to clean and get food ready for our annual Christmas party this year while Cole was sleeping. Well, instead Cole decided to split his lip open. Bummer, poor kid! He fell in the bathroom and hit the step stool. Let me tell you, lips bleed like crazy. Luckily both Brandon and I were pretty calm. Once we could actually see what happened it was obvious he needed to go to the doctor. My wonderful husband had the idea to call the pediatrician. I will now always call the pediatrician before we take either of our kids to the ER. They said they will take a look first and maybe they can take care of it, otherwise they send us to the ER to see a plastic surgeon. The kids dr is ad Adventist, so I was just happy we would not be going to Mt Hood (sorry i just don't like their ER). Turns out the doctor could do the stitches because the cut didn't really cross the lip line, it was pretty much just in the lip (hope that makes sense). So one papoose board, anesthetic shot, and two stitches later we were better. I had Brandon take a picture right before the dr did the stitches. The doctor and nurse kind-of laughed but I said, this might not be a good memory, but it was a memory and I wanted a picture!

All bundled up on the papoose board. He was basicly wrapped up like a burrito!


Smiley as ever on the way home!