February:
We celebrated Chinese New Year by going to The Chinese Gardens in downtown Portland. It was fun and not too crowded. Christopher and our dog Lucy each celebrated a birthday :).
March:
We continued on with homeschooling. Nathan started fencing with a homeschool class. Christopher flattened out our side/back yard.
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| Fencing (Nathan is on the third strip from the left) |
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| Checking out some bees at an apiary |
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| Checking out some bees at an apiary |
April:
Christopher and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary and Nathan celebrated his 7th birthday! Christopher also started his beer literacy class through the local community college.
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| Easter |
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| At our anniversary dinner |
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| We have to work on our selfies! |
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| Someone had a little cold during this regular check-up |
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May:
Mother's Day, school, a work trip to Vancouver for Christopher that I joined for the weekend. My mom came to take care of the boys and we got to celebrate her birthday with her :).
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| Doing a Maypole with one of our homeschool groups |
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| Making his own knitting needles |
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| Mother's Day |
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| Vancouver |
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| Granville Island |
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| Capilano in the trees |
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| Capilano in the trees |
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| Celebrating my mom's birthday (that cake was the free birthday dessert!) |
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| They're going to be pros soon! |
June:
We finished up first grade with Nathan. My cat Bella had to be put to sleep :(. We went blueberry and berry picking a couple of times. We celebrated my birthday and Father's Day. Nathan ran his first race (he ran one mile in 9 minutes & did awesome!). We went to the local hot air balloon festival.
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| Climbing at the local climbing gym |
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| Bella in her last days :( |
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| The slackline Christopher made |
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| Picking blueberries |
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| At Cannon Beach for my birthday |
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| Birthday dinner |
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| Birthday ice cream |
July:
Our foreign exchange student Sabrina (from two years ago) came to visit us with her friend Stephanie. We went on a lot of adventures! Christopher built a rock wall to cover up an ugly dirt hill.
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| At a fountain in downtown Portland on a very hot day! |
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| Having fun in the Williamette |
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| 4th of July |
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| Picking blueerries |
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| Pike Place market in Seattle (we were there for a One Direction concert that the girls were going to) |
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| Seattle |
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| At Cannon Beach |
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| Multnomah Falls |
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| Having fun in the Columbia |
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| On a boat ride on the Williamette |
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| On a boat ride on the Williamette |
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| Having fun outside of the ice cream store |
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| Zoo time |
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| Hiking at Silver Falls |
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| Hiking at Silver Falls |
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| Behind one of the two waterfalls at Silver Falls |
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| Hiking at Silver Falls |
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| Our first Voodoo donuts |
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| Having fun at the Evergreen waterpark |
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| Saying goodbye :( |
August:
A truck event. A camping trip. A beer disaster. Nathan started 2nd grade and Anderson started his first year of Kindergarten (he'll do another year since his birthday is in October).
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| At the truck event |
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| The view outside of our library, so pretty! |
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| Camping |
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| At the river by the camping site |
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| Serious picture |
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| Silly picture |
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| Christopher's Blackberry Wheat beer went Ka-Boom! |
September:
A visit from the Stone family. A trip up to my mom's house.
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| All the kids playing Minecraft |
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| At Justin's wedding |
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| Hanging out at the Millpond |
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| Fishing at the Millpond |
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| Friends! |
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| My mom and Lucy |
October:
The Great Wolf Lodge (not as much fun as we thought it would be), Anderson's 5th birthday, Halloween (where it was raining so much!), a trip to Japan for Christopher's work, and a visit from all of Christopher's siblings!
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| Painting the tombstones for our yard |
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| At the Great Wolf Lodge |
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| At the Great Wolf Lodge |
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| Happy 5th Birthday! |
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| He lost both top front teeth |
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| In the corn maze |
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| In the corn maze |
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| In the corn maze |
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| In the corn maze |
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| In Japan |
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| In a Cosplay room for the conference |
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| Minecraft Zombie (Anderson) |
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| Minecraft Creeper (Nathan) |
November:
Wordstock, getting ready for Christmas, and Thanksgiving with some friends! We also had to put our 19 year old cat Suki to sleep :(. She hung in for a very long time!
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| Knitting with Aunt Karen |
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| On a field trip to Powell's in Portland |
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| Carson Ellis reading her book Home to the kids at Wordstock |
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| Nathan made this all by himself! |
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| Decorating the tree on Thanksgiving |
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| The dogs on the bed together for the first time |
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| Playing Super Mario for the first time (Christopher set up a system) |
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| Pretty Suki! |
December:
Well, here we are! I actually haven't loaded up many photos for December yet. I had a cookie exchange and made loads of cookies! We went to Shrek, which was a kids' play. We finished up school for the year and have been enjoying our winter break. The boys have mostly been playing with their Legos. We are having a lovely Christmas today!
