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Snow Days + Thanksgiving

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Lindsey

It snowed four inches last Monday. This was enough to close schools and keep our family at home through Wednesday. On top of that, Kieron and I were suffering from a cold which Avery had just passed on to us. We managed to get out sledding and stomping around in the snow anyway. We had snowball fights, made snow angels, and even tried to build an igloo, but the snow was too dry. Then we sipped hot chocolate, put up Christmas decorations, and watched The Grinch and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The snow certainly put us in the holiday spirit a little early.

Fortunately, the roads cleared up just in time for Thanksgiving. Nana and Grandpa drove up to celebrate with us. We enjoyed a delicious feast, the highlight of which was Jonathan and Avery’s amazing pumpkin cheesecake!

“To the hill!”

Notice the matching hats

Avery mixing the cheesecake crust

Grandpa with his grandsons

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The boys

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Lindsey

Here are some random pictures of the boys around the house. Avery always want to have his picture taken with Kieron these days, so we have many variations of the Avery/Kieron shot.

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Mr. Smiley

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Lindsey

Kieron is about 3 1/2 months old now and he changes a little bit everyday. He’s quite talkative and enjoys having conversations by ooohing, aaaahing, and squealing. He grabs onto objects and can switch them from one hand to the other. His legs are very strong and he prefers to be vertical, so last week we put him in the Jumparoo, and now it’s his new favorite thing. What we enjoy most about this age is Kieron’s smile. He’s a really happy little guy and it seems like most of his waking hours he’s smiling at us.

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Back to the Beach

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Lindsey

We spent a few days in the beginning of August at Nana and Grandpa’s place on the Oregon coast. Avery was so excited to go, he packed his backpack in the morning all by himself. Of course, all he packed was toys, but Mommy helped him sort it all out. When we got there Avery could hardly contain himself while we unpacked the van. The wait must have seemed like an eternity to him, but it wasn’t long before our feet hit the sand and he was busy building castles and fishing with a small net.

Avery loves to play in this creek that leads to the ocean

Avery had fun demolishing this sand kingdom

Then he started to rebuild his own

Waiting for pizza with Grandpa

Haystack Rock

Avery climbed about halfway up this sand dune and ran down with us

Hugging Nana

Mr. Smiley

Hunting for treasures

On our last evening at the beach, Nana and Grandpa watched Kieron so we could have some time outside with just Avery. The clouds cleared and the sky was so pretty. We ended up taking a ton of pictures. This is the least I could reduce it to:

In front of Proposal Rock

Saying “hello” to the starfish

Waiting for a wave…

Retreat!

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Backyard Fun

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Lindsey

We’ve had a mild summer this year, but it hasn’t stopped us from taking advantage of what warm days we’ve had. We BBQ and eat dinner in the backyard as often as possible, and when it’s really hot we break out the kiddie pool or turn on the sprinklers. We even managed to fit in a water balloon fight one day. Here are a few pics of our backyard shenanigans.