thanksgiving in spokane

we had a wonderful week in spokane for thanksgiving.  the highlight meeting our new niece/cousin baby tessie! the kids took the train over with grammy, so they could be there the entire week.

ready for the train

afternoon at the children's museum with grampy and grammy

couldn't wait to show off their new band instruments to uncle bryan, mel and bryan!

of course costumes for thanksgiving dinner

missed this kid so much!

emery joined gloryann in her ballet class.

big turkey bowl game

the huge ladybug presentation

emery had her first big project/presentation in kinder.  she chose ladybugs as her topic.  she had to do the research, come up with a project and do a five minute presentation for the class.  she rocked it!
i got some pictures of her preparing her project, a painted book of the life cycle of a ladybug.

boys are 12 - birthday weekend

The highlight of the weekend was Kellen flew to Portland to surprise the boys and spend their birthday weekend with us!! This first picture was from this summer at our family photo shoot done by Leaving a Mark Photography. 
I adore this picture and adore these and could not be more proud of them!

girls halloween

the girls loved halloween trick or treating with bridget! lucia was a beautiful peacock and emery a masquerade girl!

Fall 2014

2nd Fall in Oregon. . working hard to make the best of it. . well most of the time. . other times i just cry.

every sunday we are trying a new awesome portland restaurant, since sunday is our sad day missing church and family.

smoothie bar after soccer saturday

sunny fall mornings at the bus stop

emery catches the bus the earliest at 7:05

starbucks dates for late start with the boys

many cross country meets

first lost tooth

soccer tournament in southern oregon

lucia's new bestie at the pumpkin patch

first middle school dance

happy hour sushi

50 middle school kids in our living room for wyldlife

all missing the same tooth

sweet niece was born!

first year coaching the CAVS - 5th in state

girls fall trip to spokane - fun time with cousins and grampy and grammy

2014 first day of school - middle school, first and kinder!

The boys started middle school! Lucia started first grade, the first day of going to school all day! Emery finally gets to join the ranks and go to Kinder. . real big kid school!