Saturday, December 29, 2007

Happy Birthday Mom!

Our beautiful mom

We hope you have a wonderful birthday and all your wishes and dreams come true.
We love you.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Merry Christmas!

Cookie and water left for Santa on Christmas Eve. Dorian said "Santa would want water not milk." Like milk for Santa was crazy talk.
Santa must have been happy because he left alot of presents!
Dorian smiling with his pressies!
We headed over to Grandma and Papas and it started to SNOW!
And of course with snow you have to have snowball fights!
Our Christmas was excellent. To top it off we had about an 1'' of snow and the kids loved it!
Dorian says "I got everything I wanted!". We had a yummy dinner at grandma and papas house and had a wonderful day with family. Dorian got to have a snowball fight with his cousin and even got his Aunt and Papa good with some snowballs.

Here are more photos!

This is a candy cane......

This is a candy cane over dose...

He had like 3 candy canes and then fell asleep the day before xmas eve. Too cute!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Zoo Lights!

We headed out alittle after 4pm to the Portland Zoo on Friday. The drive to the zoo was quite as Dorian actually fell asleep in the car (insert holy moly face here!) and it was lucky he did as the traffic was awful, it took us an hour to get there! He woke up just before getting to the zoo and the parking lot was full so we had to go drive to over flow and catch the bus to the zoo which was very exciting and COLD. Once we got to the zoo we were set because we get to go to the express lane because we have a zoo membership. Then we walked through out the zoo and saw all the beautiful lights. It was set up different than last year and new things were added. We had such a great time!
On the way back the bus driver gave us a real ride, he was a bit crazy with the wheel but we made it safely back to the car and it gave Dorian something to talk about all the way home.







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Gingerbread house

We went to a community gingerbread house making for the 2nd year.
We all 3 got to go this year and it was alot of fun and Ash and Dorian made a 2 story house.
Dorian had to carry it out to the car and we were so afraid it would fall off but he did it all on his own!





Saturday, December 22, 2007

Trip to Bend, Oregon

We went up with Grandma and Papa and cousin Meagan to Bend to visit Aunt Julie and the other cousins. It was alot of fun, we did not get to stop to play in the snow but it was pretty to look at. We all had a wonderful time.

Stopped here at Cedars for Breakfast

The rental with a VERY small 3rd row seat where Ashar and I sat.
Snow Bunnies
Fresh Snow
Dorian and cousin Tyler

Ranger outfit..Check.. Goggles..Check.. Hat...Check


Decorating the tree

Dorian has his same lil tree since last year that he decorated again.And of course the star puts the star on top of the tree..


Dorian has his s

Driving through a winter wonder land

We went to Portland International Raceway winter wonderland for the 1st time on Dec 7th and it was so much fun! We went with Grandma and Papa and we had dinner out first and then drove down to Portland. We did our best on the photos, but in a moving truck its hard to get some decent photos.







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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Spiderman, Spiderman, Does whatever a spider can!

Look out! Here comes the Spiderman!!!




Gingerbread house

We got a gingerbread house to build. It was alot of fun! Dorian enjoyed it very much and so did we. Here are some photos.

Ash putting down the icing
Dorian waiting for the icing to set
Look how cute it is!
Dorian did such a great job!
Umm ya, this is what happens to your child after making a CANDY house!

Cutting down our Christmas tree!

Here we are cutting down a tree! We had alot of fun even though it was raining and cold.
We went with mom, Bud, Matt (Erin's brother) and his girlfriend and daughter.
At the tree farm they had a cute little store with a wood stove inside with hot chocolate and cookies. They had 3 dogs wondering around inside and 1 was following Dorian all around as he wanted Dorian's cookie!

Ashar and Dorian cutting down the tree
Timmmmbbbbbberrrrrr!
Hauling it to the car
Grandma, Papa and Dorian
Can you find Papa?

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Cleaning up leaves

Here are Ashar and Dorian cleaning up leaves in the backyard.

As you can see Ninja Turtle slippers are a must when cleaning up leaves!