Dinosaurs!

For Ashar's birthday we went to Portland to OMSI for the Chinese Dinosaurs, Ash went when he was young in Australia with his dad. It was alot of fun! Here are some photos.

Digging for dinosaur bones

Dorian and Mum in front of the dinosaur outside, it was HUGE!





Dorian thought this one was real at first, and still would not go near it even after telling him it was not.
Cheeky Dorian and the birthday boy!

Happy Birthday to the world's best dad and husband!

Happy 32nd Birthday!
We hope all your wishes and dreams come true.
As on every birthday, I always tell Ashar how proud his mum would be of him.
We love you Ashar!

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
--Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Random photos from the past week

We got a wii on Saturday! The 3 of us went with cousin Meagan and Grandma and lined up at Toysrus from 8am-10am to get 1 and we got 3 to resell. It was fun experience and the other 3 are sold already. So we got the wii for "free" after selling the other 3. Here is the rock star Dorian on the guitar playing a wii game.
Grandma pulled out the baseball set as the sun came out, finally!

We went outside and played when it stropped raining and Dorian got on his "Ninja bike" and did some tricks.

Kitty Love

Here is Dorian with both of our cats. He loves cuddling with the cats.

Snow!?

I am alittle behind this was on Jan 28th.
We got a little bit of snow, around 1.5 inches. It was fun as it came out of no where around 7 at night.

Dorian made a snow cone!

Scenes from our day

We woke up to this beautiful sunrise Wednesday morning.

We went to the Wilsonville park, we had the whole park to ourselves as it was in the mid 30s. As you can see the sun was shining and it was nice to be outside. We had alot of fun!
Dorian loves the slide!
Dorian and mum. You can see its windy by my hair!
Dorian going down the slide on cardboard he found. Hes a Pro Slider!
Here are more photos, just click HERE.

Busy..

We have been busy having fun!

"Whatcha looking at?"
Dorian and Ash like playing poker...

And as you can see Dorian got a haircut!
And Dorian (I mean Spiderman) has been laying the smack down on dad...

Dorian loves his blocks that Santa brought him..
And his legos...

Goodbye little hut..

Dec 13th was our last day with our lil coffee shop. We planned on shutting in summer of 2008 as we really want to travel to Australia (we miss our OZ family so much!) and we also would really like to have holidays once and awhile! So the machine blew up on the 13th and we had to decide if we wanted to pay more money to keep it open for another few months or shut just in time for Christmas holidays.. and thats what we did! The coffee shop officially sold on Jan 18th!
It was hard to let go as we have so many memories there. Dorian did most of all his "firsts" there in that lil hut. But, here we go on our new adventure! Just a quick gaze back...

Dorian's first day at the coffee shop, only 4 days old!
We did some sleeping....
We did some eating...
We talked over coffee....

We had some messes...
We had lots of laughs...
We got creative...
We had lots of kisses...
And Ash walked Dorian everyday in the baby carrier...
A wonderful 6 years...

Happy New Year!

We headed to build a bear on New Years Eve with Dorian's cousin Meagan.
The kids had so much fun building there own bears (well Meg got a dog.)
After we went to build a bear we went out to lunch and the kiddos got to take there new bear and dog in for there first lunch out too!

Meagan and Dorian in the car with there build a bears. Meagan got a dog with hearts and a heart dress and Dorian got a pink and white bear with a cowboy woody outfit. :) I swear they are happy.

Meagan and Dorian outside with there build a bear boxes

Waiting in line for stuffing for the bear and dog

Dorian's bear getting fluff

Dorian putting in his bears heart

Giving the bears air baths and brushing them

Outift picking