Giant Shrinky-Dink Dinosaur set! We refer to this place as “The Really Fun Park” Tree! Lovely mid-winter sunny day! Time for Dinosaur Island! Meanwhile…. Chloe’s been learning a lot about the fabric arts. Chloe and Bailey in their most recent fort.
Welcome to 2017, welcome to winter. Crazy storm in Portland disrupted our life for two weeks. Here’s some photos of the fun parts: Hawaiian snow? Not this time! Yes, something 10+ inches around our place Pretty fun for the kids though I’m not even going to bother telling you how many snow days Chloe […]
Mom, Chloe and I in the car heading up Mt Hood, or as Chloe calls it “Mountain Hood”. Holy cow, 80-something of inches of snow at Timberline Lodge! By the way, Chloe’s decided she doesn’t like being in photos… Snacks in Timberline Lodge! (here’s the lodge…) …and they just let you know what you’re in […]
Jonathan made light sabers for all of us!
Christmas day at Joyce’s. Katie managed to get Adaline into a dress long enough for photos. Ruby-dog gets into the act. Here’s most of us! Chloe gets very excited to dig gems and fossils in the science kits! Post-present play. Chloe gets a personalized art box from Gramma Diane and promptly draws a dragon on […]
Christmas dinner, 2016. Steve and Chloe on the left, Joyce’s son Ryan in the middle. Adaline, Katie and Jonathan on the right. Katie, Adaline and Jonathan. Adaline is about 8 months. Here’s Joyce in the center of that fabulous meal she made!
Chloe was able to join us at Joyce’s place for Xmas. Here we are with the chickens… And on Christmas day, the chickens rewarded the Nelson/Jones family with their very first home-grown egg. (After a mere 8 months of waiting…)
We had a load of snow that shut down the city in December. Here’s Chloe on our way out to play in the park.
Westmoreland Park is something of a kid paradise. All sorts of stuff to climb on, a giant sand play area, water features… Chloe was very proud of herself for climbing to the top of this without using the helper ropes.