March 26, 2017

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.
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January 21, 2017
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 got out of this


Bailey with one of our many icicles


Choe decided that “dancing” on the ice was the best part

Woo!




then it was time to play with legos!
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January 8, 2017
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 for up on the mountain…

Mom at White River snow park.

Lots of tubing and sledding opportunities. Still warming Chloe up to more of the hill. We started out on the mildest of grades as she gets used to it.

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January 8, 2017
Jonathan made light sabers for all of us!

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January 8, 2017
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 it!


Here’s what Daddy’s tree looked like in Portland.



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January 8, 2017
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!

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January 8, 2017
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…)

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January 8, 2017
Check out Chloe’s new swing trick!

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December 20, 2016
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.

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November 24, 2016
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.

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