Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Rain and Sun




It's been a rather wet winter for us...I know those of you who live in Portland are rolling your eyes. However, it seems like we have had cloud cover for a month which here we are not used to. Aside from watching the entire Harry Potter collection several times, we have engaged in various indoor activities. But the sun came back out yesterday and we have never been so happy to see it.



We went to the park with some of our friends from school who are from the Netherlands. The boys like to play there as Austin put it "they have better toys in the Netherlands." I have to agree, just look at the bike/roadster thing they have, not to mention the bouncy house, indoor golf course, etc.






The girls are good, they run now which proves to be an issue when doing just about anything. Jackson is loving his school and taking the bus, prays every night "Dear God please let me take the bus tomorrow....amen." Ohh if only that's all I wanted. Austin is happy and had a nice 8th Birthday, we have yet to have his big Party, I'm half hoping he'll forget, but don't think I'm that lucky.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Faces






Some pictures have a way of capturing the spirit of your children, they may not be the most flatering, staged, or posed for...but they make me smile as they look to me most like the child I know.

Why are all the pictures of Jackson blurry?



The child never stops moving long enough to take his picture. Even some of our professionally taken photos are examples of this...or even the fact that this year we don't have a class picture for Jackson as he would not sit for it. It only occurred to me today as I looked at the most recent downloaded pictures where all were blurry that had him in it.