Holidays

Thanksgiving

A tasty spread, with the Caulders, Christensens, and Myrolds.

Christmas Lights at the Oregon Gardens

Nova playing with Aria's hamster

Ryzen after we told him it was time to go to basketball... full blown melt down.  I don't get it.  

Christmas stockings

Open Gym at USGA.

The Vampire Elf on the Shelf

Zade's piano recital with Matthew Pavilanis.  

Nova's Pre-school performance at Bethesda Lutheran

Boys making use of some empty Christmas boxes.

Mommy napping with her little clone.

Ryzen and Nova doing mini s'mores.

Family Photos

November 2019

Grandma D's 70th Birthday

Tara and her siblings flew out to Utah and surprised her mom for her 70th birthday.  

Nutcracker

Aria and her friend Alicia were the "Candy Girls" in All That Dance's version of the Nutcracker. 

Aria's guinea pigs

UO Cheerleader
Many years ago we took a picture of Aria dressed up as a cheerleader for Oregon.  Finally, after much pleading, we were able to get Nova to wear the same outfit.  She looks great!

Turkey Trot
Aria and Zade said they wanted to join Tara and I in running the turkey trot this year.  To keep the distance manageable for them, we all ran the 2 mile race.  They both did very well. 

Zade was particularly pleased with her performance, as shown below.

Frozen 2
For Thanksgiving this year we volunteered to help out at the Eugene Mission.  We served food to the homeless, and afterwards we took the kids to see Frozen 2. 

Festival of Trees
Tara took the kids to see the festival of trees at Valley River.  In addition to seeing a bunch of beautiful decorated trees, the kids really liked the decorated gingerbread houses.  They inspired the kids to build their own.

Here are the cool houses the kids made.

Christmas Tree
Here's the lovely tree we picked out for this Christmas.