I just posted a few pictures and movies from the past little while. Melinda and Benj came to visit and we took them on a “Max” tour of downtown Portland. We hit Powell’s Bookstore, Mio Gelato, PGE Park (on accident), PSU campus, and Hot Lips Pizza. The weather was …

After a week of sunshine where the boys played in the dirt on the side of our house all day every day, Ily was ready for a sandbox. So, with the help of mom and dad, and some neighbors and friends (and their truck and shovels), we put a really …

I’ve found a new way to put videos on the web. There’s a website called YouTube that let’s you upload videos and then everyone can stream them from their fast servers instead of my slow one, all for free! Check out Isaac’s big kick from this …

Our next door neighbors are Korean.
They’ve been in the U.S. for about 4 years. The parents hardly speak
English, they always have their 17 year-old son translate, and he’s
still learning himself. I was doing a little patching up of
the fence between our yards today …

It’s been a few weeks since the last bit of family news. I’ve finally cleaned up the pictures we took this month and put them online. I figured they could use a little explanation too.

OK, let’s see. The weekend after the hawk visited us we went …

“Look at that bird on our fence!” exclaimed Ily from across the living room. “And what is it eating?” I’d never heard her that excited about a bird. Isaac and I got up off the couch, peered between the blinds and saw it sitting right there on the backyard …

We went sledding again last weekend. It was a lot like the first trip, nothing too new to write about. Except Ily and I were just talking about it again and I remembered something. You see last time, when Isaac was going down the hill all by himself, he ran …

Part way through the day on Friday, I realized I was skiing down
the hill and the only sound I could hear was the squeaking of my
boots. I couldn’t hear other people, I couldn’t hear my edges
scraping across ice—basically all I could hear was the …

Sorry I’m late in posting this. After gushing to Ily about how much fun Isaac and I had on that beautiful day of skiing, I decided to take her and Micah up there two days later on Presidents day. The sky wasn’t as clear but it was much …

Isaac and I went skiing yesterday at href=“http://www.cooperspur.com/”>Cooper Spur. It was fabulous.
The conditions were the most perfect that I think I have ever seen. A
bitter arctic wind has swept the sky completely clear of clouds and
haze the past few days, and dropped …