Caleb, Eli & Thomas are 11 years old! Well a lot of time has passed since I last posted, more than I intended. Boy life gets busy and the time just slipped away. I could barely remember to take the boys' quarterly pics and sadly they aren't our best work, haha! Anyways a whole year has passed and I'll try to mention the highlights.  CET 10 years and 3 months. This was back in December. School was still online which sucked. The hospital I work for announced they had extra COVID vaccine for non essential hospital staff and everyone in my building literally ran to ..read more

It's a long one, gotta make up for my lack of posts in the last few months, ha!   CET turned 10 years old! Obligatory couch photo It's been a little while since the boys turned 10 (end of September). A whole lot of nothing has happened since then, haha! Well maybe a whole lot of boredom. Ok I'm exaggerating a bit...Since my last post we've had a couple of small adventures that included a 3-day vacation to the coast and a dangerously crowded trip to a corn maze (fully regret! thankfully nobody got the 'rona). Yup that's all. A few weeks ago our COVID numbers were gettin ..read more

  CET 9 yrs and 9 mo Since the boys literally had no human contact except for Phil and I for months on end and not to mention we had among the lowest COVID19 rates in the country (and still do, woohoo!). We started off the summer by visiting my mom and sister in CA. The boys spent two, much deserved, weeks with a change of scenery. Phil and I didn't do much back at home since everything was still very much in shutdown mode, but it was a nice break from child rearing, ha! On a day that was going to be 100F in Portland we escaped to the beach were it was 86F! The hottest we've ever exp ..read more

CET are 9 years and 7 months old! CET are 9 years and 8 months old! Flirting with danger, that cat will turn on you when you least expect it, ha! Online school. Don't let this picture fool you, "virtual school" ended up being a total joke! Snuggle bums TEC on a little nature adventure A bit of French baking with Caleb Where is my third child, those feet are too far away to belong to either of those two boys? Oh that explains things, haha! Let me tell you, they all love to share the same bed and most of the time I can ..read more

CET are exactly 9.5 years old!Oh how the times have changed my friends! At the start of it I thought it was just like every other years epidemic, Ebola, SARS, Swine, Avian, West Nile etc. Never did I expect to be on "lock down" or "shelter in place" nor had I really ever heard those phrases before. The first big blow for us was when they announced that school was letting out a week before spring break. I thought ok I can deal with this but then soon after it was extended to May 1st (as if they'll even go back by then, I'm not holding my breath). I was getting prepared to work evenings and we ..read more

school pics taken October for 2019-2020Caleb (yellow in pic) Kid I would most like to snuggle. Caleb is definitely my son. We're cut out of the same cloth. We both tend towards inactivity, we laugh at the same stuff & jokes, we both LOVE to eat and we take our relaxing seriously! He says some funny things and he can be quite philosophical:  "Pie (3.14...) is like the junior infinity" (sooo deep, ha!) "Why is that smoker so big" (referring to a cigar) "Look at that cool musky papi" (instead of Mustang) "Could we get some rib?" (the boy likes ribs) "Could we have a stand and sell stuff lik ..read more

CET are 9 years and 4 months old!CET are 9 years and 5 months old!SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were so so excited for the Superbowl and then so so heartbroken when they lost [insert sobbing and tear wiping]!Highly anticipating summer, can you guess what these pictures are for : )Visited Sisters, Oregon Three sisters in the background and three brothers in the foreground, haha! Phil lost his drivers license, we ate terrible tacos but still managed to have a wonderful time.How we spend most days!The kids started and ended basketball. Was a fun season, the boys got better but also t ..read more

I'm quite behind on updating and I am fully prepared to outline the reasons that I lay blame on! 1. I've been happily using my Windows 7 dinosaur of a laptop for 8 years but if it wasn't totally packed to the gills I'd still be using it now. So guess what I got during Black Friday? Yes a lovely Windows 10 laptop that is half the price that my dinosaur once was and with twice the memory. This was quite the mountain to climb finding and installing all my old programs (or I guess they call them Apps now, even on computers!) to install. After several 30 minute sessions, because that's all the ex ..read more

These are a long time coming! Our last professional pictures were taken way back in 2014 when the boys were just shy of 4 years old. I would have done them sooner but the boys lack of cooperation for photos was lacking so I've been afraid to try for years, ha! Well we finally reached a good age where I could fully bribe them with money to cooperate. I promised everyone a crispy ten dollar bill and in return I just want ONE good picture of us all. I was not disappointed! And in case you are looking for a very talented photographer in the Portland area I highly recommend our photographer (www.co ..read more

CET are N.I.N.E. years old!!!Obligatory couch photo : )They can do tricks!What To Expect When You're Having Nine Year Olds I took the kids to their 9 year well check and they're as healthy as race horses and probably just as fast, haha! Caleb weighed in at 54.7 lbs and 49.85 inches tall. Eli was 53.1 lbs and 49.5 inches tall. And last but not least Thomas was 54.7 lbs and 49.65 inches tall. After our convenient fall birthdays we also got our flu shots, the boys have always been champs at getting their vaccines. I believe the last time they cried from a shot they were 2 years old!  As we we ..read more