Summer, Autumn and Winter Abridged

The weather is schizophrenic. In the last 2 weeks we have fit 3 seasons in. We've had temps in the 80's and today we had a snow storm, which dumped about 4 inches of snow on us here in Bend. It's melting fast, but there was time for the kids to get some good playtime in. Pippa ran into our room when she woke up this morning screaming "snow, snow, there's snow outside!" William was right behind her squealing in excitement and jumping up and down shouting "snow, snow!"

A couple of weekends ago we decided to go back to Tumalo Falls for a little picnic and a short hike while we could still reach it. Last time we went, Pippa was just a little older than William is now. This time she was able to walk the whole way up by herself and William was leading the rock throwing. He is a boy obsessed with throwing rocks into water!

This weekend was Bend's Fall Festival. We went yesterday for a short amount of time. They had a small hay maze for the kids, some bouncy castles, pony rides and many booths with people selling their crafts. I didn't realize how cold it was out there though, and while we bundled the kids up, Nick and myself were pretty cold. What didn't help was that 3 steps from the car, Pippa, with her hands in her pocket, tripped and planted her face on the sidewalk. She cut the inside of her lip with her teeth causing a huge swollen and bloody lip, and has a big graze on her lip and chin. It doesn't look like she hurt her teeth though. She was very brave and didn't cry much at all, despite the amount of blood. After that she lost all enthusiasm for the festival.

Here are some photos from the last couple of weeks and a video of this mornings snow playing.

Tumalo Falls on the platform over-looking the falls.

Pippa and William were enjoying playing hide and seek.

Pippa spent a lot of time in the chest!

Oliver just wants to join in.

Pippa and William (wearing the hoodies) in the hay maze.

Pippa's wounded face. You should have seen the sidewalk.

Snow! Oct 4th, 2009

Here's a video of them playing in the snow. Nothing more, nothing less...



They love it!

Christmas 2008

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Our Christmas was a lot of fun and tasty food, and our New Years eve was a quiet one spent at home watching movies and blogging.

We started getting Pippa and William hyped up about the idea of Christmas for the last month, with Advent calendars, Christmas trees and decorations and the special Christmas WordWorld and Super Why! They knew something fun was up.

On Christmas eve William was especially tired, so he needed to go to bed extra early leaving Pippa to prepare for the arrival of Santa. He did, however, get to enjoy opening and playing with all the gifts the next day! Here are some photos from our very white snowy Christmas...

We decorated the cookies and left them out for Santa with a little Whiskey

An Eden tradition, reading "The Night Before Christmas" the night before Christmas

After Santa came, but before the kids woke up

William checking out some gifts

The aftermath

Then there was the snow to deal with...

8" or so on Christmas eve, on top of the other 8". Lots of shoveling for Nick to do!

Making snow angels

Coming to throw snow at Will behind the sliding glass door. He gets too cold and miserable in that much snow.

Snow days in Bend

It has been snowing. A lot. A whole lot. Today (Christmas Eve), it has been snowing non-stop since we woke up and now it's just about bedtime. We have maybe 6-8" of new snow on top of the 6-8" we already had from the last week of storms. Our Christmas is certainly a white one. Here are a few pictures of the kids playing in the first snow of the season, before it got deep!