Face painting

Imogen was psyched to paint her own face on a class field trip to the Children's Museum last week. (I chaperoned.)

Birthday party cupcakes

Yum! (You know you want to)

Aunt Anne came to town

Aunt Anne popped by to hike with us and then take us to lunch. It was a beautiful day in Portland and such a treat to catch up.

The basement is almost ready

Imogen is pretty excited!

Palm Springs

We had a great vacation in Palm Springs in April. We swam every day, visited Joshua Tree National Park, fed a giraffe, rode the tram to hike in a pine forest, checked out nearby dinosaurs and capped the week off visiting with Emma and Anders.

Yea for sun

Easter eggs

This video is too large to put on the blog but too fun not to share.

Happy Easter!

http://youtu.be/a5ohnFmTEMs

Foot Buddies!

Aunt Molly came to stay with us in February. The weather was pretty gray but she still loved Portland. We had a good time clowning around!

Cannon Beach in January

Grandpa came to visit and along with a trip to the zoo, accordion concerts and introducing Imogen to Bugs Bunny on youtube, we spent a day at Cannon Beach including some barefoot splashing in Pacific, in January, in Oregon, as you do.

Christmas cookies, by Imogen.

Or, How to Trash Your Kitchen In Under 10 Minutes.

Most importantly, we had fun, we ate too many cookies, and I didn't spend hours making dough from scratch and cutting out gingerbread men and nutcrackers.