Trip to Bald Peak

It was a nice day today, so we decided to head out for a drive to a park called "Bald Peak" - the photograph above is actually about five photographs put together to make one panorama. The view was very nice from the park. Unfortunately we did not get a chance to take a picture from the other side, which was also an amazing view of Mount Hood and Mount Saint Helens.

After we finished at the park, we headed down to watch Madagascar II at the cinema. Nice day out and about relaxing.

Kids versus Parents!

This year Cynfor's soccer team parents felt it would be worth the effort to have a game with the kids. Although the game was all in fun, I think the parents were worse for wear afterwards. One of the parents had been injured on the Monday night trial game, so Friday's game was a couple of parents short.

I attempted to get out, although the other parents did most of the work, we all had a great time. I think if the team stays together - it may become a regular event!

Christmas 2008 House Lights

So, now that Thanksgiving 2008 is over, we have decorated the house for Christmas, which is just around the corner. Below are some pictures of the house after this years effort. We have added a couple of items to the group this year, it does help when the houses are lit up for the spirit.

Cynfor's Soccer Final

What is there to say, other than we watched Cynfor and his team win their tournament. It was amazing to watch. The kids played extremely well, and applied pressure through the whole game. It was a fun filled weekend, and we are all proud of what all the kids did.


Below are some pictures of the day - started cold and foggy, but when the sun came out, turned out to be a lovely morning.


All those early weekend wakeups are all worth it when your team wins!

Getting ready for Halloween

Only two weeks left until Halloween, so we figured it was time for us to ensure that we got into the swing. We already had our pumpkins sitting near the front door, so it was time to get some spooky spiders webs up and happening, just to scare off those who want to trick or treat!

Anyhow - here is our albeit simple attempt at putting up some spiders webs. Cynfor appears to be scared ...

October already?!

Well, another year heading toward the end in a real hurry. We are not quite sure what happened to summer, but it did appear to sneak past in a hurry. Here we are in Autumn, and getting ready for Halloween - again! 

This will be our 3rd Halloween, so we are pretty much aware of what happens now. The kids still enjoy it, as do we getting prepared for it. This weekend just gone, we headed out to the pumpkin patch and got ourselves two nice pumpkins to carve in preparation for the one night where we trick or treat. 

Here are some pictures of our day. 

Some pictures from things that have happened in the past few months...

Unfortunately we have not been too good at making sure we uploaded all our pictures of things we have been doing. So, below are a few pictures of things we have been up to.




We had a BBQ at our house, with friends from Seattle and other friends from Portland. Here are some pictures from that night - which ended up also being a little bit of a surprise for Darren to help celebrate his birthday!




Autumn has arrived here in the pacific northwest, and here is Jessie outside of the school they have Chinese lessons in just showing off the colour. 


This was at Jenny's 40th Birthday Party. The birthday girl and Tara! (Like the tiara?) 

Although the boys did not win their soccer game, they still had a lot of fun eating Pizza and hanging around after the game! GO IRON! 

Our ripened tomatoes.

So, previously we had pictures of our GREEN TOMATOES, but here we have the ripened version, and lots of them. They are very sweet, and full of flavor. Nice job by Kylie planing them with the kids when they were here, and look at them now. Grown from SEED!

Cynfor's 11th Birthday

Cynfor chose to head out to Skyline Restaurant - which is an old American style "burger" Diner. It is something he has wanted to do for a while, but Jessie was not very happy when she heard. Anyhow, we ended up having a great night - even Jessie enjoyed it. Below are the pictures of our food, and check out the Burger's they were 6 inches (13.5cm) big! Huge! They were great, and we definitely enjoyed them. 

Tuesday was Cynfor's actual Birthday - which as you can see below, he was quite spoiled! The gifts came from everyone. He is still very excited about getting his new stuff out so he can play. He has already used his new boots - and looks forward to using his other things!