10 years!!!

yup 10 years ago today carol and I were announcing to all that "Carol and I are getting married.....tomorrow....."

To celebrate, we spent the weekend in Portland and got a chance to actually see and get to know the city...it was fun!

Amya took this picture of us in our hotel room on saturday afternoon...

Happy Anneversary Honey! I Love You!

Baking 101

The kids and I made some sugar cookies yesterday! They had fun, but it was exhausting! I think next time I'll bake the cookies while they're napping and let them frost them. Nelson with a rolling pin was a little much!
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(How is THIS baby

already this BIG!)

How Is It Already This Time Of Year?

The First Flakes!

(I like to call this picture, "White On White")

Welcome Baby Lila!

Congratulations to Suria, Bryce, Kadence and Charlie, on the new addition to the family, Lila Beau, born 11-11-11! She is super cute and sweet!

Tiny Dancers

{two of the little mice in the upcoming Nutcracker}

It is very serious business!

Trick-Or-Treat!

(Amya is not quite sure she is having fun yet)

We did the downtown Hood River trick-or-treating again this year...our 4th time! "Get in early and get out!" -- seems to be the motto.

{once Nelson's "bag" got full, he was done...problem was the candy kept disappearing! True story, Dan pulled a large plastic caramel wrapper out of his mouth, caramel gone.}

After melt-down status has occurred, we like to meet up with friends at Full Sail (because it is a really good idea to take crying, sugar filled children to a restaurant). It was pretty fun, actually! (the restaurant...we need to work on the trick-or-treating part)

Pumpkin Carving Bliss

This is the stuff memories are made of....


We ate tomato soup with alphabet pasta and cheesy toast points, drank hot apple cider with whipped cream on top and enjoyed the sunshine streaming through the window.
And then....reality set in!
Nelson stood up and grabbed his crotch and started crying and pointing to a full diaper (diaper rash, of course). In the process of getting him off the table, the cider got knocked over and spilled all over the floor. Amya jumped in the puddle and ran through house with sticky (it's gonna take me a week to get it clean) feet.
Ahhhh....never want to foget a bit of it!

Happy Halloween!

Little Fairy and Little Mermaid

Dan digging in the graveyard.....Redneck (Greg decided not to dress up), Baby Jake
The Devil

Little Skunk and Little Strawberry...........Little Turtle and Little Lobster

Little Lion......The Fonz (drinking a martini of course).....Sun Burned Tourist....Erik the Great and Time Warp Lady

Little Pony..........extra credit goes to Greg and his labels!


Tony and Baby Tiger.................Ice Queen

Super Family!

Little Pirates................Momma Pirate and King

Ghost of Christmas Present ................. Pappa Pirate

Princess Graham.................Wicked Witch and Snow Princess

(Michael Peterson Photography)
Three generations of Tinkers!

(ok, so I didn't take this picture, but they were at our party!

Fun Stuff!!