Last Oregon adventures

Here is Calvi in his hotel bed with his little buddy! He is funny he loves to tuck his animals and himself in bed it is pretty cute!
We took a trip to the Oregon coast since we were so close. We headed out one morning and our first stop was Tillamock Cheese factory. It was fun to see how they packaged the cheese and it was also good to taste some!
Then we drove up the coast and stopped at a few beaches along the way. This is us at Twin rocks. The weather was actually really great for being January. It was only really breezy when you were right up to the water. It was overcast all day but it never rained till it was dark and we were eating dinner.
A really fun thing that we got to do was feed seals some dead cut up fish. Calvi thought it was fun to feed them. When you ask him what a seal does he will slap his chest cause that is what the seals did cause they wanted the fish. It was one of our hi lights of the trip.
I liked calvis foot prints in the sand. He had a lot of fun with tyler getting close up to the water and running super fast when a wave came up to not get wet.
Here is the fam at haystack rock at Cannon Beach. We had an awesome day running around on the beach. It was one of our favorite outings while in oregon.
This is how we brought on the New Year. We started a fire in the fire place and watched movies and ate good food and snacks! Whoooo! Notice calvi and i have matching shirts! ha ha
Here are the boys at the Portland temple. Calvi like the water ( the water ponds).
Here is a really huge and awesome play park jungle gym in Washington park. Calvi loved it and the whole thing was perfect for his size!
This is where we spent a LOT of our time at the mall stairs. Here are the kids playing and jodi just hangin out!
We took a trip to krispy Kreme doughnuts. It was fun to see them make the doughnuts and calvi loved eating them!
Here is a cute pict of the kids sleeping on the couch calvi likes to cuddle up and be by jodi sometimes.
Calvi just discovered a love for the tub! he loves to play in the tub especially when we get creative and throw in all kinds of random stuff.
Here is my mom and gma. My mom brooke and her kids came to see us the last week we were there. We went to visit my grandparents for the week then went back to portland spent the night and packed up and headed out. It was a lot of fun to have them come up and join us.
I had a lot of fun while on our adventure in portland. It was a great experience for ty and our family it made us really appreciate how close we are with our families back in idaho. It is so nice to have so many people who care for our kids and are a part of their lives. This is jodi back at home while we un packed the car. Calvi was so funny he got inside and said "mine own house!" he just kept saying it over and over he was so excited and happy to be home!

Ducks, Horses and Boys and a Girl!

Here is our Jodi bugs she is getting pretty chubby we just love her! Calvi likes her shirt he kept saying cupcake cupcake!
We found this really awesome park that is not to far from where we are staying. It is a dog walking park so there are a lot of people and their dogs which calvi likes. There is also a big duck pond.
I have a cousin who lives not far from where we are and she had 2 boys, they are so cute. Calvi has really been missing his friends and cousins and so it is fun for him to hang out with these boys. He cant say their names so we call them the cousins. We took the boys to this carousel that is in the food court of a mall. They really liked it and we got there a little early and they were excited to get on.
This picture is so cute! Jacob likes Calvi and wanted to sit by him. It is cute cause Calvi will just follow him around and they get along real well. I also thought it was cute that they were both wearing camo jackets i kept getting them confused. We also took the cousins to the duck park where they saw ducklings as Jacob would say.
Ty has been working hard here we have gone to the office a few times to be with him while he was working and here are the kids camped out in the office. Calvi likes sitting in jodis seat it is like a little rocking chair. He will sit there for a long time and just watch mickey mouse.
And end with a little more Jodi bugs. I love that she still has long hair. Some of it has fallen out but it already has started to grow back in those spots.

Just a couple of kids

Here are the kids. I just love them! This is the best pict i have of them since they are so wiggly and calvi didnt want to hold jodi for to long.
Jodi is all smiles she really is happy a lot.
This is how pictures usually are. Calvi is just takin off his shoes and jodi is done taking picts. These pictures are the ones that really make me laugh cause that is what it is usually like when i want to take a nice pict.
Calvi loves jodi so much. He really looks out for her. She was here sleeping on the couch and then calvi saw her and i looked over cause i thought he was poking at her and this is what i found. he had to lay right next to her. He calls her his jodi bugs.
Here we are on calvis favorite walk here in portland right on the river. We always see the choo choos and boats, buses and bridges. There is a lot going on down there.
This is one of calvis favorite things to do is the mall stairs. It is so cute sometimes in the day he will just say go mall stairs and play toys. He likes to ride the stairs and then play on the toys they have at the mall.
One day we went to this beautiful place Multnomah Falls. It was really pretty and we even went up and walked across the bridge. We are really enjoying all the green and trees. it is defiantly a change from the idaho desert.
And end with another pict of Jodi. I feel like she is turning into a mommas girl since she has really had no one accept me to hold her all day. She did ok with my Gma and cousins at Christmas but I just cant wait till we get home and there will be so many people who will need to take their turn holding her!

Merry Christmas 2011

Hey i hope everyone had a great christmas we sure did. We did a few activities around here and one of our favorites was going to a place called peacock lane. It was a street where everyone on it decorated their house with lights it was really fun to walk up and down and see all the awesome lights.
Since we are here in Oregon we were not able to make it back to Idaho to be with our familys wich we really miss. We were lucky to have my grandparents and cousins who live in Eugene about 1 1/2 hrs away to go be with. We got there friday evening to start the festivites.
My cousins came to my Grandparents house every night to play games. It was fun to visit with them and Gma had enough candy, and snacks to keep us plenty full.
Here are the kids in their christmas pj's. Calvi had mickey mouse he was so excited and he just went around saying mickey mouse. It is crazy how i got them a little big and they were falling off sometimes but i know it only takes a matter of weeks before he will fit them just right. I already had to go through jodis cloths cause she is growing so fast!
Me and the kids in our red and green!
Christmas morning was fun this year calvi acutally got excited and went through everything. We just took our time with things he would stop and play with everything for a while and we didnt even end up opening presents till after lunch and church! he would open a present and play with it for a while then go to the next thing. it was hard to get him to keep opening them so we just took our time.
Here he is with some of his christmas loot.
Santa came!! All our stockings ready to get into!
And end with our sweet little girl! She also had a great christmas. She is just such a happy smiley little girl!

More Excitment!

If having this sweet little baby wasnt exciting enough we have more to come. Jodi has been such a good girl. She sleeps great eats great and is pretty good except when she eats sometimes she gets really bad tummy aches. Calvi went through the same thing so we are just trying to get through that. But she really is a happy little girl.
For Thanksgiving this year we spent it at our friends house. This is Calvi and his friend Cake (Kate). They have a lot of fun playing together. We had a great time and had really good food.
We also went to Twin Falls and saw our family. Here is a pict of us at Tylers parents greenhouse with all the christmas flowers. We got to see a lot of family and had a great time with some more good food.
Ok here is for the big news, we are currently living in Portland Oregon. This is calvi reading a tractor book from his grandparents on the ride. Tyler is here helping a company get their IT department working better and we will be here till at least the end of the month. We found out that we would be moving there 2 days before Thanksgiving so we also spent that day packing all our stuff into our car. We live at a Marriott Hotel it is actually a fun experience. Our room is pretty big it has a full kitchen and living area 2 bathrooms and one room. Since we will be here during Christmas i brought a few Christmas things and our stockings are hanging by our fireplace. There are a lot of perks living at a hotel like an awesome continental breakfast every morning, dinner 2-3 days a week, and a lady who comes to clean the place everyday. It is pretty fun and we live right next to a very large mall so we go on walks there and play on the toys and stuff there.
Here are the kids just out of the tub. They are so cute together. Calvis new thing is to go to Jodi and tickle her tummy he is so soft and he just thinks it is so funny.
It is nice living in a big city we have found some fun things to do. Here is Calvi at the Portland Childrens Museum. They had a ton of hands on things for kids to do ages 6 months to 10 years. One of Calvis favorites was the Water Works center.
They had a big lego display going on and here is ty and calvi by a super awesome lego knight!
And here we are in the big frame. It is funny i dont really have any picts with Jodi in them cause i am always caring her in the backpack. She loves it and always falls right asleep.
Living here we are really close to my Grandparents in Eugen and so we went to visit them this last weekend. Here is calvi next to their singing christmas trees Calvi loved them! My grandma had fun holding Jodi all weekend even if she was fighting the tummy troubles.
I also made a bunch of cookies while we were there for Christmas cause i dont have all the stuff to make all the yummy treats that i want. We have NO room to bring anything home and so i have been trying to cook with the least amount of ingredients as possible. Here is clavi worn out after making cookies. He also had a couple bad falls and scraped up his face. Ty did not want to take him in public cause he was afraid that someone would think he beat his kid.
We live right by a huge mall and they had a Santa thing going on one day. They had a puppet show with a bunch of fun things for the kids to do. Calvi colored a pict and they put it in a little frame he got some fun prizes for playing games then santa came and read the kids a book and he brought milk and cookies for all the kids. Calvi loved it and he kept saying santa ho hoho. So now whenever we go to the mall he thinks we are going to see Santa Hohoho.
And here is Portland. It has been about half and half of foggy and sunlight. It is defiantly different weather here. We are having fun and finding lots of fun Christmas things to do.