Category Archives: Family

Juarez Bound

Juarez, Mexico is not your typical vacation spot, yet we hope to make it the spot we commonly spend our Thanksgiving holiday. This year will be our second time back to a colonia about 30km outside of Juarez–relatively the same … Continue reading

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Eight Month Adventures

Yesterday Sage celebrated eight months of life. She’s an amazingly cool kid for being only eight months old. These days she’s crawling an awful lot; picking tiny pieces of whatever off the ground and putting it directly into her mouth … Continue reading

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Teething!

I am supposed to be editing photos for clients, but I couldn’t resist posting these pictures of Sage from earlier this week. Just love the two handed “corn-on-the-cob” type gnawing of this celery stick we grabbed from the garden. What … Continue reading

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Christmassing

This year we decided to start a tradition of doing something small to celebrate Christmas each day, beginning 12 days before Christmas. Naturally, we called it “The 12 Days of Christmas”. (This was inspired by some friends who did something … Continue reading

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Giving Thanks

It’s just over one week later and we are still thinking about and processing this year’s Thanksgiving celebration. I don’t imagine the memories will leave our minds any time soon. Our plans for Thanksgiving started almost six months ago when … Continue reading

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The Oregon State Fair

As is tradition, we spent Labor Day with family and friends at the Oregon State Fair. It’s always a fun time seeing the farm animals, voting at the Photography Exhibit, eating as much deep fried food as you can manage, … Continue reading

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The Summer In Review

Here’s the overview of the past, nearly three months… JUNE John seemed to do a good amount of wood working this summer. He scored a table saw at a spring garage sale and put it to good use making our … Continue reading

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Bellingham

Two weeks ago we packed up and drove north to Bellingham with John’s cousin, Derin, and his wife, Andra, and Jasper, their chocolate lab, to visit John’s Uncle Daryl and Aunt Stacey. Bellingham has been part of our relationship for … Continue reading

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Quiet?

This blog has been rather quiet the past few weeks! A friend pointed this out last weekend mentioning it had been almost a month since we posted. “What?! That can’t be right.” Sure enough, weeks and weeks have passed since … Continue reading

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Leaving on a jet plane…

…don’t know when I’ll be back again… We thought we would be home right about now, but when we arrived at the Del Rio International Airport at 5:15 this morning we were informed that the first of two flights that … Continue reading

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