Day 136

Thursday at the park with the homeschool group again.

Day 135

I took the kids in to have portraits taken today. The results are posted in my Facebook album (it should be a public link), but here's a shot I snagged with my camera phone while the photographer wasn't looking. Funny how different it looks watching the portraits than the results.

Day 134

The kids really like watching the popcorn pop in my Stir-Crazy! Looks like I got a bit too much in this batch.

Day 133

Sleeping babes in car seats. So sweet.

Day 132

Hanging out in Troutdale with the family. We saw these cute little bronze statues across the street from the city hall, so we had the cousins all sit for a picture.


After we were done walking through the little Old Town section of Troutdale, we went back to the house to load up our gear, then over to the Beverly Cleary park in Portland. We were in the middle of reading Beezus and Ramona so we had to go find the statues of the characters from the books. I love this shot of Sarah with Ramona!


One last picture today... my geek-ness is showing. The odometer in our Saturn VUE hit 091309. Today's date? 09/13/09. I even turned on the date stamp on the camera so you can see it.

Day 131

Visiting at my brother's house in Portland. He and the kids found a couple little frogs in the front flower bed. The kids were pretty excited!

Day 130

We headed up to Portland today so we stopped at the Wildlife Safari on the way. As we happened to be sitting watching some giraffes, the feeding truck for the close-up encounters pulled around us. I got some great close-ups! I purposely took a couple with the passenger side mirror showing at the bottom of the frame so you can see how close we were.


I had no idea giraffe profiles were so bony and bumpy!