Spring has sprung!

Annah LOVES having her picture taken

Spring has officially arrived and the cherry trees that line our street are in full bloom. We're enjoying our spring days with lot's of nature walks and trips to the park. We also started nature journals last month and are enjoying documenting the budding flowers, caterpillars and birds in our sketch books. Of course, Annah mostly scribbles circles but she enjoys looking for signs of spring with us. Last week the girls delighted in watching a robin take a bath in a mud puddle on the dirt road near our house. Annah thought it was about the funniest thing and laughed for a long time!

The cherry trees that line our street - Third Street

The girls show off the daffodils blooming in our neighbor, Dora's yard. Mira is wearing her Girl Scouts "Daisies" smock. She attends Girl Scouts twice a month at a friends
house just a few doors down.

Easter

We had a great time hunting for Easter eggs at our church Easter Egg hunt. It was a beautiful sunny day although the next day, Easter Sunday, it poured rain all day.

Sweet Girls

Mira finally lost the other front tooth and now has a big gap which makes eating apples difficult! She also received her puffin that she adopted through the endangered animal fund - a gift from aunt Leyah.

Wibel Family

We had out family picture taken in front of our house for the Oregonoian newspaper - they're doing a story about home exchanges and interviewed us for the article. I'm not sure when the article is coming out but I'll post it once it does.

Mira looses a tooth

Snow Day!

New Year's Eve

For New Year's Eve we packed a lunch and hot chocolate and drove up to Mount Hood for a day of sledding. We brought our own sleds and found a great snowpark with both small hills for little kids and some huge hills for the more daring. Mira loved is and had no problem going down on her own. Annah on the other hand was a a little unsure about the whole thing. The weather was perfect and we all had a great time.

Christmas 2007

Christmas 2007

Christmas 2007 was spent at home with both our families and my sisters friends coming to our house for Christmas Eve. We had a wonderful week with family, friends and lots of great food.

The girls received a horse stable with lots of horses from Grandpa Dennis and Tammy and it was a bit hit!

It even started snowing on Christmas Day! Even though you can't really see it in the picture, Mira and Annah insisted on getting all their snow gear on and going out to catch snowflakes.

More pictures from the last few months:

A visit to the Oregon Aquarium

Mira turned 6 in September! She lost her first tooth on her birthday.

Mira took horse classes in the fall and both she and Annah loved visiting the horses.

Both girls were unicorns for Halloween

I also celebrated a milestone by turning 30! I finally feel like an offical adult.

Annah turned 3 on December 8th!


A holiday visit to the Pittock Mansion in Portland.