The Birthday Party...

For Noah's party this year, we recycled The Very Hungry Caterpillar theme from Noah's bestie Lucy B. Cragun {his NICU neighbor}.  Thanks a million Abby for letting us use all your AMAZINGLY cute party stuff!  You're the best!  The party was a hit!  Here are a few highlights...

Happy 2nd Birthday Noah!!!

Amen.

Prenatal Development Exhibit at OMSI

This exhibit was so surreal.  It brought tears to my eyes to see these tiny lives that never got a chance to live on this earth.  There were babies/fetuses/embryos on exhibit at every stage in utero from 2wks to 38wks.....

Noah is pictured by a 1lb fetus.....most of our family with us at the museum never had the opportunity to see Noah at his very tiniest. They were stunned that he was born so incredibly tiny.

OMSI {Oregon Museum of Science and Industry}

 Ry and Uncle D

 Ry in the Rocket Simulator

 Grandma Sheri and Ridge in the Rocket

 Launching 2 liter bottle "rockets" using air and water pressure

 Playing connect 4 using robots

 Watching the rockets launch

 How could I not use this picture???

 Grandpa Phil and Ryder

Grandma Sheri and our little bookworm :)

Thanksgiving

We had an awesome Thanksgiving! And by awesome I mean AWESOME! The food was awesome, the company was awesome, even making the trip was awesome! The Black Friday shopping was not awesome but I had to throw it in because I am wondering how many times I can get awesome in a single post. How awesome is that! Okay, enough with the awesomeness. But seriously it was awesome!

We were invited to spend Thanksgiving in Portland, OR with Chases' older brother Derek and his wife Laura...ummm YES PLEASE! Here are a few highlights...

 Is there anything better than a sleeping baby on a road trip??

 Ridge and grandma Sheri making rolls. Ry must be supervising :)

 I love this kid!

 Can you tell which ones Ridge made? So cute :)

 Trying to watch the Packers game....Chase really stood there and held the antenna.

 The Setting :)

I love Thanksgiving!

Harvest Festival 2011

 Making Butter!

 The finished product

 Potato Stamping

 Pumpkin painting

 Petting (and feeding popcorn) the chicken

 

 Ariana making a leaf pressed placemat

Ridge making his placemat

Dear Santa...

I Want One...


The Griddler by Cuisinart.