Big Trip in 2009

For Taylor's 11th birthday, we decided to surprise him with a Trip to Disneyland and Legoland. We had planned it from October the year before and were quite surprised we were able to keep quiet about it for that long. Taylor didn't even catch on completely until we were a few miles from our exit in Anaheim.

We totally surprised him when we picked him up from school. We made the trip down in 3 days making a few stops along the way to keep him in the dark. The first day we stayed with Jenn's Grandma in Grants Pass. The next night we stayed with Roger's friend Ken in Sacramento. For Taylor's birthday and to not give away that anything bigger was coming, Ken treated Taylor to some Indoor Go-Kart Racing which included a class and about 45 minutes on the track. Taylor had a ball and even Roger and Ken took a few turns on the track!!!!!

Here are a few pics from that night...........

Finally updating again.....

After a long hiatus.........hopefully we can begin to update our blog and more consistently again. Will begin some new posts in the next couple of days! Yay!!!!!

5th grade year....last play for Taylor at Corridor

Taylor's 5th grade year and his final play for school at the Hult Center! Taylor had a primary lead role and was quite excited. Here are a few shots of the marquis sign outside the Hult Center which scrolls the events for the week and they always put Corridor's play on there since they perform at the Hult Center! Also a few shots of getting his stage makeup applied and after the makeup is on......however it is minus his costume which was bright and colorful since he was playing a character named, Tom Macaw.......so he had to be colorful like a macaw bird. He wore red pants, yellow shirt, blue coat and a tie with a Macaw bird on it! He looked awesome!

Grandma's 80th Birthday!

Around Christmas time we headed up to my Aunt & Uncle's house in Portland to gather together to celebrate my Grandma Bonnie's 80th Birthday! It was fun to surprise her as we did 10 years ago for her 70th! It was tons of fun to see everyone for the day and get to just hang out!

Christmas 2008

Been getting behind

After weeks/months of being so busy getting things ready for Jared & Sarah's wedding, I realized I have gotten so far behind on catching up on the photos! So I am going to try and take a little time each week to get caught up! Even post some wedding photos of the Newlyweds!!!!!

Trip to the Northern Oregon Coast

We decided to take a trip in September 2008 as a family (my parents, Roger, Taylor and I and my brother and his fiance Sarah along with friends Randy & Darla) and stay at the Beach House in Gearhart. We had a fabulous weekend, visited Astoria and Seaside, flew kites on the beach and just had a lot of fun. What great memories!!!!!

Not to far from the beach house where there was a deadly plane crash......somber moments.

The Beach House in Gearhart

Jared & Sarah

Taylor taking his turn at flying the kite.....

Getting ready to go back up over the Astoria Bridge......