Fall is coming....

Cousins in the bath

Hiking at Bird Creek Meadows

Summer camping - TakhLakh Lake

Elias is potty-trained!

Fun times 

Origami cups made in school

and boats....

Kell on his tractor

The classroom

Kellen made  fast friends with  the cows at Grandpa's farm last week...

And Elias turned 3!

Kellen is quite a little soccer player this year scoring 4 goals in his 1st game!

More camping fun

Everyone was sad to see Uncle Mike go - he spent 2 weeks with us while doing his pharmacy internship....

Cousins visit

Awesome lenticular clouds over Mt. Hood

Crooked River - Smith Rock

Sunriver building a fort

Frog in the house!

Boys love their new play set

The fam

More spring happenings....

Easter egg hunt in our new house!

Hiking fits in somehow!

The gorge from up high

Uncle Will comes to visit and we have a sad day as we learn that Grandma Kaslin has passed away.  We know this is what she wanted but it is hard for us to take in.....

Boy and his dog

Fishing Day!

Maybe haircuts are in order!

Little friends!

The Rest of the Story on the House!

Building inspector...our very own grandpa making sure things look up to code!

Sheeting goes on 

Siding starts

All the pretty trim

Now to the caulking - what a tough job!

We work - John borrows a co-worker's lift truck which makes our lives a lot easier.

The kids love it too!

More and more caulking

Done with that part

The view from the backyard

Painting interior and exterior was done by yours truly, John and I put in hours and hours.

Nama and boys resting on our trash pile!

Kellen has fun painting!

Finished!

Oh, almost finished....The end of Phase #1!