No pictures tonight, but I wanted to throw in a quick story about our nutty son (well one of the three nutty sons). Last week Logan had the flu for a couple of days. It would hit him hardest in the afternoon and evening so he wouldn't feel like eating much lunch or dinner. But after a good night's rest he would wake up very hungry. One morning I was getting ready for work and heard some banging in the kitchen. When I got out there, Logan was sitting in the dark. He had opened the pantry and felt around until he found a can of mushrooms, then he found the can opener in the drawer and was hitting the can with it trying to get it open. What an ingenious goof!
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
The Beauty
One of the best things about Oregon is the scenery. We woke up before the sun one day to look for shells on the beach. We didn't find many shells, but did get several good pics.
Before and after sunrise.
Hopefully it won't take another 9 years for us to get back here.
So, I mentioned this to a few people, but I really am serious. The Welch family needs to plan a big trip somewhere before Landon leaves on his mission. Any ideas on where we should go? Carrie, what types of places will your new husband (with hairy legs) like to go to? Amy suggested Coral Pink; I'm gonna go ahead and nip that one right now. However, a house boat on Lake Powell might be fun (of course it would need really high railings and really high door knobs so us parents with small kids could sleep at night). We could get a beach house on the coast. Or if we saved up all our pennies we could go to Nauvoo. What does everyone think?
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
The Attractions
While in Oregon, we did a bit of sightseeing as well. Here are the kids holding a starfish at the Seaside Aquarium. Trevor held it too, but somehow we didn't get a picture of him at the aquarium.
The next day we went to Cape Meares Lighthouse. We took pictures one the walk down to the lighthouse, but we forgot to take a picture of the lighthouse itself... Here is what it looks like.
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Friday, August 22, 2008
The Beach
I think that our Oregon trip will comprise several posts. So we will start with the beach. We had a lot of fun at the ocean and had great weather all week long (surprising for Oregon). The water was the perfect temperature for little kids. Warm enough that they can play on the beach, but cold enough that they don't want to stay in the water very long or venture out too far. Kayson would have nothing to do with the ocean. He would bring me his bucket and ask me to fill it up for him. I tried to get him to walk out with me a few times, but he wouldn't. I can't say I blame him, but I hope he's not traumatized for life. Audrey enjoyed standing in the water, but would get startled everytime a wave came in if she was sitting. She also consumed more than her recommended daily allowance of sand each day. She would eat the stuff by the fist fulls.
We made a lot of sand castles and a few kid-castles as well.
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
Cedar Valley
This first picture is the default camera settings. Doesn't really do justice to anything.
Then I started playing with the f-stop and shutter speeds. These two pictures are the ones I like the best. Of course, I didn't have a tripod, so for the longer exposures, the picture is a little blurry if you zoom in close.
This evening was very overcast and had rained hard earlier, so we went to high ground again. This is looking east over Cedar Valley. Our house is just over the saddle in the middle of the picture.
I've heard lots of tales of rattle snakes in the area as well. Luckily I haven't run across one of those yet. I hope that if I do, I will notice it from so far away that I have to use the zoom on my camera to get a decent picture of it. A long time ago, there was a lot of mining activity in these hills as well, so every once in a while we run across a CERCLA site warning of dangerous levels of arsenic, lead and mercury:
Maybe it's the chemist in me, but all these signs do is make me curious. No, I haven't given into temptation, and I doubt I ever will, but I'd like to see the tailings piles and understand what is being done to restore the area. (Does anyone know some one who works on one of these sites?)
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Friday, July 25, 2008
City of Rocks
We found a Logan sized hole. On second thought, we should have taken this picture from the other side. He could have been Whinny the Pooh stuck in Rabbit's hole.
Here's the gang. Kayson was sad in this picture and had been whining most of the day, but for reasons only he knows, right after this picture he perked right up and played happily with his cousins and brothers on the rocks.
Amy has more pictures of the kids and our adventure at her house on her blog here and here.
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Trip to the Cemetary
As purdy as that hat looks, something tells me Grandpa wouldn't wear it.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Camping
The sand castle may not be real elegant, but they are boys, they had more fun digging the moat and getting the water all the way around it.
One day we had a lot of rain and hail. After it cleared up, it was still too cold to go swimming, so Dad, Trevor and Logan went geocaching.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008
Ties
Get ready for some posts. I haven't posted in a few days (but who is counting right?), so I thought I'd go through the camera and post a handful of pictures.
I was getting Logan dressed for church and put on his tie. Kayson said he wanted a tie too, but we didn't have one for him. About 5 minutes later he came back and told me he found a tie.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Jump, Jump, Jump
I guess it is past time for a post. I have a million excuses, but none of them good, for not posting for so long. Here is Audrey in her Jumparoo that she got for Christmas. I'd say Santa knew what he was doing with this present.
Today we went to visit Grandma Great. Trevor took a nice picture of Grandma holding Audrey. I told him he'd have to post it to his blog, but later he decided he didn't like the picture and deleted it from his camera. Of course, he kept the picture of my truck that he took through the van window as we were pulling out of the garage. Amy, do you offer any kids photography classes? I'm afraid his artistic future is doomed.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Trevor's new blog.
Check it out. The link is on the right. Trevor has a new blog. He added his first post himself tonight.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
From Audrey
I'm leaning, leaning...
And over I go.
I like to be held, but this is a bit uncomfortable. I think I'm okay still.
Wait a minute! Is he old enough to hold me? And what is all over his face? Is that Mac & Cheese?
See you all later. I'll keep bugging Dad to post more cute pictures of me (and the rest of the family I guess).
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