Olivia's First Christmas Pageant

Last night was a big night for Miss Olivia. She was Angel #5 in her preschool's Christmas Pageant. All the children did a fabulous job - no body cried or ran off the stage...Olivia's line was "you will have a baby boy" - very cute. At the end of the pageant there was a suprise visit from Santa. I have to say this was a very authentic looking Santa.

quick trip to get the tree

Our tree buying experience was done in record time this year. We stumbled upon a place that sold all their trees for $15. They were all perfectly shaped and we walked up to the first row and picked the 2nd and 3rd ones. Normally we go to place that shakes the tree in the high-powered shaker machine, wraps it in rope, and loads it on your car for you. This year was much less expensive HOWEVER - I had about 20 spiders on my ceiling - I'm not kidding! I think we got most of them, but it still creeps me out.

Mindy's Photo shoot

OK - so i know most of you check mindy's blog, but i just have to post one that she took that i really LOVE of Olivia...she really did steal the show for the photoshoot, but I don't mind b/c when I take pictures, she hides her face and I end up getting a ton of cute ones of Drew. So here's one more - and they are all really good, so they might just keep coming. We'll see :)

I'm Back!

So first I have to apologize to all you blog stalkers who have checked my blog faithfully without anything new to feast your eyes on...sorry for being such a slacker - I'll try to be better.

So, now that i'm months behind in photos - I'll start by posting a few from Thanksgiving...We went to Lincoln City with my Mom ( my Dad was in Peru), and Quoc and Chau. We had egg rolls and noodles instead of the Turkey just for a change, spent time on the beach, and checked out the aquarium. Our house was literally only steps away from the sand. The weather was absolutely phenomenal - so we all had a great time.

Working on Grunge borders

Well, this is a first effort in creating my own grunge border. You can buy this type of thing easily, but I'm really cheap so I have to try to come up with something. It's not great, but it's a good start.

Extra credit photos

Pumpkin invasion 07

A beautiful day finally arrived in Portland so we loaded up and headed to the pumpkin patch. Olivia was dressed in her pink doctor costume, and Drew was all ready to put his monkey suit on when we arrived. Unfortunately the monkey was left at home in the rush to get out the door, so Drew looks a little unloved in his too-small pajamas. Grandma and Grandpa came along, but Phuong had to go to class today. There are a few other farms that we want to visit before the harvest season is over, so we will get to as a family and hopefully we'll remember the monkey.