The Newest Addition to our Family

Meet Zorro, the lovable, adorable pug-terrier mix (according to the humane society). He's about one year old, very sweet and playful. We love his big ears. He's getting along great with Daisy, and Lucy absolutely loves him. We adopted him yesterday from the Oregon Humane Society.

Santa pics

I was so worried that Lucy wasn't going to want to sit on Santa's lap, but she loved it! Here are some cute pics with Santa.

Happy Birthday Videos

Here are some cute videos...singing Happy Birthday to Lucy on Monday night and Lucy playing with one of her birthday gifts, a set of Legos! She loves it! Thanks Uncle Mark, Auntie Lisa and cousin Tessa!

The Best 2 Years

Happy Birthday baby. I love you.

Holidays 2009

We love the holidays. We went and got our Christmas tree Wednesday and put out our Christmas decorations. We also put together a gingerbread house and let Lucy decorate her very own gingerbread man. So much fun!

November 2009

We had a great November, starting with a fun trip to Atlanta for my dear friend Tina's wedding. Tina was one of my best friends in dental school and we both did our residencies in Connecticut. Chris, Lucy and I had lots of fun in Atlanta seeing a few old friends. We had never been to an Indian wedding before and it was a blast! Lots of great music, food and dancing. We loved it! There are a couple pictures below from Tina's wedding. We also had a great end of the month with my sister and her girls coming up for Thanksgiving, my mom and stepdad came up, and Chris' stepdad Jim visited us as well. We went to Zoo Lights at the Oregon Zoo the night before Thanksgiving which was amazing! Over a million lights...Lucy loved it.


Day after Thanksgiving at the Park

Zoo Lights

Tina's Wedding

Halloween Festivities

We had a great fall, and Lucy had many opportunities to wear her lady bug costume. We went to a fun playgroup party at Munchkin Playland and we took another trip to the Roloff Farm this year with Dianna and Julia. (In case you're not sure who the Roloffs are...they are on the TLC show "Little People, Big World" and they live outside of Portland and have a big pumpkin farm.) We're big fans of the show and think their pumpkin patch is lots of fun. This year we saw the twins, Zack and Jeremy, who were giving tours of the farm and we also saw Matt Roloff cruising around. It was a fun time!


Matt Roloff

Zack Roloff

On the Tractor Tour of the Roloff Farm

Munchkin Playland

Southern California

Chris, Lucy and I just got back from a long weekend in southern California visiting Chris' brother Kevin, his wife April and their new baby Elizabeth who is 8 weeks old. We did lots of fun things with them...we went to Disney's California Adventure Friday night to go trick-or-treating, and Lucy got to meet Minnie and Mickey Mouse! She thought that was very cool. We also went to San Diego's Wild Animal Park and visited a pumpkin patch. Lucy got some good use out of her ladybug Hall-o-ween costume! We loved spending time with them and meeting their pretty little girl. We also loved getting to have a short visit with an old friend of mine from high school. Our fun came to an end though Sunday night when we found out that our flight was so delayed that we would miss our connection, and every flight that night was overbooked because of the holiday weekend. We tried to go standby on two different flights, but didn't get on those flights. So we ended up having to take the first flight out the next morning. We were all so tired! But the trip was worth it. We had a great time! Here are some photos from the weekend.

Boating

Some friends from work invited us out with them on their boat about a month ago when it was still kind of warm in Portland! We all had fun, I even got to water ski a little bit! Lucy especially had fun with the wind whipping through her hair and wearing her cute little life jacket. Here are some photos and a video from that night.

Fun Times & Gymboree

Here are some cute pics of our little ham Lucy hammin' it up and playing with some friends at Gymboree.

Fishing Trip

We had a great time a couple of weeks ago in Maupin, OR, a little town on the Deschutes River. We stayed in a great lodge with our friends Dianna, Aaron and their baby Julia who just turned one this week! Chris got to try fishing a little bit and although they didn't catch anything, we all had a lot of fun!! Here are some photos from that trip.

Lucy loves to sing to Daisy

Here is Lucy singing her renditions of Ring around the Rosies and Happy Birthday to Daisy Dog. Daisy seems thrilled :)

Lucy loves to count

Lucy has really become really good at counting from 1-10 and she will be playing and we'll hear her just start counting to herself. It's hard sometimes to get her to do it on cue, but here are some cute videos of her demonstrating her math skills!!!

Eagle Crest

This past weekend, Lucy, Chris, Daisy & I headed down to Central Oregon, near Bend to the Eagle Crest resort. This resort is awesome! There is something for everyone. Two beautiful 18-hole golf courses, 3 large swimming areas, indoor and outdoor with kiddie pools, lots of playgrounds, tons of great paved bike trails, nearby hiking trails, the Deschutes river, and some great restaurants in Bend. We had fun swimming with Lucy, and we rented bikes and biked all around the resort. Lucy thought being on the bike was great, she was behind me saying "Woo Hoo!" We also had some great food...we visited the Deschutes Brewery in Bend, OR and had baby back ribs, so tender that just fell right off the bone and some really really tasty "sweet & spicy mac and cheese." So yummy. We also found a great breakfast spot called McKay Cottage in Bend, and we enjoyed Eggs Benedict with fresh lobster, shrimp and crab and Chris ordered the croissant stuffed French toast with marscapone cheese and strawberries. Unbelievable! All in all, it was a wonderfully fun and relaxing weekend! If any of you get the chance to visit Bend, I would highly recommend staying at Eagle Crest, there are lots of condos you can rent too for families.

Oregon State Fair

Lucy, Chris & I had a wonderful time at the Oregon State Fair. The petting zoo was probably the highlight. They had deer, a little pig, goats and lots of other cute animals. Lucy loves animals!!