I Love Snow, BUT...

It can go away now. I can't believe that we have had to deal with winter weather for a week here in Vancouver. And it isn't even winter until tomorrow (officially). We have gotten over 4 inches of snow today and they are saying we could see 4 more tonight before it changes to freezing rain...Yippee! Hope we don't lose power. I have been baking cookies like a mad woman. Had nothing else to do.
And Steve and I have tickets for the Wonderball with Storm Large tonight in downtown Portland. We are not going for fear that we would not be able to get home and right now even malls are closing early because of the weather.

OK...Now that I am done whining, here are some pictures from today and tonight of the snow. Bubba loves it.

Push the snow, push the snow. This was about 2 o'clock today and it is already all covered again.


2 PM today



6 PM today



Bubba Loves Snow!!! He runs along with his head down and eats it as he runs along.



Maggie was catching snowflakes on her tongue. She feels like she is back in Alturas.

Misc. Stuff

I finally downloaded pictures off of the camera and realized it had been a while since I posted anything on the blog.

Owen had one of his birthday parties at the beach with all of us. It was fun to watch him enjoy the cake and presents.



I don't think that you could find any prouder Grandparents. Ruary was not even an hour old when this picture was taken.



We are not sure what kind of cologne Matt is using, but both Harper and Owen seemed to like it. Eau d Cupcake, perhaps?



HOHOHO!!! Merry Christmas from Uncle Steve!

He is Here!!

Ruary Dale arrived into the world this morning at 10:56 AM. He weighed in at a whopping 9 pounds 11 ounces and was 21.5 inches long. Kelli did awesome pushing for almost 2 hours, but his head just was too big and ended up having to deliver him by C-section. Mom and baby are doing wonderful. Dad is doing good too. Everyone is very tired. Pics will be posted soon.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUARY!!

Come on Ruary!

Dear Ruary-
Your mom and dad really want you to arrive. They want to know what you look like, what your cry sounds like, and what color hair you have. The rest of the family wants to know all these things too. We all want to kiss your little nose and toes. Can't hardly wait to meet you.
Love,
Auntie Lori

Peace Man!!

Halloween 2008. Steve and I decided to try out the Hippie lifestyle. It was fun to do. The flare bottoms ended up being pretty time consuming, but I think they turned out great. We went to our friend Travis' house for a Halloween/Housewarming Party. Fun was had by all.


I only lost one or two layers of skin taking off the tattoos off my cheeks.


Oh, and my Network was there...

Roloff Farms Pumpkin Patch

While the kids were here last week, we went to Roloff Farms, the farm from Little People, Big World on TLC. It was really cool and weather was awesome. We saw Amy and Matt, the mom and dad from the family. They are both little people. Haley watches the show, but was too bashful to talk to Amy and have her pic taken with her.


The 'fun house' was a little creepy. This is one of the scenes they had in it. There was one with a 'baby' pumpkin I was going to post, but I didn't want to scare Kelli.



The kids wanted a whole bunch of pumpkins, be we finally narrowed it down to one each. We sent them home with them to carve.

Misc. pics and news...

I have not posted any pics for a while, so I figured I would give everyone
something to look at. A picture says a thousand words, right?
First few pictures are from August when Tyler and Haley visited. Maritime museum, trolley ride and Mariners game...









Owen was popping Haley's bubbles as fast as she could blow them.



And, it is official. Steve asked me to marry him last night. We are officially engaged.