The Adventures of Dave, Lindsay, Cora and Edie

The weather has been gorgeous in Portland the last few weeks so Dave and the girls have been taking full advantage.  A day at the beach, a trip to the zoo, lots of riding bikes in the neighborhood.  Now only if this weather would last until Fall.....

   Last weekend, we did our annual trip to one of Oregon's U-cut Christmas Tree Farms to hunt down our tree.  The girls loved it until they got muddy and cold but the promise of hot chocolate helped keep smiles on their faces.

Our little bumble bee and fairy had a fantastic Halloween this year although I do think they were more excited about ringing neighbor's doorbells then then candy they collected.  Thankfully, by morning they had all but forgotten about the candy (which by then was hidden deep in the cupboards so they wouldn't see it!).

Since my last post, a lot has happened in our household.  We took our first camping trip of the year to Silver Falls State Park and survived!  Cora even got to try smores for the first time.   Edie turned 1 on June 4th and just a few weeks before took her first ambulance rider to the ER due to an infection - ugh!  She's fine now...thankfully. We figure it's our first of many trips to the ER with two very busy little girls.  (On a side note, Cora thought riding in the ambulance was really fun!) I came down with a ridiculous case of Poison Oak that was awful for about three weeks and continues to haunt me.  It seems I'm quite allergic!  Thankfully, no one else got it.  Dave drove himself to the ER in the middle of the night for an emergency appendicectomy that ended up being (and still is) more complicated than normal because of the scar tissue left in his stomach from the car accident.  That was a few weeks ago and his incision is still healing....very sl