Cousins!

We love our cousins!

A surprise for the family

When we arrived in West Virginia, we put Curren and Jessie each in a wrapped box, and Emily and Owen brought them into Mike's house, where everybody was gathered.  Emily recorded it, and it was funny because after Grandma and Grandpa unwrapped the kids and they popped out of the boxes, they stared for quite awhile before they figured out what was going on :-)

We had fun that week, unwrapping presents, visiting everybody's houses and eating lots of good food.

Christmas

For Christmas, we decided to surprise Mark's parents with a visit.  The only people we told was Emily and Owen, and they really helped us to pull it off!

Emily was asked by Mike and Stephanie to pick up a black lab puppy for a Christmas present for their boys, so we had fun taking care of him, he was so teeny tiny!

Mark loved him!

Emily hooked us up with all sorts of cowboy boots :-)

We got to ride horses too, yay!

After a fun two days it was time to drive to West Virginia and surprise everybody.

Curren the Invinsible

Now that Curren is on Demo team at Taekwondo, he thinks he is Invinsible!

The Redwoods

We drove to Crescent City, California over the weekend to see the Redwood Forest. The lighthouse above it Battery Point Lighthouse, you could see it from out hotel. You could also hear the Sea Lions barking all night, it was fun.
The coastline is really similar to Oregon's, and of course I took a lot of photos of it.

Elk were all over the place.

The kids loved the redwood forest as much as we did, we really talked it up, and watched a movie about them. I was so glad they appreciated that!
They say the trees are up to 300 feet tall, over 20' in diameter and around 1500 years old. Isn't that crazy?!

We were always looking up :)

There was a good photo op at Ocean World, I had to share.

The Friendly Giraffe

We went to the Wildlife Safari in Winston, Oregon over the weekend. The giraffe tried to eat us through the sunroof.

Halloween!

The pumpkins grew pretty well this year, we are going to try for bigger ones next year.
Curren loves his TKD instructor Master Jim. He decided to be "Master Slim Jim" for Halloween, we went to the school that afternoon and had a blast watching the reaction of Master Jim, it was awesome! Master Li let Curren wear his black belt for this picture, which we thought was fun. I love that Curren will do things like this, he just laughed and laughed through it all!

Jessie my E-Vil vampire, emphasis on E-Vil :)

Curren loved our nerdy neighbor, haha!

Jessie's cute cat bat, she did a good job carving it.