The big airplane ride was the funnest for the boys. They both had their little backpacks with toys they'd chosen and they looked so cute. It was a pretty easy ride. Caleb read up on the safety precautions we should take in case of an accident.

Here are some more of the photos from Riverfront Park in Spokane on our big day in the city.

As promised for weeks we took the boys to Chuck E Cheeses and celebrated the madness of a building full of children, toys and sugar. It's exhausting. Luckily they guard the gate good looking for the magic stamps on you and your kids, because the do get lost easily in there.

Bozeman got some snow while we were there and we got to play and build snowmen.

Caleb looked very cute in his snowsuit. I took a lot of photos and footage of him.

Mom and Dad got to get away on a couple of snowboarding dates. The snow was decent and we got to spend some time in the trees.

We even got away for a date on NewYears and saw some music.

We went up to the tube hill on Mt. Spokane and had a great time for a few hours getting pulled up the hill and sliding back down. Caleb getting ready for a ride in down the tube hill.
It was great to get pulled up the hill instead of walking in snowboots.
While we were waiting in line the boys climbed around in the snow.

After a great vacation visiting family and friends, we're somewhat settled and I can finally get some of these photos up. We went to Spokane to stay with Grandpa Rich and we went to the Mobius childrens museum. It had great educational, interactive exhibits including a model home and store in the South Pacific, traffic and fire safety with ridable little cars, art, sand, aquifer/water, space, insects, theater and so much more.



Both of the boys have been really into insects lately. Although they aren't really insects, Nolan has also bee really into spiders. He can tell me most of the differences between arachnids and insects and we put up a spider web frame outside and are waiting for a spider to make a home there.


In Spokane we also went on the Gondola over the river (very short ride), the carousel and Riverfront park with the giant Radio Flyer slide. I'll get some more pictures of this up but these are from our new digital camcorder. I haven't loaded up the camera photos yet.


We went up to the mountain and to the inner tube hill at Mt. Spokane. They pulled us up the hill with a motorized pulley so it was worth paying for especially since the boys don't walk very good in there boots. (neither does mom!)


The boys had a great time on the four wheelers with Grandpa. Nolan especially liked the evening rides through the scary woods!


Nolan did an amazing job snowboarding. Mom and dad got to go alone a couple of days too, but we took Nolan up to Bridger Bowl in Bozeman Montana one morning and he was a real trooper. He'll do anything for hot cocoa!

I haven't been able to upload and write much lately, but I did want to share some of our photos we got taken a couple of months ago. We shot them at Moonstone Beach which is a great family spot here. It's good for kids and dogs. All of the photos are on the photographers website at www.kyanataillon.com/camper. She's got many of them in a separate sepia folder named www.kyanataillon.com/camper_sepia I think. Enjoy and hopefull I'll get some posted soon of our recent endeavors with home and life. The boys birthday party was a big success and I'm sure Christmas will be fun too!

Cold weather is here but we've been able to get out a bit. We had a short but beautiful night at Moonstone beach the other night with Amie and Acacia. The boys always love playing on the rocks.

I got a rare picture of them not moving and close together.
The sunset was gorgeous and this photo doesn't do it justice.

I had some extra fabric from the drapes I made for the boy's playroom in the new house and I made a big Cars pillow for the boys. They love to sit on it and jump on it. In this photo they're actually watching the movie Cars after we rented it (likely for the fourth time).

I had a couple of shots that didn't load up of the house last time. Here's more of the kitchen.
Here are the gutters on the outside.

Caleb is doing pretty well with the potty chair and really likes picking out his stickers.

Lights, Paint, Action!

We finally got to primer and paint. We broke down and bought a sprayer and Loren sprayed the house inside with primer and then two coats of paint.


Loren was covered in white paint after each painting session.

















The most difficult room to paint was the two story family room. We had to rent scaffolding for that room.


I did some faux painting in our bedroom and bathroom. It turned out pretty cool, but different than I imagined. It takes awhile to figure it out and by the time you do, you're done with the project. We also got our cabinets put in. They still have to put on the crown molding and toe kicks and glass in some doors, but they're mostly in. We got rustic maple in the laundry and upstairs and cherry in the kitchen and downstairs bath.
We also got most of the electrical fixtures put in. We'll probably have electrical hook up next week. Gas will get hooked up today. The heating guys and rough in plumbing should also be done this week. Although it'll be awhile until the fixture get in since we're doing that ourselves and we also need to get flooring and counters in first.












I painted the laundry room gray, but Loren says it's purple. The paint chip looked as grey as can be. I might paint it over. It's hard to see without any lights yet since there aren't any windows.














It was getting dark, but here are a couple of shots of the kitchen cabinets. This is just the wet bar and island. We're going to get a mini fridge and see if we can actually keep the wine rack stocked.

Caleb turns 2! Caleb turned 2 on November 16 and he got to have two parties in one day. It was his last day at daycare where he's been going for the last year and a half. He'll now be going to preschool two days a week with Nolan at ABC preschool in Arcata. I'm sure he'll miss his old friends, but it'll be fun and easier for us too. It'll be nice to have the boys together during the day.

Gabe, Julia and Quinlin helped him celebrate his last day and birthday at Karens house. He got a cupcake and presents

He also got to color which is his favorite thing to do. They made him some great cards and took these photos for me.


We also had a little present opening and cake at our house too. It was just stuff from Loren and I, Grammy and Darin and Elsa. We'll have a bigger party for the boys in December, but it was fun to just do something with us.

Caleb couldn't really open his present well yet, but Nolan was very willing to help him out.

Both of the boys were really into all of the Dora and Diego toys. Caleb was really into his toy piano book and light up toy from Disneyland. He also really liked a small basketball hoop we got him. He's got a pretty good arm!!